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Fall TV Preview

Fall TV preview 2025: 10 shows I wouldn’t mind watching

Here’s a look at 10 television series on my radar in Fall 2025 plus a whole bunch of murder mysteries that I might sift through.

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Marple Season 3

‘Marple’s’ intrusions make more sense in strong Season 3 (2007-09)

I should be careful about making judgments based on a small sample size. “Marple” Season 2 inserts Jane Marple (Geraldine McEwan) into two of Agatha

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Night Moves

Hardboiled Hackman successfully works on his ‘Night Moves’ (1975)

With the neo-noir movement in full swing, “Night Moves” (1975) is a well-crafted example of the form, so on-point that a lot of the pleasure

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Trouble is My Business

Marlowe also operates in short form in ‘Trouble is My Business’ (1950, 1992)

If a Raymond Chandler fan has read the seven Philip Marlowe novels, they’ll be happy to know they aren’t quite done yet. “Trouble is My

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Weapons

‘Weapons’ of mass horror entertainment

Zach Cregger is the latest promising 2020s horror auteur to release a second major film where we ask: “Does he have the goods or is

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Together

‘Together’ turns the push-pull of a relationship into something scary

Some body horror films hit you with surprises (last year’s “The Substance”) and others tell you what they’re doing right up front and you have

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Green Ripper

MacDonald expands the definition of a mystery in ‘Green Ripper’ (1979)

John D. MacDonald challenges the definition of what a mystery can be in “The Green Ripper” (1979), his 18th Travis McGee novel. It starts as

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I Know 2025

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ ’25 and the importance of exploring themes

“I Know What You Did Last Summer” 2025 is the worst kind of bad movie: one that could’ve easily been good, and possibly even great.

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I Know 2025

‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ ’25 struggles to set its hook

I’m not one for ripping movies for not sticking the landing, provided the buildup has been enjoyable; after all, the buildup is most of the

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Imaginary Strangers

‘Imaginary Strangers’ (2024) excitingly internalizes the mystery-thriller

Minka Kent brings us directly into the mind of a sociopath in “Imaginary Strangers” (2024). But this isn’t a stereotypically violent sociopath; rather, homemaker and

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