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Edgar Allan Poe introduced his 1840s readership to a new kind of fiction: detective novels. In his dark, twisted and often macabre stories, criminals committed crimes and were brought to justice by an officer of the law. But while his stories, including "The Cask of ...

Let’s not do this, OK? Let’s not use nostalgia to forgive the unspeakable things we did to fringe, denim and the musical scale in the 1980s. Other than the 1985 Chicago Bears and that time Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire, there is nothing even worth remembering...

Oh my God, they’ve shot Dame Helen Mirren! Realizing the Oscar-winning actress is playing a part, and not herself, the thought nonetheless is inescapable when Mirren’s ex-CIA agent takes a bullet in RED. I mean: How dare they...

The 400 Blows François Truffaut sensitively re-creates the trials of his own difficult childhood in The 400 Blows, the film that marked his emergence as one of Europe’s most brilliant auteurs and signaled the beginning of the French New Wave. Talk back after 7 p.m. ...

With a tightly wound blond perm, a smoker’s pipe and a voice that registers just north of a whisper, Carl Nargle is one of...

Limitless is about a drug that rewires your brain so that instead of having access to the usual 20 percent, you can utilize it all. Every memory is eidetic; everything you’ve ever seen, heard, learned, touched, tasted can instantly be integrated into your experiences...

Like many of my favorite scenes from The Accountant, the best one never actually happens. Having just watched hunky dreamboat/obvious-serial-killer accountant Christian Wolff (Ben...

Last night I pulled out a favorite album of mine that I had not listened to in some time, Doolittle by Pixies. Within seconds, I was transported to another time, another place. A smile crept across my face, my feet began to tap and a series of memories flooded forth...

Early on in the derivative but fairly absorbing blur titled Safe House, set in Cape Town, South Africa, Denzel Washington’s Tobin Frost, a spy in from the cold, is brought to a Central Intelligence Agency safe house so that he can be asked a few questions about the ...

You cannot ruin the essence of A Christmas...

Much as I like the Paranormal Activity pictures for their unfashionable minimalism and quaintly Victorian lack of gore, it’s nice to get back to something like The Woman in Black — not authentic Victoriana, exactly (Susan Hill’s novel was published in 1983), and ...