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‘Tomorrowland’: The latest cult classic from Damon Lindelof, or possibly just a bad film (Movie review)

The first thing I did after watching “Tomorrowland” and discussing its peculiarities with my buddy Michael was to look up articles explaining what the hell happened in

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Cannon, Banks deliver aca-competent follow-up with ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ (Movie review)

First-time director Elizabeth Banks, who also plays half of the “Pitch Perfect” series’ a cappella podcasting team, and returning screenwriter Kay Cannon deliver a slick,

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‘Twin Peaks’ Season 1 (1990) changes the landscape of TV

“Twin Peaks” has gotten name-dropped so often over the past quarter century in reviews or analyses of my favorite shows that I figured I might as

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‘Wayward Pines’ riffs on other puzzle-box shows

“Wayward Pines” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on Fox) starts off with the same eyeball-to-overhead-shot opening pan-out as “Lost” – with Matt Dillon in place of Matthew

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‘Terminator’ flashback: ‘T2: Rising Storm’ (2002) (Book review)

After “Infiltrator” (2001) rather leisurely explored the John-Sarah relationship, added Dieter to the brotherhood of the brave and chronicled yet another attack on Cyberdyne, “Rising Storm” (2002)

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Garland smartly explores artificial intelligence in sparsely beautiful ‘Ex Machina’ (Movie review)

“Ex Machina” could be a stage play, as it features four actors in various austere rooms of an isolated scientific compound. Writer Alex Garland, who also

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John’s 10 favorite TV characters at the moment (Commentary)

Here are my 10 favorite characters of the moment on shows that recently concluded their season, are ongoing or will soon return for the summer

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All 8 long-running ‘Star Wars’ Legends comics series, ranked (Comic book commentary)

With the new ongoing Marvel comic series, not to mention the trailers for “Episode VII” and “Rebels” Season 2, drawing interest from new and casual

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10 movies John wouldn’t mind seeing this summer (Commentary)

Here are my picks for 10 movies to check out this summer: “Maggie” (May 8) – This could be what “Cop Land” was to Sylvester Stallone

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‘Lazarus Effect’ a tidy little 90-minute horror riff (Movie review)

“The Lazarus Effect,” a horror flick that recently hit the cheap theaters, is arguably not even as good as one of the weaker Season 1 “X-Files”

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