WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

The first season of The Twilight Zone reboot has come to an end and I couldn’t have been more shocked with how this episode turned out. What I originally thought was going to be an episode about Seth Rogen writing ...
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A lot can happen in five years. When the first of the new Godzilla movies was released, Hotchka didn't even exist. Instead, I reviewed the movie for the site I previously wrote for, CliqueClack. The review is still available but ...
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There is nothing new in Rocketman. Check every biopic of every movie star, rock star, sports star, literary star, maybe even business & finance and you will find elements of Rocketman. The father who doesn’t show his son any love, ...
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Right after Corbin Bleu finished his ‘Bianca’ number in Kiss Me, Kate!, my companion leaned over and, laughing, said over the applause, 'This play is so stupid!' and together we laughed and applauded Mr. Bleu’s wonderful performance.I hadn’t ever thought ...
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From it's launch fifteen weeks ago, Doom Patrol has proven itself to be one of the finest new shows of the year. I had some concerns about it after the first season of Titans which had a lot of ups ...
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The season finales have ended and through most of the earlier decades, summer meant reruns. It wasn't until the advent of cable TV when audiences had more options to choose from that original programming between June and September became a ...
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Brightburn asks the question: What if a being from another planet, like Superman, was evil instead of good? Clark Kent’s classic tale of arriving on Earth, discovering his powers, and helping the world has brought many different interpretations to the ...
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The second season of Dynasty has come to an end, and while it didn't go out in a blaze of glory like the first season, this ender left the fates of almost all the characters hanging in the balance. And ...
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Most movies where an object is possessed and haunts an individual or family, that object is either a diary, a car, a ring, a VHS tape, or even a doll. In The Twilight Zone, it can be anything. In a ...
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Disney has been mining their animated film library to make more money from them with live-action adaptations. This isn't a new phenomenon, of course, because they remade 101 Dalmations back in 1996, long before they really got things rolling with ...
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Broadway's Be More Chill is the latest stab at the Great White Way's struggle for theatre to be a relevant 2500-year-old art form. Commissioned in 2015 by the Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey, Be More Chill went ...
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I believe everyone has certain playwrights with whom they have a connection, certain artists whose music speaks directly to them. In my life as a theatre-goer, I have responded with a lot of resonance to Rattigan, Odets, and Williams. I ...
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