Thursday TV: ‘The Suicide Squad’ at Home
Not to be mistaken for David Ayer’s 2016 film “Suicide Squad” with Margot Robbie and Joel Kinnaman here’s James Gunn’s new “The Suicide Squad” (HBO Max, streaming), with Margot Robbie…
Wednesday TV: Paris Can’t Cook, Either
Paris Hilton puts down her poodle and picks up the sauce pan for her latest really series, “Cooking with Paris” (Netflix, streaming), in which she’s mostly learning on the job. …
Tuesday TV: Obama, the First 60 Years
Helping mark the 60th birthday of the 44th president is the comprehensive three-part, six-hour documentary “Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union” (HBO, 9 p.m.) that begins tonight with…
Monday TV: Local News in the Desert
Driving through the desert years back and running out of gas, I remember there used to be a good AM radio out of Pahrump, Nev., a tiny berg best known…
Sunday TV: Bette Davis Kicks Off Series
The start of August means the start of Turner Classic Movies’ Summer Under the Stars, with the films of a different actor each day. It begins with Bette Davis in…
Film Review: Taking ‘Steps’ to Forgiveness
In the opening scenes of Eddie Harris’ screenplay for “Steps,” a man (Rob Morgan) is randomly shot in a robbery outside a Jersey City bodega, is injured enough to lose…
Saturday TV: Remembering Baby Jessica
CNN will spend the rest of the summer’s Saturdays showing documentary shorts, hosted by Anderson Cooper. It starts tonight with “58 Hours: The Baby Jessica Story” (CNN, 9 p.m.), about…
Friday: Emily Mortimer’s ‘Pursuit of Love’
Emily Mortimer wrote, directed and costars in the limited series “The Pursuit of Love” (Amazon Prime, streaming) a romantic comedy set in Europe between the world wars. Lily James, Emily…
Thursday TV: Yet Another Island of Love
TV dating shows are reaching the saturation point, even as the atolls where they are set expand. To the existing “Temptation Island” and current “Love Island” (CBS, 9 p.m.) is…
Wednesday TV: New Style Chip ‘n’ Dale
Recurring Disney cartoon chipmunks Chip ’n’ Dale have been repurposed one more time. After two dozen shorts in which the two mostly bedeviled Donald Duck, only to return as Rescue…