Last month, the major broadcast networks and a few other entities combined forces to present Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, a virtual national graduation ceremony – the highlight of which was a commencement speech by former President Barack Obama. This new virtual graduation celebration is a streaming event offered by and on YouTube, and begins at 3 p.m. ET today. Once again, Barack Obama is scheduled to be featured, as are Michelle Oba

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PSYCHO YOGA INSTRUCTOR By David Bianculli

This is not a recommendation. But sometimes, the randomly matched word titles for Lifetime’s telemovies are so flat-out weird, they fascinate me. It’s as though the programmers at Lifetime have twin dartboards on their wall, with words on them instead of numbers, and just shoot randomly to generate new titles. On one dartboard, the descriptors: “Teenage,” “Killer,” “Deadly.” On the other, the subjects: “Escort,” “Mistress,&rd

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AD ASTRA By David Bianculli

Tommy Lee Jones and Brad Pitt star as father and son in this 2019 movie about space exploration, unresolved family issues, and the fate of the universe. Not necessarily in that order…

2020

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'TRACKERS,' THE SOUTH AFRICAN HIT THRILLER, ARRIVES ON CINEMAX By David Hinckley

Cinemax tosses another shovelful of red meat to action-TV fans with Trackers, a South African series that launches Friday...

2020

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2040 By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Almost every film that takes a hypothetical look into the future, whether near or far, imagines a dystopian world. This fact-based extrapolation, which is titled 2040 after the future it envisions 20 years from now, zags where everyone else has zigged. It asks, basically, these questions: What if, from this moment on, we as a society made all the right moves? What would it look like, two decades from now, if we strove diligently and intelligently to protect the environm

2020

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MR. TOPAZE By David Bianculli

This Movie On Demand premiere is a restored version of the only movie directed by actor Peter Sellers. Also known as I Like Money, this 1961 comedy stars Sellers as a schoolteacher who refuses to inflate the failing grade of a privileged student. It’s noteworthy not only because Sellers does double duty as director, but because one of his co-stars in Herbert Lom. Three years later, Lom would reunite with Sellers, playing the twitchy boss of Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clous

2020

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SHIRLEY By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: What kind of woman writes The Lottery, that familiar story assigned in almost every high school English class? Or The Haunting of Hill House, an early genre thriller adapted into both movies and TV series? Shirley Jackson, that’s who. And, in this new film biography exploring her inner as well as literary demons, she’s played by the always riveting Elisabeth Moss.

2020

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THE STARS OF SPONGEBOB FAN FAVORITES SPECIAL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: SpongeBob SquarePants is a cultural icon. I know this mostly because I teach college, and my college students, though they rarely have a shared viewing experience of anything, are invariably, enthusiastically, 100 percent familiar with that animated Nickelodeon children’s show. SpongeBob premiered in 1999, and my students have watched it, and loved it, all their lives. And they’re not alone: For the past 17 years, SpongeBob SquarePants has been

2020

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MARX BROTHERS MOVIE MARATHON By David Bianculli

If you want to laugh tonight – and who doesn’t – TCM is the place, and X Marx the spot. It’s a Marx Brothers marathon, and I can remember when the only way to see these movies, other than to scour late-night TV listings religiously, was during occasional campus film clubs and festivals. But tonight, TCM makes it easy. Four movies, right in a row: 1931’s Monkey Business at 8 p.m. ET, followed by 1932’s Horse Feathers at 9:30 p.m. ET; 1930&rs

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CAROUSEL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Beginning today, and continuing every Friday in June, Lincoln Center is pulling, and streaming, a filmed production from its archives. Its inaugural offering, which will be available for streaming beginning tonight at 8 ET, and left up for a while, is the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. Kelli O’Hara and Nathan Gunn star, with Kate Burton and John Cullum in supporting roles. It’s the same performances shown on PBS’s Great Performances&n

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