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Movie Review :: The Boys in the Boat goes for the gold on Blu-ray
The Boys in the Boat is a sports drama based on the #1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by Daniel James Brown. The film is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at ...
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TV by the Decade :: July 14•20
It's an interesting week for new series premieres in that none of this week's new series are still on the air today, not even the 2014 shows. Only three decades produced new series with one 1954 offering staring out with ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #207 :: July 11•17
It's been a weird week at Hotchka Central so let's just get right into this week's new movie premieres. We've got sequels, awards nominees, award winners, cult classic, literary and stage adaptations, one film that took twelve years to complete, ...
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TV by the Decade :: July 7•13
Four decades produced new series this week starting in 1984 with a groundbreaking comedy series, the first original sitcom for a premium cable network. 1994 had a short-lived series featuring an actress who would go on to one of the ...
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Lifetime’s Amish Affair fizzles when it should sizzle
After the success of Amish Stud, it was inevitable that Lifetime would delve back into the land of the Amish and the network is certainly hoping that Amish Affair will bring them more ratings gold. They really should have thought ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #206 :: July 4•10
It's the Fourth of July week in the US and there are no shortage of new movies making their premieres. Except for 1984 which took the week off (the big movies were released the day before the holiday). One of ...
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Theatre Review :: Jersey Boys at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia, MD
The Broadway jukebox musical Jersey Boys had a long, successful run between 2005 and 2017, picking up Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and Best Lighting Design of a ...
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TV by the Decade :: June 30•July 6
Considering this is a holiday week in the US, a surprising number of new series made their debuts in all but two decades (even more surprising is that 2014 took the week off). Four of this week's new series were ...
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Theatre Review :: The Kite Runner at DC’s Kennedy Center
The 2003 novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells a very personal, Afghani tale filled with mostly pain but some hope at the end of the tunnel. The current play was adapted by Matthew Spangler back in 2009, but ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #205 :: June 27 to July 3
It's another big Summer week of movies with quite a few popular films across the decades. 1924 produced one of the longest filmed comedies of the time. 1934 had Shirley Temple in one of the earliest films to fall under ...
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TV by the Decade :: June 23•29
Three decades spread across the last seventy years produced new series this week. 1954 had another short-lived series for a short-lived network, while 1994 gave is two short-lived game shows, one short-lived primetime soap spin-off, and a reality series that ...
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The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Review from the Warner Archive Collection
Boris Karloff takes one his most celebrated cinematic turns as the diabolical fiend Dr. Fu Manchu, and Myrna Loy plays his exotic daughter in this 1932 cult horror classic. This time, the evil Fu Manchu patiently awaits the discovery of ...
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