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When Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band made its Broadway debut 52 years ago, the world was a very different place, especially for the LGBTQI community ... which wasn't even referred to as the LGBTQI community at the time ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called ‘Crisis Point’, and is mainly about Mariner and her attempts to address her long simmering issues. Unusually, the cold open is disconnected but related, with Mariner saving a planet of ...
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The first week of October over the last 100 years has given us some cinematic gems and stinkers. Over the decades, Hollywood delivered an early Technicolor film, Boris Karloff and an ape, a remake of the Bogart and Bacall classic ...
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It's never too early to think about holiday shopping, and in our current situation with a global pandemic still at the forefront, getting out to shop may not be quite the same this year. But we can help you shop ...
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The last week of the official Fall Premiere Month finds many successful series with multiple season runs, and some not so successful that have developed strong fan followings. One decade alone gave us three long-running family sitcoms and the first ...
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There’s no reason at all that 'quirky' characters should be limited to the movies of a bunch of odd dudes trying to be 'interesting'. There’s no reason that only male characters should have 'particular acting choices' that seem odd and ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Veritas', which is of course just 'truth' translated from Latin, but Star Trek loves that Latin for episode titles. Here the episode revolves around the truth and how it can ...
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The last full week of September gave us a lot of interesting films throughout the last 100 years. The 1920s gave us already the second remake of a film that has had a few more remakes since then, the 1930s ...
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I think everyone knows that child actors are rarely as good as their adult counterparts. This is really no real fault of their own, it takes time and experiences to add the acting repertoire, although some child actors are naturally ...
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It's another huge premiere week throughout the decades with a lot of shows that barely made it past a season, a few that couldn't get past a handful of episodes, several that went on for many seasons, and few that ...
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Is it always bad to be predictable? Is it always a problem if you can predict the ending or the story beats? Or sometimes, does that very 'meeting expectations' feel like you can be pleased with yourself in the end ...
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I’d like to formally request a brief moratorium on writer/actor/director in one for a while. Limiting that triad to even two can be a bit much, but all three is too much insularity. Now, it’s not to say that such ...
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