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This article contains spoilers for Bugonia. “What the heck just happened?” Honestly, that question applies to basically every movie that Yorgos Lanthimos makes. But it’s particularly relevant for his latest film Bugonia, not so much because the ending is unclear, but because it is so unexpected. For Lanthimos himself, what’s unexpected is the divisive response […]
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Read MoreWith another spooky season come and gone, there’s now been a whole new generation of people who have discovered The Silence of the Lambs for the first time. For more than 30 years, Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel has remained a favorite thanks to its incredible filmmaking and powerful performances by Anthony […]
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Read MoreEvery Trekkie knows that Star Trek wouldn’t exist without ’60s sitcoms. I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball’s company Desilu produced the show, and she used her clout to help Gene Roddenberry get an unprecedented second pilot after CBS execs passed on the first. But a different ’60s sitcom helped continue the Star Trek legacy by […]
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Read MoreWith a title like Doomsday, it sure seems like the next Avengers outing will be a glum one. The film will not only see the great Fantastic Four nemesis Doctor Doom arrive in the form of the Avengers’ fallen comrade Tony Stark, but likely also feature the destruction of multiple realities, including the happy world […]
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Read More“If you saw his eyes right now, I’m sure you’d learn that even an android can… cry!” Those dramatic lines closed 1968’s Avengers #58, in which Earth’s Mightiest Heroes overcome their mistrust of the synthezoid Vision and induct him into their team. Between writer Roy Thomas’ melodramatic narration and artist John Buscema’s final splash panel […]
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Read MoreEven though they both have the designation Earth-616, the Marvel Comics Universe and the Marvel Cinematic Universe are really two different places. In some cases, the movies are better. They have David Harbour as a delightfully buffoonish Red Guardian, they have Agent Carter, and they have a pretty streamlined shared continuity. But in some ways, […]
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Read MoreWelcome to Derry is a strange subtitle for a TV series about an eternal horror that devours people, mostly children, who live in the titular Maine town. But It: Welcome to Derry is all about the contrast between wholesome folks and the evil they try to ignore, a contrast highlighted by the show’s opening credits. […]
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Read MoreWalter White is the one who knocks. The meek science teacher turned notorious drug lord Heisenberg remains one of the most iconic figures in television history. But if you’re Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan, you don’t necessarily want Walter to be the most important person of your life. At least, that’s the sentiment that Gilligan […]
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Read MoreOne night, in November 1983, Will Byers didn’t come home. That central hook from the 2016 pilot episode of Stranger Things seems so simple compared to what the series became. Over the next nine years and four seasons, Stranger Things grew more and more intricate in its lore, adding telekinetic kids, Cold War intrigue, the […]
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Read MoreIn the 2022 A24 movie Talk to Me, teenagers discover a cursed plaster hand that allows spirits to possess anyone who grasps it. Despite knowing that it leads directly to Hell, and despite knowing that opens them up to all sorts of evil, the teens grasp it anyway, leading to all sorts of horrible, horrible […]
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Read MoreTurns out we administered Last Rites too soon. Just last week, The Conjuring: Last Rites director Michael Chaves declared the franchise to be done. “This is the final chapter,” he said. “It’s the last one. There’s no other Conjuring movies. It is absolutely the end.” And yet, reliable insider Borys Kit of The Hollywood Reporter […]
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Read MoreEveryone knows that James Gunn is an unapologetic comic book nerd. His projects have included deep pulls from the pages of Marvel and DC , bringing to the screen Z-listers like Peacemaker, Javelin, and, of course, Taserface. But as much as Superman draws from All-Star Superman and The Suicide Squad carries the spirit of writer […]
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Read MoreScream fans are gonna be so mad at Stu Macher. After Billy Loomis (sort of) returned for the legacy sequels Scream (2022) and Scream VI, the other original Ghostface is set to show up in Scream 7. And yet, while the first trailer for the latest slasher entry features plenty of familiar faces, we don’t […]
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Read MoreFor four seasons, the freaks and geeks of Hawkins, Indiana have been exploring the hellish Upside Down lurking beneath their town. In season 5, the evil that rules the Upside Down is coming to the Rightside Up. The first trailer for Stranger Things season 5 shows Vecna on the loose, and it doesn’t look like […]
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Read MoreIn a career that spans 40 years, Grant Morrison has written the definitive take on numerous comic book characters. Their runs on Animal Man and Doom Patrol set the model for adult, mature approaches to superheroes. Their work on The Authority and JLA showed how superhero comics could compete with Hollywood blockbusters. They wrote All-Star […]
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Read MoreThe Sopranos has one of the most perfect opening title sequences in television history. The opener follows protagonist Tony Soprano as he drives through the Lincoln Tunnel into New Jersey, past the various locales where he exerts his power as a mob boss, all the way to the McMansion where he experiences his existential crises. […]
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Read MoreThe Dude abides. Those three words encompass an entire worldview, a whole system of belief about how to cope with in an incredibly difficult world, one—in the case of one Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski—encompasses fake rich men, connected pornographers, and nihilists. And yet, as Sam Elliott’s cowboy intones in the final moments of the Coen […]
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Read MoreOne of the first rules of time travel is that the timeline is always in flux, and the slightest derivation can radically alter entire realities. So when Disney ditched its plans to make Kang the Conquerer the big bad of its Multiverse Saga, the state of the MCU had to change. The biggest change, of […]
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Read MoreThere were Scream Queens before Michael Myers came home to Haddonfield to terrorize Laurie Strode. Fay Wray in King Kong, Elsa Lanchester in Bride of Frankenstein, and Janet Leigh in Psycho all sent shrieks echoing across movie theater walls. But no one has done it better than Janet’s daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, who played final […]
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Read MoreOz Cobb didn’t become a player in the Gotham City underworld by being reckless. He knows when the odds are stacked against him, and he knows not to sacrifice long-term success for short-term gain. Clearly, Colin Farrell, the guy who brought Oz to life in The Batman and in the HBO spinoff The Penguin feels […]
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