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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #276 :: November 6•12
This was a pretty lackluster week for new movie premieres, but there were some notable releases. This week, two films thought lost were rediscovered and restored. 1925 saw a supporting actress given a new name ... and she also starred ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s A Newport Christmas
Hallmark Channel made up for Christmas on Duty -- which really should have been a Sunday night movie -- with the charming star-crossed holiday romance, A Newport Christmas ... a lackluster title but don't be fooled, this one is a ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Christmas on Duty
Hallmark Channel enlists one of its popular stars along with a newbie into the military as rivals for some vague reason that has to do with a long-standing feud between their retired military fathers. Unfortunately, instead of creating any kind ...
TV by the Decade :: November 2•8
As the networks head into the high profile November Sweeps, many new series made their premieres in the hopes of blostering the networks' ad revenues. 1955's most successful series was actually a segment in a popular children's show. 1965 has ...
Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #275 :: October 30 to November 5
It is a pretty big week heading into November, with the holidays and movies vying for awards attention. There were no Oscars in 1925, but this week has the film debut of a famous director, who also has another film ...
Movie Review :: Bugonia is unhinged and brilliant
Coming into Bugonia, I was both intrigued and skeptical. Yorgos Lanthimos is one of those directors who never gives you the same movie twice — and whether you walk away loving or hating it, you’re guaranteed to remember it. After ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Secret Lives of Sister Wives
With Hulu having a hit reality series with Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, not to mention the long-running TLC reality series Sister Wives, it was inevitable that Lifetime would forego the Amish stories for ones set in the world of ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Merry Christmas, Ted Cooper!
Robert Buckley stars as local TV weatherman Ted Cooper (in Corning, New York), a man known for having the worst experiencing during the Christmas holiday. Ted is preparing to travel to Lakawanna, NY (about two-and-a-half hours away) to do some ...
TV by the Decade :: Oct 26•Nov 1
As October ends and networks are beginning to see how their new Fall series are performing, there are a few stragglers making their debuts heading into the November sweeps. 1955 saw the debut of the very first hour-long drama series, ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie
Lifetime and executive producer Garcelle Beauvais return to the 'Black Girl Missing' franchise with a third film titled Taken at a Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing Movie, which is a harrowing kidnapping tale but its use of a teen ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s Dancing with a Murderer
LMN's 'Shocktober' thriller Dancing with a Murderer had a much better title than the rather simplistic -- and misleading -- one that it has now, A Dance with Death, but even with that title the movie itself would still be ...
Movie Review :: Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc is wild, beautiful & emotional
I went into Chainsaw Man: The Movie - Reze Arc not knowing a single thing about Chainsaw Man. I didn’t grow up watching much anime, so this was honestly one of my first big anime movie experiences — and it ...
