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Grey’s Anatomy :: All Tomorrow’s Parties / The Center Won’t Hold
Seriously!? SERIOUSLY. The last 90 seconds of 'The Center Won't Hold', (Episode two of Season 17, but the second half of the two-hour season opener) will shake you to the core. Be forewarned - spoilers! But we can't start at the end - ...
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Star Trek: Discovery :: Die Trying
Star Trek: Discovery has wasted no time this season getting the thousand-year-old crew from the season's first episode 'where are we?' storyline to this week's 'we're home!' I really expected their quest to find Starfleet and the Federation to take ...
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On the Rocks goes down smoothly
It’s been awhile since I have enjoyed a Sofia Coppola film. 17 years to be exact. Her 2003 film, Lost in Translation starring Bill Murray, showcased her abilities as a director. Most of her recent films like The Bling Ring, ...
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The Dark Divide takes a comic actor and throws him into the wilds
It’s fairly common for comic actors to want to try dramatic roles and vice versa, although it usually works better with the former than the latter. They want to stretch their acting in different ways, although sometimes it’s utilizing the ...
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TV by the Decade :: November 8•14
The second week of November only offered four new series across three decades, and three of them had multiple season runs. 1980 saw the premiere of a long-running sitcom on both network TV and in first-run syndication; and 2010 gave ...
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The Mandalorian :: The Passenger
The Passenger; gave us an idea of what this season of The Mandalorian is shaping up to be, that is an extremely linear story. Picking up moments after the last episode ended, it also had a theme of long roads ...
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Star Trek: Discovery :: Forget Me Not
Star Trek: Discovery delivers an emotionally charged episode this week that told two stories about families, of a sort.For Adira, being the host to a Trill symbiont means she has chosen a family in a way as the symbiont carries ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #15 :: November 4•10
The first week of November. It's getting dark earlier, the weather is getting cooler in many parts of the country, and Hollywood is beginning to roll out its more prestigious films for awards season. There are a couple of contenders ...
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TV by the Decade :: November 1•7
Only three decades produced new TV series during the first week of November. One of them was a groundbreaking cable series that ran for five seasons, one was a cable reality series that ran for five seasons, and one was ...
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The Mandalorian :: The Marshal
Yippee kay yay! Mando and The Child have returned and they did not waste any time getting the action rolling in the season premiere. Still searching for The Child’s people, Mando’s first goal is to reconnect with his own clans ...
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The Cuban tells a lovely story of trying to bridge the divide between generations
Sometimes a movie can tell a smaller story, about a moment in time, with stakes that aren’t about the big world ideas or destruction, but maybe just about helping one person. Memory is one of those things that defines us ...
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A Call to Spy tells a tense tale of some real life female spies in WWII
Historical espionage is a tricky subject, because by definition it’s a hidden enterprise. But there are a few known famous spies throughout history, such as the WWI spy Mata Hari. She pretended to be Javanese and changed her name to ...
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