Critic's corner

By Matthew Gilbert  |  August 27, 2008

10:15 p.m., TCM
Back when gossip columnists and publicists were separate people.

10 p.m., Bravo
This end won't be split.

8 p.m., Channel 7
The D.N.C. for the D.A.F.T.

9 p.m., Discovery Channel
The July 1969 lunar landing - was it staged? Did NASA fake out the world? The "Mythbusters" team devotes an hour tonight to that possibility. How can a flag flap on the moon when there is no wind? How could light from the sun cast unparallel shadows? If you saw "Wag the Dog," you get the idea.

10 p.m., VH1
But I don't do egos.

10 p.m., Style
A mother, her son, his dirty socks.

Comcast, Encore Zhang Yimou's new movie looks as ravishing as his other two martial-arts epics, "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers." This one stars Chow Yun-Fat as a 10th-century emperor and Gong Li (above, center) as the wife he's poisoning. In this vapid spectacular, everything is gorgeous-looking, but the hugeness of the emotions makes it all feel counterfeit. In Mandarin, with subtitles. (R; runs through Sept. 4) - Wesley Morris