Television

Documentaries give solid overview of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick fans interested in digging into his life are – appropriately – best suited to pursuing the written word, with Lawrence Sutin’s “Divine

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‘Sparkling Cyanide’ (2003) shows versatility of Christie’s novel

I can imagine some Agatha Christie fans loathe the 2003 ITV adaptation of her 1945 novel “Sparkling Cyanide” and others appreciate writer Laura Lamson’s fresh

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‘Seven Dials Mystery’ (1981) gets bundled into energetic TV movie

The troupe that made “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” (1980) for ITV reunites for “Seven Dials Mystery” (1981). The budget is smaller, which is fine

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‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’ (1980) is long, but has great lead duo

In the 1934 book, it takes a long time to find out “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” It seems even longer in the 1980 British

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A neurotic half-century: Every Woody Allen film, ranked

Sorry it took me awhile to compile my rankings of Woody Allen’s films. I got a little neurotic about making sure everything is in the

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In ‘Amityville 4’ (1989), ‘The Evil Escapes’ into a daytime soap

The line between TV and film has blurred as we approach the point where the two media will be indistinguishable in production values. In 1989,

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Poirot time-travels to 1985 for ‘Thirteen at Dinner’

The third of Peter Ustinov’s six Hercule Poirot films, “Thirteen at Dinner” (1985), came out the same year as “Back to the Future.” This is

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Warren case ‘The Haunted’ (1991) is a proto-‘Conjuring’

Among the things that make “The Conjuring” (2013) fresh, plot isn’t one of them. This is evident because the same plot is found in the

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‘Cruel Summer’ Season 2 offers new timeline-hopping mysteries

In the modern tradition of new seasons of TV suddenly popping into existence, “Cruel Summer” Season 2 (Mondays, Freeform) has had its two-episode premiere. Again,

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The hauntings of Mike Flanagan: All 13 of his films and TV shows, ranked

In appropriate fashion for the horror genre, Mike Flanagan slowly crept onto the scene in the 2010s, making increasingly good, modestly budgeted films. Then he

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