WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

Film directors have been making cameos in their films ever since Alfred Hitchcock first made a cameo in The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog in 1927. Hitchcock, who can be seen sitting at a newsroom desk with his ...
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Emily Blunt delivers a riveting performance as Rachel, a woman devastated by divorce, who spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day. The mystery unfolds as she ...
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Malcolm McDowall and Manu Bennett ratchet up the action and the mayhem in the no-holds-barred mordern reimagination of the cult classic Death Race 2020.Legendary filmmaking icon Roger Corman is back with his most outrageous film yet in this sensational, action-packed ...
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You have to wonder what studio executives think when they come up with movie advertising tag lines. Some are genius, like "In Space No One Can Hear You Scream," but others can be duds and unfortunately prophetic for how the ...
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Writing a movie, TV show or stage play is not an easy job. Character development, a plot, themes, dialog, a beginning, middle and end is tough. Add an original score and replace half the dialog with songs is even more ...
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A metaphor is a strong thing in film, because it can be used very effectively or very poorly. Sometimes the metaphor is purely visual, other times it is an audio motif like in Jackie, and sometimes it’s very obvious. Of ...
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  Mark Wahlberg leads an all-star cast in this unforgettably powerful film inspired by a thrilling story of real-life heroes. For the one hundred and twenty-six people aboard the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, April 20, 2010, began like any normal ...
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I am wary of “slice of life” movies because they often are tied together with the barest threads of theme and usually are just a bunch of scenes without anything connecting them. Not always, but often, and the realm of ...
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In 1966, Japanese author Shusaku Endo published a book called "Silence" that told a fictionalized version of real world historical events about two Jesuit priests who attempted to spread Catholicism to Japan in the 1600’s. Before this movie, I had ...
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There have been a few films about NASA and the space program, most well known among them probably Apollo 13. But most tend to be about the astronauts, which I suppose makes sense. There were hundreds of brilliant people that ...
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I never know what to think about movies that everyone praises. Sometimes you can’t help but have high expectations, and in such cases, it’s very difficult for anything to live up to that. I try my best to remain objective, ...
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2016 has come to an end, and for the entertainment industry it seems like it was one of the worst years in recent memory with the number of stars and behind-the-scenes folk we lost. Thankfully, we will always have their ...
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