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2020
Jul
25
 
 
This is not a recommendation. Just an observation, that the best way of Surviving Joe Exotic is to avoid all TV programming that stars or is devoted to him. Including this new Animal Planet special…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: Rosamund Pike stars as Marie Curie in this new dramatized biography, in which she holds aloft a small vial of radium and lectures her fellow scientists that this mysterious element “does not behave as it should.” The same certainly is true of the woman herself, as she stages two fights: to unlock the secrets hidden within radium and to fight for credit once her discoveries are made and confirmed. Radioactive is saddled with some unimaginative biopic tropes,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This new documentary, available starting today as an On Demand streaming offering, looks at the photography of Helmut Newton, as well as the reaction to it. Over the years, he framed pictures in which both fashion models and open-minded celebrities posed for him in provocative wardrobe, settings, and situations. This documentary includes new interviews with such former photographic subjects as Charlotte Rampling, Isabella Rossellini, and Grace Jones – as well as with those
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
This is a repeat, but it’s also a series launch – of a new summer series PBS is calling “Broadway at Home.” A summer-long series of Friday telecasts of staged plays and musicals captured for TV, it’s clearly reacting to the pandemic-era success of England’s “National Theatre at Home,” which ended its brilliant spring season yesterday with a gorgeous production of Amadeus. “Broadway at Home” begins tonight with another showing
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
Long, long before there was Foxy Brown the rapper, there was Foxy Brown, the movie – the 1974 film starring Pam Grier in the title role. She plays the girlfriend of a federal agent killed by a kinky couple running a prostitution ring, and Foxy seeks revenge by going undercover as a prospective new employee. Grier is a powerful character here, as significant in cinema history in both gender and racial studies, and her performance here is best described as fierce. Co-star
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
In a theater-less season – no Broadway, no summer-stock musicals, nothing – we need a break. Fortunately, PBS is trying...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
It hasn't been easy to make a TV series these last few years that feels different since the avalanche of programming has filled just about every crack. HBO's Room 104...achieves "different."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
 
 
On this day in 1991, CBS introduced the creative comedy series, Morton & Hayes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
23
 
 
On this day in 2007, TNT introduced the drama Saving Grace, starring Oscar-winner Holly Hunter in her first television series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
23
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: And in this case, when I say “SEASON PREMIERE,” I’m really saying something. Unless the plug is pulled dramatically at the last moment today, Major League Baseball begins its truncated 60-game season, with ESPN televising a doubleheader – the first official new pro baseball after a four-month delay to the new season. In the East Count opener, at 7 p.m. ET, the New York Yankees play the defending World Series champions, the Washington Nationals. Then, at 1