SERIES PREMIERE: Bourne Identity director Doug Liman also helmed the 2008 movie Jumper, about a teen who discovers a latent and mysterious talent for, among other things, teleportation and telekinesis. Liman has returned to the same source material to present Impulse, this new 10-part series in which Maddie Hasson plays a vulnerable young woman who, when she feels threatened, suddenly unleashes a power that, at first, she can neither comprehend nor control. (Think of it as FX’s Legion, onl

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Jun

TREASURES FROM THE DISNEY VAULT By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Once again, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin guides TCM viewers on a personal tour through the Disney vaults. All of the cartoons, shorts, and movies shown tonight are TCM premieres – and while the movies are marginal, the cartoons are fun, and some of the shorts and compilations are invaluable. The best of the best tonight includes A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios (pictured, 8 p.m. ET), a 15-minute short that’s so fascinating because it was made in 1937 &ndash

2018

Jun

2018 NBA CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS By David Bianculli

The Cleveland Cavaliers almost won Game 1, and let it slip away in overtime, then were thoroughly outpaced by the Golden State Warriors in Game 2 (especially by Steph Curry’s record-setting downpour of three-pointers). So the Cavaliers have lost the first two games of the series – but remember, that happened against the Boston Celtics as well, and the Cavs came back to advance to the finals. So here comes Game 3, the first game where Cleveland has home-court advantage. But do they ha

2018

Jun

CONDOR By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: If you have DirecTV, you have access to the Audience Network, which is where you can find this new series adaptation of 1975’s engrossing 3 Days of the Condor movie, which starred Robert Redford as a CIA analyst. This new series, starring Max Irons as the investigator, makes some necessary and, for the most part, justifiable changes: the guy reads computer screens and financial data instead of obscure books, and meets a woman at random through Tinder rather than at gunpoin

2018

Jun

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Last week on this show, Samantha Bee lashed out at Ivanka Trump’s silence on the treatment of babies and young children separated from their parents as part of President Trump’s new immigration policy by branding her with a two-word insult, the first word of which was “feckless.” (To repeat the second word here would be… reckless.) Bee subsequently apologized, and has let it be known she plans to address her remarks on tonight’s show. Stay tuned.

2018

Jun

MAD ABOUT MUSICALS By David Bianculli

April showers bring May flowers – and on TCM, May flowers bring June musicals. Tuesdays and Thursdays this month, TCM devotes all day, and even prime time, to the Hollywood musical. There are plenty on view today to see, and hear, including some old Busby Berkeley classics and other pivotal early movies. Kicking it off this morning is 1933’s Footlight Parade, a prototypical musical featuring Berkeley’s iconic choreography and stars Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell – but all

2018

Jun

HUMANS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: After a very lengthy hiatus between seasons, AMC’s Humans returns for Season 3. A year has passed on this show’s narrative as well, and the “synths” – this pre-Westworld term for its engineered humanoids – have been divided into two easily identifiable subgroups. As in Westworld, there are the functioning, unquestioning, human-like artificial beings – and then there are the “aware” ones, who have some semblance of identity an

2018

Jun

LEGION By David Bianculli

We’re almost at the end of this season of Legion, and I’m not even sure where we are, geographically or emotionally. But I do know that the events of the past few episodes, tough as they may be to describe and explain, have gotten David very, very angry. And when he gets angry, things around him tend to be in grave danger. Tonight, with an important missing body about to be located, the term “grave danger” may well have a greater meaning.

2018

Jun

GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli

In tonight’s Episode 8, the younger Picasso, played by Alex Rich, sets out to design a ballet – which leads him to also have designs on a beautiful ballerina, Olga Khoklova (played by Sofia Doniants), who is destined to become Picasso’s first wife, and an early muse.

2018

Jun

TV REMAKES: BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT — NOT THAT THERE’S NECESSARILY ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT By Alex Strachan

To hear some people tell it, the upcoming 2018-19 network TV season is the Year of the Remake — and they’re not far wrong...

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