Step to it: Hopefuls grab dancing shoes for 17th season of 'So You Think You Can Dance'
Cat Deeley hosts Season 17 of "So You Think You Can Dance"
Playing games: Netflix adapting 'Exploding Kittens' to TV
Tom Ellis to voice star in Netflix series based on "Exploding Kittens" card game
Playing games: The popular card game "Exploding Kittens" is getting the Netflix treatment.
Grocery store ambush: Season 4 of 'Supermarket Stakeout' underway
Alex Guarnaschelli hosts "Supermarket Stakeout"
You've just spent an hour shopping for groceries, and as you leave the store, a stranger offers you cash for whatever is in your bags. Would you sell them your food?
Playing games: Netflix adapting 'Exploding Kittens' to TV
Tom Ellis to voice star in Netflix series based on "Exploding Kittens" card game
Playing games: The popular card game "Exploding Kittens" is getting the Netflix treatment.
Grocery store ambush: Season 4 of 'Supermarket Stakeout' underway
Alex Guarnaschelli hosts "Supermarket Stakeout"
You've just spent an hour shopping for groceries, and as you leave the store, a stranger offers you cash for whatever is in your bags. Would you sell them your food?
Late Laughs for the week of May 15 - 21
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
You remember the dinner Jesus had with his apostles when they all decided to sit on the same side of the table to eat? I believe they all got to one side and asked the waiter, "Can you take a quick painting of us?"
The Time Traveler's Wife, on HBO
This new six-episode adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel debuts tonight. The series tells the story of Clare (Rose Leslie) and Henry (Theo James), a married couple whose life together is uprooted by his unpredictable ability to travel through time.
Top Gun, on CBS
In honor of the May 27 release of "Top Gun: Maverick," the network airs the original '80s film. When cocky Navy pilot Pete Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is sent for advanced training and a shot at an award, personal tragedy makes him reassess his dreams.
New Releases for the week of May 15 - 22
Licorice Pizza
When awkward high school student and budding film star Gary Valentine (Hoffman) falls head over heels in love with a young photographer's assistant named Alana (Haim), the pair embarks on an adventure filled with embarrassment, friendship, opportunities and heartbreak while navigating the perilous nature of growing into adulthood. Set in California during the summer of 1973, Gary and Alana encounter many milestones together before deciding their futures.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson. Stars: Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman, Sean Penn, Tom Waits, Bradley Cooper, Benny Safdie, Maya Rudolph. 2021. 133 mins. Drama/Comedy.
Belle
Suzu (Nakamura) is a shy student living in rural Japan. After witnessing the death of her mother, she begins to seclude herself from everyone except for a few of her mother's friends and her best friend, Shinobu (Narita). Her only escape is to the virtual world of "U," where, with the help of computer wiz Hiroka (Ikuta), she becomes a world-famous singer. After one of her concerts is violently interrupted by a dragon, Suzu must go on an epic adventure to reveal the identity of the mysterious beast in order to save the person behind the avatar and quite possibly herself, not just in the virtual world but in their real lives as well.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda. Stars: Kaho Nakamura, Ryô Narita, Shôta Sometani, Tina Tamashiro, Lilas Ikuta, Kôji Yakusho, Takeru Satoh. 2021. 121 mins. Animation/Adventure.
Infinite
Evan McCauley (Wahlberg) is plagued with memories of places he's never been and skills he's never learned, which causes him to self-medicate and forces him into a mental breakdown. When he is contacted by a secret group, the Infinites, who tell him that his memories may, in fact, be real, they bring him to an extraordinary world where gifted people are given the ability to be reborn with their memories intact and accumulated over centuries. Evan must now work with the Infinites to take down one of their own (Ejiofor), who sees the endless cycle of reincarnation a curse and wants to bring it to an end.
Director: Antoine Fuqua. Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sophie Cookson, Jason Mantzoukas, Rupert Friend, Toby Jones, Dylan O'Brien. 2021. 106 mins. Action/Sci-fi.
Q: I remember seeing Benjamin Bratt in a gang movie in the '90s. I think it was called "Bound by Honor," but I've never been able to find it since. Do you know why?
Discoverability seems to have long been a problem for this movie, thanks partly to some hijinks surrounding its title.
It was originally written and promoted as "Blood In, Blood Out," but was given a limited release in 1993 as "Bound by Honor" instead. Director Taylor Hackford says the production company, Disney-owned Hollywood Pictures, feared that the original title sounded too violent for the period following the L.A. riots.
