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Grey’s Anatomy :: Out For Blood / You Are The Blood

Well if there's one way to guarantee you'll get a 19th season, it's to leave the 18th season with every doctor BUT Meredith Grey having basically flown the coupe from Grey-Sloan Memorial. Hunt & Altman -- gone. Bailey -- gone ...
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May 27, 2022 / by Mandy Gunther / tags: ABC, Dawnn Lewis, Debbie Allen, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 18, Jason George, Jesse Williams, Kate Burton, Out for Blood, Sarah Drew, Skylar Astin, Television, TV Commentary, You Are The Blood / Leave a comment

Top Gun: Maverick is everything you want it to be

'You saw the new Top Gun already? That's so cool!' said the man sitting next to me at the bar. 'Danger Zone' was playing and we got to talking. 'The original film,' he continued, 'was huge for me. I was ...
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May 26, 2022 / by Patrick Regal / tags: ★★★, Action, Bashir Salahuddin, Charles Parnell, Danny Ramirez, Drama, Ed Harris, Glen Powell, Greg Tarzan Davis, Jay Ellis, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Lewis Pullman, Miles Teller, Monica Barbaro, Movie Reviews, Movies, Paramount Pictures, Tom Cruise, Top Gun: Maverick, Val Kilmer / Leave a comment

Legendary :: Whorror House Ball / Anime Ball / Mission Impossi-Ball

Episode 4: The Whorror House Ball - The first of three new episodes this week features two rounds of competition to see who will become the Superior House and who will vogue it out in the Redemption Battle. This episode's ...
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May 26, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Anime Ball, HBO Max, Issa Rae. Bob the Drag Queen, Jake Wesley Rogers, Legendary, Legendary Season 3, LGBT+, Mission Impossi-Ball, Television, TV Commentary, Whorror House Ball / Leave a comment

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #96 :: May 25•31

1922 was another off week, but the other nine decades provides both memorable and forgettable films. 1932 saw Garbo go blonde, 1942 saw Shirley Temple get kissed, and 1952 had an Argentinian adaptation of an Irish novel. 1962 produced a ...
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Riverdale :: Things That Go Bump in the Night

Let's Talk About 'Things That Go Bump in the Night': Cheryl and Heather reconnect, and Cheryl makes an offer to keep Heather in Riverdale a bit longer. Unable to get historic status for Pop's, Tabitha hatches a new plan to ...
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May 23, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Alison Araya, Alvin Sanders, Andres Soto, another major network, Caroline Day, Chris O'Shea, Nikolai Witschi, Riverdale, Riverdale Season 6, Ryan Robbins, Sophia Tatum, Television, Things That Go Bump in the Night, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

Montana Story is about a place and two people trying to escape the past

There’s a sort of indie genre I call the 'slow melancholic' genre, which often has a lot of long, tense silences, or sometimes a lot of long, thoughtful silences. There’s trauma to be overcome or entirely lost to, and often ...
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May 22, 2022 / by Jeremy Fogelman / tags: ★★, Asivak Koostachin, Bleecker Street, Drama, Eugene Brave Rock, Gilbert Owuor, Haley Lu Richardson, John Ludin, Kate Britton, Kimberly Guerrero, Montana Story, Movie Reviews, Movies, Owen Teague, Rob Story / Leave a comment

TV by the Decade :: May 22•28

Four new series made their debuts this week in two different decades but the interesting thing this week is that not all of them are really new, but variations on shows that preceded them. One is a talk show that ...
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May 22, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Television, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, WWE Afterburn, WWE Bottom Line, WWE Confidential / Leave a comment

Dynasty :: There’s No Need To Panic

Let's Talk About 'There's No Need To Panic': Fallon gets some important news but she needs confirmation before telling anyone else. The war between Adam and Amanda escalates when he learns she's moved into the manor. Sam opens up an old wound ...
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