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TV by the Decade :: Feb 26•Mar 4
This is an interesting week as we leave February and head into March. Four decades had new series making their premieres, but relatively few of them were successful. All of 1983's series lasted just one season, and only one of ...
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Emily tells the story of the mysterious Brontë sister who died too young
Everyone knows that Jane Austen was the prolific, well-loved one with a million adaptations to her name. But everyone also knows that the women born a few years after Jane Austen died, the three Brontë sisters -- Emily, Charlotte, and ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: I’ll Follow The Sun
Did Justin Chambers write this episode as a revenge for the sh*tty send off that they gave Alex Karev? Or do we know that this isn't really goodbye forever as far as Meredith Grey is concerned? Or have the writers ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #135 :: February 22•28
The last week of February gave us a lot of new films and shorts, but only a small handful are fondly remembered ... or remembered at all, and even less drew the attention of various awards organizations. Of note this ...
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Adventures of Don Juan hits Blu-ray better than ever
Errol Flynn gained screen stardom portraying dashing heroes who clasped a sword in one hand and a maiden in the other. Audiences loved Flynn's bravado, his athleticism, and his astonishing good looks. Adventures of Don Juan was his first swashbuckler ...
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TV by the Decade :: February 19•25
The third full week of February gave us 16 new series in just two decades, eight series for each. Of those 16 only three were on traditional broadcast networks and the rest were to take up space on cable. And ...
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Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania is visually stunning but emotionally empty
It's been five years since we last saw Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne and their various family members together in their own film (although most of them did appear in Avengers: Endgame), but now they are back for a third ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #134 :: February 15•21
This third week of February across the last one hundred years gave us many, many new films, some of note for reasons both good and bad, some that carry a bit of history with them, and many more that are ...
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Cinema Sabaya offers a meaningful tale of women connecting in unlikely ways
Trying to connect our own lives with the ones we see on the screen is one of those ideas inherent in all art -- but the people making that art are also putting themselves in the film in their own ...
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1958’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman stomps onto Blu-ray
It's impossible not to have fun with this all-time kitsch classic which, as fans know, is about a very big woman with a very bad attitude. The woman is wealthy Nancy Archer, fresh from the looney bin and ticked off ...
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TV by the Decade :: February 12•18
This was a very slow week for new TV series premieres with only two decades showing up with nine new shows. And of those nine only three lasted more than one season, but none went longer than two. In 2003, ...
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The Frisco Kid rides again
Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder star as a taciturn gunslinger and a clueless immigrant rabbi traveling across the Wild West in director Robert Aldrich's comical adventure The Frisco Kid. Wilder plays Avram Belinski, who travels from his rabbinical school in ...
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