June 23 -June 29, 2023
A ‘Jaws’ marathon, a “new” national anthem & Idris Idra gets hijacked!
You may need a bigger boat (!) to watch the original Jaws and all its sequels!
FRIDAY, June 23
World’s Best
Hip-hop musical comedy adventure flick about a 12-year-old genius mathematician who discovers a surprising new talent as a rapping superstar (Disney+).
Cinammon
Original network film stars Hailey Kilgore (above) as a small-town gas attendant whose life is rocked after a fatal crime. With Damon Wayans and 1970s icon Pam Grier (Tubi).
SATURDAY, June 24
Keyshia Cole: This is My Story
The Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter makes her acting debut portraying herself in this biopic about her life and career, which started in Oakland, Calif., and led her singing backup for M.C. Hammer, releasing five albums and starring in two TV reality series (8 p.m., Lifetime).
SUNDAY, June 25
Jaws Marathon
Time to get back in the water with the most a marathon of the iconic shark flick of all time and its sharp-toothed spawn, Jaws 2, Jaws 3 and Jaws the Revenge (begins 8;45 a.m., TNT).
Mini Reni
Joanna Gaines (above) and her team downsize their scale and budgets to renovate three rooms in an outdated home in one week and for under $15,000 (9 p.m., Magnolia).
MONDAY, June 26
After Sherman
Filmmaker Jon-Sesrie Goff returns to the coastal South Carolina land his family purchased after emancipation in this exploration of Black experience, trauma and wisdom (check local listings, PBS).
Cannes Confidential
Six-part international crime series, shot on location in France, stars Lucie Lucas and Jamie Bamber about a no-nonsense detective and a charming conman (Acorn TV).
TUESDAY, June 27
Happiness for Beginners
Ellie Kempler (from The Office and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) stars in this new series (above) as a newly divorced woman who joins a back-country survival hike on the Appalachian Trail with a group of oddball strangers in hopes of learning how to live—and love—again (Netflix).
Casa Susanna
This PBS-produced documentary is about an underground 1960s network in the Catskills region of New York state for transgender women and cross-dressing men (9 p.m., PBS).
BRING IT HOME
Find out about the inspiring life and astonishing career of one of the greatest boxers of all time in Big George Foreman (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), a drama about his journey from an impoverished childhood to the title of world heavyweight champion, and then into the pulpit. Khris Davis (Judas and the Black Messiah) plays Foreman.
The hit horror franchise moves out of the woods and into the ‘hoods in Evil Dead Rise (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment), a terrifying tale of two estranged sisters (Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland) whose urban family reunion is undermined by flesh-eating demons.
WEDNESDAY, June 28
Anthem
What would happen if Grammy-winning producer and a film composer took a journey across America to create a “new” national anthem, one as if it had been written today? Find out in this probing documentary that rei-magines “The Star Spangled Banner” for a modern era (Hulu).
Hijack
Idris Elba is one unhappy air passenger in this new thriller series (above) about the passengers on a hijacked international airplane flight and people on the ground working to avert a disaster (Apple TV+).
THURSDAY, June 29
Secret Chef
It sounds nuts, but here it is: Ten contestants from all walks of life are isolated in an underground kitchen labyrinth connected by a series of conveyor belts, where they perform various cooking challenges, guided by an animated “talking hat” on a retro TV screen. Yep (Hulu).
READ ALL ABOUT IT
When is a monster more than just a monster? That’s not a riddle, it’s the theme of Dark Dreams 2.0 (McFarland), in which author Charles Derry unpacks the real-world fears, tears and terrors that have shaped the evolution of horror movies for more than half a century—from anxieties over the atomic bomb to the Cold War, sexual liberation and other fear factors that have fueled the work of filmmakers Alfred Hitchcock, Brian de Palma, George Romero and many others.
Generation Gap
Kelly Ripa returns for season two of this game show (below) in which teams of older adults and their grandkids compete by answering pop-culture questions (9 p.m., ABC).
The Media Tourist 