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Mid-January is not the greatest time for movies. Yes, there are plenty of new releases but few of them made any lasting impression. Sadly, at least five of the films released in 1924 no longer exist, but two do survive ...
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Two decades took the week off but 1974 gave us one classic, long-running sitcom that very nearly never existed if it hadn't been for George Lucas, of all people. 1984 gave us a show about ninjas that had a short ...
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Fans of the Godzilla/Kong cinematic 'Monsterverse' were pretty excited when it was announced there would be a TV series to further develop the Monarch storyline that was introduced at the end of Kong: Skull Island, the notion that there was ...
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The Beekeeper comes from director David Ayer and was written by Kurt Wimmer -- both have mixed records in terms of quality action movies, but Kurt Wimmer didn’t write the bad first version of Suicide Squad and David Ayer had ...
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Mid-January brings us a mix of easily forgotten and quite memorable films, many of them earning Oscar nominations and wins which is unusual for films released in the first weeks of the new year and all but forgotten by the ...
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It was a pretty good week for new series premieres, with only two decades taking a break, and several series going on to long runs. 1953 had an unhistorical Western series based on a historical character that ran for three ...
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Happy New Year! It's January and it's become a bit (stereo)typical that the first movie released in January is a movie the studio knows will flop, knows will get the harshest of critical reaction, so just dumps it on the ...
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In the modern era, January is the month known as the 'cinematic dumping ground', a period where the studios drop what they know to be their least creatively successful films of the year. The first half of the century, though, ...
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I had mixed feelings about the first season of What If...?, which had some great episodes and some episodes that were quite the opposite. One of the well-known aspects of the comic versions of What If...? was that they usually ...
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Happy New Year! Networks are rolling out a host of new series this week across the decades, with several popular, long-running shows making their debuts mostly in the first part of the past 70 years. 1954 gave us a long-running ...
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This week is the weird post-Christmas/pre-New Year week where most of the films released are barely noticed. The exception to this is 1933 which featured three films that have gone on to be classics, one introducing a pair of actors ...
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The seventh season of Rick and Morty arrived with a lot of new baggage -- co-creator Justin Roiland and voice for Rick and Morty (along with others) had been let go due to quite serious allegations against him. He was ...
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