Friday TV: Jessica Alba’s Action Movie
Jessica Alba plays a former Special Forces agent pressed back into service to help her community from gangs in the new movie “Trigger Warning” (Netflix, streaming), with a cast that…
Thursday TV: Anachronistic Cheerleaders
Essentially a remake of the nearly 20-year-old CMT series “Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team,” the new seven-episode “America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders” (Netflix, streaming) takes on a slightly glossier…
Wednesday TV: The Juneteenth Barbie
A year after the huge phenomenon based on the mid-20th century doll, here is finally a film about playthings of color. “Black Barbie: A Documentary” (Netflix, streaming) spotlights a trio…
Tuesday TV: Rivisionist Look at Disco
Equally celebrated and reviled in its time, disco music is enjoying a new assessment these days, as in the new three-part documentary series “Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution” (PBS, 9…
Capital Radio 6-17-24: Farewell to Françiose
Back with a new show for the first time in a month, we begin with a slight survey of where we’ve been, mostly concentrating on Ireland. Then it was time…
Monday TV: Nicole Kidman’s AFI Tribute
The actress and sometime producer gets the spotlight tonight in The 49th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Nicole Kidman (TNT, 10 p.m.) with figures from Hugh Jackman, Meryl…
TV Eye Takes a Little Break
Actually it's more than a little break. We'll be gone for about a month, traveling around, not paying attention to season finales, new shows or the like. People, you're on…
Tuesday: Dredging Up Ashley Madison Again
The dating site that encouraged affairs and the panic that occurred once their files were hacked was covered once before, on a Hulu series, “The Ashley Madison Affair.” A new…
Tuesday TV: Jimmy Fallon Celebrates 10 Years
They said it wouldn’t last. Or at least I did, when the new host of the longest-running late night show was going to be the kid from “Saturday Night Live.”…
Capital Radio, 5-13-24: Little Stevie Wonder Born
It was the 74th birthday of Stevie Wonder that dominated the show today, which had a lot of representation from my hometown of Detroit, as it happens. Also born this…