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2019
Jul
20
 
 
On the very night Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon 50 years ago, HBO premieres this 2018 movie about Armstrong and that out-of-this-world Apollo 11 mission. Ryan Gosling plays Armstrong, Claire Foy plays his wife, and the film, based on Armstrong’s biography, is directed by Damien Chazelle, who previously directed Gosling in La La Land. If you want to feel what it’s like to be shot into space, First Man comes close…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
20
 
 
It would be exciting enough, 50 years later, to watch as-it-happened TV coverage of Apollo 11’s moon landing purely from the perspective of CBS’s Walter Cronkite. But this BBC America special take a global perspective, and shows us how the event was covered across the planet – not just in England (pictured), but around the world. And it’s still, by the way, the most-viewed TV event in history…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
At times, the calendar can be our friend. That's the case with the 50th anniversary of the moon landing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
An American, J.B. Holmes, led the British Open after Day 1. Day 2 already is half in the (golf) bag, and the Golf Channel provides live coverage until 4 p.m. ET.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Now in its second season on Netflix, moved (or rescued) from Sony’s Crackle, Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee continues to be the perfect little TV talk show. It’s a brilliantly reductive idea – the title says it all, though sometimes they eat meals and this season even take a ride on vintage Italian motor scooters – and Seinfeld does it perfectly. He spends enough money to make it look sharp in the photography and editing
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
“How are these two related?” is the question asked tonight, as the S.H.I.E.L.D. squad tries to piece together two connected mysteries. One is why the renegade world-destroyer Sarge looks and sounds exactly like their former leader Coulson – and the other mystery is why one of their squad members shot and killed Sarge in cold blood at the end of last week’s episode, yet has no memory of doing so.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
The best movies of 1939 continue to be collected and shown on Fridays this month by TCM – but let’s focus on this particular one, which should be seen tonight by everyone, regardless of political leanings. When I show this film, starring James Stewart and an equally fabulous Jean Arthur, to my Rowan University film students, they’re astounded by so much in this now 80-year-old movie: the cynicism of the media, the corruption of politicians, and both the liberated and disapprovi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
Moon TV specials are everywhere this week, but here’s one that takes moon travel literally. It’s about how and why the moon travels in its orbit, and how that affects things here on Earth. If you’re looking for pure escapism tonight, look elsewhere – because if there’s one thing this new special is loaded with, it’s gravity.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
19
 
 
Things get worse for Carla Gugino’s Jett tonight. But hey – I could have written that every week so far…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
18
 
 
From 1:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET, The Golf Channel provides live Day 1 coverage of the 2019 British Open, which takes place at the Royal Portrush course in Northern Ireland.