WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

Woah. Woah. WHAT!? Did they actually manage to produce a 'tear-away' episode that we cared about!? Seriously? SERIOUSLY! Because usually those 'let's focus on these two characters in a realm outside of Grey-Sloan' stories are a snooze fest ... or ...
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The Twilight Zone reboot has officially arrived, and I couldn’t be more excited. I loved watching The Twilight Zone growing up and have fond memories of Rod Serling explaining what a new episode was going to be about. I was ...
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Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a classic story that was first published in 1831. What most people don't know is that the story was actually meant to be a call for the preservation of Paris' classic Gothic ...
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Doom Patrol turned out another fantastic episode this week by introducing television viewers to Danny. Of course, if you're not up on your Doom Patrol comics, you'll be asking yourself 'who is Danny?' And that certainly is not an easy ...
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Spring has sprung and the second week of April found quite a few series debuting that bloomed into hits still remembered fondly today. Of course there were also so major misses so let's take a look at the list of ...
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Documentaries are often made with good intentions, sometimes to spotlight the life of a beloved figure, reveal previously unknown details about an historical event, or expose the dark sides of governments and corporations. Of course there are a myriad of ...
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There’s a sort of genre of movies that fit the 'Let’s show great food and also toss in some emotional family stuff' mold that pop up every year. Some are simple, enjoyable pleasures like Chef, others are pretentious slogs like ...
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As I’m sure everyone is aware, Storm Boy is a classic Australian novel from 1966 by Colin Thiele that was also made into a beloved Australian classic in 1976. What’s that? Oh, you have no idea what I’m talking about? ...
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A lot of times during awards season there is one particular 'surprise' of someone who’s been delivering great work for years but is now 'due'. This last year was both Richard E. Grant and Olivia Colman, although only Olivia won ...
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Who remembers Emilio Estevez? The Mighty Ducks, right? And that’s really it. I guess you can count The Breakfast Club but that barely matters to me. A decent actor, but you kind of just forgot about him. Who guessed he ...
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In 1983, Stephen King produced the disturbing horror novel Pet Sematary which warned that messing around with an Indian burial ground was not such a good idea (see also the movie Poltergeist). In 1989, Paramount Pictures produced a movie based ...
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It looks like the folks overseeing the DC Extended Universe have finally gotten their act together and realized that people actually go to the Marvel movies because they're bright and colorful, and audiences generally have fun watching them (well, perhaps ...
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