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‘Hellboy’ (2019) muddies mythos for no good reason

“Hellboy” (2019) inadvertently teaches a lesson about the way we perceive modern cinema. The CGI creatures and landscapes in director Neil Marshall’s film are technically

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‘Hancock’ (2008) hampered by conflicting tones

Will Smith returned to his Fourth of July blockbuster stomping grounds – and tried his hand at playing a superhero slightly before it was cool

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‘Lethal Weapon 2’ (1989) jumps into franchise’s stupid phase

It’s a stereotype that action movie franchises start off strong but get stupid as they go along, and if there’s truth to every stereotype, “Lethal

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Gritty ‘Sector War’ (2018-19) feels like Dark Horse’s early ‘Terminator’ comics

In its last (for now) “Terminator” entry, Dark Horse goes full circle with a gritty four-issue series that calls to mind its earliest work. “Sector

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‘Toxic Avenger’ (1984) incredibly stupid yet endearing

In 1990, I got into “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and eventually learned that the source material was adult-aimed comic books. The same year, the “Toxic

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‘The Boys’ Season 1 blends superheroes with military industry

“Watchmen” popularized the idea of superheroes run amok, but that saga quickly moves beyond the question of “Who watches the Watchmen?” to its answer of

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‘Birds of Prey’ is hard to take seriously

“Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn” plays like a throw-it-at-the-wall experiment, but an earnest one. This eighth DC Extended Universe

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‘Terminator: Salvation’ expands with ‘Machinima Series’ (2009)

Even fairly serious “Terminator” fans might not know about this oddity: There was a prequel movie to “Salvation” – sort of. “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima

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‘Runaways’ Season 1 (2017-18) is kind of silly, kind of good

With an unusually long gap between new Marvel Cinematic Universe releases, I decided to finally check out “Marvel’s Runaways” Season 1 (2017-18, Hulu). Now through

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‘Watchmen’ TV series digs into history of American racism

Creator Damon Lindelof has taken the lessons learned on “Lost” – where time-jumping was a sometimes fun, sometimes hoary narrative device – and beautifully applied

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