Tonight we screen scholarin’ Screen Scholars celebrate movie magic–and for a 26th season we try to answer the question: Celebrities: How Do They Dance? Do They Dance Well? Let’s Find Out! KATHERINE’S PICK: Independent Lens: True Conviction [CBS, 10p] Tonight’s Independent Lens, True Conviction, follows three … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/30/2018
WestworldTrapped in our own modern dystopia, we turn to TV, more specifically to familiar Sunday shows to soothe our moods. Meanwhile, a voice in the wind rails against the hypocrisy. Resisting just at the surface, the Screen Scholars editors have some thoughts of small screen … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/29/2018
It’s a day for musicals and history, with a little superhero and sports goodness sprinkled in. Most of the action is here, but if you’re feeling emotions that are more small screen, we’re open with some suggestions. JASON’S PICK: Bobby Kennedy for President [Netflix] Historical documentaries … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/27/2018
There’s an enormous Marvel movie out this weekend. (But did you see Black Panther yet?) There’s also a foreign film that seems charming and a romance starring Alia Shawkat! The Test & The Art of Thinking is a documentary about the SAT and ACT and whether … Continue reading Weekend Box Office, April 27, 2018
The Cleveland Browns are on the clock, while Paper Boi may or may not crash an Atlanta pajama party. In the fictional Midwest, Amy and Jonah have to answer for their recent were-they-or-weren’t-they (they-were) indiscretions on the same NBC night that Jack’s Toledo pranks go … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/26/2018
Since we’re leading with the darkest of dark stories currently airing (makes Westworld look like Singin’ in the Rain), we do highly recommend alternating Navani’s pick with Katherine’s pick, as after a dystopian vision, it might be wise to be reminded there is natural wonder in the … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/25/2018
Mondays on a whole are not being known for being particularly polarizing; from Garfield the Cat to the Boomtown Rats to Bojack Horseman‘s Andrew Garfield, few people are a fan of the opening day of the work week. However, Monday television, lately, has been peppered with … Continue reading Monday’s Best: The Terror
The benefits of watching about six hours of Meredith Baxter kill it (literally, figuratively) is that YouTube quickly adapts to your interests, and it is without remorse that I tell you that my YouTube suggestions are limited to chill-hop streams aimed at college sophomores and … Continue reading The Killing Secret: A Murder That Hits the Spot!
Inspiring stories of a brilliant painter, an aspiring chorus, and a Tracy Morgan showing off his acting chops lead our choices for a perfectly ordinary Tuesday. BRAD’S PICK: Genius [Nat Geo, 9p] This season of National Geographic‘ scripted series focuses on the groundbreaking as eccentric art … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/24/2018
There’s not really much of a thread for header-writers to latch onto with today’s best choices, as we have everything from the season finale of TV’s best scripted melodrama to an in depth study of feminism within the bounds of hell on Earth to a … Continue reading What to Watch: 04/23/2018
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