WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

It's been almost exactly three years since Jurassic World opened to record-setting box office but so-so reviews. Hotchka's Kim Tibbs reviewed the first movie and loved the nostalgia but felt some of the storyline was weak. I enjoyed Jurassic World ...
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Pose gave us a history-making episode this week behind the camera with 'Giving and Receiving' the first television episode to be written by two transgender women, Janet Mock and Our Lady J. And it was a devastating episode set at ...
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Previously, faces, eyes, darkness, death.  The latest episode of Westworld is called 'Vanishing Point', which is the point on a drawing or photo where lines seem to converge in the distance on a single point. This is the kind of odd ...
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It seems pretty shocking that the new version of Tomb Raider, based on an extremely popular video game franchise that's been around for 20 years, was only able to earn a paltry $57.4 million during its domestic run (worldwide the ...
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  Ten years after the events of the first film, the Kaiju return in Pacific Rim Uprising with a new deadly threat that reignites the conflict between these otherworldly monsters of mass destruction and Jaegers, the human-piloted super-machines that were built ...
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Has it really been fourteen years since we last saw the Parr family, aka The Incredibles, on the big screen? Pixar certainly does take their time with sequels. It was thirteen years between Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, and eleven ...
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(voice over) 'On last week's Hotchka post about Dietland ...' (end voice over)  'By their very nature, women are strange ... bonkers, even. Knowing this, I thought I would take the plunge, remove myself from my comfort zone and delve into ...
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The latest episode of Westworld is called 'Kiksuya', which is a Lakota word relating to 'remember.' Naturally, the episode had an overriding theme of memory and quite a few more things. Faith, existentialism, love, the mind, etc. In the show, ...
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This week's episode of Pose saw romances develop between Stan (Evan Peters) & Angel (Indya Moore), and a potential love interest for Damon (Ryan Jamaal Swain). But there was no love lost between Elektra (Dominique Jackson) and Blanca (MJ Rodriguez) ...
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The first time I saw The Americans was the start of 2013, when I had the opportunity to watch the first two episodes of the show prior to their release. At the time, I had no particular biases towards FX ...
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The world lost one of its biggest and most beloved children’s television programming advocates when it lost Mr. Fred Rogers in 2003 after a lengthy battle with stomach cancer. But perhaps we lost quite a bit more than that, judging ...
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By their very nature, women are strange ... bonkers, even.  Clothing style, makeup, mannerisms, hair, shoes, body image, emotions, logic, methodologies, reactions ... they're all foreign, not only to their male counterparts but within their own gender.Knowing this, I thought I ...
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