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This week in January included new series debuts in three different decades. What is interesting and unusual about these series is that all of them lasted a single season, and all of them produced just 13 episodes. Unfortunately, one of ...
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The very first Scream movie came out in 1996, and I might have watched it in theaters or soon after on rental video, but I don’t entirely recall. I did enjoy it for its sort of meta-approach to horror movies, ...
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We are deep in the doldrums of January, with a few very notable films making their debuts ... or being carried over from 'awards season' ... and more than a few that are barely remembered today. Buster Keaton released a ...
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It is one my shortcomings as a film watcher that I have barely seen any of the films of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, but I think I have seen Volver, although my memory of that isn’t great. Still, it is ...
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With so many action films coming out, it’s important to stand out either with impressive action or offering a gripping story. Action films can feel familiar in several ways but there could be just the right amount of care and ...
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The second week of January through the decades had its share of hits, misses, and valiant failures. 1952 saw the debut of a groundbreaking, iconic and still running morning program, 1972 gave us two classic, long-running series on NBC, PBS ...
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The first week of January is a weird mixture of titles, some that have carried over from awards season limited runs in December, and a few that are completely new to theaters. In the later decades, January became known as ...
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Happy New Year! With the holidays behind us, the networks are beginning to roll out some new programming for the new year, or what became known in later decades as 'mid-season'. This is the time when shows that failed to ...
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Let's Talk About '...But To Connect': Zora is beginning to get a little sassy, holding out information that is urgent to stopping the DMA. Kovich reminds everyone on Discovery that it is illegal to have sentient hardware incorporated into the ship, putting ...
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The end of December to the beginning of January is a sort of 'no man's land' for new film releases. Most new titles have already gotten limited releases for awards consideration, so the movies coming out now are basically entering ...
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We're in that gray area for television this week, closing out the old year and ringing in the new and that means networks (especially in the modern era) are not going to waste any new programming during the last week ...
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The series finale of Dickinson is appropriately called 'This was a Poet' after the self-referential (aren’t they all?) poem: This was a Poet - It is That Distills amazing sense From ordinary Meanings - And Attar so immenseFrom the ...
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