dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, July 27, 5 p.m. Dustin Hoffman is an out of work actor who pretends to be a woman to get a role on a soap opera. It works, and suddenly he’s a star – or rather, his uptight, lightly frumpy alter ego is. To make matters worse, he falls…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Saturday, July 20, 5 p.m. Among the worst holes in my film watching history is Gaslight, the movie that gave us the term “gaslighting,” which means creating an elaborate lie to fool someone, ultimately driving them mad. The film is considered one of the greatest ever made, with (gay)…
Turner Classic Movies, 5 p.m., Saturday, July 13 It seems fitting that while San Diego is whooping it for Pride, TCM will be playing the original high-camp movie about bitchy women saying mean things to each other. I’ve told you to DVR it before! It demands repeat viewings. Norma Shearer stars as Mary, Mrs. Stephen…
Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, July 7, 1 p.m. The movie that made James Dean a star is about a, yes, rebellious teenager in the 1950s whose charisma persuades a girl (Natalie Wood) and a boy (Sal Mineo) to question the stringency of post-war America. Wood and Mineo were both nominated for Oscars, while Dean became…
Auntie Mame dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Friday, June 28, 5 p.m. When his father dies, Patrick Dennis goes to live with his Aunt Mame, who is arguably the greatest diva ever to be filmed. Mame is an amazing combination of intellectual, partier, comedian, dilettante, muse and mother, and as played by Rosalind Russell, she…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, June 21, 5:15 a.m. One of the better Oscar trivia questions is, “Who won the Best Actress Oscar over Bette David in All About Eve and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard?” The answer is Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday, one of the few times a brilliant comic performance was rewarded…
dvr this: HBO Sunday, June 16, 10 p.m. Last week, I told you to DVR the previous season, but now the new season has arrived. Rumor has it that it gets even bloodier, and even crazier than before, which is saying something. After co-existing with humans for several years, the vampires are being hunted by…
dvr this HBO The season premiere of True Blood is June 16, and HBO is repeating the entire last season during the next two weeks. Now is your time to relive the most bat-shit-insane season of a series that has been rather bat-shit-insane since the beginning. The politics of vampires is central to the season,…
dvr this I haven’t seen it yet, because it’s on my DVR, but there’s hasn’t been a TV movie I have been so excited about in eons. Steven Soderbergh’s film about Liberace and his last lover, the young, blond and clueless Scott Thorson, was too gay and too sexy to be a feature film, supposedly….
dvr this Netflix, Sunday, May 26 True, you can’t really DVR this, since Netflix is like a DVR in the sky. But the long awaited fourth season of Arrested Development arrives on Netflix Sunday with 15 new episodes available all at once. The style of this insanely wacky comedy about the dysfunctional Bluth family begat…
