WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

To celebrate the release of the first season of the NBC comedy Welcome to Sweden on May 19, HOTCHKA is giving away THREE copies of the DVD to our lucky readers!Based on Greg Poehler's true life story, Welcome to Sweden follows ...
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I sometimes wonder about adapting older books into modern movies, meaning, I wonder if what worked back then still works now in the same context. Or are severe adaptation choices needed to make the movies palatable version of these classics? I ...
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Let's face it. There isn't anything I, or any other critic, could say to dissuade people from seeing Avengers: Age of Ultron. Not that I want to, mind you. I enjoyed it very much ... just not a much as ...
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So Max Scherzer wants the designated hitter rule MLB-wide.Tough beans, Scherzer. It ain't going to happen.Scherzer, who is making a chunk of change pitching for the Washington Nationals, jammed his right wrist and thumb last week during his team's loss ...
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You can't ever fault director Paul Thomas Anderson for being unambitious. His films are usually densely layered stories upon stories with huge casts of characters that intertwine throughout the story even if they never all meet by the film's resolution ...
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I’ve got a mystery for all the past and present Scooby-Doo fans out there in the cosmos. At what point did we all collectively decide that Scrappy-Doo was a blight on the Scooby-Doo franchise? I don’t remember ever disliking the ...
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To celebrate the release of the first season of AMC's Halt and Catch Fire on home video, HOTCHKA is offering one lucky reader a chance to win the season one DVD!Halt and Catch Fire: The Complete First Season contains all ...
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To celebrate the release on DVD of the first complete season of Scooby-Doo! and Scrappy-Doo!, HOTCHKA and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment want to give our readers a chance to win a copy for your home video collection!Get set for hijinks, thrills ...
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You want daunting? I have daunting for you right here:There are twelve hundred thousand different kinds of cheeses out there in the world.That's daunting.How in the whole wide world do you wade through that kind of decision? One piece at ...
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Being disappointed in a movie is a fairly common thing for me, but then again, I see a lot of movies. It's usually not a big deal, because it's usually the mild sort of "ah, that could've been better." But sometimes ...
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I write.I critique.I blather.I judge.I suppose.I mouth off.I opinionate.It's what I do.Every once in a while, however, I treat myself. I forget about all those things and -- just for a moment -- I sit back and enjoy it all.Instead ...
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I love movies. I love going to the movies and I love watching movies at home. I love writing about movies, something I've been doing now for fifteen years. But I often feel like I've become jaded by seeing so ...
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