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Crowe’s ‘Pope’s Exorcist’ adds some edge to familiar structure

“The Pope’s Exorcist” sounds like a title you’d see on a Redbox kiosk around the time of a new “Exorcist” movie (indeed, that saga’s sixth

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‘Cobweb’ weaves a sticky blend of monster and mystery

In a time of overhyped too-minimalist horror films (“The Black Phone,” “Boogeyman”) and big-name franchises (the “Insidiouses” and “Conjurings”), “Cobweb” finds a nice middle ground.

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‘Amityville Murders’ (2018) fills in key piece of puzzle

It took until the 23rd film with “Amityville” in the title for the 1974 Defeo family murders to finally be chronicled in full. Writer-director Daniel

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‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ finds its groove in back half of Season 2 (1988)

After a strong Season 1 and a bland “Eye of Sarnath” arc to start Season 2, episodes 6-13 of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” Season 2

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‘Miss Marple’ (1984-92) stands as the spinster sleuth’s definitive portrayal

The early 1980s was a proving ground for British TV producers, with their prime audience being the Agatha Christie estate. Christie didn’t care for unfaithful

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‘Night Theater’ (2020) mixes body horror, spiritual questions

Vikram Paralkar’s “Night Theater” (2020) is a one-setting, small-cast novella of a little over 200 pages that raises big questions. It’s easy to read in

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Wuhrer wades into ‘Hellraiser’ weirdness in ‘Deader’ (2005)

The “Hellraiser” saga has a strange ability to tell the same story over and over but not in precisely the same way. For “Hellraiser: Deader”

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‘Amityville: The Awakening’ (2017) wastes its meta premise

“Amityville: The Awakening” (2017) has a hook, at least when I say it out loud. The story is set in the “real world,” where the

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‘TMNT’ Season 2 (1988) stumbles through opening Sarnath arc

Lead writer David Wise skillfully morphed Mirage Comics’ version of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” into kid-friendly cartoon form in 1987’s five-episode Season 1, a

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‘Agatha Christie: An Autobiography’ (1977) a thorough chronicle of a life, less so of a career

In “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography” (1977), Christie famously doesn’t go deep into analyzing her novels or the stories behind them. That might’ve been frustrating in

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