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‘Push’ (2009) a stylish Hong Kong superhero caper

“Push” (2009) is a movie-length version of what TV’s “The Gifted” would later show: people with superpowers on the run from government agents. Director Paul

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Davidson breaks out in ‘The King of Staten Island’

“The King of Staten Island” is the most prominent of the few brave films that switched from theatrical release to video-on-demand amid the pandemic, and

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‘I Still Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1998) a guilty pleasure

Director Danny Cannon and writer Trey Callaway pump up the humor and simple slasher pleasures in the sequel to 1997’s “I Know What You Did

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‘Live Free or Die Hard’ (2007) delivers new-century thrills

Only 12 years pass between the third and fourth chapters of the “Die Hard” series, but the difference between the 20th and 21st centuries is

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‘The Simulacra’ (1964) is PKD’s grand absurdity

“The Simulacra” (written in 1963, published in 1964) is one of Philip K. Dick’s grand absurdities. It’s an expansion of his amusing short story “Novelty

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‘Firefly’ goes full-on Western in ‘Magnificent Nine’ (2019)

James Lovegrove’s first “Firefly” novel – 2018’s “Big Damn Hero,” co-plotted with Nancy Holder – spans several genres. But his second is a straight-up Western,

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‘Jonah Hex’ (2010) a stylish but thin Wild West yarn

I appreciate that “Jonah Hex” (2010) is only 82 minutes long – the length of some episodes of “Westworld” nowadays – because it makes for

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‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ (1997) a slicker slasher

“Scream” (1996) introduced a new era of slasher films by being brazenly self-referential, but also by having better production values and acting than the previous

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‘Lethal Weapon 4’ (1998) a boffo closing chapter

Everyone looks they’re having a good time on “Lethal Weapon 4” (1998). That’s sometimes a warning sign that the viewer will be as miserable as

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PKD explores post-apocalypse in ‘Dr. Bloodmoney’ (1965)

The hydrogen-bomb war (or atomic, or nuclear – pick your poison) was a regular obsession of Philip K. Dick’s. Many of his contemporary-set stories find

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