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Movie Review :: Wicked is gonna be popular
In 1995 Gregory Maguire, an author known for children's books, published his first novel aimed at adults. It was titled Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, earning mostly favorable reviews and generating a large ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Confessions of a Christmas Letter
As any Hallmark fan knows, the network has a reliable stable of stars, male and female, to fill out their weekly TV movie offerings, appearing in multiple films per year. It's a comfort to the fans to see familiar faces, ...
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Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Christmas at Plumhill Manor
It's that time of year when Lifetime foregos the murder and crime thrillers and attempts to compete with Hallmark Channel's 'Countdown to Christmas' movies under their own 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' banner. No more 'Ripped from the Headlines' -- at ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Jingle Bell Run
Hallmark favorites Ashley Williams and Andrew W. Walker join forces for the latest 'Countdown to Christmas' movie, but this one is more of a letdown than recent efforts. Not that it's bad, it just commits the sin of being .. ...
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TV by the Decade :: November 17•23
You can count the TV series premieres on one hand this week, with some fingers left over as two of the premieres are actually TV movies, one that wrapped up a series and the other a Hallmark holiday extravaganza with ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #225 :: November 14•20
It was a very big week for new movie releases, many of which earned some major awards love, and introduced actors, directors and characters who would become more familiar in the future. 1934 introduced a couple of 'singing cowboys' to ...
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Theatre Review: SIX The Musical at Washington DC’s National Theatre
Henry the Eighth he was, Henry the Eighth he was, he was. He was the widower next door, he was married five times before ... or something like that. Except this time, there are no songs for Henry VIII - ...
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Movie Review :: Hangdog
The expression 'hangdog' is an interesting one -- it originally came from a 17th century phrase about loathsome individuals only to 'hang a dog' or be hung like one. But eventually that turned into a word that meant having a ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s ‘Tis the Season to Be Irish
If you're a long-time viewer of Hallmark Channel movies, you know that most of them are set in very idealized/fantasized versions of 'Smalltown America', places that conjure up warm memories of places most of us have never been but believe ...
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Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Searching for a Serial Killer: The Regina Smith Story
Lifetime dips back into the true-life story 'Ripped from the Headlines' movie with its latest 'Truly Unbelievable Movie', Searching for a Serial Killer: The Regina Smith Story, which tells the story of police cadet Regina Smith and her involvement in ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Santa Tell Me
Hallmark reunites two of its popular When Calls the Heart series stars, Erin Krakow and Daniel Lissing, for the new holiday romance movie, Santa Tell Me, one of their most delightful films of the 2024 holiday season. Krakow stars as Olivia, ...
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TV by the Decade :: November 10•16
A very slow week sees the premiere of just two new scripted dramas in two different decades, one a medical drama that had a multi-season run and became a cultural and global sensation, picking up a few awards in the ...
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