Sunday TV: ‘Dune’ Prequel Goes Way, Way Back
How to add onto the “Dune” legacy? Turn the clock back 10,000 years before Frank Herbert’s first book to create a tale of the female factions fighting for power and…
Saturday TV: So Many Christmas Movies
Twelve days before Thanksgiving and there’s four new Christmas movies on cable (it will only get worse as we go on). In “Christmas at Plumhill Manor” (Lifetime, 8 p.m.), Maria…
Friday TV: ‘Silo’ Returns for a Second Season
A second season comes for “Silo” (Apple TV+, streaming), the sci-fi series about the last 10,000 people on Earth who live there — except for Rebecca Ferguson’s character, who was…
Thursday TV: Hulu Adapts ‘Say Nothing’
A new limited series adapts the book by Patrick Redden Keefe’s book “Say Nothing” (Hulu, streaming) about Northern Ireland during the troubles of the early 70s. After turning out scores…
Wednesday TV: Zoe Saldaña in ‘Emilia Pérez’
French director Jacques Audlard creates a new genre — musical thriller — for his latest film “Emilia Pérez” (Netflix, streaming), a Cannes-winning film about four women in Mexico that stars…
Film Review: Bonhoeffer Gets a Gun
The brave German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who railed against the Nazis and his church for doing nothing in the face of Hitler, is well-known in theological circles for his own…
Tuesday TV: New Comedy ‘St. Denis Medical’
From the people who brought you “Superstore” and the even better “American Auto” comes the new workplace comedy “St. Denis Medical” (NBC, 8 p.m.) about a regional hospital in Oregon…
Capital Radio 11-11-24: Crenshaw and Coping
A bumper crop of birthdays means two hours of great music from Marshall Crenshaw and XTC’s Andy Partridge, both turning 71, to Dave Alvin, 69; Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds,…
Monday TV: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Wraps Up
After four seasons, Alba Rohrwacher and Irene Maiorino end their roles as longtime friends Elena and Lila in the adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s “My Brilliant Friend” (HBO, 9 p.m.). U.S. Marine…
Sunday TV: More ‘Yellowstone’ in Many Places
“Yellowstone” (CBS, 10 p.m.) returns for the second half of its fifth season, with a new episode simultaneously on broadcast TV, streaming at its original home, Paramount+ and running on…