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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #208 :: July 18•24

It was another big week for new movie premieres with one major film of 1934 credited for making its lead actress a star. 1944 saw a popular married couple appear in their first film together. 1964 gave us a new ...
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Movie Review :: The Boys in the Boat goes for the gold on Blu-ray

The Boys in the Boat is a sports drama based on the #1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by Daniel James Brown. The film is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at ...
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July 14, 2024 / by Patrick Regal / tags: ★★★, Amazon MGM Studios, Biography, Callum Turner, Courtney Henggeler, Drama, Hadley Robinson, Home Viewing, Jack Mulhern, James Wolk, Joel Edgerton, Peter Guinness, Sport, The Boys in the Boat / Leave a comment

TV by the Decade :: July 14•20

It's an interesting week for new series premieres in that none of this week's new series are still on the air today, not even the 2014 shows. Only three decades produced new series with one 1954 offering staring out with ...
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July 14, 2024 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Backpackers, Candidly Nicole, Dating Naked, Entourage, Gamble on Love, Married, Matador, Rush, Satisfaction, Stargate Atlantis, Television, The Best in Mystery, The Divide, The Lottery, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Virgin Territory, You're the Worst / Leave a comment

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #207 :: July 11•17

It's been a weird week at Hotchka Central so let's just get right into this week's new movie premieres. We've got sequels, awards nominees, award winners, cult classic, literary and stage adaptations, one film that took twelve years to complete, ...
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TV by the Decade :: July 7•13

Four decades produced new series this week starting in 1984 with a groundbreaking comedy series, the first original sitcom for a premium cable network. 1994 had a short-lived series featuring an actress who would go on to one of the ...
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July 8, 2024 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Brothers, Extant, Finding Carter, I Love the '90s, Leah Remini: It's All Relative, Married at First Sight, Muddling Through, Restaurant Startup, Television, The &D, The Hunt with John Walsh, The Strain, Thunderbirds USA, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Welcome to Sweden, Working the Engels / Leave a comment

Lifetime’s Amish Affair fizzles when it should sizzle

After the success of Amish Stud, it was inevitable that Lifetime would delve back into the land of the Amish and the network is certainly hoping that Amish Affair will bring them more ratings gold. They really should have thought ...
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July 6, 2024 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: ★★, Amish Affair, Crime, Dana Stoutenburg, Drama, Ese Atawo, Evelyn Burke, Georgia Waters, Gigi Neil, Home Viewing, Lifetime, Mackenize Cardwell, Maemae Renfrow, Paul Jarrett, Ryan McPartlin, Sebastian Greaves / Leave a comment

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #206 :: July 4•10

It's the Fourth of July week in the US and there are no shortage of new movies making their premieres. Except for 1984 which took the week off (the big movies were released the day before the holiday). One of ...
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July 4, 2024 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: A Hard Day's Night, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Captain January, Charlie Chan's Courage, Code of the Wilderness, Forrest Gump, King Arthur, Movies, Movies by the Decade, Oliver Twist, Pinocchio 3000, Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Fighting Seabees, The Man They Could Not Hang, The Moon-Spinners, Vampyres / Leave a comment

Theatre Review :: Jersey Boys at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia, MD

The Broadway jukebox musical Jersey Boys had a long, successful run between 2005 and 2017, picking up Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Lead Actor in a Musical, Best Featured Actor in a Musical, and Best Lighting Design of a ...
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TV by the Decade :: June 30•July 6

Considering this is a holiday week in the US, a surprising number of new series made their debuts in all but two decades (even more surprising is that 2014 took the week off). Four of this week's new series were ...
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June 30, 2024 / by Chuck Duncan / tags: Bicentennial Minute, Concerning Miss Marlowe, High Rollers, One Minute Please, Politics with Chris Matthews, Scrabble, Seconds from Disaster, Television, Trading Spouses, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Winning Streak / Leave a comment

Theatre Review :: The Kite Runner at DC’s Kennedy Center

The 2003 novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells a very personal, Afghani tale filled with mostly pain but some hope at the end of the tunnel. The current play was adapted by Matthew Spangler back in 2009, but ...
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June 27, 2024 / by Jeremy Fogelman / tags: Awesta Zarif, Danish Farooqui, Eisenhower Theatre, Hassan Nazari-Robati, Haythem Noor, Jade Ziane, James Rana, Jonathan Shaboo, Ramzi Khalaf, Salar Nader, Shahzeb Zahid Hussain, Stage, The Kennedy Center, The Kite Runner, Wiley Naman Strasser / Leave a comment

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #205 :: June 27 to July 3

It's another big Summer week of movies with quite a few popular films across the decades. 1924 produced one of the longest filmed comedies of the time. 1934 had Shirley Temple in one of the earliest films to fall under ...
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TV by the Decade :: June 23•29

Three decades spread across the last seventy years produced new series this week. 1954 had another short-lived series for a short-lived network, while 1994 gave is two short-lived game shows, one short-lived primetime soap spin-off, and a reality series that ...
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