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2019
Jul
26
 
 
Much of the comic superhero world, notably Marvel, has long insulated itself against satire by systematically poking fun at its own characters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
25
 
 
This is the penultimate episode of iZombie, as the series finale arrives next week. So as always regarding a modern TV drama series with a serialized narrative, there’s an increased risk that characters may not survive from week to week. So stay tuned… and keep expecting the unexpected. Rose McIver stars.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
25
 
 
In 1963, this costume drama pushed the boundaries of sexual innuendo in film, especially at mealtime. During the picnic scene, the title character had quite a picnic indeed. But the biggest reason to watch this film is to see Albert Finney, as Tom Jones, in the prime of his cinematic sex-symbol status. If you delighted in watching Finney’s performance as a cantankerous aging lawyer in 2000’s Erin Brockovich, as you should have, here’s a fun compare-and-contrast exerci
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
25
 
 
Imagine a baseball team shedding superstars. Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle all retire ... just as the manager is told to play more games with more people...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
25
 
 

Reviving cult television shows from way back earlier in this century has yielded inconsistent results. Reviving Veronica Mars is a win...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
We better enjoy life here while we can, it turns out, because in a billion or so years, it will all be gone...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
So this is it: After months of speculation and anticipation and negotiation, a one-week delay and some last-minute adjustments, two congressional committees – the first before the House Judiciary Committee, the second, after lunch, before the House Intelligence Committee. Mueller has said, on the record, he doesn’t plan to testify much beyond the content of his famous report – but subsequent summations of that same report by the attorney general makes his rectitude a question m
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
We’re getting to the end of Jane the Virgin – the final two episodes of the series are presented next Wednesday, as a finale double-header. Today, the dizzy plots that have been spinning wildly this final season, including a sudden fear that her own once-kidnapped, safely returned child is not her own, come closer and closer to a conclusion. All with the sly telenovela narration…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
24
 
 
The science fiction universe has been bombarded lately with news, and that includes some for Trekkies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
23
 
 
Tonight’s “Out of This World” film voyage on TCM begins with two incomparably influential sci-fi dramas. First is this 1960 classic, adapting the H.G. Wells novel into a marvel of day-glo, futuristic fantasy. Rod Taylor stars as H. George Wells (yes, you read that right), and the most memorable alien he encounters in this galactic class-warfare story is Weena, played by Yvette Mimieux.