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Universal Pictures' Bros is being billed as the first gay romcom from a major Hollywood studio. Some have argued that Love, Simon predated it but I don't really feel that falls into romcom territory. That's more a teenage coming of ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Hear All, Trust Nothing', which is a reference to the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition -- naturally a common plot point in many Deep Space Nine episodes due to the many ...
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Let's Talk About 'The End of Eli Gold':  The episode starts with a rather ominous slide before heading right into the opening credits, an unusual move for a show that usually doesn't run the titles until 10-15 minutes into the ...
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Let's Talk About 'I Believe in Aliens':  The episode features documentary style interviews with real people discussing their UFO experiences, including Mike Richardson, the founder of Dark Horse Media, which publishes the Resident Alien comic. Jay reaches out to Asta, and ...
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This week on the movie release calendar is basically the lull ahead of what has become to be known as 'Awards Season' -- except for 1922 which pre-dates the Oscars by seven years -- so the schedule is filled with ...
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In 1986 the book 'The Silent Twins' was released by Marjorie Wallace, and told the true story of two sisters, June and Jennifer Gibbons, who were born in the 1960s and suffered from a form of cryptophasia as they only ...
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I can’t say exactly when it was that I was first exposed to the works of Agatha Christie, but I think it was watching a middle school play of And Then There Were None when I was in middle school ...
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The latest episode of House of the Dragon is called 'The Princess and the Queen' which is also the title of a story by George R. R. Martin about this very tale, the Dance of the Dragons. We have experienced ...
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The latest episode of Rick and Morty is called 'Night Family' which may be a reference I’m missing because it seems to be simply a straightforward explanation of the episode’s plot. The episode (which is eerily similar to the plot ...
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The last week of the new Fall Season launch, and the first day of October, gave us many, many classic new shows over the past 70 years, and some decades had several that went on to long runs and are ...
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Let's Talk About 'The End of Football':  Charles Lester invites Carmen to a 'Crypto Prom hosted by Ben-Baruch, so it's more of a demand than in invitation. Diane's Mind Trip treatment is going so well, aside from the floating, that Dr ...
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The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called 'Reflections' which is one of those multifaceted meanings that is utilized multiple ways here. Of course we have Rutherford seeing himself in a reflection aspect of it, but the reflection ...
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