Tonight’s TCM films are devoted to the immigrant experience, and here’s one of the best of them ever put on celluloid. Made in 1917, right when the huddled masses were huddling to Ellis Island, this short film stars Charlie Chaplin as his Little Tramp, who arrives in America after a rocky (and hilarious) ocean voyage.

2012

Jun

THE COLBERT REPORT By David Bianculli

Here’ a guest you don’t see on TV very often: Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Normally, you’d expect a talk-show host to treat one of the world’s wealthiest women with deference – but Stephen Colbert, or at least his TV persona, is no ordinary talk-show host. And she’s been here before (see photo from last year), so she knows what to expect.

2012

Jun

CHARLIE AND LOUIE: THE AGONY AND ECSTASY By Eric Gould

Call it a tale of two men behaving badly. Both can be brash. But on one hand there is wit, ingenuity and depth. And on the other, there isn't...

2012

Jun

BACK TO THE FUTURE By David Bianculli

It’s now 2012 – only three years until we reach (if we’re lucky) the future of 2015 as imagined in this fantasy time-travel film starring Michael J. Fox. Tonight HBO Family repeats the 1985 movie, followed at 9 p.m. ET by its 1989 sequel – which, like the original, takes place, in part, in 2015. (The rest, though, goes back to the past, and 1955.) Among the random predictions from the original film that came true: Miami now has a professional baseball team.

2012

Jun

THE THIN RED LINE By David Bianculli

Terrence Malick has directed only five movies in 40 years: 1973’s Badlands, 1978’s Days of Heaven, 2005’s The New World, last year’s The Tree of Life, and this 1998 war drama. An adaptation of James Jones’ autobiographical WWII novel, it focuses on the exhaustive, exhausting battles at Guadalcanal, starring Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Woody Harrelson, John Travolta, George Clooney, and lots of others.

2012

Jun

FRONTLINE: "DOLLARS AND DENTISTS" By David Bianculli

This new edition of Frontline examines the wide disparity between costs and services in the dental industry, and how this affects both preventative and emergency care. For example: According to this report, only 10 percent of the dentists in Florida accept payment by Medicaid. For many more eye-opening, and mouth-opening, facts, watch this hour (check local listings). It tells the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth. Molar less…

2012

Jun

THE BEATLES: FROM LIVERPOOL TO SAN FRANCISCO By David Bianculli

This documentary focuses on the live performance career by the Beatles, from their earliest days in England and Germany to their official farewell concert at Candlestick Park. (And beyond, on the rooftop of Apple Studios.) Like other recently imported BBC America documentaries on this group, it’s not very thorough, and doesn’t add much to the canon – but there’s always a glimmer of something. In this case, it’s some of the more rare press conference footage.

2012

Jun

THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART By David Bianculli

This ought to be good: Tonight’s guest is Seth MacFarlane, the Family Guy guy promoting his first motion picture, Ted, in which he plays (via motion-capture) a “living” teddy bear.

2012

Jun

1983: KURALT'S "ON THE ROAD" GOES PRIMETIME By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1983, CBS gave newsman Charles Kuralt a half-hour primetime spot to showcase the folksy vignettes he'd perfected for the CBS Evening News beginning in 1967. On the Road with Charles Kuralt allowed Kuralt to present more in-depth pieces about the people and places he encountered during his treks along the nation's back roads in a motor home. The primetime On the Road lasted just two months. Kuralt continued producing On the Road pieces for CBS News until October, 1980. In 1984, K

2012

Jun

DAYTIME DONE RIGHT By Ed Martin

In a truly startling development, the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were presented in a live telecast Saturday that actually honored and respected the day-part they are intended to celebrate...

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