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Resident Alien :: Love Language
Love can certainly complicate a life, and several residents of Patience, Colorado are learning that the hard way on this week's episode of Resident Alien.Sheriff Thompson has no love life that we know of, devoted to his job and, apparently, ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #31 :: February 24 to March 2
New movies premiered this week in every year except for 1921 and 1941, but there weren't any really memorable or noteworthy films until 1971, when a film that was almost not released went on to become a critically acclaimed classic ...
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Snowpiercer :: Keep Hope Alive
Snowpiercer has launched its eleventh weather balloon and now they wait for the next link from Melanie. There's just one problem -- there is no link, and the news of links are the one thing keeping morale on the train ...
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TV by the Decade :: February 21•27
While much of the nation is gripped by the dead of winter, the TV networks were offering up shows with a decidedly tropical feel with new series set in Acapulco, Hawaii and Miami. Two of those shows barely made it ...
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It’s a Sin is painful but important
HBO Max has been making good investments when it comes to bringing TV shows from the UK to the US, and now they are presenting the critically acclaimed limited series It's a Sin from Russell T. Davis, the man behind ...
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Minari is a heartfelt movie about trying to achieve the American dream
When it comes to indie films, is there any phrase more potentially concerned than 'an autobiographical story about the director'? Not to say that there is a huge number of such movies really, but it’s a tricky thing to tell ...
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WandaVision :: Breaking the Fourth Wall
The seventh episode of WandaVision enters the relatively modern genre of fourth-wall-breaking sitcoms, mashing together shows like Modern Family, The Office, Parks & Recreation and Happy Endings (which, not so incidentally, included Marvel's Russo Brothers as producers). It was a ...
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Dickinson :: I Like a Look of Agony
The latest episode of Dickinson is called 'I like a Look of Agony', after a poem that’s about appreciating pain from one perspective, because at least people don’t fake it like pleasure, and there are certainly direct allusions to death ...
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Riverdale :: The Homecoming
It looks like fate brought Archie Andrews back to Riverdale just in time. Not only did he happen to return just before Pop Tate's retirement, but he got home just before Hiram Lodge was to carry out his plan to ...
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Resident Alien :: Birds of a Feather
This week's episode begins with a fabulous montage of Alien Harry enjoying life in Patience set to the tune of the theme to Cheers that end with an intense depiction of why Harry is here in the first place. And ...
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Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #30 :: February 17•23
There were filmes released every decade this week except 1921, but not many of them can be considered 'big' films that have large devoted followings. Some are regarded as classics, but are still not films that show up on a ...
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Snowpiercer :: A Single Trade
With Melanie now off the train, the question is has she survived her trek to the weather station and been able to get the equipment fired up to link to the weather balloon the train is about to launch?Layton certainly ...
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