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Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s The Hockey Mom’s Revenge
With Christmas just a few days in the rear-view mirror, Lifetime returns to its regularly scheduled programming with a new sports-themed thriller -- allegedly based on true events -- titled The Hockey Mom's Revenge, starring Lifetime regular Kate Dailey. The ...
TV by the Decade :: Dec 28•Jan 3
Only two new shows made their debuts at the end of the year, but several more rang in the new year, some successful, other less so. 1956 saw a game show transition from radio to television, becoming a huge success ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s The Child They Hid
LMN snuck in one additional 'Slay Bells' movie to end the month -- for real this time -- with a thriller that's a bit less-than-thrilling, and a title (and mystery) that makes little sense until about the mid-way point, by ...
Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #283 :: December 25•31
It's a pretty big week across almost all decades as studios are putting out all of their big guns to take advantage of Christmas vacations in the US, as well as Academy Awards consideration. Pre-Oscars, 1925 includes two major silent ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s The Christmas Baby
Well, we've made it to the end of Hallmark Channel's 2025 'Countdown to Christmas' with this 24th movie of the season, The Christmas Baby. Hallmark really went out on a limb with this one, giving us a very different story ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s A Make or Break Holiday
Hallmark Channel's 'Countdown to Christmas' series marks the penultimate movie of the 2025 holiday season, and presents the winner of Finding Mr. Christmas in, well, not the starring role that was promised (they learned their lesson after last year's Happy ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s A Pickleball Christmas
When is a Christmas movie not really a Christmas movie? When it's Lifetime's final 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' movie of 2025, A Pickleball Christmas. Don't let the title fool you. Yes, there is pickleball, but the Christmas is more of ...
TV by the Decade :: December 21•27
The week leading up to Christmas leaves very little in the way of new programming. Major networks are busy airing holiday specials and repeats, knowing regular viewers are busy this time of year. But that didn't stop a cable network ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Sweet Holiday Romance
Lifetime's 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' series pulls a real fast one on viewers with its 'new' holiday romance, Sweet Holiday Romance. Does that title sound familiar? It should because Hallmark Channel a week earlier aired A Suite Holiday Romance, so ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s Where Pretty Girls Die
LMN's 'Slay Bells' series of movies comes to an end this week -- and honestly, why even bother with the holiday sounding theme when only one of the movies this month had anything to do with Christmas? -- with another ...
Theatre Review :: Wicked Tour at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
Twenty-two years, over a billion dollars at the Broadway box office, and a two-part movie adaptation have not dimmed the magic that is the musical Wicked, an adaptation of Gregory Maguire's novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked ...
Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #282 :: December 18•24
It's a very big week leading up to the lucrative Christmas holiday, as well as the penultimate week for awards consideration so the studios, particularly in the later decades, are rolling out their big guns. Not everything was a success ...
