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Cuckoo

You’ll go ‘Cuckoo’ trying to connect with this movie

So many modern horror movies shoot straight for the trash bin that I feel I should point out that while “Cuckoo” is a bad movie,

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Angel of Vengeance

Preston & Child hop dimensions in ‘Angel of Vengeance’

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child let their interest in 1881 New York run wild in “Angel of Vengeance” (August, hardcover), the 22nd Pendergast novel and

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Lifepod

Hitchcock gets transported to space in ‘Lifepod’ (1993)

The very definition of a remake worth doing, the Fox TV movie “Lifepod” (1993) takes the core concept of “Lifeboat” (1944) but puts new (and

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents Season 1

‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ Season 1 (1955-56) brings the macabre into living rooms

Alfred Hitchcock’s macabre sense of humor had become a brand by the 1950s, and he smartly spun that into a TV series, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents.”

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Twisters

‘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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Creature with the Atom Brain

‘Creature with the Atom Brain’ (1955) a surprisingly brainy film

We all have atom brains. Even the non-creatures among us. All of our brains are made out of atoms. Our minds, on the other hand,

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The Fury

‘The Fury’ (1978) is weirder than ‘Carrie,’ but also worse

“The Fury” (1978) is no one’s pick for best or worst Brian De Palma movie, but it’s in contention for weirdest. A couple years after

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Caddo Lake

‘Caddo Lake’ an engrossing metaphysical mystery

“Caddo Lake” (Max) smartly taps into both emotions and metaphysics, along with the gorgeously foreboding bayou straddling Texas and Louisiana, in one of 2024’s minor

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Wrestling Women

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

‘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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