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Snowpiercer :: The Last To Go
This is more like it! After a slow season premiere, Snowpiercer has picked up some steam to deliver a tension-filled episode as Layton and Wilford continue their cat & mouse game. But who is the cat and who is the ...
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TV by the Decade :: Jan 30•Feb 5
Only three new shows made their debuts this week. One them lasted a full season, one made to half a season, and another was a long-running, groundbreaking late night comedy/variety/talk series born out of the failure of a similar morning ...
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Gamestop: Rise of the Player looks at the skyrocketing of a company on its last legs
By the end of Gamestop: Rise of the Player, I wanted one thing to be explained to me: Why did they think GameStop (this is the correct spelling) was a good investment against all industry and common sense standards? It ...
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The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
I like Kristen Bell, I really do, and I was very much looking forward to her new show on Netflix, The Woman in the House Across the Street From the Girl in the Window. The trailers and pre-release material gave ...
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Resident Alien :: Old Friends
Everyone's favorite alien is back on Planet Earth as Resident Alien crash lands into its second season. When last we saw Harry, he had taken his ship and left the planet, taking the device that was supposed to kill the ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #79 :: January 26 to February 1
The final week of January across all of the decades yielded very little in the way of memorable or popular films. There were a few but not many, even with new titles being released in each decade over the past ...
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Snowpiercer :: The Tortoise and the Hare
It's been ten months since we last saw Snowpiercer, and Season 3 debuts with a gap of six months in the storyline. There is a bit of drama in the premiere, but one of the season's big reveals doesn't happen ...
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TV by the Decade :: January 23•29
It was another case of the winter doldrums for network television this week across the decades. Four new series debuted in three different years, and only one of them went to a second season. One new show was based on ...
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Monty Python’s Spamalot looks on the bright side of life at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
In 1975, British comedy troupe Monty Python hit the big screen for the second time -- the first film was basically a collection of their TV sketches -- with the original film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The film ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #78 :: January 19•25
While there were quite a few films released this week over the last century, only a handful are very memorable and some are holdovers from the previous year, given limited release for awards consideration. Every decade this week saw new ...
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Take your date to The Prom at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
In Fulton, Mississippi in 2010, a high school student was denied the chance to attend her high school prom because she wanted to bring her girlfriend. She was banned from attending and when the decision was challenged, the school board ...
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It’s a Dickens of a whodunit in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
In the 1930s, Universal Pictures carved out a niche for itself as the studio known for horror movies. Some were flat out horror like the Universal Monsters series of films, but they also went more subtle routes with very loose ...
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