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Fall Movie Preview

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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Fall TV Preview

Fall TV preview 2025: 10 shows I wouldn’t mind watching

Here’s a look at 10 television series on my radar in Fall 2025 plus a whole bunch of murder mysteries that I might sift through.

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28 Years Later

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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Against the Darkness

‘Against the Darkness’ (2024) duly wraps Blake’s ‘Frankie’ trilogy

Kendare Blake’s “Frankie the Vampire Slayer” trilogy – about Willow’s immaculate witch-Slayer daughter and her Gen-Z Scooby Gang – wraps with “Against the Darkness” (2024).

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Marple Season 3

‘Marple’s’ intrusions make more sense in strong Season 3 (2007-09)

I should be careful about making judgments based on a small sample size. “Marple” Season 2 inserts Jane Marple (Geraldine McEwan) into two of Agatha

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The Fog 1980

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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Night Moves

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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Trouble is My Business

Marlowe also operates in short form in ‘Trouble is My Business’ (1950, 1992)

If a Raymond Chandler fan has read the seven Philip Marlowe novels, they’ll be happy to know they aren’t quite done yet. “Trouble is My

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Weapons

‘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

‘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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