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TV by the Decade :: May 15•21
Two new series premiered this week in two different decades, but only one of them went on to have a hugely successful and influential run, generating two related shows, earning a place in pop culture history, and launching the careers ...
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Dynasty :: I’ll Settle for a Prayer
Let's Talk About 'I'll Settle For a Prayer': Everyone makes Fallon feel bad for having a good day, yet no one informed her of Daniel's condition.
Daniel tells Sam that he's leaving because he misses home. But that isn't the complete ...
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Firestarter has a spark but fails to ignite
John Waters once said about movie remakes something to the effect of 'stop remaking good movies, remake the bad ones and make them better.' Good advice, but not something the makers of the new Firestarter remake heeded. They tried, I'm ...
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Grey’s Anatomy :: I’ll Cover You
Seriously. Seriously!? Is that the route we're taking with this? And we're all okay with this? Not really. (That's the catch-phrase of the episode -- 'not really'.)I mean -- nobody forgot Catherine had a tumor in her spine that they ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #94 :: May 11•17
It was a full week of films across the decades with a few notable titles, for better or worse. 1932 had a serial adaptation of a literary classic that is not as well-regarded as some of the other film adaptations, ...
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Riverdale :: Ex-Libris
Let's Talk About 'Ex-Libris': Whew! Betty is not preggers.
Veronica finally tosses Reggie out of the casino and her bed; he says that's fine because he doesn't want to end up like Chad and Hiram.
Percival is closing the Riverdale library to ...
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TV by the Decade :: May 8•14
Only one new show premiered this week over the last seventy years, and while it had a popular lead it failed to catch on, cancelled five months after its debut. Read on to learn more and let us know if ...
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Dynasty :: Mind Your Own Business
Let's Talk About 'Mind Your Own Business': Liam is getting ready for the first day of shooting and Fallon has a meeting but they still have time for baby-making.
Daniel tells Sam that he's leaving because he misses home. But that ...
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness delivers a messy plot
When Marvel Studios cracked into the multiverse in Spider-Man: No Way Home, it opened up an endless amount of characters and stories that they could use moving ahead. It was a crowd pleaser as it saw several characters from other ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #93 :: May 4•10
Every decade produced at least one new movie this week in the past century, but the memorable ones are few and far between. 1932 produced a German film that was not well regarded upon its release but has gone on ...
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Ain’t Too Proud hits all the right notes at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
Mounting a 'jukebox musical', which uses previously written and produced music to tell a story, can be a dicey prospect. Some are just performances of the well-known songs with little connective material, some use the music to tell the story ...
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Moon Knight :: Episode 6
So here we are, Episode 6 of Marvel's Moon Knight. Everything leading up to this point has been thrilling and interesting and each episode left me wanting more. But this episode ... felt rushed or just not as major as ...
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