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2012
Jul
20
 
 
The third Batman movie directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale has hit theaters nationwide. For those who want to go back and see how Batman Begins begins, one of TV’s alternatives is this first Nolan Caped Crusader effort, detailing the origin of the so-called Dark Knight.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
 
 
Holy conflict, Batman! On the very day The Dark Knight Rises opens in theaters, and at the same exact time the first film in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy is shown on another cable network, TNT presents the second film in the series. This one, from 2008 – and the one that captured one of the final performances by Heath Ledger, as a very making Joker. Christian Bale stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
 
 
Jerry Seinfeld is back on Thursday nights — sort of — in a new recurring web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
 
 
For years I've asked myself: What does an Emmy mean to me as a viewer?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
 
 
Major lapses in both taste and reporting inevitably follow the mass shootings that are becoming all too common in this country...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
 
 

Louis C.K.’s sad-sack comic persona on FX’s Louie is used to being treated shabbily – but Louie shouldn’t be. Nor should another FX series, the brilliant drama Justified, yet both were snubbed by Thursday’s Emmy nominations. What the FX is going on here?

 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
 
 
A complete list of Emmy nominations — every category, every nominee...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
 
 
A batch of usual suspects — Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Modern Family, 30 Rock — again deservingly had their say while newcomers American Horror Story, Homeland, Girls and Hatfields & McCoys also broke through in a big way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
 
 
This 1956 sci-fi movie is a classic in its genre, not only because of its cool robot, but because of its source material: Shakespeare’s The Tempest. And as a bonus, it features the gorgeous Anne Francis. So with three good reasons to watch, why not? And there’s a fourth: Her male co-star is Leslie Nielsen, playing it straight.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
19
 
 
Here’s a sci-fi movie that’s very meta, and very, very clever. It’s a movie about an old Star Trek-type TV series whose star (Tim Allen) has alienated most of his former co-stars, yet gets an unexpected chance at redemption when some real aliens, believing the show to be a documentary, arrives on Earth to seek help from the heroic TV characters. It’s such a sweet, smart movie – and co-stars in this 1999 movie include Tony Shalhoub and, in a wonderful change-of-pace