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How many time travel stories have there been throughout the years? More than you can list off the top of your head, with all manner of styles, approaches, and genres. Some are impossible to follow, some are easy and light, ...
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There is an old problem about portraying violence on screen, that because of the nature of film and the medium, it’s always somewhat glorifying it. But it’s also tricky thematically because pop culture has instilled in us strong desires for ...
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Honestly, I am not sure who asked for a sequel to the 2013 DreamWorks animated film The Croods. The prehistoric family animated movie was simply fine. It offered bright colors and zany characters that was worth a one-time watch. I ...
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The premiere episode of The Stand on CBS All Access promised an eventful series full of characters and timelines that bounce around. The pilot episode focused on Harold (Owen Teague) and Stu Redman (James Marsden) as they fight to survive ...
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Here we are at the penultimate episode of Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery, which also happens to be the 800th entry into the Trek Universe, which includes all TV episodes (live and animated), Short Takes and movies. And to ...
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It's an interesting week as we close out an old year and ring in a new in that there are no new releases between 1980-81 and 2010-11 (1940-41 is absent as well). The 1920a and 1930s only had a couple ...
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As with most of the TV programming expected to air this year, Pennyworth also faced production shutdowns due to the pandemic. Which means after three weeks and this week's double-episode broadcast, the show will be on a long winter break ...
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Three new shows brought the years 2000 and 2010 to an end while two helped ring in the new year of 2011. Of the five, three were animated shows for adults, one was a live-action series for teens and one ...
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When I learned that Peter Docter, director of Inside Out, Up, and Monsters Inc., was going to be directing a new film centered around life, death, and finding your purpose, I wasn’t fully prepared. Docter has directed what I consider ...
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I loved the first Wonder Woman movie. The original really, finally put the DC Comics movie universe in a good place. It was set in a bygone era, it had a terrific script, a great cast, a great director and ...
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Leave it to 2020 to have a disaster movie feel too close to home. Any other year, a disaster movie like Greenland would have been just another film, but with our current situation, this type of movie ends up being ...
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Now that Star Trek: Discovery is finished with the Mirror Universe -- with a clip from the previous episode reiterating that Philippa is never coming back -- we can finally get back to the season's overarching storyline: The Burn.We know ...
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