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‘State and Main’ (2000) too trifling for my taste

With “State and Main” (2000), writer-director David Mamet delivers a satirical look at the making of a Hollywood movie, but it’s so lighthearted that it’s

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‘He’s Out There’ is a decently scary lake-cabin stalker thriller, but not a unique one (Movie review)

Similar to the two “Strangers” films, “He’s Out There” (2018, now on Netflix) strips the horror genre down to basics and tells a scary story

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Solitary Man’ (2003) (Book review)

As he did with his love letter to hardboiled fiction, “Hollywood Noir,” Jeff Mariotte lets his passion for bloodless British mysteries show in “Solitary Man”

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‘Elizabethtown’ (2005) more than a ‘Garden State’ ripoff

“Elizabethtown’s” existence in 2005 ticked me off, since, as a huge “Garden State” fan, I felt it was ripping off that film’s plot of a

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‘Buffy’ flashback: Season 9, Issues 11-20 (2012-13) (Comic book reviews)

In this next batch of 10 issues, Season 9 becomes slightly less Buffy-centric, somewhat to its detriment, but Andrew Chambliss continues to be a sharp

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‘Spanish Prisoner’ (1997) a gripping long-con puzzle

There’s something suspicious about the way people are acting around Joe Ross (Campbell Scott) in “The Spanish Prisoner” (1997). As the creator of The Process,

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‘Angel’ flashback: ‘Fearless’ (2003) (Book review)

Doranna Durgin crafts a more readable and entertaining “Angel” book her second time around with “Fearless” (October 2003). It has the same structure as “Impressions,”

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‘The Devil’s Candy’ (2015) is heavy-metal horror

Don’t put on “The Devil’s Candy” (2015, Netflix) if you want something light. But if you’re in the mood for a stylish, heavy-metalized thriller, this

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‘ABC Murders’ miniseries reinvents Poirot

“The ABC Murders,” a three-part miniseries that aired last year on BBC and is now on Amazon Prime, is a case study in the creativity

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‘Buffy’ flashback: Season 9, Issues 1-10 (2011-12) (Comic book reviews)

After Season 8, Dark Horse’s canonical “Buffy” comics do what the TV series did more than a decade prior: split into two series. While “Angel

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