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Thanksgiving with a bang
After taking a week off because of the Thanksgiving holiday, Dynasty gives us a belated Thanksgiving episode as the Carrington clan celebrates the holiday in their usual style -- a football game between the family and the staff. A tradition, ...
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Riverdale goes darksided
There is no mistaking the homage in this week's episode title as it relates to the Riverdale episode itself, "Tales from the Darkside". Tales from the Darkside was a weekly horror antholgy series that ran for four seasons in syndication ...
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Miracle on 34th Street brings Christmas magic to Toby’s Dinner Theatre
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD and that's because their current production is Miracle on 34th Street, the musical based on the holiday classic film of the same name. Interestingly, this ...
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Woodshock fails to shock
Golden Globe nominee Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug in Woodshock. Woodshock was an official ...
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Pixar’s Coco will fill your heart with music and emotion
When Pixar isn't making movies about toys, fish, cars, emotions or monsters, you can say their human characters have been pretty ... white. Hoping to rectify that situation and add a bit more diversity to their films, the studio has ...
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Mudbound hits powerful notes in a movie that’s a bit muddy
Sometimes I see movies that are strong but end weakly, sometimes they are strong except they sag in the middle, and sometimes they are slow to start but get me invested by the end. It’s a rare movie, especially of ...
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Crew members of The Orville face their worst fears
This week’s new episode of The Orville titled “Firestorm” easily convinced me that the episode should have been released during the Halloween season. As the 10th episode of Fox’s hit show, "Firestorm" focused on Alara, played by Halston Sage, who ...
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Grey’s Anatomy Fall Finale :: Hit me with your best shot
For as milquetoast as the 300th episode was, this episode of Grey's Anatomy was so properly charged that it almost redeems the level of lousy to which the show sank last week. Major Spoilers herein, hope you’re caught up! As ...
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Baltimore Rising :: Trailer | HBO
Directed by The Wire actor Sonja Sohn, this thought-provoking documentary follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together, in the wake of Freddie Gray's death, even as the homicide rate hits record levels, ...
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Justice League is just okay
It's finally here, the long-awaited joining together of some of DC Comics' most iconic superheroes -- Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash, Cyborg and ... spoiler alert ... Superman. And after some not very kind reviews for Batman v Superman: ...
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A verdict is reached on Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders
The venerable Law & Order franchise's latest attempt at a new series, and a first attempt at an anthology series, has come to an end and the question is was it a success? It's hard to say with NBC's ads ...
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AHS: Cult :: Tables turned
In what has been the most divisive season of American Horror Story yet, mainly due to its non-supernatural, highly politically charged storytelling, we come to the end of "Cult" and I know many people are breathing a sigh of relief ...
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