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Star Wars. It’s been conjuring up hopes and dreams and thrills and controversy for the last 40 years, since the heady disco era in the 70s.And, thanks to Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm not so long ago, devoted fans, vehement detractors ...
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Christmas. The time of year to spread joy and spend time with the ones you love. It's also a time to sit down and cuddle up and watch a good holiday movie, from the many version of A Christmas Carol ...
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After some big, big movies featuring Gothic horror (Crimson Peak) and giant robots battling giant monsters (Pacific Rim), director Guillermo del Toro returns to the smaller, fairy tale films that first brought him widespread acclaim (think The Devil's Backbone and ...
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In a holiday movie season boasting a new Star Wars movie with the highly anticipated return of Jedi Luke Skywalker, a movie combining all of DC Comics’ most beloved superheroes and a colorful tale revolving around the Land of the ...
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It's Christmas at the Carrington manor and the Dynasty reboot finally kicks into all of its campy, soapy glory! It usually takes three episodes for a new series to really get its footing and get all the cast working together ...
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So here we are at Riverdale's "midseason finale" -- technically we're two episodes away from the actual midseason point, but who's counting? -- and the episode's title refers to the classic Christmas slasher film "Silent Night, Deadly Night" which featured ...
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In 2003, the movie The Room was released in an extremely limited run and to terrible reviews. But eventually it became a modern cult “classic” and legitimately successful. I first heard about The Room many years ago from online video ...
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I had forgotten that Wonder Wheel is the latest film written and directed by Woody Allen until those first moments of his signature font and title card. At that point, I was apprehensive but willing to try. Really, I’m always ...
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It was in the 19th century that Christmas became a new holiday. Before that, it was not a particularly popular holiday outside of a few places like Germany -- it had even been banned briefly in a few places in ...
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The last episode of Fox’s The Orville has finally arrived. The Orville was ordered for a 13-episode season, but Fox decided to have the 13th episode be part of season two, so episode 12 was our long-awaited season finale. This ...
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This week's movie tie-in title of Riverdale, "House of the Devil", is tenuous at best. The 2009 film focused on a young woman hired to babysit for a couple but after finding old family photographs of a different family, she ...
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TV shows aren't cheap to produce, especially hour-long dramas with large casts. And even though some people have snarkily referred to Dynasty as "Dollar Store Dynasty," the show still has a lot of people to pay (not sure they pay ...
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