THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 18 - 24, 2021
TV • PAGE 25
What’s Available NOW On
“Billions”
The first three seasons of the Showtime
drama about a brilliant hedge fund titan
who goes head to head with a brash U.S.
attorney general comes to the streaming
service. Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis,
Maggie Siff, David Costabile and Malin
Akerman head the regular cast with
recurring characters played by Rob
Morrow, Terry Kinney, Jerry O’Connell
and Louis Cancelmi.
BY JAY BOBBIN
“Dog Day Afternoon”
“Network”
“The Verdict”
“Genealogy Roadshow”
Kenyatta Berry and D. Joshua Taylor
are your hosts for this unscripted series
that follows genealogists as they explore
the genealogies of those who attend a
historically significant location in the
United States and present their findings.
Among the locales visited are San
Francisco, New Orleans, St. Louis and
Nashville, Tenn.
“Movie: The Informer”
The FBI recruits an ex-convict and
Special Ops soldier (Joel Kinnaman,
“For All Mankind”) to get himself
incarcerated again to infiltrate the mob
and to take down a powerful New York
City crime boss in this 2019 actioner
from director Andrea Di Stefano
(“Escobar: Paradise Lost”). Rosamund
Pike, Clive Owen and Common also
star.
“Top Class: The Life and Times
of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers”
This documentary series introduces
viewers to one of the most powerful high
school basketball programs in the country,
the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers, who have
some of the nation’s highest-ranking
players. Cameras follow them as they
balance the pressures of competing on the
global stage with finding success at one of
the most academically elite high schools
in the nation. (ORIGINAL)
BEST SIDNEY LUMET MOVIES
“Serpico” (1973) A run of holiday-
season hits for Lumet over several
consecutive years began with the true
story of an honest New York police
detective (superbly played by Al Pacino)
who risked his life by turning informant
on corrupt peers.
“Murder on the Orient Express”
(1974) Lumet’s wonderfully stylish
version of the Agatha Christie mystery
is – just as the ads promised – “the who’s
who in the whodunit,” encompassing
everyone from Albert Finney (as master
sleuth Hercule Poirot) and Connery to
Lauren Bacall and Oscar winner Ingrid
Bergman.
“Dog Day Afternoon” (1975)
Pacino and Lumet collaborated on
another fact-based tale, the saga of a
bank robbery gone extremely awry ...
with surprises about the reason behind
the attempted heist eventually emerging.
“Network” (1976) Fueled by Paddy
Chayefsky’s take-no-prisoners script,
the Lumet-directed indictment of the TV-
news business (which time has made
seem less like satire) was rewarded with
Academy Awards for the writer and
performers Peter Finch (posthumously),
Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight.
“Prince of the City” (1981) Lumet
revisited the theme of an honest cop
turned whistleblower with this long but
engrossing drama, another true story
with marvelous acting by Treat Williams
and a supporting cast including Jerry
Orbach and Bob Balaban.
“The
Verdict”
(1982) Paul
Newman gives arguably his career-high
performance for Lumet as a downtrodden
lawyer given a chance at personal and
professional redemption by a case he
decides to try rather than settle.
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