It’s also, given the rising awareness of racial inequality and tension, a perfect time to revisit this 1958 Stanley Kramer film. Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier play two convicts who escaped while chained together, and must work together in order to evade recapture. Adding to the drama: one of them is white, the other is black, and each of them carries his own prejudices against the other’s race.

2020

Jul

AN UNVARNISHED AND INFORMATIVE LESSON ON WINNING WOMEN THE RIGHT TO 'THE VOTE' By David Hinckley

Four hours might seem like a long time to trace the history of how America finally and reluctantly granted women the right to vote. If so, just imagine how the passage of time felt to the women...

2020

Jul

1993: NO MORE 'ROOM FOR TWO' ON ABC By TV WW

This day in 1993 marked the last telecast of the ABC sitcom, Room For Two...

2020

Jul

1989: NBC AIRS 'THE SEINFELD CHRONICLES' By David Bianculli

NBC presents The Seinfeld Chronicles — the show that would become Seinfeld — as a one-shot pilot on this day in 1989...

2020

Jul

ROD, WHITE AND BLUE: A TWILIGHT ZONE MARATHON By David Bianculli

The Decades channel Independence Day weekend marathon of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone continues today, and, once again, there are some absolute classics being televised today. Chief among them: at 9 a.m. ET, Agnes Moorehead in 1961’s “The Invaders” (pictured), playing a woman defending her remote farmhouse from a sudden invasion by tiny aliens from outer space, who land on her roof in a miniature flying saucer and set out to attack her with their itty-bitty b

2020

Jul

PERRY MASON By David Bianculli

This is episode three in this eight-part miniseries adaptation of the classic TV series – and it’s the one that begins to set Matthew Rhys’ Perry off one career path, and in the direction of another. Be patient, because this Perry Mason, and the courtroom case that eventually arrives, is worth the wait.

2020

Jul

I'LL BE GONE IN THE DARK By David Bianculli

Last week’s premiere episode of this documentary miniseries ended with an image that was hard to shake: a woman swimming in a lake in the movie Creature from the Black Lagoon, totally oblivious to the fact that the titular creature was swimming just below her, watching and even echoing her movements as she swam. Director Liz Garbus locked on to that movie and its imagery, which were cited by Michelle McNamara in her book and rsearched about a series of unsolved serial rapes and m

2020

Jul

METV CELEBRATES CARL REINER By David Bianculli

CBS showed a pair of colorized episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show Friday night to honor series creator and occasional featured player Carl Reiner, who died last Monday at age 98. (Both had been televised before, in their newly colorized form, but it was a nice and timely tribute nonetheless.) Tonight, as part of its own Reiner tribute, MeTV presents the black and white versions of two Dick Van Dyke Show episodes: the same “Coast to Coast Big Mouth” episode shown i

2020

Jul

'OUTCRY': CRIME AND TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL By David Hinckley

Greg Kelley was a high school football star in Texas, and when you're in high school in Texas, life doesn't get much better...

2020

Jul

CELEBRATING CARL REINER THROUGHOUT JULY By Mike Hughes

For fans of classic comedies – the kind with sharp dialog and great characters – Carl Reiner's death leaves a hunger for his work. Fortunately, there's a lot available right now...

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