When Axe and Chuck were maneuvering to bait and outmaneuver each other last season, one of the crucial elements in both plans was an unscrupulous doctor. Tonight, Axe fears that the doctor retained some crucial evidence that could implicate Axe – and sets out to learn the truth and recover that evidence, while Chuck, with very different goals in mind, is working that very same trail.

2018

Apr

BARRY By David Bianculli

One hit man is dead, but his brother wants revenge – on Barry. Meanwhile, Barry is given an unusual career opportunity: the opportunity to kill his murderous mentor, Fuchs.

2018

Apr

STARS REALLY ARE JUST LIKE US By Linda Donovan

Apparently, the stars of Avengers: Infinity War want to be reminded of what life is like outside the Marvel universe...

2018

Apr

THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT By David Bianculli

Every once in a while, TCM digs up a treasure that is unusual and obscure even by that network’s exacting and exhaustive standards. This is such a case: A 1955 science fiction movie made by Britain’s lovingly low-rent Hammer Films studio, starring the equally low-rent American actor Brian Donlevy. The plot, considering that it predates the Soviet Sputnik experiment that launched the Space Race, is somewhat extraordinary. Professor Bernard Quatermass (Donlevy) has launched the first h

2018

Apr

GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli

Parts 1 and 2. In case you missed the start-up of the second season of National Geographic’s very informative and entertaining biography series, the first two installments of Genius: Picasso are presented tonight, back to back. This series, like its predecessor about Albert Einstein, tracks two timelines simultaneously, with different actors playing the artist as a younger and older man. As the elder Picasso, Antonio Banderas packs all the necessary passion and commitment, regarding women,

2018

Apr

TINY SHOULDERS: RETHINKING BARBIE By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: What a doll! Barbie has been around since the 1950s, and the Mattel icon has undergone endless redesigns, as well as fashion designs, in an effort to make Barbie more relevant, more liberated – and, of course, to make Mattel more money. In 2016, Mattel launched “Curvy Barbie,” the plastic doll equivalent of a plus-size fashion model, and this documentary traces its development and release, while sidestepping most of the backlash criticism. But from Barbie

2018

Apr

BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: On March 16, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announced his candidacy for President of the United States, throwing his hat into the ring quite late, in an election year, in order to provide policy alternatives to incumbent Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson. It’s not precisely 50 years later (Netflix missed that opportunity by more than a month), but today, Netflix premieres a four-part documentary that’s about much more than Bobby Kennedy’s presiden

2018

Apr

THE WEEK OF By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Adam Sander’s comic persona may not have matured much in his years as a movie star, with some very notable exceptions, but his characters themselves are starting to. A generation ago, Sandler would have starred, in a comedy movie about marriage, as the prospective groom, or at least the wedding singer. Today, in this new movie that’s a part of Sandler’s development deal with Netflix, he’s the father of the bride (take that, Steve Martin!), with such loyal

2018

Apr

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN By David Bianculli

This 1960 Western classic, in which a septet of individually formidable mercenaries is hired by a small village to defend them from attack by outside adversaries, is based on the brilliant Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa, Seven Samurai. This broad Americanized (and Mexicanized) Western is very good, but the original film really was magnificent. For The Magnificent 7, the unorthodox heroes are played by such charismatic actors as Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Eli Wallach – a

2018

Apr

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: LESLIE ODOM JR. IN CONCERT By David Bianculli

Leslie Odom Jr. won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical, winning for his performance as Aaron Burr in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. (Miranda was nominated in the same category, making it the second time in history Hamilton lost to Burr in a high-profile duel.) This intimate concert was filmed for PBS last December, with Odom running through a set list of songs you might expect – and a few you probably don’t. Check local listings.

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