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Pokémon Detective Pikachu 4K Review :: This feels familiar

Full disclosure: I know absolutely zero about Pokémon. Games, cartoons, toys ... zero. So I wondered how much I would actually enjoy the first full-length, live action Pokémon movie. I do know what Pikachu is and I do know Ryan ...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark is flawed but still eerie

Growing up I never read 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark'. I always saw the books at my school library in elementary. I constantly read 'Goosebumps' instead but 'Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark' is something I have ...
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Them That Follow has the slow, meandering pace of a snake in molasses

There’s always a market for the ‘religious extremist’ story, because who doesn’t like looking down on others for their 'crazy' beliefs? My father used to joke that anyone more religious than us was crazy, but anyone less was an apostate ...
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The Nightingale offers a hard and difficult look back at the sins of a nation

The last time I saw a movie about the brutal colonialist regime of the UK in Australia it was called Thor: Ragnarok and I had a much more fun time than this one. Of course, I also think that that ...
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The Boys adapts another exploitive Garth Ennis comic to mixed results

Between 1995 and 2005, Garth Ennis penned the comic series 'Preacher', a gory, profane, anti-religious subversive adventure. I didn’t read until ten years after it ended, so maybe the impact was lessened by then, because although I enjoyed the series, ...
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Pose :: Love is in the air

Well, this was certainly what you would call an episode that laid the groundwork for the last two episodes of the season ... and it was a doozy.  Ricky's diagnosis of being HIV+ has all kinds of ramifications attached to it ...
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It’s the beginning of the end for Preacher

When we last left our intrepid 'heroes' on the Season 3 finale of Preacher, we weren't even sure there would be a Season 4. But here we are with one final season to wrap up the story of Jesse Custer, ...
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Pennyworth meets Man from White Chapel

After a rather smashing debut, the new DC Entertainment / Epix television series Pennyworth slows things down a little bit as Alfred begins the launch of his own security company. The premiere gave us a great set up of The ...
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The Art of Self-Defense Review :: The oddest karate movie I have seen

Most martial art films I have seen have either been realistic or inspirational. Movies like The Karate Kid, Enter the Dragon, and Bloodsport come to mind when I think of my favorite martial arts films. The newest karate film, The ...
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TV by the Decade :: August 4•10

The first full week of August through the decades actually gave us two long-running series that continue to this day. It also gave us some not-so long running shows and one total failure from a man who was the king ...
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Pose :: Acting up

After a harrowing episode last week that saw Pray Tell fall ill and Blanca lose her nail salon ... all is right with the world this week, sort of. Of course in Pose time, more than a week has passed, ...
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Pennyworth is swinging in the Sixties

I really enjoyed Gotham, at least from Season 2 until the end, and often wondered if it would fit into some other Batman timeline or just be a creature unto itself. It definitely is not part of The CW's Arrowverse, ...
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