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2013
Sep
7
 
 
No, I’m not recommending this program. I’m just pointing out because, coming from a National Geographic brand that once mean the very best nature documentaries in the business, this kind of program, and title, is udderly ridiculous.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
6
 
 
This PBS series is one of the best new dramas to come this year... And it stars Derek Jacobi...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
6
 
 
Simon Pegg and company, currently getting enthusiastic reviews for their movie The World’s End, first plied their genre-busting ways almost a decade ago, in this 2004 zombie movie that plays like almost no other – but in its treatment of a group of London slacker buddies fighting against an onslaught of the undead, ended up launching an unlikely but highly entertaining franchise.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
6
 
 
The good news: CBS is devoting two hours of tonight’s prime time to salute public school teachers, in a special hosted by Queen Latifah. The bad news: CBS also is using the special to showcase some stars of its new series, including Anna Faris and Jerry O’Connell, which makes the whole thing seem a little less altruistic.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
6
 
 
This 1927 science fiction classic, directed by Fritz Lang, is presented in its most complete, recently restored version. Made at the end of the silent film era, its visuals have influenced sci-fi cinema ever since – and Brigitte Helm, as the robot woman temptress, established an iconic role that’s still a cinematic touchstone. And this dystopian future, by the way, was set at a time Conan O’Brien used to intone ominously: “In the year 2000…”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
6
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This taut, tense drama, starring Idris Elba as a cop with an obsessive streak, concludes for the season, with him chasing down a killer with an obsessive streak of his own.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
6
 
 
This 1927 film pops in at various times in an imagined future, from 1940 to the still-in-our-future 2036. It’s better at predicting television than certain specific wars, and is way off on the whole flying-cars idea, but the general approach, as a parable and warning, continues to make sense.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
5
 
 
Jon Stewart returned to the anchor desk of The Daily Show Tuesday night after a three month absence. This clip finds Stewart lost in multiple personalities – even descending into a Miley Cyrus get-up – unable to regain his Daily Show persona...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
5
 
 
Every Thursday this month, TCM is saluting the movies and legacy of actress Kim Novak. Tonight’s tribute kicks off with a very rare interview with the long-retired Novak, mounted last year as part of a special TCM event. It covers, among other things, how she became a star, how she rebelled, and why she retired so young. TCM host Robert Osborne conducts the interview.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Sep
5
 
 
This 1958 Alfred Hitchcock movie is one of Kim Novak’s greatest film roles – two of them, actually. Jimmy Stewart plays a man obsessed with the memory of a former love, in a role that challenges him to use every bit of his innate likability to keep his character from seeming overly creepy. But Novak, as the object of his desires, is embraced from the start, especially by Hitchcock’s camera views.