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Doom Patrol :: Amends Patrol
Let's Talk About 'Amends Patrol': After the bus accident, Rita tries to rally the group to become a real team.
Monsieur Mallah leaves Madame Rouge and Cliff's brain at the edge of a cliff, and resigns from the Brotherhood of Evil.
Shelley, aka ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #68 :: November 10•16
You can tell we're moving deep into awards season with this week's film releases. Eight of this week's films received Oscar and/or Golden Globe nominations, with a handful of those films also scoring wins, among them the one and only ...
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We’re Here :: Evansville, Indiana
The people of Evansville, Indiana don't know what hit them when the Queens from We're Here blow into town on the Fourth of July, showing up in their star-spangled outfits to take part in the town's holiday parade ('Give me ...
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Mark, Mary & Some Other People is a charming rom-com with a modern twist
Ah, youth, how has thou forsaken thee? There’s a funny period in your 20s where you are in all meaningful ways an adult but still close enough to that 'youth' to be a bit complicated. Some people settle down and ...
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The Beta Test punctures the Hollywood alpha male and then sets him on fire
There is a genre I like to call 'Oh, that Hollywood!' which is about the high rises and shallow falls of the Hollywood elite, of which examples in film and TV can be great or mediocre or Entourage. There’s a ...
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TV by the Decade :: November 7•13
For the start of November Sweeps, it was a pretty lackluster week for new programming. The most successful of the series began as a late night drama experiment before transitioning to a cable network for a successful multi-season run. One ...
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Dickinson Season 3, 3 Episode Premiere
Dickinson has always known its strengths, which are the three 'H’s': heartache, hilarity, and Hailee (Steinfeld), and thankfully Season 3 is no different, immediately making me laugh and then hurting my soul right after.Episode 1 is called 'Hope is the ...
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Eternals Review :: Marvel’s Eternals suffers from Origin Story Syndrome
Marvel's Eternals has been a long time coming, just another of the many films that were delayed by the pandemic. The question now is ... was it worth the wait?Eternals is the story of, basically, the world's first superheroes, ...
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Doom Patrol :: Evil Patrol
Let's Talk About 'Evil Patrol': Bindi, Shelley and Laura discuss the power of transformation, and how power is art when they were still friends in 1917.
Rita accuses Madame Rouge of never caring about art, just her own influence.
Larry is beginning to ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #67 :: November 3•9
A lot of new films were released this week over the last 90 years (none in 1921) but only a handful are of note. 1961 provides the first of the bigger titles with a film adaptation of a Broadway musical ...
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We’re Here :: Selma, Alabama
In it's short history, HBO's We're Here has proven that it's not just a reality show with a gimmick, it's a show that actually teaches us things about others and ourselves with heart and humor but in subtle ways, never ...
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Chapelwaite :: The Keeper
Let's Talk About 'The Keeper': Jakub calls Loa his daughter and gives her the honor of reading the last page of The Book.
The world is plunged into darkness just as the posse arrives in Jerusalem's Lot.
Rebecca attempts to appeal to her ...
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