Movies
CLOSE TO HOME Produced by Vanessa Roth and Alexandra Dickson Discovery Health Channel Today, 5 to 7 p.m.; repeats from 8 to 10 p.m. * Overview: “Close to Home” premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, but the current child-sexual-abuse scandal embroiling the Catholic Church should heighten interest in this sobering documentary.
April 29, 2002
“Little Odessa” is about Russian Jewish emigres in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach, and 26-year-old writer-director James Gray, making his feature film debut, turns the wintry neighborhood into something resembling the steppes.
June 2, 1995
Kids who ‘age out’ of the system face an uncertain future. Without support, many falter and end up on the street or in jail.
May 27, 2005
Archives
Documenting life -- and then death
Dec. 1, 2009
Television
Monday’s TV Talk Shows
March 8, 2010
Laurence Fishburne is one actor who has charisma to burn, but even his incendiary performance can’t ignite “Hoodlum,” a would-be gangster epic that generates less heat than a nickel cigar.
Aug. 27, 1997
“The future belongs to those who know where they belong,” says Kate Winslet early in the new trailer for “Divergent”, setting up its tale of conformity and its discontents.
Nov. 13, 2013
Awards
‘Broken’ tops British Independent Film Awards nominations
Nov. 5, 2012
‘Divergent’: Trailer for Shailene Woodley movie hits the Web
Theo James to star as Four in ‘Divergent’
March 15, 2013