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Hotchka Movie Review :: The Fall Guy
He’s a stunt man, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #197 :: May 2•8
We're on the cusp of the Summer Movie Season -- at least in the latter part of the century -- and Hollywood has a lot to offer with a handful of really notable films. 1934 saw the first pairing of ...
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TV by the Decade :: Apr 28•May 4
Only a handful of new shows premiered this week, but a few of them were very notable. It's not often we include shows that didn't air nationally on a network, in Syndication or on cable, but a 1954 series shown ...
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Burnt Offerings chills on Blu-ray
Evil has a new home! Step inside a vacation house of horror in this terrifying thriller that does for summer homes what Jaws did for a dip in the surf. Karen Black, Oliver Reed and Bette Davis star in this ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #196 :: April 25 to May 1
On the cusp of the Summer movie season, this final week of April gave us many new films but few that have stood the test of time. Of note are a 1944 musical that wasn't developed as a musical, and ...
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TV by the Decade :: April 21•27
The last full week of April heading into what is typically 'finale month' as well as 'Sweeps Month" yielded very little in terms of memorable new programming. 1954 gave us a new 15-minute variety series, 1994 saw HBO dive into ...
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Abigail is a bloody good time
The production group known as Radio Silence -- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez and Chad Villella -- have made quite a splash in the horror genre over the last few years with Ready or Not, Scream and Scream VI ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #195 :: April 18•24
Multiple films were released this week in every decade but very few of them have gone on to be remembered. There are films of note, however, such as the 1924 silent comedy featuring a popular star in a film that ...
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TV by the Decade :: April 14•20
Only three decades produced new series this week, with the bulk coming in 2014. 1954 had two short-lived series, one of which that did not help the already faltering DuMont network. Jump to 1994 for an irreverent take on a ...
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Peter Pan National Tour Review at DC’s National Theatre
'It's for kids.' It's a throwaway line often used to dismiss entertainment geared towards the little ones. Cute. Sweet. Fun. They're all pejorative. But Peter Pan, now stopping at D.C.'s National Theatre for its National Tour, is adorable, charming, magical, intoxicating fun. And ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #194 :: April 11•17
Quite a few films were released this week across the decades. 1944 produced two Oscar nominees, while 1954 produced a mystery that suffered from a case of bad timing. 1974 saw the release of a film now considered a masterpiece ...
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Little Shop of Horrors at DC’s Ford’s Theatre Review
No one in 1960, let alone director Roger Corman, would have guessed his low-budget, kitschy horror-comedy The Little Shop of Horrors would have enjoyed the longevity it's had since the film's premiere. But 22 years later, the writing duo of ...
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