Last night, HBO showed, in prime time, Ridley Scott’s reworking of his original Alien movie, Alien: The Director’s Cut. Tonight, HBO shows one of the sequels, or prequels, spawned from this idea of the morphing killer creature from outer space. This 2017 sci-fi thriller stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup – and, of course, that slimy, slippery, deadly shape-shifter.

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PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: There’s actually a Making of the Blue Planet II special still to come, but tonight’s episode is the final, stunning installment of the Blue Planet II series proper. In it, we see Sir David Attenborough, on camera as well as narrating, explaining why our planet’s ecosystem has arrived at a precarious point. But it also shows examples of reversing the tide, so to speak, with tales of dedicated scientists and environmentally concerned lawmakers working around the gl

2018

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31 DAYS OF OSCAR By David Bianculli

We’ve come to the end of TCM’s massive celebration of Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies. The network’s "31 Days of Oscar” ends tonight, because the Academy Awards themselves begin tomorrow night. And on this last evening, “31 Days of Oscar” salutes, and presents, three sprawling, Oscar-winning epics about men who led a revolution. The action starts with the nonviolent social change of 1982’s Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley as the peaceful social act

2018

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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Charles Barkley returns as guest host, with musical guest Migos. Not to knock Migos, or add undue pressure, but Barkley has hosted SNL three other times over a 25-year span, and each time, his musical guests have killed it. That was true of Kelly Clarkson in 2012, and of Alicia Keys in 2010 – and it certainly was true, way back in 1993 the first time Barkley the NBA star hosted, when the musical guest was Nirvana.

2018

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'FRONTLINE' TAKES ITS TURN IN THE HARVEY WEINSTEIN CESSPOOL By Ed Bark

Well, why not? Public television’s franchise investigative documentary series has decided to take a crack at Harvey Weinstein -- but comes away with nothing all that notably new on the slithering onetime Hollywood powerbroker...

2018

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FLINT TOWN By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: Eight-part documentary about Flint, MI. focuses mostly on the police force – like an episode of COPS set in the former poison-water capital of the U.S., except taking place over a year or more. And that year was after the 2014 poisoning of the city’s water supply, and, over the course of its eight episodes, includes both a local and a presidential election.

2018

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MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE By David Bianculli

What do you do with the mad that you feel? Fred Rogers explains it all for you – and so does Daniel Tiger – in this week’s final paired double feature of the animated Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood series and its Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood vintage forebear. From the former, today’s episodes are “Daniel Gets Mad” and “Katerina gets Mad.” From the original Fred Rogers PBS series, it’s “Mad Feelings” – one of the most

2018

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ALIEN: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT By David Bianculli

It’s not unusual, especially in the era after the introduction of home video releases, for directors to go back to pet projects and reassemble them as official “Director’s Cuts.” The studio releasing these films, you’d think, might be opposed to playing with a movie’s history, contents and approach – but to a movie, an alternate release merely means a new stream of revenue, giving the most loyal fans something else to watch and purchase. Ridley Scott&rsq

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ANNIE HALL By David Bianculli

TCM’s annual “31 Days of Oscar” celebration is almost over, because the Oscars, which are televised Sunday, are almost here. Tonight, though, TCM squeezes in a few more Academy Award-winning films – and the first two tonight, which are excellent films indeed, share another, more dubious distinction. Both of tonight’s prime-time movie offerings, starting with Woody Allen’s 1977 comedy classic Annie Hall, star actors who have been accused, during this recent, st

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