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Kong: Skull Island proves the big ape is still king
After the financial success of Godzilla it seemed only natural that Legendary would seek to bring more classic giant monsters to the screen, either in their own movies or in a sequel. Well, that sequel got sidelined when director Gareth ...
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Time After Time brings Jack the Ripper to the present
The 2016-2017 television season has been overrun with shows featuring time travel. Last year, The CW got things started with DC's Legends of Tomorrow (and we have to give special mention to the network's The Flash which also dabbles in ...
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Feud: Bette and Joan offers delicious camp
After hitting it big on FX with American Horror Story and American Crime Story, Ryan Murphy has introduced a new anthology show focusing on famous feuds. Confident in the format, a future season has been planned focusing on Price Charles ...
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The Good Fight :: Eggs, canned peaches and fake news
The latest episode of The Good Fight could have almost been a throwaway episode. Though still very well-written, we didn't get a whole lot of forward movement with the Rindell scandal, a case involving ownership of an embryo seemed to ...
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Riverdale :: Changing Loyalties
This week's Riverdale title, "Faster, Pussycats! Kill! Kill!", is a riff on the cult classic from director Russ Meyer and ... there's really nothing in the episode that I can find to relate to the film except that the movie ...
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Table 19 has a few laughs but falls prey to the melodramatic mumblecore cliches
There are two brothers who are screenwriters in Hollywood, Jay and Mark Duplass. They wrote a bunch of indie films and even directed some of them. I’m not a fan. Mark Duplass sometimes can be funny in his acting roles, ...
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Logan digs its claws into your emotions
The Hollywood box office is no stranger to Hugh Jackman and his portrayal of James Howlett aka Logan aka "Wolverine" from the long-running X-Men film franchise. His tenured performance culminates in a stellar outing in what is the best and ...
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Deborah Cox sets the stage on fire in The Bodyguard: The Musical
We will always love Whitney Houston, and after seeing the new touring production of The Bodyguard you may just want to dance with somebody. Houston, of course, starred in the 1992 hit movie which spawned and even bigger hit with ...
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Best Picture winner Moonlight comes to home video
Perhaps an unexpected win for Best Picture sees Moonlight come to home video only two days after that shocking moment at the Oscars when La La Land was announced as the winner by mistake. But prior to the big win ...
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Everyone is a pawn on The Good Fight
This week's episode of The Good Fight picked up Maia's story right where we left off catching her mother in what may have been a compromising position, and gave us two stand-alone stories, one of which forced Diane and Lucca ...
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CBS All Access puts up a Good Fight
Full disclosure number one: I have not seen more than a few moments of an episode of The Good Wife, tuning in to see the shocking death of the Josh Charles character, Will Gardner. What I saw was an extremely ...
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Riverdale :: Maple Syrup Blood Feud
This week's episode returned to the Jason Bloom murder story, and gave us another movie-related title, "Heart of Darkness." For the uninitiated, the title refers more to a novella rather than a movie although there is a movie with the ...
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