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Mel Brooks 99 Year Old Man

‘Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!’ celebrates a hilarious career

Mel Brooks has a great sense of comic pacing and rhythm in his best movies. He knows when to get in and get out. “Mel

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Anaconda 2025

‘Anaconda’ (2025): Don’t want none unless ya got laughs, hun

I probably would’ve liked “Anaconda” (2025) if it had come out eight years earlier to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the film it’s riffing

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Predator Badlands

‘Predator: Badlands’ (2025) proves Disney and the Yautja can coexist

Director Dan Trachtenberg has crafted a legitimate “Predator” film that’s almost a kid-friendly Disney film as well. The joke – stated with some concern –

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Life of Chuck

‘Life of Chuck’ is a small story with big thoughts

Ernst Lubitsch had the Lubitsch Touch in bringing classy filmmaking to mass-market concepts like rom-coms, and today Mike Flanagan has the Flanagan Touch in infusing

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Running Man 2025

Powell’s ‘Running Man’ takes a while to get up to speed

“The Running Man” (1987) predicted now-normal things like tech that spies on you, deep-fake insta-CGI and the ubiquity of “reality TV” (maybe the most Orwellian

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The Monkey

Self-cannibalizing ‘The Monkey’ is more dark than comedic

“The Monkey” is the fourth-biggest Stephen King adaptation of 2025, but it’s the one that most cynically comments on the fact that Hollywood can’t get

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It Welcome to Derry

‘It: Welcome to Derry’ expands from King’s work in King-y way

Showrunner (and often director) Andy Muschietti knows how to make a sale. As with the “It” movies, but more so, he gets stellar performances out

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Predator Killer of Killers

Trachtenberg expands ‘Predator’ mythos in ‘Killer of Killers’

More “Predator” isn’t a bad thing, but it’s not an Earth-shattering thing either in the animated film “Predator: Killer of Killers” (Hulu). Co-director/co-writer Dan Trachtenberg,

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Freakier Friday

‘Freakier Friday’: Some things don’t change with age

“Freakier Friday” is a cute sequel to a cute 2003 remake of a cute 1976 movie that has been remade and sequelized several other times

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Daredevil Born Again Season 1

‘Daredevil’ gets ‘Born Again,’ and he’s not overly Disney-fied

“Daredevil: Born Again” Season 1 (March-April, Disney Plus) – aside from the “missing seven years” elements wherein Wilson Fisk had disappeared and Matt Murdock had

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