This particular “spider-web” movie — my term for a movie that ensnares you whenever you see it on TV — really ought to be called a “fishnet film.” No matter: Here it is again, and here I am again. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 waterlogged masterpiece has just been released in a stunningly clear new Bu-Ray version. We’re gonna need a bigger TV set…

2012

Sep

1966: 'STAR TREK' LAUNCHES ON NBC By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1966 marked the debut of Star Trek — later known as Star Trek: The Original Series to differentiate the show from its many TV and film spinoffs — on NBC...

2012

Sep

2012 WOMEN’S U.S. OPEN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

Yesterday afternoon, Victoria Azorenko fought off first-set jitters, and an initially overpowering Maria Sharapova, to emerge victoriously in a tough three-set semifinal, putting her against Serena Williams in tonight’s prime-time women’s final. Williams, of course, was here last year — but she lost, in a surprising upset, and ought to hit the court tonight with her racket blazing. (Tune in earlier, at 12 p.m. ET, to see coverage of men's semifinals.)

2012

Sep

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN By David Bianculli

On the same night a rival network is showing Steven Spielberg’s Jaws from 1975, TNT is presenting his Oscar-winning WWII epic filmed 13 years later. What range. What talent. And, with Ryan, what a cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Paul Giamiatti, Ted Danson and Tom Sizemore star.

2012

Sep

DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is titled Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. I don’t know any more about it, but I don’t need to. It sounds perfect. And this comes from a guy who never fell under the pre-hype high-concept spell of Snakes on a Plane.

2012

Sep

9/11: HEROES OF THE 88TH FLOOR By David Bianculli

This TLC documentary was originally televised last year, on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It tells of what happened on the 88th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade center, and the efforts of people outside — and especially inside — the building to save as many lives as possible. Three days before another 9/11 anniversary, it’s a grim but good reminder.

2012

Sep

'THE NEW NORMAL' COULD USE A LIGHTER TOUCH By Ed Bark

NBC's The New Normal is both audacious and sometimes unintentionally off-putting, but not because of its subject matter...

2012

Sep

LEWIS BLACK: THE ANGRY MAN COMETH By Eric Gould

In his new Comedy Central special, In God We Rust, Lewis Black jokes about descriptions of him "having a comedy style that suggests he's having a mental breakdown." His crisis is our pleasure...

2012

Sep

1967: 'THE FLYING NUN' SOARS ONTO ABC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1967, ABC introduced The Flying Nun, starring Sally Field...

2012

Sep

STAND UP TO CANCER By David Bianculli

Gwyneth Paltrow produces this successful fundraiser, with celebrities manning phones as others, including Taylor Swift and Coldplay, perform. The special is being shown simultaneously on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, as well as cable's Bio, E!, Encore, HBO, Ion, Lifetime Movie Network, Showtime, Starz, Style, TBS and VH1. So if you don't watch, it's not because it's hard to find.

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