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‘Insidious: Chapter 3’ (2015) turns focus to Lin Shaye’s Elise

The “Insidious” series can be seen as a classier, slicker version of the “Nightmare on Elm Street” series. A person falls asleep and gains access

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Valerian and Laureline start on new path with ‘Where Stories Are Born’ (2022)

In 2010, the original “Valerian and Laureline” saga ended with “The Time Opener” (Volume 21), wherein our heroes save the universe, go back in time

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‘The Amityville Curse’ (1990) seeks its haunts from another house

As old trash movies become easily accessible in the streaming era, it’s become fashionable to look for hidden gems, to nominate underrated horror films for

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PKD’s ‘Breakfast at Twilight’ expands into ‘Nuclear Family’ (2021)

Among the Philip K. Dick estate-licensed works of recent years, the easiest to miss is certainly 2021’s five-issue comic-book miniseries from AfterShock, “Nuclear Family.” But

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‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?’ (1980) is long, but has great lead duo

In the 1934 book, it takes a long time to find out “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” It seems even longer in the 1980 British

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‘Insidious: Chapter 2’ (2013) pads out possession story

After director James Wan helped usher an old-school/new-school horror mix into the mainstream with 2011’s “Insidious” – set in modern times but with sound and

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‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ (2022) the ‘Kavalier & Clay’ of video games

With “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” (2022), Gabrielle Zevin does for video games what Michael Chabon did for comic books in “The Amazing Adventures of

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A neurotic half-century: Every Woody Allen film, ranked

Sorry it took me awhile to compile my rankings of Woody Allen’s films. I got a little neurotic about making sure everything is in the

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A panic on our hands on the Fourth of July: The 10 best shark horror movies

“You yell ‘barracuda,’ everybody says ‘Huh? What?’ You yell ‘shark,’ we’ve got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.” That line from

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All 35 of Philip K. Dick’s science fiction novels, ranked

From his perch in the mid-20th century, Philip K. Dick (1928-82) was a great predictor of how the 21st century would be – because he

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