Tom Hanks stars as, and does a very good job portraying, pilot Chesley Sullenberger in this 2016 movie, directed by Clint Eastwood. The film does a superb job recreating Sully’s miracle landing of his incapacitated passenger airline on the Hudson River, and even generates unexpected tension by dramatizing his after-the-fact nightmare of the event, and taking us on investigative computer simulations of the crash – but the real, and potent, story here is of the airline company scrambli

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DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new Doctor Who episode is called “Knock Knock,” and takes the Doctor and Bill to a place the Doctor, with other companions, has been before – generally, not specifically. The TARDIS takes them inside a haunted house.

2017

May

CHRIS GETHARD: CAREER SUICIDE By David Bianculli

Comedian Chris Gethard’s one-man Off-Broadway show, Career Suicide, is a standup comedy routine in which he gets up close and personal – with himself, and his battle with depression, and even his thoughts of suicide. It’s about as raw a topic as you can choose – and Gethard talks the talk with enough empathy, humor and insight to make it a program you shouldn’t miss, and won’t soon forget.

2017

May

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

After weeks in hibernation, SNL lumbers out of its cave to make fun of some of the current events it’s missed. Almost guaranteed, there will be a sketch about a bunch of old white guys in suits and ties, celebrating their legislative “victory” in the Rose Garden. The week’s guest host is Chris Pine, and the musical guest is (or are) LCD Soundsystem.

2017

May

HANDSOME: A NETFLIX MYSTERY MOVIE By David Bianculli

Jeff Garlin, who plays Larry David’s very voluble sidekick on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm (and, more recently, the grumpy dad on ABC’s The Goldbergs), co-wrote this made-for-Netflix movie – and also directs it, and is its star. He plays a modern-day L.A. gumshoe in this new comedy, and his co-stars Natasha Lyonne, Kaley Cuoco, Leah Remini, Amy Sedaris, and Steven Weber.

2017

May

THE MARS GENERATION By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: This new Netflix documentary follows teenagers enrolled in the Huntsville, AL program known as Space Camp, where aspiring future astronauts get a chance to chase, and help realize, their dreams. The message of The Mars Generation is that, if a trip to the moon was the inevitable consequence of space exploration in the 1960s, the generation just coming of age is likely to be the first with an actual chance to be sent on a manned (and womanned) mission to Mars. &l

2017

May

SENSE8 By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The Season 2 premiere of this multiple-perspective, multiple-storyline sci-fi series picks up where Season 1 left off – but also serves as a reset of course, to re-establish the story and characters and give new viewers a way in. Since Season 1 is available in its entirety on Netflix already, that’s hardly a requirement – but with a narrative this convoluted, it is a bit helpful. Eight characters are connected, telepathically and in other ways, and a giant cong

2017

May

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s features, as its opening guest, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of the last men standing in the Republican scrum among potential presidential candidates in the nomination, and election, eventually won by Donald Trump.

2017

May

HAS ‘BETTER CALL SAUL’ TAKEN A TURN FOR THE DARK? By David Hinckley

One of the many impressive achievements of Better Call Saul, AMC’s semi-prequel to the late Breaking Bad, is that it has created a strong identity of its own by establishing a very different tone from the original...

2017

May

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON By David Bianculli

This month, TCM is highlighting, among other things, a run of “Creature Feature” movies. Tonight’s lineup, for example, includes 1933’s classic King Kong at 11:15 p.m. ET, and 1962’s campier Mothra at 1:15 p.m. ET. The prime-time evening salute begins, at 8 p.m. ET, with a showing of 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon. Perhaps it’s time, after all these years, to imagine alternative climaxes for these films – newly imaginative ways to conquer th

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