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A promotional poster for the film "What She Didn't Tell Me," featuring Genelle Williams as Laura Harper, Eden Cupid as Maisie Harper and Ellie O'Brien as Lizzie McCrae, three women with somber expressions layered against a muted teal blue background, with the title text displayed in large white letters across the center.

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s What She Didn’t Tell Me

Lifetime's newest 'Sunday Night Thrills' movie, What She Didn't Tell Me, really could have been a Saturday movie with its cinematic production values and a multi-layered story that may keep you guessing, but the mystery is almost undone by the ...

A promotional image for a holiday film features Nick Bateman as Ryan St. Nicholas, a smiling man and Jen Lilley as Grace Rankin standing close together against a solid red background. The man, wearing a dark green quarter-zip sweater over a red collared shirt, holds a sprig of mistletoe above them. To the left of the couple, the title is written in an elegant white script: "Love Under the Mistletoe."

Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Love Under the Mistletoe

Hallmarrk Channel's 'Christmas in July' Saturday movie festival comes to an end, and just as it started the network is pawning off a two-year-old Hulu Original movie as a new one of their own, swapping out the title Operation Mistletoe ...

July 26, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★★, Christmas, Christmas in July, Drama, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Plus, Home Viewing, Jen Lilley, Lisa Michelle Cornelius, Love Under the Mistletoe, Melanie Leishman, Nick Bateman, Operation Mistletoe, René Escobar Jr., Romance, Steve Belford / No Comments

A dramatic, low-angle close-up of a person’s face (Tahirah Sharif as Jasmine Sutter) looking upward, illuminated by a warm light source against a dark background. Above the face, the edge of a lid with decorative upholstery trim is visible. At the bottom of the image, white, capitalized text reads: "GIRL IN THE COFFIN".

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Girl in the Coffin

Lifetime has been promoting the heck out of its latest thriller, Girl in the Coffin, with pulse-pounding trailers that make it seem to be a real edge-of-your-seat nail-biter. What we got was something entirely different. Girl in the Coffin stars ...

July 26, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★★, Drama, Frances McNamee, Girl in the Coffin, Home Viewing, Jennifer Saayeng, Jordan Duvigneau, Lifetime, Matt McClure, Robert James-Collier, Tahirah Sharif, Thriller / No Comments

A stylized, pop-art illustration of a dense pile of retro, CRT-style television sets rendered in a vibrant color palette of neon pink and green, featuring bold outlines and screen textures composed of halftone dots.

TV by the Decade :: July 26•Aug 1

While this week across the decades launched several new programs, few of them had much longevity (and a handful were TV movies). 1956 saw the launch of a daily music program that was also broadcast over the radio; 1976 gave ...

July 26, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / A Current Affair, Apology, As Is, Comedy Theatre, Future-Worm!, Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh, Last Chance U, Mad TV, NBC Bandstand, One Ocean View, Sharknado: The 4th Awakens, Shorty McShorts' Shorts, Television, The Replacements, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Van Helsing / No Comments

A moody promotional image for a film featuring the text "NOWHERE LEFT TO HIDE." In the foreground, Andrew Fultz as Daniel, a man in a grey suit looks toward the right. Behind him, Ashley Brinkman as Teddi, a woman with a concerned expression fades into a soft, hazy background.

Movie Review :: Lifetime Movie Network’s Nowhere Left to Hide

LMN's 'Sizzling Summer Nights' totally fizzles with its latest 'thriller' (a generous term), Nowhere Left to Hide, which starts out implausibly and just runs with it. Ashley Brinkman, who completely embraced the crazy of her character in My Daughter is ...

July 25, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★, Andrew Fultz, Ashley Brinkman, Brandon Pitts, Colette Celine Giganti, Drama, Home Viewing, Katherine Kirkpatrick, Leah Knauer, Lifetime Movie Network, LMN, Nowhere Left to Hide, Scotty Mullen, Sizzling Summer Nights, Temara Payton, Thriller / No Comments

A close-up, angled view of multiple rolls of magenta 35mm film canisters arranged diagonally, with one strip of film extended and threading through a mechanical roller of a film processor.

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #313 :: July 23•29

This was a fairly big week across the decades, with many notable films but perhaps not for the best reasons. Interestingly, two 1926 films starred dogs, and several films have more than one director. Films of note include a Jack ...

A promotional poster for a thriller featuring three individuals with somber expressions set against a dark, nocturnal background. In the foreground, Kabby Borders as Halle, a woman with short blonde hair looks directly at the viewer. To her right is Devante Winfrey as Mark, a man, and further back in the shadows is Brad Worch II as Cole, a bearded man. Large, gold, serif-style text on the left side reads, "HE'LL NEVER FIND ME."

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s He’ll Never Find Me

Lifetime's latest 'Sunday Night Thrills' movie, He'll Never Find Me', is like an amusement park log flume ride -- nothing really happens until you get to that drop at the end. The story is more mystery than thriller, with the ...

July 20, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★★, Brad Worch II, Devante Winfrey, Drama, He'll Never Find Me, Home Viewing, Jessica Ambuehl, Kabby Borders, Kenzie Spooner, Lauren Pike, Lifetime, Mystery, Sunday Night Thrills, Thriller / No Comments

A romantic winter scene featuring Vanessa Lengies as Cassidy Evergreen and Marcus Rosner as Trey Sanderson, a woman and a man looking affectionately at each other, set against a backdrop of snowy pine trees and a festive lodge decorated with holiday lights. The title text reads, "Snowbound for the Holidays".

Movie Review :: Hallmark Channel’s Snowbound for the Holidays

It's taken three weeks, but Hallmark Channel seems to have finally embraced the spirit of 'Christmas in July' with a movie that has all the markings of a Hallmark Christmas romance, but still feels more like a Lifetime Christmas romance ...

July 19, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★★★, Christmas, Christmas in July, Drama, Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Plus, Home Viewing, Kate Drummond, Kathryn Greenwood, Marcus Rosner, Nelu Handa, Romance, Ron Lea, Sean Cullen, Skywalker Hughes, Snowbound for the Holidays, Vanessa Lengies / No Comments

A close-up of Anwen O'Driscoll as Kat Walker, a young woman with wavy brown hair looking off-camera with a concerned, intense expression. The background is dark, and the text "CROWNING AT THE PROM" appears in white sans-serif letters to the right of her face.

Movie Review :: Lifetime Network’s Crowning at the Prom

Lifetime forgoes its usual murder mystery thriller movie for a straightforward drama, the type of movie you might have seen as an ABC Movie of the Week back in the day, a cautionary tale that seems to be about one ...

July 19, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★★★, Anwen O'Driscoll, Bryce Wynter, Christopher Jacot, Christopher Seivright, Claire Qute, Crowning at the Prom, Danielle Panabaker, Drama, Home Viewing, Isaac Kragten, Lifetime / No Comments

Vertical color bars with a gradient of blues, greens, and peach at the top, and a gradient of grays and dark blues at the bottom.

TV by the Decade :: July 19•25

In the heat of the Summer, only three decades produced new television programming for the week that you can count on one hand, and none of the new shows came from the major broadcast networks. Cable ruled this week with ...

July 19, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / Elena of Avalor, Live at Gotham, Ozzy & Jack's World Detour, Television, The Daily Show, TV by the Decade, TV Commentary, Work Out / No Comments

A movie promotional graphic featuring Alicia Blasingame as Lori Welles, a distressed-looking woman with reddish-brown hair in the foreground. In the background, ,Ty Trumbo as Ethan Cooper and Ashley Brinkman as Brie Bailey, a man and a woman standing together, and to the right, Geffen Aviva as Mia Welles, a younger woman looks apprehensive. Superimposed on the right side in bold, red letters is the title: "MY DAUGHTER'S TRAPPED IN A THROUPLE".

Movie Review :: LMN’s My Daughter’s Trapped in a Throuple

LMN dips its toe into the polyamory waters yet again -- it's the hot new trend! -- with the luridly titled My Daughter's Trapped in a Throuple. But is she though? The story starts with the aftermath of a gruesome ...

July 18, 2026 / Chuck Duncan / ★★, Alicia Blasingame, Ashley Brinkman, Drama, Gary Poux, Geffen Aviva, Home Viewing, Jon Briddell, Lifetime Movie Network, LMN, My Daughter's Trapped in a Throuple, Mystery, Sizzling Summer Nights, Tammy-Anne Fortuin, Thriller, Ty Trumbo / No Comments

A close-up view of a film reel with a strip of film spiraling outward. The film features distinct sprocket holes along its edges and is illuminated by a warm gradient of light, shifting from soft pink on the outer coils to a vibrant golden yellow near the center.

Hotchka Movies by the Decade feature #312 :: July 16•22

Some big films made their debuts this week, though not all were successful. Of the films from 1926, only two are known to still exist. A 1936 drama was called 'junk' by its star, another was one of just six ...