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The latest episode of Ms. Marvel is called 'Seeing Red' which is a play on words for the mysterious 'Red Dagger' vigilantes wearing red bandannas over their mouths -- although the other meaning of the phrase, meaning to lose sight ...
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I have been a fan of HBO's docuseries We're Here from the first episode. If you still haven't caught the series, now entering production on its third season, it features three well-known queens from RuPaul's Drag Race -- Bob the ...
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Let's Talk About 'Biblical':  Plagues are being visited upon Riverdale, the signs of the coming Apocalypse. Toni asks Veronica to plan her wedding to Fangs, which gives the former 'She-Wolf of Wall Street' an identity crisis. Jughead's writing -- about some ...
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The season premiere of Westworld’s fourth season is called 'The Auguries', after the ancient Roman practice of trying to predict the future by watching birds. Of course, trying to predict the future of a Westworld season is always a dangerous ...
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Last week’s episode of The Orville brought us many twists and turns throughout and it was easily one of the better episodes I have seen. I love that the show so far is living up to its title by exploring ...
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This week saw several new shows make their debuts in three different decades. 1952 produced a long-running soap opera that began life as a radio show, becoming one of the longest running shows in TV history. Other shows that year ...
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It's probably a good bet that back in 1999 when SpongeBob SquarePants made its debut on Nickelodeon that no one involved ever imagined it would become such a hit that it would spawn not only a couple of theatrical movies ...
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Let's Talk About 'Ben':  In a flashback, big brother Blake teaches little brother Ben how to play gin, beat their father at the game and earn his respect. Blake reveals to everyone that Ben killed their mother ... or at ...
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The most important question to ask about any horror movie is: is it scary?  Let's get it out of the way: The Black Phone is scary. Relying very little on the go-to tropes of modern-day horror trash, like jump scares ...
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Biopics of musicians are so controversial. They range from the good to the bad, the beloved to the shamed, with everything in between. So often the films are treated like textbooks by movie-going audiences, who are then scrutinized by fans ...
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The latest episode of Ms. Marvel is called 'Destined' and spends some time with Kamala trying to figure out her own destiny and purpose. The show gives us some answers as to Kamala’s backstory with a flashback to British Occupied ...
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It's our 100th edition of Movies By the Decade and this week we have a full century of new movies being released during this week. 1922 to 1972 gave us a lot of films, and some of them did carry ...
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