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2020
Oct
20
 
 
Tonight is installment eight of Women Make Film, and the chapters of female film focus this week are “Home,” “Religion,” and “Work.” For films that are set in a convent, you hit all three topics at once. Among the films shown tonight after the documentary: At 5:45 a.m. ET Wednesday, the jaw-droppingly ambitious 1906 silent film by Alice Guy-Blaché, the 30-minute The Birth, The Life, and the Death of Christ (pictured), based on i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
20
 
 
Before he provided the narration for ABC’s The Untouchables, Walter Winchell was a super-successful, very influential gossip columnist. The power he wielded, and the way he wielded it, are the subject of this new American Masters cultural profile. Check local listings. For full reviews, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower and Mike Hughes' Open Mike. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
20
 
 
Let's say you decide to turn Tuesday into a documentary film festival. You ignore the rest of TV – Voice, Bachelorette, even the World Series – and watch two PBS films back-to-back...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
20
 
 
On this day in 1973, All in the Family's "lovable bigot" Archie Bunker finally met his next-door neighbor, George Jefferson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
19
 
 
On this day in 1953, "The Old Redhead" Arthur Godfrey fired "Little Godfrey" singer Julius La Rosa during the live radio broadcast of Arthur Godfrey Time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
19
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Cycle 19 for The Voice. And while repetition led to fatigue regarding my enthusiasm for this series a few years ago, I’m interested this time – because this NBC musical competition show has to work with, and around, the pandemic from the start. The judges, this time around, are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani (the show’s accidentally generated loving couple), along with John Legend and first American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson. But ev
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
19
 
 
Michael B. Jordan stars in this 2019 movie, playing a Harvard-educated lawyer who pursues dangerous and politically volatile pro bono cases by traveling to Alabama in the 1980s to defend the poor – in particular, a Death Row inmate played by Jamie Foxx.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
19
 
 
When people discuss 1939 as perhaps the greatest year for movies in the history of Hollywood, they roll off such titles as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stagecoach, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Of Mice and Men. Which, in my mind, is more than enough ammo to win that particular debate. But most people neglect to add to that list 1939’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, an excellent, entertaining version of the Sir Arthur C
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
19
 
 
If anyone makes worse decisions than teenage girls in horror movies, let's just hope they aren't registered to vote...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Oct
19
 
 
Pepe the Frog is a friendly sort – big-eyed, green (as are many frogs), and laid-back. He's also been co-opted by alt-right and white supremacist groups...