Today on TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars,” it’s a 24-hour helping of movies starring or featuring Natalie Wood. Watch her, especially, at 1:30 p.m. ET in 1955’s iconic Rebel without a Cause, at 3:30 p.m. ET in 1965’s Inside Daisy Clover, filmed a decade later – and at 8 p.m. ET, from 1956, her small but crucial supporting role in The Searchers (pictured), one of the best Westerns ever made, starring John Wayne and directe

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QUEEN & SLIM By David Bianculli

Daniel Kaluuya of Get Out and Black Panther and Jodie Turner-Smith star in this story, with a screenplay by Lena Waithe of The Chi, about a first date that goes horribly wrong, and turns into a sort of Bonnie and Clyde fugitives-on-the-run movie. Directed by Melina Matsoukas, who advanced to feature films after directing many ambitious music videos for Rhianna and Beyoncé.

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LUCIFER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is not necessarily a recommendation. It’s qualified, because I’m not really impressed by Lucifer, and never have been. (I’m talking about the show, not the fallen angel – I don’t need any more bad vibes aimed in my direction right now, especially from below.) But this former Fox series, picked up by Netflix, last season began producing new episodes for that streaming service, and they’re not only streaming, they’

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THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This new Disney movie, premiering today on Disney+, is like a companion movie to the studio’s live-action remake of Dumbo. It’s a family movie in which some actors, led by Bryan Cranston as a circus ringmaster, play human characters, while others, including Sam Rockwell, Angelina Jolie, Helen Mirren and Danny DeVito, provide the voices of animals whose mouth movements and most actions come courtesy of CGI. Jolie gives voice to the elephant Stella, and Rockwe

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TESLA By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: In this new Movie On Demand offering, premiering today for a price as a streaming film, Ethan Hawke portrays inventor Nikola Tesla, who worked with, without, and against Thomas Edison in pursuing his vision of electrical power and the concept of electric illumination. Kyle MacLachlan plays Edison, and this fact-based film may answer one chicken-and-egg-type question: When Edison and Tesla had their initial “Eureka!” thoughts about electricity, did imaginary light bulb

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TOTAL RECALL By David Bianculli

Last week, BBC America presented a wonderful compare-and-contrast double feature by showing, back to back, the two movies based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – one starring Gene Wilder, the other starring Johnny Depp. Tonight, BBC America does it again, this time presenting the two movies based on Philip K. Dick’s short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. First is the very entertaining 1990 movie Total Recall, directed b

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Helping Bill Maher to react to this week’s Democratic National Convention, and the very fresh news about the arrest of Steve Bannon on financial fraud charges, are such socially distanced guests as former Republican Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who spoke at the Democrat’s virtual convention earlier this week (pictured), and filmmaker Oliver Stone, who didn’t.

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2005: THE END OF HBO'S 'SIX FEET UNDER' By TV WW

On this day in 2005, HBO presented the finale of Six Feet Under, considered by many to be one of the best series wrap-ups in TV history...

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1990: NBC PRESENTS ITS FIRST 'PARENTHOOD' SPINOFF By TV WW

On this day in 1990, NBC introduced the series, Parenthood, a spinoff of the 1989 feature film of the same name...

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2020 DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION By David Bianculli

If Joe Biden sticks the landing with his acceptance speech tonight, concluding four days of virtual conventioneering for the Democrats in advance of the 2020 presidential election, this week’s socially distanced, unprecedentedly presented event arguably – and I’d argue it passionately – may emerge as the best presidential national convention ever televised. Without delegates interrupting speeches every other sentence with prolonged and partisan applause, the messages from

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