TCM’s deliriously entertaining double features, showing two films featuring the same performer, continue tonight – but where usually there has been a span of decades between the movies chosen, tonight there’s only a six-year gap. Both films co-star Natalie Wood, beginning at 8 p.m. ET with 1955’s Rebel without a Cause. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, comes 1961’s Splendor in the Grass (pictured). In both, she stars opposite very magnetic and brooding y

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ROCKETMAN By David Bianculli

Taron Egerton, who played Eggsy in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, stars as Elton John in this very authorized 2019 film treatment (the real Elton John is an executive producer, and his husband, David Furnish, is a producer). John’s musical partner, Bernie Taupin, is played by Jamie Bell, but Taupin is not a credited producer on Rocketman. The dramatic biography’s screenplay is written by Lee Hall, who doubtlessly was approved by Elton John because Hall had written t

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s stock market black-diamond downhill slide, the Trump administration’s slow-motion reaction to the threat of a pandemic, last Tuesday’s yell-fest of a Democratic primary debate, and tomorrow’s high-stakes South Carolina Democratic primary – it’s all up for grabs in tonight’s live Real Time.

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TAXI DRIVER By David Bianculli

I recommend this movie a lot – usually, every time it pops up unedited on TV – and this is no exception. Martin Scorsese’s 1976 movie is a masterpiece of filmmaking, and Robert De Niro gives a performance as singular, and defining, as Marlon Brando’s in A Streetcar Named Desire a generation before. And pay particular attention, this time around, to some of the supporting players usually overlooked when people discuss Taxi Driver – Albert Brooks,

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THE ORIGIN STORY OF 'HUNTERS' By Mike Hughes

Imagine being Logan Lerman. He's a young actor who's done the usual young-actor roles. But he's also a film buff who admires the classics. And suddenly, at 28, he's starring with Al Pacino...

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FRED ASTAIRE DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

I love that TCM is on a kick lately of cleverly selected double features, showing an early and later work by the same artist. This time it’s Fred Astaire, and the double feature begins at 8 p.m. with 1936’s Swing Time, co-starring his most famous dance partner, Ginger Rogers. Then, from 1951, comes Royal Wedding, in which his dance partner is played by Jane Powell – but she’s playing his sister, not his romantic interest. And with Royal Wedding,&n

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MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, there’s a brief flirtation with luxury – with Alex’s new company setting her up in a high-rise, high-class apartment complex, which other members of the family are only too happy to explore.

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NOVA: "MYSTERIES OF SLEEP" By David Bianculli

I can’t wait to see Mysteries of Sleep, this week’s new episode of Nova. But I’m recording it, too – just in case I fall asleep during the opening credits. Check local listings.

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THE COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED 'MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL' By David Hinckley

If you made a list of the greatest jazz musicians of all time and then a list of the happiest human beings of all time, you wouldn't have to worry much about overlap...

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'MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL' IS THE EPIC TALE OF A MUSIC LEGEND By Mike Hughes

Rich contrasts flowed through the life and music of Miles Davis. Davis was the consummate cool-guy trumpeter, with fans ranging from Sinatra to rappers...

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