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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #86 :: March 16•22

1932 didn't produce any new movies this week, and the early part of the century didn't give us many memorable films. Adding to the confusion, a lot of the early films were released with different titles in the US. But ...
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March 16, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: 21 Jump Street, Ali G Indahouse, Basic Instinct, Deathtrap, Fist of Fury, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Noises Off, Pink Flamingos, Porky's, Rings on Her Fingers, Roma, Stolen Summer, The Atomic Cafe, The Fury of Hercules, The Raid: Redemption, Victor Victoria / Leave a comment

Dear Evan Hansen dazzles at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre

Dear Evan Hansen began its life on stage in Washington DC on July 10, 2015, then made its way Off-Broadway on March 26, 2016 before opening on Broadway on December 4, 2016, all with Ben Platt in the title role ...
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March 16, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Alessandro Costantini, Baltimore Hippodrome Theatre, Broadway Across America, Ciara Alyse Harris, Claire Rankin, Dear Evan Hansen, Hessica E. Sherman, John Hemphill, Musical Review, Nikhil Saboo, Stage, Stephanie La Rochelle, Stephen Christopher Anthony, Touring Shows Review / Leave a comment

Snowpiercer :: Setting Itself Right

Snowpiercer returns this week to the frozen world and Layton's lie about New Eden. Meanwhile, Asha is beginning to fit in with some gentle handling from Ruth -- even when Ruth learns Asha has been pinching food -- and has ...
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March 14, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Setting Itself Right, Snowpiercer, Snowpiercer Season 3, Television, TNT, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

TV by the Decade :: March 13•19

Six new series debuted this week across the decades, with one long-running drama and one docuseries seeing multiple season runs, with the drama appearing on two different networks. Of the rest, none made it past ten episodes, but the longest ...
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March 13, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Baker's Dozen, Herbie the Love Bug, Missing, Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, T.J. Hooker, Television, The Phoenix, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

Dynasty :: How Did the Board Meeting Go

The CW surprised us with an early Dynasty Season 5 premiere for the holidays, then took almost three months off before diving into the season proper. This third episode of the season had a lot going on, and we had ...
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March 12, 2022 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: another major network, Dynasty, Dynasty Season 5, How Did the Board Meeting Go?, Pej Vahdat, Television, TV Commentary / Leave a comment

Adventures in Success is a quirky ‘mockumentary’ about an unusual cult

There’s a fascination with cults in popular culture, because there’s this feeling that we all have that 'hey, we’d never got caught up in anything like that, right?' attitude. And to see people under the sway of some charismatic leader ...
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March 11, 2022 / by Jeremy Fogelman / tags: ★★, Adventures in Success, Alec Jones-Trujillo, Asia Lee Boostani, Comedy, Drew Freed, Home Viewing, Khan Baykal, Lexie Mountain, Mo Stark, Nina Tarr, Robby Rackleff, Utopia, Yaz Perea-Beltran / Leave a comment

Grey’s Anatomy :: Legacy

Does anybody else have character-death-trust issues because of the Shondaland Roller-Coaster-of-Death? So when we watch Nick Marsh at the beginning of the episode biking at speed around those twisty roads -- did anyone else see his life (and the future ...
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March 11, 2022 / by Mandy Gunther / tags: ABC, Greg Germann, Grey's Anatomy, Grey's Anatomy Season 18, Legacy, Peter Gallagher, Television, TV Commentary / 1 comment

Star Trek: Discovery :: Species Ten-C

This was another outstanding, heart-pounding episode of Star Trek: Discovery, so nicely recovered from the early part of the season and now we have just one episode left -- if various reports of a 13-episode season are correct -- to ...
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