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‘Lake Mungo’ (2008) a grief-laden mystery-horror classic

As “Talk to Me” puts Australian horror back on the map, and “Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor” has me on a found-footage kick,

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‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’ makes the end of the world thrilling

It’s been the end of the world as we know it for a while in pop entertainment. “The Terminator” (1984) predicted this would be the

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‘The Lady Vanishes’ (2013) is a lovely dramatic counterpoint

Seventy-five years after Alfred Hitchcock made a lightly comedic version of “The Lady Vanishes” from Ethel Lina White’s “The Wheel Spins” (1936), we got a

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‘Maltese Falcon’ (1930) stands as definitive hardboiled mystery

In Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report,” the three precog crime-solvers are named after legendary mystery novelists: Agatha, Arthur and Dash. Agatha Christie wrote 74 novels,

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‘Shaun of the Dead’ (2004) the all-time elite zom-com

“Shaun of the Dead” (2004) is not only the best zombie comedy of all time, but a case could be made that it uses zombies

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‘A Murder at the End of the World,’ ‘Fargo’ Season 5, ‘The Irrational,’ ‘The Spencer Sisters’

The writers’ strike slowed down production, but mystery fans wouldn’t know it this month, as we’re hit with FX/Hulu’s “A Murder at the End of

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Intrigue disappears behind comedy in ‘The Lady Vanishes’ (1938)

Four years after Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” chronicled a mystery on a snowed-in train in Eastern Europe, Afred Hitchcock did the same

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Missing Mona Lisa: A look at ‘TMNT’s’ early CBS episodes (Season 4, 1990)

In the first CBS episode, as the Turtles (rather slowly) recognize that a giant fly footprint belongs to Baxter Stockman, they muse about who else

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Wimsey shows how to catch ’em in Sayers’ ‘Strong Poison’ (1930)

Before I started reading golden-age mysteries, I thought “meta” storytelling (stories that reference the fact that they are stories, or that they exist in a

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‘Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel’ (2108) and ‘III: Lake of Fire’ (2019) are ambitious but cheap

Writer-director Stephen Cognetti wraps his “Hell House LLC” trilogy with the consecutively filmed “Hell House LLC II: The Abaddon Hotel” (2018) and “Hell House LLC

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