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Awards season approaches, and while there are films of pure frivolity this week, many of the studios are turning their attention to films that will draw great critical acclaim and, hopefully, awards gold. There were films with good intentions early ...
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With only one new show premiering on the last day of October and the other handful following in the first week of November, there isn't a whole lot that's interesting or very memorable this week. Chief among the highlights is ...
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Was it their best Halloween episode in 19 seasons? No. But we should probably just be lucky that it was a Halloween episode. Not as cool as the crazy chainsaw competition, or the one after Brooks died where there was ...
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Let's Talk About 'The End of Playing Games':  As the protests spread and grow more violent outside, the associates inside are about to have their own form of revolt. Jay discovers a bullet hole in a window in Diane's office. Neil Gross ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Trusted Sources' after both a very specific Trek online reference, and the overall idea of trusted news sources which is the main theme of this episode. The Cerritos is on ...
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Let's Talk About 'Hedgehunter':  Ten years earlier, Alfred, Daveboy and his team 'secure the package' in Rabat, Morocco. Zahra Khin receives information that her father is still alive. Thomas arrives in Gotham City and pays a visit to his father at Wayne ...
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Let's Talk About 'Smoke Signals':  Fran reveals to Dr. Hannah Wells that the government is behind the mysterious virus afflicting the deer on Fire Island and the gay men in NYC, and that the original experiments began in 1952. The young ...
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It's the last week of October and the studios have gotten into the Halloween spirit over the years, with spooky-themed films -- some pure horror, some tinged with comedy -- across the decades with big names attached. 1942 had a ...
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The first season finale of House of the Dragon is called 'The Black Queen' after the new Queen of the Blacks -- meaning Rhaenyra and her faction. The episode was a knowing follow-up to the last 'Green' episode but it ...
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With October winding down, the networks still managed to roll out some new programming heading into the holiday season. 1952's Meet Millie was one of the first live broadcasts from CBS Television City in Hollywood (and was character actor Marvin ...
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V/H/S/99 hits Shudder this week, the fifth installment in the V/H/S franchise, the now decade-old anthology series that finds horrors and haunts on found footage VHS tapes. With a different crew behind each segment in the series, fans are treated ...
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Hold the phone -- shut the front door -- or whatever it is the kids say these days. (Who knows because I definitely do not speak meme, TikTok, and reels...) But -- as we say on Grey's Anatomy -- SERIOUSLY!?Yes ...
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