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2021
Feb
1
 
 
Before Tim Burton made his brilliant Ed Wood movie, starring Johnny Depp as the hilariously optimistic and untalented film director of such cult clunkers as Glen or Glenda and Plan 9 from Outer Space, the only places to see any of his films were at college or independent cinema arthouse showings, or on the very very late late shows on local TV stations. This 1959 sci-fi Ed Wood “classic” is one such film – which I saw in the 1970s on a Los Angeles
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
1
 
 
Okay, so this imported horror miniseries isn’t getting any more logical. But it is getting a bit sexier, which I guess is something… in this genre especially. But we’re at the point where the final missing coin from the “blood money” given to Judas for betraying Jesus is about to show up – and what evil will be unleashed then, if those coins indeed all fall into the wrong hands? A pandemic, maybe?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
1
 
 
Before there was 9 to 5 the movie in 1980, there was the social movement “9to5” in the 1970s – organized by a group of Boston secretaries and office workers who fought for equal pay and an end to sexual harassment in the workplace. This new documentary looks at what they did – and how they did it. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
1
 
 
We spend a lot of time talking about good shows, so let's consider one that is really, truly awful – but in a fun way that's worth watching...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The Long Song, which premieres Sunday as part of the PBS Masterpiece series throws no filmy gauze over the inhumanity of slavery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The first full week of the Biden administration is chronicled on this week’s new edition of The Circus – and part of that week included the increasing reluctance by Senate Republicans to entertain seriously the impeachment charge about to be brought before them. It also included an increasing concern, by congressional Democrats, that their lives were in danger not just from domestic terrorists, but potentially from some of their own elected colleagues. How is that 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: This four-part miniseries actually is several documentaries in one: a mystery series, the story of a con artist, the tale of a promising fuel-efficient three-wheel automobile in the midst of the 1970s oil crisis, and a detailed biographical study of an elusive and mercurial subject. Watch the first hour, and I defy you to walk away from the remaining installments. The first two installments are televised tonight on HBO, with the remainder coming on successive Sun
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
The pandemic has forced everyone to be inventive, and to do things differently. Mostly, it’s been terrible to experience and endure – but on television, every once in a while, you witness something that clearly ought to be continued once the pandemic is over. The democratic National Convention roll call vote of states, recorded in all 50 different states so that we could see the nation as a true United States, was one such example. It ought to be required from now on, rather than jus
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
Last week, Your Honor was in recess, but tonight Bryan Cranston’s New Orleans judge returns to the courtroom – and to his increasingly complex, closing-in circle of murderers and blackmailers. But who is he to judge?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
31
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 3 premiere of the late-night talk show hosted by Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, which went from “Who are those guys?” to “Who are those guys?” in fairly short order. By the end of last month, to cap Season 2, Desus & Mero featured an extended interview with Barack Obama, who began the proceedings by entering the room and saying casually, “Congratulations, gentlemen. Y’all blew up.” Yes, they did.