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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s His and Hers puts love on the line

As a newbie to the Hallmark Channel movies, what I've seen so far has followed the same basic template -- attractive woman with some business aspirations meets attractive man from a large corporation who can help her, but the interference ...
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Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Held Hostage In My House is a mess

The Lifetime network's original movies are generally the polar opposite of what you get from Hallmark. Instead of light romantic comedies, Lifetime's films are overly dramatic, usually involving infidelity, stalking or murder, often billed as 'Ripped from the Headlines'. They ...
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TV by the Decade :: September 8•14

It's Premiere Week -- Part 1 -- with dozens of new series making their debuts across all decades. One notable 1954 series about a lovable dog went on to become one of the longest running series in TV history. A ...
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Movie Review :: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is same old, same old

Think about your favorite musical artist still rocking in their twilight years. Maybe it's AC/DC or the Stones or Aerosmith. For example purposes, I'll say mine is Paul McCartney. I liked his last record, 2020's self-titled McCartney III. It's got ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #215 :: September 5•11

The Fall movie season has arrived and this week includes the Labor Day weekend in the US, resulting in far fewer than usual new film premieres. Of those that did premiere, many of them fall into the unmemorable category but ...
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TV by the Decade :: September 1•7

Summer is over and the new Fall series are beginning to roll out, and this week it's mostly new Saturday morning kids shows, including one cult series from 1974 that remains popular today. 1954 also saw a new game show ...
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Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Head Over Heels has heart… and sole

The Hallmark Channel rolled out a new Saturday night movie this week, Head Over Heels, and it has elements of A Very Vermont Christmas with a little Ugly Betty thrown into the mix for a story set in the apparently ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #214 :: August 29 to September 4

It's the final week of the Summer movie season heading into the Labor Day weekend in some decades. The early part of the century featured many new film releases including a 1934 film that paired Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, ...
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Blu-ray Review :: John Waters’ Cry-Baby (1990) Rocks & Rolls in 4K

Eisenhower is President. Rock ’n’ Roll is king. And Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Screen idol Johnny Depp heads up a divine cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one ...
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TV by the Decade :: August 25•31

As the Summer TV season comes to a close, a few of the major networks began to roll out some of their new series ahead of the traditional 'Premiere Week' in order to give viewers a chance to sample them ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #213 :: August 22•28

As Summer winds down, the number of memorable films decreases even though many films were released this week. Of the films released this week, one was an unintentional prequel to The Ten Commandments, one was notable for its male nudity, ...
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TV by the Decade :: August 18•24

Only six new series premiered this week in three decades, four of which had multiple season runs. Animation dominated this week with three new series making their debuts, two for children and one decidedly not. We also had a scripted ...
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