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2020
Apr
26
 
 
The new Penny Dreadful season – Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – sprawls across huge emotional turf...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
25
 
 
Singin’ in the Rain, one of the finest movie musicals ever made, was built around the time when silent movies transitioned to sound. Nickelodeon, the 1976 film that is part of this month’s TCM tribute to director Peter Bogdanovich, is set in a moment of cinema history predating even that – when films were “flickers,” silent curiosities only a minute or two long, presented in nickelodeon emporiums when customers would watch the images on individual pro
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
25
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This fall on Broadway – if there is a this fall on Broadway – Hugh Jackman is scheduled to play traveling con man Harold Hill in a new revival of The Music Man, opposite Sutton Foster as Marian the librarian. (According to Jackman as of last week, plans are for the musical to still launch as scheduled in September. But I doubt it. Especially since I have tickets.) Meanwhile, Jackman stars in this new HBO movie in a very similar type of role –
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
25
 
 
Bad Education is an average movie with an above-average cast...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
25
 
 
On this day in 1958, NBC launched the western, Jefferson Drum...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
24
 
 
On this day in 1989, cable's Disney Channel introduced an updated version of The Mickey Mouse Club...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
24
 
 
Jacob Barber is 14 years old. He’s a seemingly good kid who is also frequently exasperated and uncommunicative with his parents. In other words, he’s a normal teenage boy. The question is whether he’s also a murderer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
24
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: I’m noting this new Apple TV+ mystery miniseries more for its cast than for its content or execution. It’s the story of a young teen, brutally murdered, and other young teens who are suspects – including Jacob, a sullen kid whose parents, played by Chris Evans and Michelle Dockery, are set with the task of… well, see the title. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
24
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: The arrival of Season 2 of Ricky Gervais’ Netflix comedy, in which he plays a newspaper reporter grieving from the recent death of his wife, would seem to be ill-timed. At a time when all of us are feeling isolated and raw, why watch something with such a sad, depressing premise? I mean, really: These days, who can bear to watch a show about a poor soul who still works for a newspaper? Yet almost instantly, Gervais and After Life deliver the solid, unexpected lau
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
24
 
 
A new socially distanced edition features Nancy Pelosi and, reportedly somehow “in person,” Jay Leno.