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Given that we lost the natural tail-end of Season 16, I suppose we're all just grateful to have had a Season 17, however surreal, truncated, and all-over-the-place it was. (And glad too for a renewed Season 18!) In an attempt ...
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Happy Pride Month! Yes, it's June, Pride Month, which makes HBO Max's decision to run the last four episodes of this season's Legendary over the course of the first two weeks of the month puzzling. Why not the final four ...
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While there were films released in every decade this week except 1921, the early part of the century featured less than memorable releases. It's not until after 1975 when Jaws signalled the era of the 'Summer Blockbuster' that studios began ...
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Well, here we are, the penultimate episode of Season 3 and of the series in general, premature as its end may be. It's bad enough this season was cut short by the pandemic, but three seasons (and cable seasons of ...
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The first three decades of our TV viewing had a limited number of networks available and with the most recent seasons concluded, viewers were left to enjoy the summer months while the networks kept the lights on with reruns and ...
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Here we are at the fourth episode of Season 4 (really just the second if you want to get technical) and we've already hit a fluff episode that really serves no purpose except to tie up a few loose ends ...
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Disney's animated One Hundred and One Dalmatians is one of the first films I remember seeing at the movies, so it's been one of those movies that has been a lifelong favorite. It is a bit surprising, even to me, ...
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About the Film  FBI informant William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield) infiltrates the Illinois Black Panther Party and is tasked with keeping tabs on their charismatic leader, Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). A career thief, O’Neal revels in the danger of manipulating both ...
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So they did that thing where they need a whole bunch of time to pass without actually passing time. We phased through -- five? Six? About a month, month and a half's worth of time on this episode, which included ...
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There is a lot going on in this week's episode of Legendary. It's the first Money Ball of the season with a total of $30,000 on the line, there are THREE rounds of competition and ... no one is going ...
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Every decade but 1931 produced new films that were released during this week, some which have gone on to become classics and film buff favorites, while some have fallen into obscurity. 1981 saw director John Waters really enter the mainstream ...
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After last week's very heavy Pray Tell episode -- and he was entirely absent this week -- the latest episode lightened things up ... to a point ... reminding us a bit of the good old days when Mother Elektra ...
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