WHAT’S HOT ON HOTCHKA RIGHT NOW

This was a big week in many of the decades with several films that have gone on to be regarded as classics. 1933 gave us the debut of a great ape let loose in the Big Apple, making cinematic history ...
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'They’re In The Movies NOW!' proclaimed MGM’s ads heralding the arrival on the big movie screen of America’s favorite television couple, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Filmed during hiatus between seasons of their landmark CBS sitcom I Love Lucy, The ...
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Several new series made their debuts this week between 1983 and 2013, but we didn't get anything really memorable until 2013. 1983 gave us a sitcom with Mariette Hartley and Bill Bixby, who starred together on a notable episode of ...
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One of the things that’s always great about some movies is introducing you to worlds you haven’t really seen before. Other countries, other cultures, even neighborhoods near you you simply haven’t seen before in new ways. In the US we ...
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Okay this week was all about things we should have learned from before. Maggie needs a kidney in a jar.   Link needs that pause-the-elevator-for-emotional-moment trick.  And Ben Warren and Mia Bishop (of Station 19 which totally should have been ...
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It's finally here! The long-awaited seventh, and sadly final, season of The CW's Riverdale, a season that promises to give us a lighter, happier tone than what had become progressively darker as the series wore on ... but of course ...
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The latest episode of The Mandalorian is called 'The Pirate' and naturally is all about the pirate threat that’s underlying things. Finally we get a real push forward of two quite major storylines, one about the missing supervillain Moff Gideon ...
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The beginning of the month is always a bigger than usual week due to many films not having exact release dates, and that is the case with many of this week's new releases. But there are many more films for ...
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The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called '4-5-1' after the soccer formation which heavily focuses on one player in particular -- of course that player being the brand new player Zava. The episode interestingly opens with Colin and his ...
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This was a pretty big week for new series making their debuts with, believe it or not, three series from the last 50-60 years still on the air today! The mid-point of the last seven decades also gave us a ...
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We've seen quite a few shows come through town highlighting the careers of popular artists or businesses, like Motown, Jersey Boys, Ain't Too Proud, Beautiful, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical and Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, some good, some great ...
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Misleading. MISLEADING! They are so very good at convincing us that these 'two-part nonsenses' or 'crossovers with Station 19' are a thing. This was not a two-part ANYTHING. It was a regular episode of 'pick-it-up-next-week' though it was a shocker-style ...
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