WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

Only four new series premiered this week in two different decades, and only one of them -- a now classic 1980 sitcom -- made it past a single season ... and even the sitcom barely made it through two seasons ...
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Carl Weathers directs and stars in this week’s 'The Siege' and it was one big old trip down memory lane. We were immediately won over at the sight of The Child helping Mando repair his ship. Seeing the little guy ...
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Coming of age movies are always an interesting angle to take for a movie, often called a 'Bildungsroman' if you want to be pretentious about it. A contained arc of growth and change in an hour and change, and despite ...
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2020 is so terrible that the only way to bring joy to the lives of millions was to resurrect McDreamy. And now we know why! Meredith has COVID! (I think we all saw that coming given the way last week ...
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There’s a fun term, 'rich people problems', that is often used for people like the Kardashians or the aristocracy from The Crown or the rich creeps from Succession. But although it can be sometimes a bit tricky to empathize with ...
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Star Trek: Discovery had the feel of a classic Trek episodes this week as Discovery is fully brought back into the Starfleet fold, complete with a retrofit to bring the thousand year old ship up to current standards, including detached ...
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Heading into the holiday season, studios began releasing a lot of big budget, big name, high concept films to bring audiences back to the cinemas after a slowdown following the summer season. This time of year normally sees a lot ...
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One of the classic problems of writing talented or competent characters is potentially writing things you don’t know yourself. Want to write a computer or medical genius but don’t know either that well? You can do research, ask for help, ...
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Let's face the music here -- 2020 has been a pretty crappy year for most of us, some even more so than others. And at the time of this writing, things aren't getting any better as the pandemic continues to ...
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Under normal circumstances -- and this year is anything but normal -- the Fall TV season is well underway and the networks are not rolling out many, or any, new series, especially as the holidays approach. This week, only a ...
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A short but very informative trip in this week’s The Mandalorian. After finally arriving, albeit by crash landing, to drop off the frog lady, Mando’s journey to find the Jedi and return The Child sort of gets back on track ...
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There are some interesting movie premieres through the decades this week. 1930 offers one of the earliest films shot in a widescreen format, 20 years before it became an industry standard, and was the inspiration for the Batman. 1930 also ...
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