After Game 4’s wild conclusion tied this year’s World Series at two games apiece, the Los Angeles Dodgers handled the Tampa Bay Rays relatively undramatically in Sunday’s Game 5 to take a 3-2 series lead. Tonight is Game 6 – and either the Dodgers will win the championship, or the Rays will force yet another Game 7. Which, in this very competitive postseason year, somehow seems fitting.

2020

Oct

WOMEN MAKE FILM: A NEW ROAD MOVIE THROUGH CINEMA By David Bianculli

We’re getting near the end of this mammoth salute to female filmmakers. Tonight is installment nine of the Women Make Film documentary series, and the chapters of female film focus this week are called “Politics,” “Gear Change” and “Comedy.” (“Gear Change”? What the hell is that?) And afterwards, the films televised tonight and tomorrow by TCM include 1978’s Girlfriends, directed by Claudia Weill (at 12:15 a.m.

2020

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THIS IS US By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This This is a big deal. Tonight’s two-hour Season 5 premiere, which rushed production to complete the episode in time to televise it the week before next Tuesday’s election, is NBC’s first scripted drama series to present a new episode for fall – and pretty much anyone’s.

2020

Oct

'THE SOUL OF AMERICA' SERVES AS A TIMELY REMINDER OF OUR PAST By David Hinckley

If you're thinking America has never been so close to the brink of apocalypse, you might find it either troubling or reassuring that yes, we have...

2020

Oct

LEARNING HOW THE STRUGGLE IS FAR FROM OVER WITH 'NOT DONE: WOMEN REMAKING AMERICA' By David Hinckley

The longer you hang around, the more you realize that few socio-political battles are won for good. There's almost always someone trying to push you back to where you were. That applies to women's rights, among many other things, and frankly, it sounds like a depressing premise...

2020

Oct

GET OUT By David Bianculli

This 2017 movie, written and directed by Jordan Peele, is fabulous. Peele is as smart about the horror in this film as he is about the humor, and both of them really, really land. And the performances – wow. Daniel Kaluuya is great as the guy who begins to suspect all is not as it seems regarding his girlfriend’s family and their friends. And Allison Williams as the girlfriend, Catherine Keener and Bradley Whitford as her parents, and Stephen Root as one of their friends – agai

2020

Oct

FILTHY RICH By David Bianculli

If you haven’t seen this Fox sitcom yet, try it. It’s still trying to find itself – but so far, it’s gotten both more political, and less predictable, than I expected. And Kim Cattrall, as the matriarch of a family running a televangelist empire, already is finding ways to get deeper than the basic caricature.

2020

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2003: NBC QUIETLY ENDS 'THE LYON'S DEN' By TV WW

This day in 2003 marked the last official broadcast of NBC's Rob Lowe vehicle, The Lyon's Den...

2020

Oct

1993: MTV PRESENTS 'THE JON STEWART SHOW' By TV WW

On this day in 1993, MTV introduced the 30-minute talk show, The Jon Stewart Show...

2020

Oct

WITH 'THE UNDOING,' WE SEE HOW QUICKLY LIFE CAN CHANGE By David Hinckley

Hugh Grant wants to take all those beloved, cheerful, endearing rom-com characters that he's been playing forever and toss them into the dustbin of cinematic history...

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