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Think about your favorite musical artist still rocking in their twilight years. Maybe it's AC/DC or the Stones or Aerosmith. For example purposes, I'll say mine is Paul McCartney. I liked his last record, 2020's self-titled McCartney III. It's got ...
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The Fall movie season has arrived and this week includes the Labor Day weekend in the US, resulting in far fewer than usual new film premieres. Of those that did premiere, many of them fall into the unmemorable category but ...
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Summer is over and the new Fall series are beginning to roll out, and this week it's mostly new Saturday morning kids shows, including one cult series from 1974 that remains popular today. 1954 also saw a new game show ...
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The Hallmark Channel rolled out a new Saturday night movie this week, Head Over Heels, and it has elements of A Very Vermont Christmas with a little Ugly Betty thrown into the mix for a story set in the apparently ...
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It's the final week of the Summer movie season heading into the Labor Day weekend in some decades. The early part of the century featured many new film releases including a 1934 film that paired Clark Gable and Joan Crawford, ...
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Eisenhower is President. Rock ’n’ Roll is king. And Wade 'Cry-Baby' Walker is the baddest hood in his high school. Screen idol Johnny Depp heads up a divine cast as the irresistible bad boy whose amazing ability to shed one ...
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As the Summer TV season comes to a close, a few of the major networks began to roll out some of their new series ahead of the traditional 'Premiere Week' in order to give viewers a chance to sample them ...
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As Summer winds down, the number of memorable films decreases even though many films were released this week. Of the films released this week, one was an unintentional prequel to The Ten Commandments, one was notable for its male nudity, ...
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Only six new series premiered this week in three decades, four of which had multiple season runs. Animation dominated this week with three new series making their debuts, two for children and one decidedly not. We also had a scripted ...
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When I first reviewed Mamma Mia! in 2017, I thought it would also be the last time I reviewed a national touring production of the hit Broadway musical. It was, after all, promoted as the 'Farewell Tour' -- it even ...
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Many films made their debuts this week across the last century, some classics, some not, some forgotten, some fondly remembered. Scroll down the list to see the movies that opened this week and tell us if any of your favorites ...
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In the Summer of 1979, no one could hear you scream in space ... but there were plenty of screams coming from movie theater auditoriums as Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror film Alien made its debut. The story of a small ...
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