✦ Visit HOTCHKA PLUS for more coverage.

Blu-ray Review :: You’ll Never Get Rich
An eccentric New York theatre owner (Robert Benchley) has his eyes on the beautiful chorus girl Sheila Winthrop (Rita Hayworth). His wife (Frieda Inescort) has her eyes on him. Sheila has her eyes on the show's choreographer Robert Curtis (Fred ...
Read More
Read More

Movie Review :: Mickey 17 is fitting futuristic farce
Anyone who read Edward Ashton's 2022 novel Mickey7 could see why director Bong Joon-ho wanted to adapt it for the big screen. Bong's filmography, less of an output and more of an oeuvre, is pretty singularly defined by its interest in the ...
Read More
Read More

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #241 :: March 6•12
The second week of March across the decades was a lackluster one for new movies, with 1935 having the largest number of releases including a notable musical and a comedy whose star was in two other films that year, all ...
Read More
Read More

Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Abducted in the Everglades
Lifetime has been killing it (no pun intended) with its Sunday night movies which, sadly, seem to be lowest on their list of priorities to promote. With Abducted in the Everglades, the network can't even seem to decide what the ...
Read More
Read More

Movie Review :: Hallmark’s The Royal We
One would think that being in the month of March would mean Hallmark Channel would be rolling out a series of Ireland-set romances, but perhaps with a Christmas movie and one other Irish romance already this year, the network has ...
Read More
Read More

Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Killing the Competition
Lifetime is back to its 'Ripped from the Headlines' themed movies, but while Killing the Competition is based on a true story, the disclaimer at the top of the film makes it clear that most of what we're about to ...
Read More
Read More

TV by the Decade :: March 2•8
All but two decades produced new series this week, with several receiving great critical and viewer acclaim, garnering many Emmy and Golden Globe nominations -- if not wins. 1955 produced a long running, local after school series in South Dakota, ...
Read More
Read More

Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s The Perfect Killer
The Lifetime Movie Network, aka LMN, launches a new themed month of thrillers under the banner 'Twisted Fate', kicking off with The Perfect Killer. Right off the bat, the artwork the network chose to create makes this look like it's ...
Read More
Read More

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #240 :: February 27 to March 5
Many new films had their premieres this week across the decades, with a handful of more than memorable entries. One 1925 film employed the entire bison population of Yellowstone for one scene. A 1935 film was the precursor to the ...
Read More
Read More

Theatre Review :: Shucked at Washington DC’s National Theatre
Shucked, now running at D.C.'s National Theatre, the latest stop of the North American Tour, is the story of simple folk in a small town who panic when their entire livelihood, the town's supply of corn (it grows in 'cornrows') ...
Read More
Read More

Oscars Contest :: Win one of two copies of Amadeus on 4K Blu-ray
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the epic historical film’s 8 Academy Awards, Amadeus, from acclaimed director Milos Forman, is available for the first time Digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc.Directed by two-time Academy Award winner ...
Read More
Read More

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Murder at the Lighthouse
The Lifetime networks, including LMN, have gone from bad to great with the three movies that have aired recently. LMN had the eye-rolling The Wrong Obsession, then Lifetime proper aired the not bad thriller My Amish Double Life and they've ...
Read More
Read More