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‘X-Files’ flashback: I want to believe the 2008 film is great, but it’s probably just OK (Movie review)

I think the second “X-Files” movie, 2008’s “I Want to Believe,” is a nice thank-you letter to fans, who are given one last chance to follow Mulder

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First episode impressions: ‘I Just Want My Pants Back’ (and thoughts on TV’s rare 20-somethings) (Review)

I spent all of my 20s waiting for a hit show about 20-somethings. I don’t mean that I was staring at my TV, waiting for

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The top 10 episodes of ‘Millennium’ Season 3 (1998-99)

On my list of all-time favorite TV showrunners, Chris Carter ranks considerably higher than Glen Morgan and James Wong. Yet it’s hard to not side

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‘Heir to the Empire,’ the book that jump-started the ‘Star Wars’ Expanded Universe, celebrates 20 years (Book commentary)

Sometime in the late 1990s, I was at Paradox Comics in Fargo, N.D., talking with the proprietor about “Star Wars.” I mentioned Timothy Zahn’s novels,

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In ‘Our Idiot Brother,’ the idiot is the smart one, and so is this refreshing comedy (Movie review)

In a scene from “Our Idiot Brother,” title character Ned (Paul Rudd) is counting his cash on the subway and he hands it to a stranger to

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Timothy Zahn proves he’s still got it with ‘Star Wars: Choices of One’ (Book review)

Through the years, I’ve been tempted to label authors other than Timothy Zahn as my favorite “Star Wars” scribe — Michael Stackpole for his plotting,

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

I’ve done the hard work of perusing Entertainment Weekly’s fall movie preview and watching the trailers, and I now present the top 10 movies to

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Perfect casting, frenetic pace help ‘30 Minutes or Less’ deliver (Movie review)

Is it possible for Danny McBride to not be funny? Playing a criminal who is tailing the unfortunate pizza-delivery guy whom he forces to rob

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Malgus joins the parade of Darths in ‘Star Wars: The Old Republic – Deceived’ (Book review)

For a reader, one of the fun parts of the explosion of “Star Wars” spinoff literature in recent years is finding meanings in the names

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How did the apes get that way in the first place? ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ has the answers (Movie review)

A cool thing about science fiction novels is that not only do they explore future possibilities, they also inspire other writers’ imaginations; sometimes one writer’s

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