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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark

But let’s give credit where credit is due: This is a remake of a fondly remembered, made-for-TV movie in 1973. Although effects have come a long, long way, baby, I still prefer the original. Living underneath the new-to-them Rhode Island mansion of architect Alex (Guy Pearce, “Animal Kingdom”); interior-designer girlfriend Kim (Katie Holmes, TV’s “The […]

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Yogi Bear

This live-action/CGI hybrid adaptation of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon classic — which, ironically, is too old a property for most kids to have knowledge of — is as bad you may have heard (or, God forbid, spent valuable time during your holiday season seeing). Poor Tom Cavanagh, so good on TV’s “Ed” and miscast ever since, […]

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