Movies

Fall movie preview 2025: 10 films I wouldn’t mind seeing

Tis the season for Stephen King adaptations, biopics, mysteries, Oscar bait and oddities. These are my picks for 10 films from Fall 2025 worth checking

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Boyle, Garland recapture emotional punch in ’28 Years Later’

“28 Days Later” (2002) director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland – after both skipping “28 Weeks Later” (2007) – reteam for “28 Years Later.”

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Carpenter artistically hides any cheapness in ‘The Fog’ (1980)

“The Fog” (1980) isn’t John Carpenter’s best film, but it might be his best achievement. He makes a roiling wall of glowing fog off the

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Hardboiled Hackman successfully works on his ‘Night Moves’ (1975)

With the neo-noir movement in full swing, “Night Moves” (1975) is a well-crafted example of the form, so on-point that a lot of the pleasure

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‘Weapons’ of mass horror entertainment

Zach Cregger is the latest promising 2020s horror auteur to release a second major film where we ask: “Does he have the goods or is

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‘Together’ turns the push-pull of a relationship into something scary

Some body horror films hit you with surprises (last year’s “The Substance”) and others tell you what they’re doing right up front and you have

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‘Apple Dumpling Gang’ (1975) is the apple of my eye

I grew up with “The Apple Dumpling Gang” (1975). I would have been 8 years old upon its release. It showed repeatedly at local theaters

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‘Nobody 2’ captures the emotional struggle for work-life balance

The “John Wick” saga famously launched because Keanu Reeves’ character seeks revenge for the murder of his puppy. Writer Derek Kolstad’s newer saga boasts an

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‘Naked Gun’ 2025: By god, it is funny after all

The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker gag-per-second style of comedy pioneered by “Airplane” (1980) and perfected with “The Naked Gun” (1988) couldn’t be trademarked, but few movies or TV

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‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ ’25 and the importance of exploring themes

“I Know What You Did Last Summer” 2025 is the worst kind of bad movie: one that could’ve easily been good, and possibly even great.

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