If you like gritty HBO and Showtime programming or Christmas movies, tonight’s all about you as we hit Christmas Eve’s Eve. JASON’S PICK: Escape At Dannemora [Showtime, 10p] Our heroes (heroes?) Matt and Sweat are prison broke and roaming the upstate NY streets and headed for … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/23/2018
Welcome to your last batch of trailers for the year! There’s not a lot happening at the movies after Christmas, so it’s all right here, in one post. There’s plenty of films though, some lame dramas grabbing for Oscars, infuriating biopics, but heartwarming ones, too. … Continue reading This Weekend at the Box Office: Friday, December 21st, 2018
This time of year, even series finales have a Christmas tint — although in a twist of sorts, one show (that’s always been a bit of a maverick) goes all in on one of the other happy holidays. Also, all our recs are either timeless … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/20/2018
We’re all about Christmas today — if from unlikely sources — as a Canadian show pulls a Brit trick with a free-standing holiday special, and a Canadian with a very American comic news platform hits Immigration and Culture Enforcement with some yuletide wordplay. BRAD’S … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/19/2018
It’s our Tuesday Recs: “It’s A… Edition” KATHERINE’S PICK: Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable [Netflix] It’s a new comedy special, from the queen of daytime laughs, Ellen deGeneres. JASON’S PICK: Drunk History [Comedy, 10p] It’s a clip show, sorta, as Derek Waters & Co. roll out some classic Christmas … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/18/2018
This weekend we get a female directed film (Capernaum), a comedy special from Ellen, Alfonso Cuarón’s latest (Roma on Netflix and art houses near you), the Boss on Broadway, and an animated Spider-man on the big screen.
A bunch of programs go off the air tonight as we get closer to Christmas — including two different flavors of sci-fi. Meanwhile, the Cloud 9 staff churn gets more and more chaotic. FIONA’S PICK: Legacies [The CW, 9p] Mid-Season Finale! The gang has the necromancer … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/13/2018
Two refugees of underappreciated — and now both canceled — Comedy Central half hours (Detroiters and Making History) return with a buzzy series on a newfangled content provider (ok, so the site itself is 12 years old). We also recommend comfort food TV from the land of … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/12/2018
We reluctantly find we are stuck in the ’90s again, with memories of a historic upset and a classic comedy sans its now controversial (by which we mean racist) main actor. Even Adam Conover’s railings tonight are about tech misconceptions, which feels so two decades … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/11/2018
We’re feeling a bit cerebral today over here at Screen Scholars HQ (located somewhere near the corner of Mercury and Narnia) with shouts going out to an economic documentary, a dark literary study of childhood, and George R.R. Martin’s other fanciful series. JASON’S PICKS: Vice … Continue reading What to Watch: 12/10/2018
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