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‘Terminator’s’ ‘Salvation’ saga ends with ‘The Final Battle’ Volume Two (2014)

Writer J. Michael Straczynski goes deep into the 2029 battle and deep into the idea of the singularity in “Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle” Volume

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‘The Boys’ Season 1 blends superheroes with military industry

“Watchmen” popularized the idea of superheroes run amok, but that saga quickly moves beyond the question of “Who watches the Watchmen?” to its answer of

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‘Friday the 13th: Part 2’ (1981) is rushed, disposable

The first “Friday the 13th” (1980) is a trope codifier for the lake-cabin slasher flick, and by definition, trope codifiers lead to a lot of

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‘Birds of Prey’ is hard to take seriously

“Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” plays like a throw-it-at-the-wall experiment, but an earnest one. This eighth DC Extended Universe

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‘Contagion’ (2011) looks at the process of a pandemic

Whereas “Outbreak” (1995) gets comparatively cartoonish as it wrings drama from a viral pandemic, “Contagion” (2011) – its main competition for “most famous outbreak movie”

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‘High Fidelity’ remix justifies its existence

In the early going, “High Fidelity” (February, Hulu) so precisely re-creates several iconic scenes from the 2000 movie that it’s like watching a painful amateur

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PKD’s ‘Voices from the Street’ (2007) a new coming-of-age classic

“Voices from the Street” (written in 1952, published in 2007) was Philip K. Dick’s last published novel — finally hitting shelves a quarter-century after his

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‘Terminator: Salvation’ expands with ‘Machinima Series’ (2009)

Even fairly serious “Terminator” fans might not know about this oddity: There was a prequel movie to “Salvation” – sort of. “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima

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‘Runaways’ Season 1 (2017-18) is kind of silly, kind of good

With an unusually long gap between new Marvel Cinematic Universe releases, I decided to finally check out “Marvel’s Runaways” Season 1 (2017-18, Hulu). Now through

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‘Train to Busan’ (2016) is a first-class zombie tear-jerker

The idea of zombie fiction featuring great character development and performances was old hat by the time of “Train to Busan” (2016); the Tens were

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