Tony Jaa in Ong-Bak courtesy Magnolia Pictures
Monday, January 21, at 11 am, 9:30 pm/ETStanding the Shadows of Motown | FLX The Supremes, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye and the Four Tops are all household names, but can anyone tell me who actually played the music we now call the Motown Sound? The answer lies in Paul Justman's wonderfully warm tribute to the Funk Brothers, a group of incredibly talented studio musicians who were at the heart of some of the greatest music ever to come out of the U.S.Tuesday, Jan. 22, 9:45 am, 8 pm/ETFor Your Consideration | HBO2 With awards season now reduced to one big question mark due to the ongoing writers’ strike (and that just fine by me), Christopher Guest's dead-on satire about the cast of a micro-indie movie entitled "Home for Purim" who catch Oscar fever makes for the perfect substitute. Catherine O’Hara, you wuz robbed!Wednesday, Jan. 23, 10:15 pm/ETThe World's Fastest Indian | TMC Bear with me a moment. I realize Anthony Hopkins is a bigger ham that one my mother served at ...
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