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American Horror Story Double Feature: Red Tide :: Cape Fear / Pale
The long-awaited tenth season of American Horror Story is finally hear after a long delay due to the pandemic, but was it worth the wait? After watching the first two episodes that debuted this week, I'm going to have to ...
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Riverdale :: Reservoir Dogs
There was a lot going on in this week's Riverdale that even packed a real emotional punch in the end.There's no sign of Jughead this week, and no one seems to be looking for him anymore and that's because Betty ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #57 :: August 25•31
It's the end of Summer, but there are a surprising number of big films with big star appearing on the list this week in the earlier part of the century. Moving closer to the present, Hollywood used this week as ...
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What If…? :: What If… the World Lost Its Mightiest Heroes?
In the latest episode of What If...? all the dark things happen on screen, in a sharp departure of the ones we’ve seen so far. In a way, this story feels closer to the ones from the comics, where there ...
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The Night House Review :: The Night House is the a sleeper hit of the summer
It’s been a fun year so far for horror films with many releases seeing the light of day after being delayed for months after their original date. Movies like A Quiet Place Part II and The Conjuring: The Devil Made ...
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Chapelwaite :: Blood Calls Blood
There are two things that immediately drew me to the new series Chapelwaite, the first series produced by EPIX Studios, and they were Stephen King and Emily Hampshire. Make that three, because the full length trailer for the series was ...
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TV by the Decade :: August 22•28
As the Summer winds down, only four new series made their premieres this week across the decades, two scripted and two reality. 1991 gave us a groundbreaking comedy-drama series that broadcast live for a time, while 2001 saw Chris Hardwick ...
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Dynasty :: She Lives in a Showplace Penthouse
This was certainly a jam-packed week, and while everyone was bonding -- or trying to un-bond -- is it trouble in paradise already for our favorite newlyweds? Fallon Since we never know how much time has passed between episodes, it's ...
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Ted Lasso :: Rainbow
The latest episode of Ted Lasso is called 'Rainbow', and here I know I haven’t missed the reference (which I stupidly missed the last few episodes). It’s explicitly a reference to the song by the Rolling Stones, 'She’s a Rainbow', ...
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The Good Fight :: And the end was violent…
If there's one character I miss on The Good Fight it's Elsbeth Tascioni, the somewhat addled and always smarter than she seems lawyer. But it seems the show has found a way to bring that type of character back, in ...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks :: Kayshon, His Eyes Open
The latest episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks is called, 'Kayshon, His Eyes Open', which is a reference to the classic TNG episode 'Darmok' in which the crew has to deal with an alien species that speaks entirely with allegory ...
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Raging Fire is a more subtle attempt at a layered Hong Kong tale
Last year (in 2020), Hong Kong director Benny Chan passed away from cancer, but the dude was involved with quite a few movies, including a few from Jackie Chan and other luminaries of that world. That said, despite his bona ...
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