WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

The LEGO world is finally back with the newest film, The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part. Five years ago, we learned that everything is awesome, but now it's not as awesome as it seems. At the end of The ...
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I think there’s a sort of off weirdness when siblings work together on the same movie, in a way that you’re breaching the real world with the fictional one. Doesn’t mean it’ll fail, I mean the Gyllenhaal siblings have co-starred ...
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The Taiwanese film industry has gone through many ups and downs through the last century, but their movies tend not to hit crossover status outside the country. As such, I don’t really have a good sense of the cultural context ...
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'An Obol for Charon' is basically a 'bottle episode' of Star Trek: Discovery, or perhaps a 'kitchen sink' episode is a better metaphor. Bottle episodes are those that are confined to one location (or already existing sets) as a means ...
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Don't even know where to start with this one because for as many ridiculous WTF the moments - there just so happened to be an equally balanced number of super endearing ones. And is it just me - or does ...
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I've been griping about the boring Gargoyle King storyline pretty much all season, but in this week's episode of Riverdale, they finally made good use of the whole Gargoyle Gang plot in a story that was really heavy in its ...
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As I was watching The Kid Who Would Be King, the young boy playing Alexander looked a bit familiar. After I got home I scrolled through IMDB to find out that the actor, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, is the son of ...
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As soon as I sat down to watch Miss Bala, I immediately wanted to go home. It was ten o’clock at night, I had my large root beer and I was ready to tackle this movie. As time passed, I ...
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The first full week of February through the decades yielded a handful of new programming but few hits. None of the series that premiered during this week are still on the air today. In fact, 1979 gave us what is ...
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It's been a while since Toby's Dinner Theatre tackled one of the classics of the stage (and the last time was the first show I reviewed there, Show Boat), and now they are taking on one of the true classics ...
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After the goofiness of the last episode, everyone is back in Atlanta and dealing with the reality of their lives, and at the moment it ain't pretty for many of them.Fallon Poor little rich girl Fallon, who is used to getting ...
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This week’s episode of The Orville is what I consider a filler episode. Nothing exciting happens in this episode and nothing is contributing to the over-arching storyline, which I still don’t know what that is. This episode focuses on Dr ...
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