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It's true! There's a second X-File movie that's about to hit the theaters, and fans couldn't be happier. Even if you're a newcomer, you're guaranteed to enjoy it.

Play an interactive game like no other. Use your physical might, your powers of observation, and your thinking skills to answer questions and rescue four hidden wizards.

Director David Twohy plays with audience perceptions and provides plenty of thrills in A Perfect Getaway. Milla Jovovich, Steve Zhan and Timothy Olyphant star.

Something was missing from Lynda La Plante's new crime drama, Above Suspicion. It wasn't intrigue or star performances - it was the heroine, DC Anna Travis.

Buried is the latest novel about gritty London detective Tom Thorne, the sixth in a series that started with the chilling Sleepyhead, and occurs six months after Lifeless

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In their first pairing since their famous restaurant scene in Heat (1995), De Niro and Pacino are back on screen in Righteous Kill, with mixed results.

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This killer-kid horror film modulates its malevolence well thanks to a sturdy theme, an unnerving turn from Isabelle Fuhrman and one doozy of a late-film development.

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Elizabeth George's What Came Before He Shot Her is the first London-based crime novel by the American writer to feature characters outside her usual ensemble.

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