Tuesday TV: The First ‘Fast and Furious’
A dozen years before Vin Diesel was born, John Ireland and Dorothy Malone starred in their own race film, “The Fast and the Furious” (TCM, 1:30 a.m.). The 1955 B-movie…
Review: Paul McCartney, Bringing It at 75
Paul McCartney was just kidding a half century ago, when he painted a picture of a grandfatherly existence at 64, doing the garden, digging the weeds and wondering whether he’d…
Monday TV: Two More New Shows Start
New shows are still rolling out on broadcast TV schedules this late in summer. On “Somewhere Between” (ABC, 10 p.m.), Paula Patton plays a TV news person whose child is…
Sunday TV: ‘Insecure,’ ‘Ballers,’ Sharks
Issa Rae’s adaptation of a web series to a glossy premium cable comedy might have had some bumps in its first season, but by tonight’s season premiere, “Insecure” (HBO, 10:30…
What I Saw at Capital Fringe
I took buses, cars, Metro trains, streetcars, and even walked to the H Street corridor where most of this year's Capital Fringe Festival took place in Northeast D.C. As part…
Saturday TV: Hanging with Julian Assange
Even while profiling Edward Snowden in the first rate documentary “Citizenfour,” director Laura Poitras had been following Julian Assange down his particular wormhole to Wikileaks. There was even crossover between…
Friday TV: New “Ozark’ ‘Descendants 2’
The good will that Jason Bateman and Laura Linney have built up through their careers compels you to give their sudden new series a chance. “Ozark” (Netflix, streaming), despite its…
Thursday TV: Parole for O.J. Simpson?
“Today the day.” Such were the memorable words of a guy on the street in Key West, Fla., 22 years ago. Nobody had to ask what he was talking about:…
Steve Earle & the Dukes at the Birchmere
It’s a brash move to close out a show on one of the hottest days in the D.C. metro with a song called “Christmas in Washington,” but Steve Earle’s career…
Wednesday TV: Caribou, Migration Champs
Let’s hear it for the caribou, who take the longest land migration of all the species on the series “Nature’s Great Race” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings). It involves…