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‘Blue Sun Rising’ (2020) won’t leave ‘Firefly’ fans feeling blue

The first two Boom! Studios “Firefly” arcs – “The Unification War” and “New Sheriff in the ’Verse” – are a little on the padded side

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‘True Detective’ Season 4, ‘Death and Other Details,’ ‘Fool Me Once’ ask whodunit

You’ve heard of superhero fatigue, but superhero shows have nothing on the ubiquity of murder mystery miniseries. The genre has been going strong for at

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‘Day of the Dead’ (2008) has Romero ties in name only

“Day of the Dead” (2008) completes an unofficial remake trilogy (each of the three remakes is by a different creative team) of George Romero’s original

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‘Get Over It’ (2001) makes Shakespeare easy to sing and dance to

Bridging Gen-X teen comedies and millennial teen comedies was the period from roughly 1996-2006 featuring Shakespeare-based teen comedies. Although these films starred millennials (often Julia

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Reeve, Hannah make ‘Rear Window’ (1998) better than it should be

One of the reasons accepted as valid for remaking a perfect classic is if you have something new to say via the same (or very

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Mal switches sides in clever ‘Firefly: New Sheriff in the ’Verse’ (2020)

There are two ways tie-in fiction can go wrong: It either mimics the original show too closely and seems fake, or it goes hog-wild with

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Mean-girl mystery ‘She Started It’ (2023) a killer start to career

British author Sian Gilbert delivers a discussion-worthy debut novel, “She Started It” (2023), that I alternately thought was awful and brilliant. It’s a page-turner, which

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Snyder gives ‘Dawn of the Dead’ a butt-rock 2004 remake

“Dawn of the Dead” (1978) was ripe for a remake. The premise of zombie-plague survivors holed up in a mall and learning to work together

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‘Mean Girls 2’ (2011) is far more plastic than the original

The inevitable sequel to the 2004 hit “Mean Girls” should’ve been called “Meaner Girls.” One of the smart things about the original film is that

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‘Vertigo’ (1958) a surreal, maybe unreal, masterpiece

“Vertigo” (1958) is the second-best film of all time according to Sight & Sound’s 2022 worldwide poll of critics and directors, beaten out only by

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