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2012
Oct
29
 
 
Released in 1960, this movie could almost be classified as a horror film, because, more than 50 years later, it’s so timely, it’s scary. Based on the Broadway play, it dramatizes the Scopes “monkey trial” of 1925 – in which Spencer Tracy and Fredric March played opposing attorneys in a case about a biology teacher persecuted for teaching evolution in his classroom. Co-stars include Gene Kelly, Harry Morgan and Dick York – and please, please watch this film if
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
29
 
 
A murder that looks like a ritualistic killing leads Beckett to an unusual, and unusually close, prime suspect: Castle. But as whodunits go, my guess is that someone else dunit. Otherwise, this series is dun, too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
29
 
 
Here's actor/comedian David Hoffman of the infamous LA improv company The Groundlings, as a test lab subject wired up, trying to describe the V8 juice experience...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
It’s Game 4 of this year’s series – and the way the Detroit Tigers started out this World Series, there may be two places on TV tonight to tune in and watch The Walking Dead. The Tigers have home-field advantage for tonight’s contest, but the San Francisco Giants, right now, continue to enjoy the advantage that counts the most: number of World Series games won.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
This isn’t the only Sunday night series capable of taking your breath away with its sudden surprises (see also: Showtime’s Homeland). But boy, has this been a strong season so far for this intense zombie drama. In just two weeks at a new setting, it’s given us television’s best and most violently dramatic prison series since HBO’s Oz.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
For this 100th installment of The Mentalist, the producers decided to celebrate by looking backward. Tonight’s installment is a special flashback episode, showing how Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) first came to join the CBI investigative team. One thing that’s a blast from this past: the hairstyles.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
This series, with all its various subplots and storylines, is presenting its finest season yet, as almost every major character is in pursuit of something difficult to obtain – whether they be leads in a journalistic investigation, collaborators in an ambitious musical project, the right costume for Mardi Gras, or the right employees for a new local restaurant. Tonight, there’s movement in all those areas – including Fats Domino, guest starring as himself, as a possible musical
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
Last week’s episode stunned me. Carrie (Claire Danes) made contact with Brody (Damian Lewis) and agreed to meet him as part of an undercover operation to regain his confidence. Instead, after suspecting he had sensed her true motives, she went to his hotel room and pounced. The implication, and the expectation, was that Carrie, given their torrid and troubled shared past, would pounce sexually. But she had other plans – plans that make tonight’s episode the Must-See-est of all
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
Today in 2005, Showtime debuted the anthology series, Masters of Horror, which showcased works by some of the horror genre's best-known writers and directors...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
28
 
 
Television producers are introducing audiences to the fact that a growing segment of the U.S. population is multiracial families...