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DC Comics, movies and TV fans, hold on to your hats because the entertainment giant is about to unveil something new and unique for streaming service subscribers -- DC Universe. The new service will be a one-stop shop for all ...
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Lisa is the last person you'd expect to find in a highway-side 'sports bar with curves', but as general manager at Double Whammies, she's come to love the place and its customers. An incurable den mother, she nurtures and protects ...
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When you have a TV series set during the AIDS epidemic, an episode with the title 'The Fever' is already troubling for fans of the show because it suggests that someone we have already come to love over the course ...
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The last time we saw Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy, our own Michael Noble was covering the show but the maddening storyline got to be too much so he threw in the towel, so I'm here now to pick things up ...
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Previously on Westworld, shots fired, shh, shaking, shattering, suicide, sadness.  First, a point of anger about the season finale: I can’t believe they killed Elsie! She was my favorite human. Sizemore got his moment of heroic sacrifice, meta-fictionally inserting himself into ...
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It's been almost exactly three years since Jurassic World opened to record-setting box office but so-so reviews. Hotchka's Kim Tibbs reviewed the first movie and loved the nostalgia but felt some of the storyline was weak. I enjoyed Jurassic World ...
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Pose gave us a history-making episode this week behind the camera with 'Giving and Receiving' the first television episode to be written by two transgender women, Janet Mock and Our Lady J. And it was a devastating episode set at ...
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Previously, faces, eyes, darkness, death.  The latest episode of Westworld is called 'Vanishing Point', which is the point on a drawing or photo where lines seem to converge in the distance on a single point. This is the kind of odd ...
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It seems pretty shocking that the new version of Tomb Raider, based on an extremely popular video game franchise that's been around for 20 years, was only able to earn a paltry $57.4 million during its domestic run (worldwide the ...
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  Ten years after the events of the first film, the Kaiju return in Pacific Rim Uprising with a new deadly threat that reignites the conflict between these otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and Jaegers, the human-piloted super-machines that were built ...
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Has it really been fourteen years since we last saw the Parr family, aka The Incredibles, on the big screen? Pixar certainly does take their time with sequels. It was thirteen years between Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, and eleven ...
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(voice over) 'On last week's Hotchka post about Dietland ...' (end voice over)  'By their very nature, women are strange ... bonkers, even. Knowing this, I thought I would take the plunge, remove myself from my comfort zone and delve into ...
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