What will Preacher Jesse Custer do? Wouldn’t Freddy (aka more serious Omar Little) and a Lifetime Movie stepdaughter want to know. It’s another busy Sunday night of shot callers, pranking principals, neurotic comics, and celebrities who know how to play the game. BRAD’S PICK: Preacher [AMC, 9p] … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/31/2016
Fred Tomlinson 1925/6-2016 It’s well nigh impossible to select one sketch as the signature moment of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Monty Python is the exalted Monty Python because even before the classic films, there were dozens of magical moments ready to be quoted by young nerds … Continue reading He Worked All Night, And He Slept All Day
Star Trek was your big box office winner, netting $59.2 million. The Secret Life of Pets continues to charm audiences, coming in second with $29.6 million. Nerve was released Wednesday. It stars Emma Roberts and Dave Franco as two Youths playing a Truth or Dare-type game … Continue reading Weekend Box Office: July 29, 2016
Hillary Celebrates The DNC Being With Her! 1890s Brit Detectives Brawl! Fifth Harmonizes Over Heroes’ Classics! This is What to Watch, and we’re Screen Scholars? JASON’S PICK: Ripper Street [BBCA, 10p] It’s the return of Reid on one of the most gritty – and most misleadingly named (Jack … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/28/2016
What does Remi Malek want? A Master Chef would like to know. Sherrod Small would sure love to know. Only his robot knows for sure. JASON’S PICK: Black & White [A&E, 10:30p] This new talk show features comedians (led by hosts Christian Finnegan and Sherrod Small) … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/27/2016
Often the most prized, most nostalgic, films in this blog’s examination of made-for-TV greatness were films that aired a Movie Of The Week, before going (inevitably) to Lifetime. One such gem is 1990’s In Defense of A Married Man, available to stream on both Netflix and … Continue reading “In Defense of a Married Man,” A Made for TV Gem
Tonight, the Democrats make history tonight as they nominate Hillary Clinton as the first female candidate fielded by a major candidate – in response to the Republicans groundbreaking pick of our first half-Cheetos candidate. If politics is not your cup of tea, or you want … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/26/2016
We don’t mean to get political, but we think Hillary Clinton applauding a cupcake while Rashida Jones looks on with a “wtf” expression sums up today. The Democrats really need a good night tonight, and there’s that nice older man who charms birds set to … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/25/2016
As we wait to see what the looming and exciting, if certainly more tame, Dem Convention brings, there’s a ton of options to take your mind off the coming apocalypse, including an underrated comic thriller on a new night. BRAD’S PICK: BrainDead [CBS, 10p] The show … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/24/2016
Tonight’s pretty much dominated by AMC and its forays into the 1800s final(-ish) frontier. There’s also Hallmark Movies. To the picks. JASON’S PICK: Hell on Wheels [AMC, 9p] After five seasons, they are laying the golden spike, literally and figuratively, on the railroad on the AMC … Continue reading What to Watch: 07/23/2016
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