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‘iZombie’ remains fun to watch, hard to describe in Season 4

On Monday, the Diane Ruggiero/Rob Thomas show that started off as a sly way to get “Veronica Mars”-style witty mysteries back on the tube surpassed

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‘Three Billboards’ a brutal, but also brilliant, portrayal of the cycle of violence (Movie review)

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” (2017) – which is still in many theaters and hits home video on Tuesday – is a brutal portrayal of the

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Resurrecting Ravana’ (2000) (Book review)

This might sound like an odd statement, but Ray Garton writes a pretty darn good “Buffy” novel despite having a tenuous grasp of the show.

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16 years ago, geek culture transitioned to the mainstream (Commentary)

Geek culture is indisputably mainstream today (as evidenced by the 57 superhero shows on TV), but that wasn’t always the case. So when did the

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Mockumentary ‘American Vandal’ is also a gripping mystery with spot-on performances (TV review)

“American Vandal” – an eight-episode fictional docu-mystery that dropped last fall on Netflix – explores the snicker-worthy case of someone spray-painting penises on 27 cars.

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Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ is a bold, fun, powerful masterpiece (Movie review)

As the Marvel Cinematic Universe entered Phase Three it seemed to take on a unique challenge, reinventing itself with each new film. “Thor: Ragnarok” was

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Millennial ‘Groundhog Day’ ‘Happy Death Day’ is no ‘Groundhog Day,’ but it’s not terrible (Movie review)

“Groundhog Day” (1993) is of course the touchstone of the “repeating the same day” genre, so when another film comes along with that premise, it’s

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‘Buffy’ flashback: ‘Power of Persuasion’ (1999) (Book review)

Elisabeth Massie connects on some things and misses on others in her first and only entry in the “Buffy” young-adult line, “Power of Persuasion” (October

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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ returns franchise to thoughtful sci-fi roots (TV review)

As a franchise, “Star Trek” has boldly gone many places, and not all of them have been good. While the original series is legendary, and

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‘Cloverfield Paradox’ pays lip service to science, turns into a familiar space thriller (Movie review)

“The Cloverfield Paradox” (which recently debuted on Netflix), the third installment of the loosely connected Cloververse saga, takes topical physics such as the recently discovered

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