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After The Little Mermaid rejuvenated Disney's animation division, the company followed that success with Beauty and the Beast (1991), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994). With songs by Elton John and Tim Rice and impressive animation, the film was ...
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After a week off, Riverdale is back with the beginning of the second half of the final season ... and this week it really feels like things are taking shape but there's still no real clue as to where this ...
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It was a big week for the official start of seasonal Summer (movie Summer has started as early as the first week of May) with many well-known, popular and award-winning films making their debuts this week. Unfortunately, 1923's films seem ...
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Expressing the ideas of the now in the ideas of the past is often a good way to talk about those ideas -- racism, homophobia, bigotry, sexism, etc, it’s easy to pretend such things aren’t still all around us, but ...
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For our 250th edition of 'TV By the Decade', the Summer months start heating up with several new series including two in different decades from Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television. Even 1953 produced one new, albeit short-lived primetime game show. 1993 ...
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It has been a very long time in coming thanks to COVID and the star's personal issues (and that is the extent of which that will be mentioned in this review), not to mention a complete regime change at the ...
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While there were many films released this week in each of the last ten decades, very few of them have stood the test of time. Two 1923 silents are lost, and 1933 was full of Westerns and stage adaptations but ...
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  The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the story of two Brooklyn plumbers who are brothers and best friends: Mario, the brave one with the 'let’s-a go' attitude, and the perpetually anxious Luigi, who would prefer to go nowhere. We open ...
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Before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse came out in 2018, the track record of Sony Animation was mixed at best, but I had faith in the movie because it was also being produced by the Phil Lord/Chris Miller pairing (from The ...
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It was a very slow week across the decades for new TV series debuts. Schools are out and families are beginning their vacations so there was little interest among the networks -- including cable -- to waste any new programming ...
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You have to have been living under a rock or are completely out of touch with pop culture and all things Disney if you're not even remotely familiar with the mega-hit animated film Frozen or its signature, Oscar-winning song 'Let ...
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Well, it's the middle of June, almost, and thanks to The CW's crazy scheduling decisions we're getting a bit of Autumn now with Riverdale's Halloween episode. Grab yourself some pumpkin spice goodies and get ready for a ride because they ...
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