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TV by the Decade :: January 19•25

This week across the decades gave TV audiences new shows in each decade, and many of them quite memorable. 1955 had a long-running anthology series with a gimmick, and a variety show that introduced city slickers to the world of ...
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Movie Review :: LMN’s The Lies We Bury

LMN's 'Deadly Resolutions' series of thrillers for the New Year continues with The Lies We Bury, which is also known as Guilty Secrets. Why these films get retitled before they premiere on LMN is a mystery in and of itself ...
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January 18, 2025 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: ★★★, Alyssa Renee Olson, Brian Childers, Brianna Bronger, Deadly Resolutions, Dee Wallace, Doug Boble, Drama, Home Viewing, Kathy A. Bates, Kyla Nova, Lifetime Movie Network, Lindsay Hartley, LMN, Mystery, The Lies We Bury, Thriller / Leave a comment

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #234 :: January 16•22

It's another week loaded with new movies, many of them quite memorable considering it's January. 1935 gave us a literary adaptation that was rewarded with three Oscar nominations, 1945 saw the first pairing of two actors who would go on ...
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January 16, 2025 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Are We There Yet?, Assault on Precinct 13, Blackhat, Blood Simple, Charlie Chan in Paris, Dark Star, David Copperfield, Hotel Rwanda, Hush...Hush, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Murder in the First, Smouldering Fires, Sweet Charlotte, That's Dancing!, To Have and Have Not, Unchained / Leave a comment

Movie Review :: Wolf Man isn’t your classic creature feature

Anyone expecting Wolf Man, the latest horror film from filmmaker Leigh Whannell, to be a creature feature classic should be warned that the film is both not particularly about a creature and only barely a feature film. 'What's wrong with daddy?' ...
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January 15, 2025 / by Patrick Regal / tags: ★, Beatriz Romilly, Ben Prendergast, Benedict Hardie, Christopher Abbott, Drama, Horror, Julia Garner, Matilda Firth, Milo Cawthorne, Movie Reviews, Movies, Sam Jaeger, Thriller, Universal Pictures, Wolf Man, Zac Chandler / Leave a comment

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s The Bear Lake Murders

A few months ago, Lifetime gave us a nifty -- although apparently controversial -- true life thriller, Nobody Dumps My Daughter, which had a really cool 90s TV movie vibe (which is exactly what the director was going for). It ...
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January 13, 2025 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: ★★★, Blake Williams, Brandon Giddens, Chris Fassbender, Crime, Drama, Home Viewing, Jennifer Procé, Lifetime, Magalie, Mercedes de la Zerda, Mystery, The Bear Lake Murders, Thriller, Tom Stevens / Leave a comment

Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story

Lifetime's 'Ripped from the Headlines' film series returns full force with Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story, a harrowing tale of kidnapping and extortion in 2009 (although the time isn't really specified in the movie, but this is a ...
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January 12, 2025 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: ★★, Alessio Andrada, Crime, Dascha Polanco, Drama, Home Viewing, Ivan Lopez, Johnathan Sousa, Lifetime, Marisa McIntyre, Marito Lopez, Mitchell Jaramillo, Nisa Gunduz, Ripped from the Headlines, Terror Comes Knocking: The Marcela Borges Story, Thriller / Leave a comment

Movie Review :: Hallmark’s Polar Opposites

Talk about your 'Winter Escape'. Hallmark's frosty season themed movies are taking viewers around the world, and this second movie in the series travels to the literal bottom of the planet -- Antarctica -- for a movie that's more adventure ...
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