Monthly Archives: October 2011

The epicenter for high school basketball these days isn’t somewhere in Indiana – it’s in gritty New Jersey where three teams in the industrial north of the state battle it out annually for being called the nation’s greatest. Filmmaker Marc Levin (“Brick City,” Slam”) spent nine months with one of those teams, St. Patrick’s of [...]

In-laws may be challenging, but does that mean we should call them “Monster In-Laws” (A&E , 10 and 10:30 p.m.)? It’s a little misleading, especially a week from “Halloween” (AMC, 8 p.m.) and “Halloween III: Season of the Witch” (AMC, 10 p.m.). In the case of the season opener, Anthony, wearing a backwards baseball cap, [...]

Because Disney owns ABC, and Disney has also appropriated just about every fairy tale out there, they take a handful to create the misguided new fantasy “Once Upon a Time” (ABC, 8 p.m.), which makes its premiere tonight. It’s all about a strange town named Storybrooke, Maine, where a gaggle of fairy tale figures are [...]

The Decemberists play from their album from earlier this year, “The King is Dead” on a new “Austin City Limits” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings). Actress Nina Foch, left, is the focus on Turner Classic Movies tonight, with her appearances in “An American in Paris” (8 p.m.), “Illegal” (11 p.m.), “My Name is Julia [...]

They’re promoting the heck out of “Boss” (Starz, 10 p.m.), the newest original series from the network mostly known for showing movies. Happily, it’s no “Spartacus” (that is to say no gratuitous bloodsoaking). But neither is it near the level of quality it thinks it is. Because it concerns a corrupt Chicago mayor wanting to [...]