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Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Hearts Around the Table: Kiki’s Fourth Ingredient
Hallmark Channel's Hearts Around the Table series of films comes to an end, again with another nonsensical title, Kiki's Fourth Ingredient (yeah, she's an aspiring chef but it's unclear what the 'ingredient' of the title refers to except to make ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime’s Not My Family: The Monique Smith Story
Lifetime dips back into the 'Ripped from the Headlines' genre its made a cottage industry from, tackling a compelling and harrowing true-life story that is still, unfortunately for the subject of the story, incomplete. Not My Family: The Monique Smith ...
TV by the Decade :: April 13•19
This was a pretty lackluster week for new TV series that debuted across the decades. 1965 and 1975 produced nothing new, and only eleven new shows premiered in the other seven decades with nine of them barely making it past ...
Theatre Review:: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage at Iron Crow Theatre
Baltimore's Iron Crow Theatre continues its 'Season of Transgression' following an all-too-brief production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Iron Crow is Baltimore's queer theatre, using the term in the broadest sense to celebrate the renegade and unorthodox in all ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s There’s No Way Out
LMN's themed movies for the month of April are presented under the 'Home is Where the Harm Is' banner, and the husband-wife producers Marcus Rosner and Alison Kroeker (among others) are back after the delightfully charming Engaged by Christmas, but ...
Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #246 :: April 10•16
Several notable films made their debuts this week across the decades, with many receiving awards recognition and preservation status. 1925 gave us a very early version of a classic children's story, 1935 put Perry Mason on the case for the ...
Movie Review :: Lifetime Original Movie Give Me Back My Daughter
Lifetime goes in a different direction with its latest original movie, eschewing the exploitative 'Ripped from the Headlines" movies while tackling a subject that impacts people in their real lives every day -- homelessness. While this story is fictional, it ...
Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Hearts Around the Table: Josh’s Third Serving
Hallmark Channel's third Hearts Around the Table reunites the all of the major cast members from the first two films, including Steve Lund (Andrew), who was absent from the second film. His participation here sets up a major storyline for ...
TV by the Decade :: April 6•12
All but two decades saw new series premieres this week. A 1955 anthology series was referenced in a popular 1980s time travel movie, a 1985 series gave us the first female president, a 1995 series found a home on two ...
Theatre Review :: The Music Man at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD
The classic Broadway musical The Music Man is fast approaching its 70th anniversary after its Broadway debut in 1957, winning the Best Musical Tony Award and running for 1,375 performances. The cast album also won a Grammy Award for Best ...
Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #245 :: April 3•9
April is a kind of limbo month for new movies. It's past the winter doldrums, but just before the summer season kicks in (now in May in the modern era ... and there really was no summer season for movies ...
Theatre Review:: Shucked North American Tour at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre
When a lot of people not familiar with the world of musical theatre hear that there is a show called Shucked coming to town, or have friends who tell them they are seeing a show called Shucked, most of the ...
