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It's been almost a year since I reviewed the then new Blu-ray release of the classic 1978 murder mystery Death on the Nile, and it's been almost a year and a half since the remake was due in theaters, missing ...
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I can take or leave the rom-com genre, mainly because they all follow a predictable formula with only minor variations -- in love, lost love, found love (or found love again). It's really no different with the latest entry, Marry ...
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The romantic comedy formula and genre is so old and clichéd at this point that multiple satires have been made from it (perhaps the best is 2014’s They Came Together). Yet it’s such a relatable conceit that stories simply do ...
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When we were last aboard the starship Discovery six weeks ago, Booker and Ruon Tarka had fled the ship with Starfleet's highly secretive, new adaptation of the spore drive and President Rillak is none too happy with either Captain Burnham ...
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Well it looks like the creatives behind Resident Alien have figured out a way to quickly and conveniently wrap up the 'Dead Foot Killer' storyline. After the surprise appearance by Sheriff Mike and Deputy Liv at Harry's cabin, and the ...
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The second week of February produced an interesting mix of films, from Oscar nominees and winners to some infamous bombs. In 1932, Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg teamed up again, earning the director an Oscar nomination, 1952 saw Groucho ...
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The newest episode of Snowpiercer is an unrelenting, pulse-pounding hour of action as the sudden appearance of Layton surprises and energizes Wilford, now more determined than ever to get his engine back. But Layton isn't going to give up the ...
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The hit musical Thoroughly Modern Millie stars the iconic Julie Andrews in the title role of an innocent small-town girl who comes to the big city in search of a husband. Along the way she becomes the secretary of the ...
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Four new series premiered this week over the last seventy years, and oddly enough the one with the longest run started on the DuMont Network, a broadcaster that only lasted a decade. And that show, an inspirational series, had an ...
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I was never one of those people who sat down to watch MTV's jackass series with any regularity. If it happened to be on while flipping channels, it was good for a few laughs. I have seen all the movies ...
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Poor Max has learned the hard way that you don't steal alien tech on this week's episode of Resident Alien. As we saw at the end of the previous episode, little Max discovered he had a full chest of hair ...
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The first week of February across the decades includes one bona fide classic, one film plagued by scandal, one that launched a promising director's career (which some say has subsequently crashed and burned), and one that gave Daniel Radcliffe his ...
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