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Check the attic! (“The Conjuring,” 2013: Photo by Michael Tackett - © 2012 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved)

Haunted house movies

Haunted house, haunted family

Haunted house movies rely on tired old tropes because all the movies explore the same theme: a dysfunctional family and how its secrets tear it apart.

Paula Berman

Oct 28, 2014 Articles 6 minute read

They kept up their seemingly picture-perfect marriage for as long as they could.

David Fincher's 'Gone Girl'

Gone girls vs. good girls

Don’t blame the plethora of evil women on play and movie producers — they’re only taking an accurate reading of the zeitgeist and giving audiences what they want.

Carol Rocamora

Oct 11, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Slo-mo walk away from an explosion, check. (Photo by Phillip Caruso - © 2013 CTMG. All Rights Reserved.)

Antoine Fuqua remakes 'The Equalizer'

The team remaking TV classic The Equalizer for the big screen simply revamped the titular character for a 21st-century audience, keeping his essence while discarding most of the original television trappings.

Mark Wolverton

Oct 07, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight: Like father, like son?

Showtime's 'Ray Donovan'

Parsing Ray Donovan

Ray Donovan is Nathanael West’s Day of the Locust brought up to date, an ongoing examination and indictment of the sad, ruthless culture that is today’s showbiz Los Angeles.

Bob Ingram

Oct 07, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Hardy (left), Gandolfini: Offers that can't be refused.

Michaël Roskam’s ‘The Drop’

Coulda been a contender

Michaël Roskam’s The Drop, which strongly echoes On the Waterfront, has much to commend it as an evocation of the Brooklyn underworld. But it drops its own ball at the end.

Robert Zaller

Oct 06, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Thomas, Johnson: Dedicated cops in the best TV tradition

Revisiting 'Miami Vice'

1980s noir (in pastels)

More than just the visual style or the cool soundtrack, it's that sense of alienation, of existential heroism in the face of utter futility, that hit home back in 1984. In a way that few if any TV shows had ever done before, Miami Vice depicted a chaotic universe in which the only moral absolutes were those created and maintained by its inhabitants.

Mark Wolverton

Sep 26, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

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Franklin, Eleanor and Teddy: But what about their relatives?

‘The Roosevelts’ by Ken Burns

Old wine in a new bottle

A Ken Burns documentary constitutes such an extraordinary combination of historical research and dazzling showmanship that it seems downright churlish of me to suggest that his latest historical extravaganza was basically misconceived.