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2024 Emmys Recap

2024/9/16

Last night's Primetime Emmy Awards included big wins for Hacks, The Bear, Shōgun, and Baby Reindeer.

Never visit your weird new friends at their enormous isolated country estate. That's a basic rule th

Rebel Ridge

2024/9/11

In Netflix's new film Rebel Ridge, Aaron Pierre plays Terry, a young Black man who enters a small So

The Front Room

2024/9/10

Maybe you think you've seen every scary mother-in-law fiction has to offer — you absolutely haven't

The Perfect Couple

2024/9/9

We all love a fancy wedding. The music, the flowers — the body washing up on the beach. At least tha

There's a reason Beetlejuice was a hit back in 1988: it delivered both the spectacle and big stars o

Maybe you're going up for a promotion, or just got out of a bad relationship. Whatever it is, your m

Kaos

2024/9/3

In the clever new Netflix series Kaos, the Greek Gods are a rich and powerful modern-day family. The

Some people may flinch at the genre of reality TV – it's full of tropes and manipulative editing and

The new movie Afraid is latest in the well-established genre of "the computer is alive" stories. Joh

The Crow

2024/8/29

In the new film The Crow, Bill Skarsgård plays a man who gets brutally murdered alongside his soulma

Sabrina Carpenter has had two of the year's biggest hits with "Espresso" and "Please Please Please."

It's practically a tradition for famous people to portray a really offbeat version of themselves in

In the new psychological thriller Blink Twice, Naomi Ackie plays a woman who is invited to the priva

Part of the fun of reality TV is putting yourself in the shoes of the people you're watching. Maybe

Bad Monkey

2024/8/20

In the new Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey, a fishing boat in the Florida Keys pulls in a human arm, and

The vinyl record, the CD, the DVD, the VHS tape — even the paper book has been the subject of debate

Alien: Romulus is the latest entry in the venerable Alien sci-fi/horror film franchise, and it leans

Didi

2024/8/15

The movie Didi is a vibrant coming-of-age dramedy and was a Sundance film festival favorite. It star

We've got dirty words on the brain, and we're chatting about the use and functions of profanity in e