WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

I’m always a little suspicious of movies with the 'drama/comedy' label -- nearly all of the time this means a heavy dramatic movie with a few jokes thrown in, or maybe simply one with normally comedic actors pulling off dramatic ...
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You can tell we're moving into the holiday/awards season, at least in the latter part of the century, with some pretty major titles hitting the big screen this week. There are some films of note in the earlier part of ...
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Hallmark Channel reunites two popular sitcom co-stars for its latest Christmas treat, Holiday Mismatch, and this time the two play adversaries who need to put aside their differences for the good of their children. But are they really doing good? ...
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Lifetime heads back to Amish Country with its latest 'Ripped from the Headlines' story, A Kidnapping in Amish Country, but how much of this is fact or fiction is hard to tell. The story centers around Lena (Jorja Cadence), an ...
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It's interesting that the last batch of 'Countdown to Christmas' movies included The 5-Year Christmas Party, which took place over the course of five years and was more charming than expected. This new batch includes Our Holiday Story, which takes ...
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Despite being the first week of November -- or because it is the beginning of a Sweeps Month -- there are quite a few new shows that made their debuts this week, including a still running news program, two cartoon ...
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It's a busy Halloween week with many new films released across the decades include a classic mystery-drama in 1944, a cult classic musical in 1974, a retelling of a horror classic in 1994, and a new group of animated superheroes ...
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Hallmark's latest 'Countdown to Christmas' movie engages in a bit of time travel and alt-universe storytelling, covering a five-year span in the lives of its characters (no, no one is actually traveling to the future, it's all linear time .. ...
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Lifetime dips into the prison break genre with its latest 'Inspired by true events' thriller with the unintentionally comical title Don't Scream, It's Me!. The story begins with a lone man walking down the road at night, coming upon a ...
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One cannot really argue that the Hallmark Channel has a formula for its TV movies. There is a joke that there are about five stories that are just retold over and over again with different characters. That may be a ...
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The latest 'Ripped from the Headlines' Lifetime movie depicts a real-life story easily researchable on the internet, especially since the events depicted happened just in the last couple of years, with the film's conclusion only happening in February of this ...
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It's a slim week for new TV series premieres but 1954 did see the entry of Walt Disney onto the television landscape with the debut of a series that would run for decades on different networks and with different titles ...
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