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‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ a fine continuation, with some gator aid

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” picks up soon after 2020’s legacy sequel “Bad Boys for Life,” but it doesn’t ride on that movie’s fumes. The

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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ is the (F) bomb – but not due to its gratuitous nature

The Oscars have talked about adding new categories to appeal to a wider demographic. If there was one that rewarded backroom office-politics navigation in order

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‘Twisters’ a thrilling legacy sequel with new twists

“Twisters” recaptures that feeling of thrills from natural-disaster movies in the waning days of the flickering-projector, catch-it-in-the-dollar-theater era. We get pseudo-science delivered with a straight

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Teen TV looks to the past with ‘Cobra Kai,’ ‘Hysteria!,’ ‘Cruel Intentions’

Some Gen-Z teen TV shows have original premises and say something specific about this point in history … but I’m not reviewing those here. Instead,

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‘Enemy of the State’ (1998) continues ‘The Conversation’

“Enemy of the State” (1998) is a link from the Seventies to the Nineties to today as it illustrates spy-state apparatuses at the point of

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Fall TV premieres continue with ‘Disclaimer,’ ‘Day of the Jackal,’ ‘Creep Tapes’

My look at fall TV’s premieres continues into November with a trio of streaming offerings. Although these series have several episodes out now (I miss

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In ‘The Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy’ (1964), babes beat a bandaged bloke

To conjure Taggart (the immortal Slim Pickens’ character from “Blazing Saddles” (1974)): What in the wide, wide world of sports can “The Wrestling Women vs.

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‘Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire’ is more of the same

In the Monsterverse, we’ve had a Godzilla origin story, a Kong origin story, Godzilla fighting that cool three-headed monster from Facebook memes, and Godzilla fighting

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‘Sign of Four’ (1890) shows early signs of Holmes’ iconic status

Sherlock Holmes didn’t take off as a popular character with his second novel, “The Sign of Four” (sometimes titled “The Sign of the Four,” 1890);

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‘Eruption’ is a disaster, but not in the intended way

Michael Crichton died in 2008 and his new novel, “Eruption,” is somehow out in 2024. Be suspicious; be very suspicious. Of course, no one is

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