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Most people’s anticipated film of 2021 was Spider-Man: No Way Home. It was easy to anticipate a film that connected all 3 Spider-Man series of films. By bringing in actors such as Jamie Foxx and Willem Dafoe, fans started to ...
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Let's Talk About 'Stormy Weather': It's a 'bottle episode'! Burnham decides to fly Discovery into a subspace tear left by the DMA ... and not a single reviewer of the episode pointed out they flew right into the Eye of Sauron. Everyone is ...
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As we barrel toward the end of the year, Hollywood and foreign nations roll out their biggest and best films to take advantage of holiday crowds, and to get one last shot at nominations for the various awards, notably the ...
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The season finale of Marvel’s Hawkeye series is called 'So This is Christmas?' and it ends exactly in the most 'easy' ways possible -- the positives are how it is mostly executed. First the major problems I had -- the ...
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In general there’s a storytelling issue I sometimes see where a movie literally 'tells' us something but also contradicts itself in the 'show' part. Normally it’s accepted that the whole 'show don’t tell' idea should usually be used, but sometimes ...
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Thanks to last season's crazy pandemic production schedule, The CW had to get creative with its scheduling, and many of its series ran well into the summer and early fall, making it impossible for them to launch new seasons in ...
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Another week with only a single new series premiering. And, unusually, this one was on Christmas Eve ... but there was a very good reason. This week's new series is also, unusually, still on the air today after 70 years ...
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The latest episode of Dickinson is called 'Grief is a Mouse' after a poem that considers the many metaphors of grief:Grief is a Mouse— And chooses Wainscot in the Breast For His Shy House— And baffles quest—Grief is a Thief—quick startled— Pricks His Ear—report ...
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Of all the things to hit Grey-Sloan (over its many incarnations as a hospital in Seattle these last 18 seasons) a cliffhanger -- which ended with people and a vehicle literally hanging off of a cliff is a first. Even ...
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Let's Talk About 'The Examples': Hey look, it's the USS Janeway! And over there, it's the T'Pau! When it is determined the DMA is 'man made' (for lack of a better term), Admiral Vance rattles off a list of god-like species known ...
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We're coming up on the end of the year rush to get films into theaters to beat Academy Awards deadlines, so the studios are throwing out some of their biggest guns in the latter part of the past century. Not ...
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The latest episode of Hawkeye is called 'Ronin' and reinforces the dangerous consequences of Clint’s time as the hooded vigilante during the Blip. We get clarification and confirmation related to that and the Yelena timeline finally, as we sit through ...
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