Monthly Archives: April 2022

Trevor Noah hosts the first live White House Correspondents’ Dinner (CSPAN, CNN, 7 p.m.) live from the Washington Hilton in D.C. The bigger news is that a president will once again take part (and do his own monologue). Joe Biden, like every president since the event started in 1924 except one, will take part in […]

The latest series starring Elisabeth Moss, “Shining Girl” (Apple TV+, streaming) is based on a 2013 novel about a reporter assaulted by what turns out to be a time-traveling serial killer. Jamie Bell, Wagner Moura and Amy Brenneman also star.  There would seem little reason to remake a perfect little comedy like “Call Your Agent!” […]

Jon Krakauer’s Mormon crime classic “Under the Banner of Heaven” (Hulu, streaming) can’t be easy to adapt into a new series. But with Andrew Garfield on board as a detective torn between his religion and a bloody polygamist murder, and Daisy Edgar-Jones as an alluring victim, It has a lot going for it. The 50th […]

HBO marks Holocaust Day of Remembrance with a powerful new Barry Levinson film about a Polish man who survived Auschwitz by participating in cruel boxing matches held for the enjoyment of Nazi jailers and is haunted by the past each time he returns to the ring after the war, his only hope being to use […]

A group of singer songwriters met up with Holocaust survivors in the Hudson Valley to help share their stories and possibly help their healing through song, culminating in an emotional concert. It’s captured in the documentary special “We Remember: Songs of Survivors” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings). It may provide a feel good moment […]

The legacy of “The Wire” only seems to have grown in the 12 years since its final episode. Its excellence in depicting the police and dealers in Baltimore’s never-ending war on drugs continues in the new six-episode “We Own This City” (HBO, 9 p.m.) from David Simon and George Pelacanos, based on Justin Fenton’s book […]

There would seem no reason to remake a movie so well associated with David Bowie, but the smartly-written new series version of “The Man Who Fell to Earth” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) has plenty of its own charm, thanks largely to the total commitment of Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role and nearly as good work […]

Turner Classic Movies’ two-night salute to Peter Bogdanavich, who died in January at 82 concludes with the little seen “Saint Jack” (8 p.m.), starring Ben Gazzara as an American pimp in Saigon, based on a novel by Paul Theroux. The book had been suggested to Bogdanovich and his girlfriend Cybill Shepherd by Orson Welles; the […]