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As the Summer winds down and the new Fall season is about to begin, there was very little new to offer this week across the decades, although three decades did produce some new series of note. This week in 1993 ...
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It's been a minute since the last truly vulgar R-rated comedy came along, but the time seems ripe for a new one hitting cinemas just as Summer is drawing to a close. And could there be a better way to ...
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In 2016 the central bank of Bangladesh was robbed -- but not in the traditional way, instead with the weapons and the venue in the digital realm, although that didn’t preclude some aspects of it being intriguingly in the physical ...
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The winds of change are blowing through Riverdale this week as some characters take their final bows, some go in surprising new directions, and some finally get answers as all that we've seen this season finally begins to make some ...
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This week's new movie releases include many classic and popular films, along with several award winners and nominees. Of note, two films this week brought first Oscar wins 20 years apart to two actresses who share the same last name ...
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Four decades produced notable TV debuts this week, but only one series gained any kind of popularity and was the longest running series at three seasons, while two TV movies drew viewers to their respective networks. 1953 had a short-lived ...
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The 1950s were a time that people today look to as 'the good old days' but in reality it was an era fraught with worry. Sure, the family-focused TV shows of the era made it seem like everything was all ...
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This is an interesting week for new movie releases. Quite a few titles are very well-known and have large or cult followings. But there are some very interesting facts about this week's movies. A 1923 silent film carries the title ...
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Several decades produced new TV series this week, but only a handful of them are memorable. 1983 saw the debut of a long running early morning news program that eventually morphed into a different early morning news program. 1993 had ...
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In the Summer of 2001, director Baz Luhrmann and 20th Century Fox took a huge gamble on a movie musical like no other, Moulin Rouge!, the third and final act in Luhrmann's 'Red Curtain Trilogy'. The film was set in ...
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It's interesting and a little disheartening to learn there are only three episodes of Riverdale left when there should be five since the Powers That Be promised this would be a full 22-episode season. It leaves us to wonder if ...
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There are a lot of movies celebrating anniversaries this week so we won't take up too much time hinting about them. Of note this week -- all of 1923's films still survive today, and there are not one but two ...
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