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‘Poirot Investigates’ (1924), in fewer words this time

Early in my reading of the short-story collection “Poirot Investigates” (1924), I didn’t like how Agatha Christie was unleashing various tropes and tricks within such

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‘Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle’ (2013) a nice overview

If you’re a fan of superheroes thanks to the 2010s cinema boom and are curious about their history in comics, “Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle” (2013),

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Valerian makes surprise return in ‘Future is Waiting’ (2019)

Like most fans, I thought “Volume 22: Memories of the Futures” (2013) was the final “Valerian and Laureline” book, but artist Jean-Claude Mezieres and writer

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Ring in an awful ‘New Year’s Evil’ (1980)

Some Eighties slasher movies are bad but fun to watch, and some are just plain bad. “New Year’s Evil” (1980) falls into the latter category.

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3 TV shows and 3 movies to see in 2021

2021 will be a hugely transitional year for television and cinema as they react to our new post-pandemic habits. It could also be hugely entertaining

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John’s top 10 movies of 2020

The Oscars are expanding the 2020 movie year by two months in order for more films to get released and compete for statuettes. That’s a

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John’s top 10 TV shows of 2020

Like everything else, TV took a hit in this year of the pandemic, but networks felt the impact more so than streaming and premium. The

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Pratfalls, lovable kid drive ‘Home Alone 3’ (1997)

Because of the reputation that the “Home Alone” films precipitously drop off in quality after part two, I had low expectations for director Raja Gosnell

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Endearing chimp stars in Preston’s ‘Jennie’ (1994)

Douglas Preston starts his fiction-writing career with a novel that’s almost unrecognizably his own, when viewed from the lens of a quarter-century of imaginative sci-fi

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‘Murder at Hazelmoor’ a loaded wintry chiller (1931)

Agatha Christie juggles a lot of ideas and jumps between a lot of characters in “Murder at Hazelmoor” (1931, also published as “The Sittaford Mystery”).

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