WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

The history of South Korean cinema is an interesting one, with a lot of difficulty until the release of a few critical hits, chief among them Oldboy for garnering foreign interest. But a few filmmakers also grew out of the ...
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The pilot of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist was great, and I did not really expect the next episode to live up to that unreasonably high bar. Still, a few things advanced and Jane Levy continues to be utterly enthralling to watch ...
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The first episode/pilot of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist dropped recently, presenting a world that tweaks on magical realism. The always welcome Jane Levy, she of the astonishingly expressive eyes and the late lamented Suburgatory, plays Zoey, a software programmer living in ...
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Only four new series premiered during the week of February 16 through the decades. A handful had short, multiple season runs and one had a short single season run despite its cult following. The shows do cover a lot of ...
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Sooner than expected - Richard, Maggie, and Hunt are all headed back to Grey-Sloan. The last time something happened that fast, they were trying to get rid of McDreamy. Woof. But not without some dancing all around the medical bush ...
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Everyone knows The Wizard of Oz, either by the books or the classic MGM movie musical, but do you know the story that took place before the events of that classic tale? In 1995, Gregory Maguire published his novel Wicked: ...
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Growing up, I played a lot of Sega Genesis, which included plenty of 'Sonic' games. I loved the one where Knuckles was introduced in the 1994 Sega game, Sonic the Hedgehog 3. I have always enjoyed the character of Sonic ...
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The King’s Speech was a 2010 movie directed by Tom Hooper, the same guy behind Cats and others. But the movie was actually based on a real story, and as these things often go, was turned into a play by ...
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So this week's Riverdale is titled 'The Ides of March' and I have to wonder if the target audience of the show even knows what that means. In Roman history, the Ides was originally celebrated as the New Year on ...
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Legendary Russian prima ballerina Irina Kolesnikova makes her long-anticipated USA debut. Acclaimed from London to Sydney, from Johannesburg to Paris, Kolesnikova brings together guest artists from the world’s leading ballet companies in the spellbinding St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s production of ...
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The networks showed very little love to TV viewers during the week leading up to Valentine's Day with only five new series premiering over the course of just two decades. One was another attempt to reboot a classic sitcom with ...
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I have been asked how I can sit through an episode of Dynasty because, let's be honest, it's not the best show on TV. But it's usually a load of fun and it has the exquisite Elizabeth Gillies casually tossing ...
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