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2020
Jul
13
1985: 'LIVE AID' IS STAGED IN LONDON, PHILADELPHIA By David Bianculli
 
 
On this day in 1985, the benefit concert Live Aid was staged simultaneously in London and Philadelphia...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
13
THE DELICATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A COUPLE AND THEIR SURROGATE IN THE NEWEST DRAMA, 'THE NEST,' ON ACORN By David Hinckley
 
 
The new British series The Nest offers something a little different: a sometimes-creepy psycho-thriller built around the fragile world of surrogate parenting...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
13
PSYCHO By David Bianculli
 
 
Last Monday, AXS scored my Best TV Tomorrow YouTube video citation by scheduling an Alfred Hitchcock classic horror film, 1963’s The Birds. Today, AXS does it again, by showing another, earlier Hitchcock classic: 1960’s Psycho, in which Tony Perkins starred as a pointedly scary gender-fluid motel caretaker. By the way: My Best TV Tomorrow video for this one includes a personal story I may regret telling…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
13
THE ACTORS SHINE IN 'THE NEST,' THE LATEST THRILLER TO ARRIVE ON ACORN By Mike Hughes
 
 
The Nest arrives Monday on the online streaming service, Acorn, giving us one of those couples we all can envy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
13
'ISOLATION STORIES' HAVE COME FROM BRITAIN TO BRITBOX By Mike Hughes
 
 
As Americans poked around at the idea of social-distance drama, some Englishmen went full-throttle...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
12
A DEEPER, MULTI-DIMENSIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORLD OF – AND HARD WORK INVOLVED WITH – STRIP CLUBS By David Hinckley
 
 
One of Paul Simon's many perfect lines in "The Boxer" had his narrator "seeking out the poorer quarters where the ragged people go / Looking for the places only they would know."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
12
CHILDREN OF HIROSHIMA By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight TCM presents a prime-time double feature devoted to recalling the impact of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima. This first film, 1952’s Children of Hiroshima, is a combination drama and documentary. Actors are cast in roles of various survivors of the 1945 bombing of that Japanese city, but actual footage and settings are used extensively. The result is a film that is overtly emotional – just as director Kaneto Shindo intended.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
12
PERRY MASON By David Bianculli
 
 
This is episode four, putting us at the halfway mark of this new miniseries adaptation – and the more we get into the story, the closer Matthew Rhys’ Perry Mason gets to the one we know from the classic TV series. He’s now getting closer, at least, to becoming a lawyer, which has to happen, and will, before this eight-part prequel is over.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
12
P-VALLEY By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Written by Katori Hall, and based on her stage play (which spelled out in its title the rude word referred to here only by its initial), this Starz drama is a female-empowerment, and perspective, take on the strip club and its employees. Elarica Johnson plays Autumn, a new dancer at the Mississippi Delta strip club known as the Pynk. And no, that’s not what the P stands for… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
12
HIROSHIMA By David Bianculli
 
 
Hideo Sekigawa directed this 1953 film, which was a reaction from a section of Japanese artists and audiences that felt Children of Hiroshima was insufficiently political. Showing the two films back to back, as TCM is doing tonight, is a rare and truly eye-opening opportunity to compare and contrast two early cinematic Japanese responses to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
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Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
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By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

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'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley