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A lot of new films were released this week over the past century, and sadly quite a few no longer exist. There are quite a few notable films this week including Judy Garland's role that transitioned her from a juvenile ...
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Only two decades produced new series this week as the networks end April and head into the traditional season finale and sweeps month, keeping regular series in their time slots until the end of the season, not risking adding anything ...
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Okay, before everyone starts getting their hopes up -- because let's be real, every time we get a hint of a text or a call or a mention of the name, everybody fully expects Cristina to just show up -- ...
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Last week's apparently inconsequential episode actually does have some consequences this week as relationships are tested, broken up and reformed, while some truths are revealed. There was little interaction among the core group this week as everyone had to deal ...
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Disney's animated feature film Aladdin was released in 1992, and it was remade as a live action feature film in 2019 ... which was the same year I first saw the national tour of the hit Broadway musical based on ...
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This week's episode of Schmigadoon! is titled 'Something Real' and, while it has some more laugh-out-loud moments, it's also full of heart. Maybe more heart than we've seen in the series thus far, with one of the most straight-forward songs ...
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The season finale of The Mandalorian is called 'The Return' and it essentially quickly wraps up in a trim episode with no real surprises or twists or turns to speak of with really only one exception: The destruction of the ...
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The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called 'Sunflowers' and takes place entirely in Amsterdam -- but this is no 'Beard Gone Amuck' episode, this makes very specific and meaningful choices on the parts of our characters. Some of it, ...
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This was another week filled with movies, but not many that were very notable. But 1953 of this week did give us some real classics in the genres of science fiction/fantasy, Western and horror, and also gave us the first ...
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It's another week where our first three decades have no new series premiering, but that is simply because the channel options were limited. With the advent of cable television, and then streaming, in the later decades there is a constant ...
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Why was this a two-hour special? Anyone? Anyone? No, seriously. I'd like to know. It's like whoever's calling the shots at headquarters these days is just randomly throwing around words like 'Two-hour special' and 'crossover', and they're totally meaningless. Circus ...
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It's the third episode of the final season of Riverdale and ... not a whole lot happens. It's like another Spider-Man movie origin story where the characters find out things about themselves that we already know because we've been watching ...
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