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Lifetime's latest 'Ripped from the Headlines' movie is one firmly set in the present day and actually tells a cautionary tale. The Killer I Picked Up stars Patrice Goodman as Angela Turner, a woman whose bosses don't seem to feel ...
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Who would have thought that an improvisational play titled C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, would go on to become a sensation on Broadway and beyond with a fully fleshed-out book and songs, retitled The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee? Well, it did and ...
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Lifetime knows it is impossible to resist a TV movie with the title Nobody Dumps My Daughter, and makes it even more irresistible by casting some big names in Ana Ortiz and Sheila E. And this 'Ripped from the Headlines' ...
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With less than a week before the 'Countdown to Christmas' begins, Hallmark is getting fully into the Halloween spirit with the new romantic comedy Haunted Wedding, starring Janel Parrish and Dominic Sherwood as a soon-to-be-wed couple dealing with an angry ...
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We're out of the Fall Premiere Week now with just a baker's dozen of new series making their debuts in just four different decades. The earliest decade, 1954, brought a popular movie star dog to the small screen, and produced ...
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The second week of October produced several classic and iconic films, many of them recognized by various awards organizations. One 1924 film, though, has a tragic history. 1934 gave us a film adaptation of a Broadway musical with two iconic ...
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It's time for another Lifetime 'Ripped from the Headlines' true -- but totally fictional -- movie, this one titled Betrayed by Love. In this 'true crime' story, a wife and mother named Riley leaves her house after dinner and is ...
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Lifetime serves up another 'Truly Unbelievable Movie' from its 'Ripped from the Headlines' series of TV movies based on a true story that's been completely fictionalized for television. Good luck on finding the actual source for this story.In The Girl ...
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At the Hallmark Channel, the 'Countdown to Christmas' is just around the corner, but for the next two weeks they are treating viewers to the 'Hallmark Halloween' TV movies beginning with Autumn at Apple Hill, which sort of branches the ...
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Two decades failed to produce any new series this week across the decades, but the others had some that were very notable. 1954 had an anthology series that brought James Bond to life for the very first time, 1984 produced ...
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Five years ago, Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix brought a very different version of the signature Batman villain, The Joker, to vivid and often extremely uncomfortable life, turning the comic book story into a modern version of Martin Scorsese's Taxi ...
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I don’t entirely recall when I first came across the YouTube videos of 'Chris & Jack', frequently surrealist comedy short pieces starring friends Chris W. Smith and Jack De Sena (who was famously the voice of Sokka in the animated ...
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