Author Archives: Roger Catlin

Turner Classic Movies marks Martin Luther King Day with a slew of documentaries on the Black experience, starting with with “You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South” (8 p.m.), “Freedom on My Mind” (9:45 p.m.), “Say Amen Somebody” (midnight), “Jazz on a Summer’s Day” (2 a.m.), “No Maps on My Taps” (3:30 […]

A woman tries to establish herself as a detective in Victorian England in the new six-part series “Miss Scarlet & The Duke” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), starring Kate Phillips of “Peaky Blinders” and Stuart Martin.  It provides another “Masterpiece” lead-in to the gentle “All Creatures Great an Small” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local […]

John Ford’s 1954 classic “The Searchers” (TCM, 8 p.m.) with John Wayne and Natalie Wood, is listed as one of the greatest American films that too few have seen. Turner Classic Movies pairs it with a second film that is based on a source novel by Alan Le May, “Along Came Jones” (10:15 p.m.). The […]

Regina King’s  new film recreates a memorable evening that took place in 1964, when after Cassius Clay’s defeat of Sonny Liston, he partied with his pals Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown. “One Night in Miami…” (Amazon Prime, streaming) stars Eli Goree, Aaron D. Alexander, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr.  The […]

Anne Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor play a couple who are about to break up but are forced to stay together during the pandemic in the new film “Locked Down” (HBO Max, streaming), which also involves a planned heist.  The new “Mr. Mayor” (NBC, 8 p.m.) is the best broadcast sitcom in a while. Kat wins […]

Kara Sedgwick always included a little humor in her long running role as “The Closer.” Tonight, she immerses in comedy starring as a mother who decides to move in with her adult kids on the new sitcom “Call Your Mother” (ABC, 9:30 p.m.). The new four-part “Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer” (Netflix, […]

The latest Canadian import “Trickster” (CW, 9 p.m.) stars Joel Oulette as an Indigenous teen trying to support his family while being faced with strange mystic apparitions. It’s described as a coming of age supernatural thriller.  “Prodigal Son” (Fox, 9 p.m.) returns for a second season, with Malcolm protecting his sister and mother from a […]

Actor and rock star Jared Leto is also a documentarian. He’s the director of a simultaneous check in of the nation that occurred in what seems eons ago — July 4, 2017. “A Day in the Life of America,” which involved 90 different film crews in every state, makes its debut on “Independent Lens” (PBS, […]