What to Watch on TV this Weekend: Chloe's Guide

Jan. 3–Jan. 5, 2017

Her are a few suggestions for what to watch during the post-New Year's weekend.

Sicko (2007)

Tuesday, Jan. 3 - FLIXe - 5:55 p.m.

American filmmaker Michael Moore investigated health care in the U.S. with his findings represented in a 2007 documentary that grossed $24.5 million theatrically on a budget of $9 million. The film, which premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, focused on the country's health insurance and pharmaceutical industry, comparing the for-profit, non-universal healthcare system of the U.S. to the non-profit, universal healthcare systems of Canada, the U.K., Cuba and France. Nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, Sicko received a positive, 93 percent rating on online review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Further, the film received praise in the Australian Film Critics Association 2007 Film Award for Best Documentary and was listed as the fourth-best film of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times.

Source Code (2011)

Wednesday, Jan. 4 - SyFy - 6 p.m.
Directed by Duncan Jones (Warcraft, Moon), son of the late David Bowie, Source Code a French-American sci-fi thriller that stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a U.S. Army captain who is sent into a computed reality to locate an elusive bomber. What the captain learns—about himself and of circumstances surrounding his mission—over the course of the film is where the crux of Jones's creation lies. What the character does with this knowledge, which comes in waves throughout a winding 93-minute production, is a story all to its own. Source Code also stars Michelle Monaghan (True Detective, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang), Vera Farmiga (The Conjuring, Bates Motel) and Jeffrey Wright (Angels in America, Westworld, The Hunger Games).

Portlandia

Thursday, Jan. 5 - IFC - 11 p.m.

Sketch comedy series Portlandia, filmed and set in Portland, OR stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein as a variety of pairs of characters, most of which appear in multiple episodes. The show, which has won a Peabody Award in 2011, shares its name with a sculpture that sits above the entrance of the Portland Building in downtown Portland. Portlandia also won an Emmy Award in 2011 for Outstanding Costumes for a Variety Program or Special and was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Variety Series and Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series in the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards. January 21, 2011 has been proclaimed as Portlandia Day. The seventh season premiers Jan. 5.

Titanic (1997)

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"I'll never let go."

This iconic quote comes from James Cameron's fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes, who fall in love aboard the Titanic during the ship's maiden voyage. Cameron's decision to incorporate a love story originated from an interest in illustrating the concept of human loss, deemed essential in conveying the 1912 disaster's emotional impact. The film earned $658,672,302 in North America and $1,526,700,000 in other countries, with a worldwide total of $2,185,372,302, making it the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide in 1998. It won four Golden Globes, 14 Academy Awards and three Grammy Awards, among numerous other accolades.

Black Swan (2010)

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Natalie Portman stars as Nina, a committed ballerina who is chosen as the centerpiece of a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake ballet by a prestigious New York City company. The production requires the dancer to play the innocent, fragile White Swan as well as the dark, sensual Black Swan. Overwhelmed by great pressure and the presence of a formidable, new arrival (Mila Kunis), Nina finds her grip on reality loosening. The film has been described as a psychological thriller, but at its heart, Black Swan is the illustrated examination of the pursuit of artistic perfection. Whether Nina achieves this is left to the audience's perception.

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