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Movie Review :: The Housemaid is 2025’s best ’90s movie
Never let it be said that I don't do my homework. I do the research, I come prepared. In the past year alone, I've cracked open Life of Pi to review the Broadway National Tour on this very site, jumped ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Oy to the World!
Hallmark Channel's 'Countdown to Christmas' series of movies takes a brief detour with its latest offering to celebrate the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, as two holidays collide in Oy to the World!. The movie begins about twenty years earlier as ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s A Suite Holiday Romance
Hallmark Channel's latest 'Countdown to Christmas' movie tries to do something different as two romances, past and present, play out. Unfortunately, the main story is a bit contrived while the B-story completely outshines it. It’s Christmas week when Sabrina Post ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Rodeo Christmas Romance
Lifetime's 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' series continues with a title that promises rodeo action but instead remains home down on the range. When fiercely independent equestrian, Emma (Rebecca Dalton), finds herself ranch-sitting for a friend while caring for her injured ...
TV by the Decade :: December 14•20
Despite it being December with Christmas just around the corner, several decades saw some major new programming this week across networks, cable and streaming. 1965 saw the debut of two game shows that would have long runs and become classics, ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Christmas in Alaska
The second of Lifetime's 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' double features this week is Christmas in Alaska, a film that was apparently released somewhere in the world in 2024, but is just making its way to a television broadcast in the ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s A Runaway Bride for Christmas
We're getting down to the wire as Christmas inches ever closer, and Lifetime's 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' series of holiday films are hitting a bit of a plateau, just offering pleasant holiday romance stories but nothing to write home about ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s My Mother the Madam
After producing a thriller actually set during the Christmas holiday to justify the month's 'Slay Bells' theme, LMN returns to their standard thriller that has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. It's not even winter in My Mother the Madam! ...
Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #281 :: December 11•17
This was a pretty big week for major film releases, offering several firsts, and many awards nominations and wins. Several 1925 films survive and have been preserved, and one film made a star out of its lead actress. A 1935 ...
Theatre Review :: Water for Elephants Tour at Washington DC’s National Theatre
The 2006 novel Water for Elephants was written by Sara Gruen and was generally well-received -- Sara has also said that the story generally parallels the biblical story of Jacob ... although I really find the connective tissue to be ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Single on the 25th
What happens when your holiday plans fall apart at the last minute due to circumstances beyond your control and you have no significant other, leaving you Single on the 25th? If you're in a Hallmark Channel 'Countdown to Christmas' movie, ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Holiday Movie Deck the Hallways
Lifetime's 'It's a Wonderful Lifetime' series of holiday films have been in the range of pretty good to as watchable as a trainwreck, so it was a real delight to partake in the latest Christmas movie, Deck the Hallways, which ...
