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Director David Mackenzie and writer Justin Piasecki have set the stage for a mystery thriller that continues at a slow burn that gradually increases in speed and heat as the stakes are raised, and raised and raised yet again.

This homage to the 1988 classic “The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!” is spot on.

It’s catch-up time for some of those series that premiered in late spring, along with some new ones that are just emerging.

“The Survivors” is a recently released Australian series that is thoroughly engrossing.

Get ready because here comes “Superman!” Aimed at adolescents (of age and mind), this film that reboots a cherished franchise is full of “coulda, woulda, shoulda.”

In the genre of “what if” science fiction movies, with a whole lot more fiction than science, comes another addition to the “Jurassic Park” collection.

The big theater hit and Olivier-winning play of this season in London is about a famous author, one whose works have touched so many children, mine included.

That season is upon us. The kids are out of school, the thermometer is heating up and the evenings will be free. What to do? Let’s go to the movies. 

Director/adapter Mike Flanagan has done a masterful job of bringing this tale to the screen.

Writer-director Laura Piani’s “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life” is the kind of romantic comedy where the ending is preordained, and the stumbling blocks are all too evident. Some of you will care; I didn’t.