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TMNT Trilogy

‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (1990) and the art of great dialog

I’ve often heard great family movie screenplays complimented with “Both a child and an adult can like it,” but I don’t usually agree. One exception

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H is for Homicide

Action gets heated in Grafton’s ‘H is for Homicide’ (1991)

Sue Grafton tried something different in “G is for Gumshoe,” pairing Kinsey with a temporary partner/love interest while she was being hunted. Because the author

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Echo

Deaf superhero’s miniseries a mere ‘Echo’ (2024) of ‘Daredevil’

“Echo” (2024, five episodes, Disney Plus) has one really cool thing about it and one inexplicably dumb thing. The cool thing is the title character,

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Company Business

How do the pieces fit in ‘Company Business’ (1991)? None of our business

Gene Hackman and other Eighties-Nineties spy movie faces like Kurtwood Smith, Daniel von Bargen and Terry O’Quinn make “Company Business” (1991) watchable. It skirts the

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Movies 2025

John’s top 10 movies of 2025

The spectacle of the best franchise superhero and action movies got to me in 2025, although I also sat through surprising misfires. I still surprised

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TV 2025

John’s top 10 TV shows of 2025

I found my TV habits changing in 2025. I met the fall season with a Gen-Z-style “meh,” and I was fine delaying viewings of even

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MCU films ranked

All 37 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, ranked

Superhero fatigue? What superhero fatigue? In the 2010s, the Marvel Cinematic Universe completed the Infinity Saga, essentially a 22-episode TV season except with mega-budget movies.

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Running Man 2025

Powell’s ‘Running Man’ takes a while to get up to speed

“The Running Man” (1987) predicted now-normal things like tech that spies on you, deep-fake insta-CGI and the ubiquity of “reality TV” (maybe the most Orwellian

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Cinnamon Skin

‘Cinnamon Skin’ (1982) blows up into a good quest novel

By his 20th novel of out 21, “Cinnamon Skin” (1982), Travis McGee knows who he is and is starting to accept it. John D. MacDonald’s

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Guardians Holiday Special

Gunn spends time with friends in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’ (2022)

James Gunn is one of the modern greats at creating ensembles who are fun to hang out with. Since he usually does it for movie

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