Capital Radio, Halloween 2022 Edition
Had to start with a salute to The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis, who died Friday (and who, I'm proud to say, we played a handful of songs from last week,…
Monday TV: Son, Bride and Frankie Too
The two day Halloween-a-Thon on Turner Classic Movies concludes in prime time with the whole family: “The Bride of Frankenstein” (8 p.m.), “Son of Frankenstein” (9:30 p.m.) and “Frankenstein” (11:15…
Sunday TV: ‘The White Lotus,’ Italian Style
Overpraised and over-awarded, the first season of Mike White’s “The White Lotus” (HBO, 9 p.m.) was nonetheless pretty entertaining with a solid cast even if it didn’t always ad up.…
Saturday: Jack Harlow Does Double Duty
Is it cheaper for “Saturday Night Live” (NBC, 11:30 p.m.) to get talent who host and be musical guest? It didn’t work out the greatest with Megan Thee Stallion a…
Friday TV: Key & Peele in Cartoon Form
Key & Peele are back together in the new stop-motion animated feature “Wendell & Wild” (Netflix, streaming). Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key voice a pair of demon brothers who enlist…
Movie Review: ‘Murder, Anyone?’
Before he died in 2019 at 68, the television writer Gordon Bressack left behind seven unproduced film scripts. As a dutiful son, the director James Cullen Bressack has decided not…
Thursday TV: Following the Storm Chasers
The new “Earthstorm” (Netflix, streaming) follows that breed who drive into danger: storm chasers, as well as first responders, into tornados, hurricanes, volcanoes and floods. From Brazil comes the new…
Wednesday TV: Chastain in ‘Good Nurse’
Jessica Chastain stars as a nurse who risks her life trying to find whether a colleague is responsible for recent patient deaths. Eddie Redmayne is the suspect in the film…
Tuesday: Del Toro’s ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
As Alfred Hitchcock did on his anthology series of scary stories, Guillermo del Toro strolls on the set to introduce the well-made horror tales in the Halloween week series “Guillermo…
Capital Radio,10-24: Vampires, Rockabilly
Paid tribute to the rockabilly ace Robert Gordon, who died last week at 75, and who I saw perform in late 2019. Then took note of Jerry Lee Lewis finally…