A slice of American life: A family unravels at Thanksgiving in 'The Humans'
Amy Schumer, Steven Yeun, Beanie Feldstein, Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell and June Squibb in "The Humans"
Life after 'Scandal': Former castmates return to ABC
Bellamy Young joins the cast of "Promised Land"
Con Air, on AMC
Cameron Poe (Nicolas Cage) went to prison for accidentally killing a man. Once released, he is put aboard a plane filled with the worst of America's criminals. When they hijack the flight, Poe tries to overtake them with the help of a federal marshal.
Dateline NBC, on NBC
NBC news anchor Lester Holt and a team of journalists present the news of the week along with fascinating human interest stories, ground-breaking interviews and hard-hitting investigations in this long-running, prime-time news magazine staple.
New Releases for the week of Nov. 21 - 27
American Night
In New York City's corrupt underground, the new head of a mafia family, Michael Rubino (Hirsch), inherits his father's lucrative crime empire. With a penchant for creating art himself, Rubino soon faces off against art dealer and critic John Kaplan (Rhys Meyers) to hold control of an illustrious and exorbitantly priced painting by Andy Warhol, the Pink Marilyn, which has been recently mysteriously uncovered. Struggling to keep his new self-named gallery from going under and well aware of the dangerous criminals out to capture the painting, Kaplan knows that securing this coveted work of art could change his entire career trajectory.
Director: Alessio Della Valle. Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Emile Hirsch, Paz Vega, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Jeremy Piven, Michael Madsen, Mara Lane, Marco Leonardi, Fortunato Cerlino, Manal El-Feitury. 2021. 123 mins. Action.
Raging Fire
Star detective of the Regional Crime Unit Cheung Sung-bong (Yen) finds himself still dealing with the emotional turmoil of a deadly incident three years ago that left a suspect dead and his former protégé, Ngo (Tse), behind bars due to Bong's own testimony. When Ngo emerges from prison commanding a formidable and dangerous gang comprised of former cops and other criminals, Bong's past comes back to haunt him, and Ngo is set on a violent path of revenge and destruction.
Director: Benny Chan. Stars: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Lan Qin, Simon Yam, Ray Lui, Ben Yuen, Ben Lam, Ken Lo, Patrick Tam, Kenny Wong, Deep Ng. 2021. 126 mins. Action.
The Show
Arriving in the mysterious and haunted English town of Northampton in search of a stolen artifact for a loyal client, Fletcher Dennis (Burke) discovers that the town is sinister beyond his imagination. While attempting to locate James Mitchum (D'Silva) to help him uncover the artifact, an heirloom necklace, Dennis soon discovers that Mitchum is dead following an accident at a nightclub. Through further attempts to track down the necklace, Dennis notices that at night, when everyone is asleep, the small town comes alive with vampires, Voodoo gangsters and other shadowy characters in dreamlike hallucinations.
Director: Mitch Jenkins. Stars: Tom Burke, Ellie Bamber, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Christopher Fairbank, Darrell D'Silva, Richard Dillane, Alan Moore, Siobhan Hewlett. 2020. 115 mins. Fantasy.
Q: I just saw a weird movie called "Alice's Restaurant," and it didn't make a lot of sense. Was it based on something? What am I missing?
If you watched the oddball 1969 film "Alice's Restaurant" without knowing its source material, you're missing all the context that would help make sense of it.
It's a cinematic retelling of Arlo Guthrie's landmark folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" (though most people drop the "Massacree," as the film did). That also explains the strangely unpolished performance of the lead actor -- Guthrie plays himself in the film.
Ghosts, on CBS
Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar star in this American remake of the British sitcom. This new episode continues to follow the couple as they fix up their newly inherited estate while dealing with a group of eccentric ghosts that also inhabit the home.
The 'Power' of TV: 'Ghost' comes home to roost in season finale
Preston Christopher Lawrence and Mary J. Blige in "Power Book II: Ghost"
The Masked Singer, on Fox
Nick Cannon is back to host more of this game show's sixth season. Ken Jeong, Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg and Nicole Scherzinger once again guess the identities of elaborately costumed celebrities who perform and give clues about themselves.
Q: I've been watching reruns of "The Lucy Show," but I can't find the episode where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton guest-starred. Why has it disappeared?
It's an easy mistake to make: Hollywood power couple Elizabeth Taylor ("Cleopatra," 1963) and Richard Burton ("1984," 1984) appeared on "Here's Lucy," not "The Lucy Show."
"Here's Lucy" was the third prime-time sitcom featuring comedy great Lucille Ball -- "The Lucy Show" was the second -- but they both sort of blend together as the work she did after "I Love Lucy."