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Lifetime is infamous for its movies of wildly different qualities. One night we get the amazingly excellent Taken at a Basketball Game, and the next we get dreck like Playing with Fire, a movie that insults the intelligence of anyone ...
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Only four decades produced any new series this week, but those decades produced some very memorable programs, although no one may remember the three season comedy series on a small-ish cable network in 1985. Tell us if you do! 1995 ...
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Hallmark Channel concludes its 'Royal Weekends' themed movies, and after two wonderful outings, this third movie just slightly misses the mark.Royal-ish centers around the royal family of the fictional country of Bella Moritz, where Queen Eloise is considering abdicating the ...
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It's been a minute, but Lifetime has rolled out a new 'Ripped from the Headlines' movie with the true-ish story Taken at a Basketball Game, which is not actually based on any one account of an abduction, but is inspired ...
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LMN serves up another thriller as part of its 'Twisted Fate' theme, What Would You Kill For?, but this one commits all kinds of egregious sins that will have you screaming at the TV. Beware, there will be spoilers ahead ...
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John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask knew they had something special back in 1998 when Hedwig & the Angry Inch opened Off-Broadway at the Jane Street Theatre, but they probably never imagined the show would go on to have such ...
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Many notable films made their debuts this week across the decades, including a 1925 film with an early Technicolor sequence, a 1935 Busby Berkeley musical, a 1945 sequel about a horse, a 1955 horror anthology, a 1965 answer to the ...
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Have you ever heard of Congenital insensitivity to pain and anhidrosis, or CIPA, or hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy type IV (HSAN IV)? Most likely not, but it's estimated that there is an incidence of CIPA in 1 in every ...
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In January 2025, the Lifetime network premiered the thriller The Bear Lake Murders, a nifty sort-of 80's style slasher film that was exceedingly entertaining. You can check out our review here. The movie also gave actress Magalie her first major ...
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Lifetime delivers another taut mystery-thriller with The Last Woman Who Lived Here, which builds on the mystery surrounding the death of a woman named Vanessa, which the authorities had declared an accident (she allegedly fell down the stairs and cracked ...
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The Lifetime network has gotten into the 'Octomom' business -- sixteen years after the fact -- banking on some kind of renewed interest in Natalie Suleman and her octuplets with people who followed the saga or perhaps those who are ...
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It's the second of Hallmark Channel's 'Royal Weekends', and The Reluctant Royal has a bit more drama to its story than the more comedic The Royal We, but there are still some pretty humorous moments courtesy of fan favorite Andrew ...
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