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Ever since the producers of Dynasty revealed they had cast classic primetime soap bad girl Nicolette Sheridan (Knots Landing, Desperate Housewives) as Alexis Morrell Carrington, we have all be anxiously awaiting her return. And as they did with the original ...
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All the feels - good, bad, and otherwise this episode - but first - the very last second. What in the world was that?!? I mean we all saw what it was (or wasn't and trying to be) 'then-Meredith' looking ...
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It's been quite some time since Steven Spielberg directed a full out science fiction, special effects extravaganza -- and for fully realized futuristic worlds, you have to go all the way back to his one-two punch of A.I. Artificial Intelligence ...
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There was a lot going on in this week's Riverdale before a three week break, but I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the episode title 'The Noose Tightens'. It's not a movie title! Riverdale Powers That Be .. ...
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A Trip to the Moon is arguably one of the most famous and influential films ever made even to this day. Quite an accomplishment for something that was originally released in 1902. But more than a century later, the film ...
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The film made for every Power Rangers fan is back! Pacific Rim: Uprising is the sequel to the 2013 monster film that lost the opening weekend to Grown Ups 2. Guillermo del Toro’s film built a cult following and fans ...
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The Mayans prophesied that on December 21st, 2012, the world would face its end. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar would end its 5,126-year cycle and the world would suffer earth shattering events. We know now that 2012 wasn’t the end ...
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I love when movies and TV shows take an event and then tell several stories from different angles within that event. The Good Fight did just that week with the latest episode, 'Day 429'. The event is question is the ...
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Larger than life, wild, scary and androgynous - Grace Jones plays all these parts. Yet here we also discover her as a lover, daughter, mother, sister and even grandmother, as she submits herself to our gaze and allows us to ...
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This week’s Grey’s Anatomy was a beautifully balanced episode; I feel like I rarely say that anymore, but we had patient focus, doctor focus, and ups-and-downs with relationships all across the board. And we’re still tripping down memory lane, so ...
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Disney's Newsies has come a long way since it first debuted -- and flopped -- as a movie musical in 1992, which eventually developed a major cult following (thanks in part to the casting of a young Christian Bale in ...
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This week's movie title episode of Riverdale, 'Primary Colors', is an easy one to connect -- the movie (and novel) of the same name was a thinly disguised version of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. With Hermione Lodge hitting the campaign ...
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