TCM’s star of the month is Olivia de Havilland, who’s saluted each Friday night with a mini-retrospective of her movies. Tonight’s overview begins with this 1942 character study, in which she plays the sister of a scheming, vengeful, sexy woman – played by Bette Davis, in one of her most overtly vixenish roles – who sets out to steal her sister’s husband. And that’s just for starters.

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THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION By David Bianculli

This 1994 movie, based on the Steven King story, is another of those “spider-web films.” Tune in for a second, and you’re ensnared for the duration, no matter how many times you’ve seen it before. Tim Robbins stars.

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THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW By David Bianculli

This week, one of the toughest challenges in this baking competition is to make biscotti. For me, an even tougher challenge is to stop eating them. Check local listings.

2016

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HBO'S 'THE NIGHT OF' IS RIVETING FROM THE VERY FIRST FRAME By David Bianculli

(From NPR) The eight-part drama series centers on a college student who is suspected of murder after an adventurous night out. Critic David Bianculli says "everything about The Night Of is quite impressive..."

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2016 WIMBLEDON TENNIS By David Bianculli

Yesterday’s quarterfinal match in the 2016 Wimbledon men’s division served up (so to speak) a match for the ages: Seven-time Wimbledon champion and No. 3-ranked Roger Federer, who last won the tournament (and one of his 17 majors) in 2012, came back from two sets down to gut out a five-set victory over No. 9-ranked Marin Cilic. Today, there’s an equally inspiring potential comeback story, on the women’s side of the semifinals. Venus Williams, whose last appearance in a fi

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EURO 2016 SEMIFINALS: GERMANY VS. FRANCE By David Bianculli

Wales didn’t score against Portugal yesterday, so ended its own Cinderella run, but with its head held high. Today’s other semifinal game is between two perennial powerhouses: France and defending champion Germany.

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ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN By David Bianculli

Another special movie night this month on TCM is Thursday’s “America in the ’70s,” a tribute that kicks off tonight with a roster of some of my favorite films of all time. It starts with 1976’s All the President’s Men, which is now 40 years old, but just as potent, and important, as when it was first released. Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford star, Alan J. Pakula directs, and William Goldman wrote the teleplay, based on the Watergate book by Bob Woodward and Car

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THE CANDIDATE By David Bianculli

Made in 1972, this Michael Ritchie film starred Robert Redford as a candidate for the senate who begins an improbable and somewhat disillusioning rise in the polls.

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NETWORK By David Bianculli

Made in 1976, director Sidney Lumet’s treatment of Paddy Chayefsky’s savage skewering of network TV, and particularly TV news, is 40 years old now – but uncannily, unsettingly prescient. Like All the President’s Men, it’s another of my very favorite films. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. And Peter Finch, as loose-cannon network newscaster Howard Beale? Incomparable.

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THE CONVERSATION By David Bianculli

This 1974 drama is one of director Francis Ford Coppola’s most underrated films (his even earlier You’re a Big Boy Now is another), and also one of his best. Gene Hackman stars as a surveillance expert who stumbles upon the proof, or at least the sounds, of a major conspiracy. Costars include Harrison Ford, Cindy Williams, and John Cazale, who lived long enough only to make a few films, but each was astounding, including The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather: Part II, Dog Da

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