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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Two years ago I had heard a lot of very positive things about John Wick, called Keanu Reeves’ triumphant return to action glory. And it was all I had heard, the right sort of revenge fantasy with logical motivation, a ...
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Every once a while a movie comes along that is virtually unreviewable because of the intricacies of the plot which would result in a massively spoiler-filled report. Get Out is one of those films, and that's a good thing because ...
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The tagline on the Harley and the Davidsons DVD/Blu-ray combo pack promised I’d learn the story behind the name. As a self-proclaimed history buff, I thought “Okay, I’ll give this one a shot.” I’ve never owned a Harley-Davidson motorcycle but ...
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Continuing the homage to classic movies with the episode titles, this week's "The Last Picture Show" does bear some plot similarities to the classic 1971 film in which a younger man has an affair with an older woman, and the ...
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