The week ahead at the movies and on TV
Big screen
Opening Date
The Avengers (PG-13): This is the one you’ve been waiting for — and the one that carries the future of Marvel Films with it. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) team up to prevent our planet from being conquered by the evil Loki (Tom Hiddleston). Writer-director Joss Whedon ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer) gets to play in the biggest sandbox of his career thus far. The question is not whether the movie will be a big hit. The question is only HOW big.
A Little Bit of Heaven (PG-13): Kate Hudson continues her quest for rom-com world domination with this story about a young, commitment-phobic woman who falls for her doctor (Gael Garcia Bernal). Kathy Bates and Whoopi Goldberg round out the cast for director Nicole Kassell, whose previous film (the Kevin Bacon pedophile drama The Woodsman) was neither romantic nor funny.
Rene Rodriguez
Small screen
My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding (10 p.m. Sunday, TLC): This reality series is a sanitized but still interesting peek inside the peripatetic and under-the-radar life of American gypsies.
American Experience: Jesse Owens (8 p.m. Tuesday, WPBT-PBS 2): A documentary on the life of Jesse Owens, the young black American track star who ruined Adolf Hitler’s day at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals.
Treasure Island (7 p.m. Saturday, Syfy): Yeah, that Treasure Island, the one with Long John Silver, Billy Bones and Captain Flint the perpetually squawking parrot. This four-hour film adaptation stars Eddie Izzard, Elijah Wood and Donald Sutherland.
Rambug (10 p.m. Saturday, A&E): At long last, a reality series about the family of Brooklyn exterminators that claims to be “at the cutting edge of bedbug treatments.” And yes, you are correct: This officially means that anybody at all can have a reality series. Is this a great world, or what?
Glenn Garvin
Let Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin program your TiVo! Just click on his best bets for the week at www.tivo.com/guruguide.
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