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This week's movie tie-in title of Riverdale, "House of the Devil", is tenuous at best. The 2009 film focused on a young woman hired to babysit for a couple but after finding old family photographs of a different family, she ...
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TV shows aren't cheap to produce, especially hour-long dramas with large casts. And even though some people have snarkily referred to Dynasty as "Dollar Store Dynasty," the show still has a lot of people to pay (not sure they pay ...
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Well we’re getting to the last few episodes of Fox’s successful new show The Orville. After the show received a break from Thanksgiving, I was ready to get back into it, hoping to watch it finish strong. In the eleventh ...
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After taking a week off because of the Thanksgiving holiday, Dynasty gives us a belated Thanksgiving episode as the Carrington clan celebrates the holiday in their usual style -- a football game between the family and the staff. A tradition, ...
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There is no mistaking the homage in this week's episode title as it relates to the Riverdale episode itself, "Tales from the Darkside". Tales from the Darkside was a weekly horror antholgy series that ran for four seasons in syndication ...
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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD and that's because their current production is Miracle on 34th Street, the musical based on the holiday classic film of the same name. Interestingly, this ...
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Golden Globe nominee Kirsten Dunst stars as Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug in Woodshock. Woodshock was an official ...
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When Pixar isn't making movies about toys, fish, cars, emotions or monsters, you can say their human characters have been pretty ... white. Hoping to rectify that situation and add a bit more diversity to their films, the studio has ...
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Sometimes I see movies that are strong but end weakly, sometimes they are strong except they sag in the middle, and sometimes they are slow to start but get me invested by the end. It’s a rare movie, especially of ...
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This week’s new episode of The Orville titled “Firestorm” easily convinced me that the episode should have been released during the Halloween season. As the 10th episode of Fox’s hit show, "Firestorm" focused on Alara, played by Halston Sage, who ...
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For as milquetoast as the 300th episode was, this episode of Grey's Anatomy was so properly charged that it almost redeems the level of lousy to which the show sank last week. Major Spoilers herein, hope you’re caught up! As ...
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Directed by The Wire actor Sonja Sohn, this thought-provoking documentary follows activists, police officers, community leaders and gang affiliates, who struggle to hold Baltimore together, in the wake of Freddie Gray's death, even as the homicide rate hits record levels, ...
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