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The Orville: New Horizons has been all over the place so far. We are only on episode three, but the themes and genres it covers have been vastly different than the rest. The first episode was dramatic while the second ...
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After walking out of my screening of Lightyear, it hit me that this is the first Pixar film I’ve seen in theaters since Onward back in March 2020. The severity of COVID-19 was increasing, and movie theaters were shutting down ...
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Summer heats up this week in TV land as all but two decades see the premiere of new show, some that went on for multiple season runs and some that disappeared after just a handful of episodes. The longest running ...
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Judy Garland stars with Robert Walker as a New Yorker and a GI on a 48-hour leave who meet in New York's Pennsylvania Station -- under The Clock. Over two whirlwind days, the impossible happens: Two strangers meet and fall ...
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The country of Mongolia is a fascinating one because of how it affected so much of history for so long and then became a sad story of a people oppressed. Back in 2015, I saw the movie Wolf Totem, which ...
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The latest episode of Ms. Marvel starts contrasting the start of the first episode, with Kamla confidently making her way through the same beats except without taking any crap from any teacher or student. There’s some sort of reference to ...
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The Orville: New Horizons offered a premiere episode that truly shocked with the topics it discussed and how honest it felt. The title of New Horizons was absent within the first episode as it mostly stayed at bay. The new ...
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Way back in 1988, director John Waters shocked the world more than he ever had before when Hairspray was released. Not for any of the film's content, but because it was rated ... PG. Waters' film had never been family ...
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With 1922 sitting the week out, only nine decades produced new films this week, and it really isn't until 1962 when we get any truly memorable films. That year saw the release of a classic comedy that influenced a Chevy ...
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Let's Talk About 'American Psychos':  Tickets are selling like hotcakes to Slaughter Con, but will this be enough to draw TBK into the daylight? Uncle Frank suggests to Percival that it's time for him to use his mind control on ...
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Several news series made their debuts this week, most of them at a time when Summer reruns were the norm on network television, and long before TV viewers had cable and streaming options. Networks used to air new series in ...
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It is pretty amazing to thing, considering the amount of special effects work involved, that it's only taken five years to complete the Jurassic World trilogy. It took four year to get a second Jurassic Park movie made and another ...
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