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Scares of ‘Dangerous Animals’ go beyond the sharks

Among the chum-bucket full of shark movies to come out of Australia in recent years, “Dangerous Animals” is one of the juiciest pieces of meat.

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Marriage, murder awkwardly mix in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’ (1937)

For an author who believed strongly in the rules of murder mysteries (in a nutshell, playing fair with the reader and being true to reality),

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Again, ‘Aquaman’-verse looks great in ‘The Lost Kingdom’ (2023)

Randall Park’s Dr. Shin, an audience surrogate who accidentally works for supervillain Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), notes in “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” (2023)

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Argento’s ‘Phantom of the Opera’ (1998) a kitschy experiment

In my Dario Argento reviews up to this point in his filmography, I’ve given at least a mild recommendation to everything except 1990’s “Black Cat”

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‘Thunderbolts’ explores alternate way to return power to people

The Marvel Cinematic Universe rediscovers the heady times of about a decade ago with “Thunderbolts,” a story of six decidedly rough-around-the-edges anti-superheroes-turned-real-superheroes that goes down

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‘It’s a Boy Girl Thing’ (2006) tackles the double empathy problem with laughs

“It’s a Boy Girl Thing” (2006) could perhaps be an honorary member of that batch of Shakespeare-inspired teen films from the early 21st century. That

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‘Captain America: Brave New World’: What if a bad president had self-awareness?

“Captain America: Brave New World” kicks off 2025’s three Marvel Cinematic Universe films by re-engaging with the primary storyline after 2024 served up only the

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Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ (1966) is a book I could read again

In the great 2000 “Once and Again” episode “Booklovers,” Lily is disturbed to learn that both her boyfriend Rick and her ex-husband Jake find “In

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Old friends, new enemies enhance ‘TMNT’ Season 3 (2004-05)

There might not be another franchise that skirts the edge of copyright law quite like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” which famously started as a “Daredevil”

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‘Gaudy Night’ (1935) explores chaos of changing times on campus

Dorothy Sayers marks the occasion of her 10th Lord Peter Wimsey bow, “Gaudy Night” (1935), with a novel that’s messy, socially fascinating, narratively ambitious, unwieldy,

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