Movie: Luke Wilson’s Own ‘Bad News Bears’
Inspirational sports movies are practically a genre to themselves, from “Rocky” and “Hoosiers” to “The Natural” and “Field of Dreams.” Even the success in recent years of the streaming series…
Thursday TV: A Mobster with a Waddle
At first it seemed the worst result of the corporate merging of Warner Bros Discovery with HBO — a heavy handed throwback to “The Sopranos” with Colin Farrell in heavy…
Wednesday TV: Bill Gates Tries to Figure it Out
As one of the Top 10 richest men in the world, the former CEO of Microsoft could be worse — like, say the even richer owner of Tesla. But Bill…
Tuesday TV: ‘Dancing with the Stars’ and Felons
Participants in the long-running “Dancing with the Stars” (ABC, 8 p.m.) have long since gone beyond the merely famous. Once again, you’ll be hard-pressed to recognize half of those taking…
Also on Tuesday: Kaitlin Olson, New TV Sleuth
Known chiefly for her comic roles, Kaitlin Olson stars in a new procedural “High Potential” (ABC, 10 p.m.), as a cleaning lady who happens to have better crime-solving instincts than…
Monday TV: Lauren Bacall’s Centennial
Today would have been the 100th birthday of Lauren Bacall, the film star who died a decade ago. The month-long Monday salute to her on Turner Classic Movies continues with…
Sunday TV: The Levys Host The Emmys
After sweeping the comedy awards in 2020 for “Schitt’s Creek,” “SCTV” mainstay Eugene Levy and his son Dan Levy return to host The 76th Annual Emmy Awards (ABC, 8 p.m.),…
Film Review: ‘Protocol 17’s Bad Medicine
There’s no question that propaganda films can sometimes also be entertaining. Even if the premise is extreme to the point of amusement, there may be good kitsch value in, say,…
Saturday: Purposely Bringing Laughs to CNN
Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black are team captains on the new “Have I Got News for You” (CNN, 9 p.m.), an American version of the long-running UK comedy series.…
Friday TV: Maybe ‘Three Women’ Too Many
Lisa Taddeo briefly shook the literary world a couple years ago with a nonfiction book that meant to say something about American female sexuality through the experiences of just three…