It’s a night in which movies are about the only TV offerings worth watching. For starters, there’s the most recent film by Terrence Malick, who directs a movie, on average, every eight years. This one, from 2011, has to do with memory and relationships and life and death and… well, a whole lot more. Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star.

2012

Jul

THE DEBT By David Bianculli

In 2010, Helen Mirren starred in this psychological action film about a Mossad agent who suspects that a Nazi war criminal she hunted down and killed three decades earlier, and whose death made her internationally renowned, may actually be alive.

2012

Jul

GONE WITH THE WIND By David Bianculli

From 1939, one of the most popular and most famous films ever made: this sprawling, ambitious, colorful adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s novel of the Civil War. And let’s face it – TCM, with its lack of commercials and its fidelity to the film’s original image ratio, is a perfect place to watch it. Why wait until tomorrow, even if it is another day? Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable star.

2012

Jul

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND By David Bianculli

Charlie Kaufman, one of the most audacious and original screenwriters around, wrote this 2004 love story, which stars Jim Carrey as a man who goes to great lengths to get over his relationship with the love of his life, played by Kate Winslet.

2012

Jul

TITANIC By David Bianculli

And here’s another Kate Winslet movie – the one that made her famous. From 1997, it’s James Cameron’s Oscar-winning, box-office-record-setting epic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eventual true love of Winslet’s slowly blossoming Rose.

2012

Jul

THE PRISONER: THE COMPLETE SERIES By David Bianculli

This surrealistic miniseries import slipped onto CBS in the summer of 1968 – stunning viewers then, and amazing them ever since. Forget the ill-conceived recent remake. This is the original, starring Patrick McGoohan as a British secret agent who resigns on principle, only to wake up in a remote island community – “The Village” – from which there is no escape...

2012

Jul

ANDY GRIFFITH, DEAD AT 86 By Christy Slewinski

Actor Andy Griffith, star of The Andy Griffith Show and Matlock, died early today at his North Carolina home. He was 86...

2012

Jul

2013 WIMBLEDON TENNIS By David Bianculli

There have been so many upsets at this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament, if today’s men’s quarterfinals don’t produce another upset, it would be… upsetting. No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic, from Serbia, plays No. 7 seed Tomas Berdych from the Czech Republic. Also of major interest this morning: No. 2 seed Andy Murray (pictured), still trying for his first win on his home-kingdom Wimbledon court, plays unseeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain.

2012

Jul

2013 WIMBLEDON MEN'S TENNIS By David Bianculli

here have been so many upsets at this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament, if today’s men’s quarterfinals don’t produce another upset, it would be… upsetting. No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic, from Serbia, plays No. 7 seed Tomas Berdych from the Czech Republic. Also of major interest this morning: No. 2 seed Andy Murray (pictured), still trying for his first win on his home-kingdom Wimbledon court, plays unseeded Fernando Verdasco of Spain.

2012

Jul

1955: THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW PREMIERES ON ABC By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1955, ABC added a local Los Angeles musical variety show to its prime-time schedule as a summer replacement series. That show — The Lawrence Welk Show — went on to air on ABC for 16 years. (At one point, from 1956 to 1959, the network gave Welk a second one-hour time slot for a second show, Lawrence Welk's Top Tunes and New Talent.) The show featured big band leader Lawrence Welk and a host of singers and musicians performing a range of standards. At times,

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