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Emma StefanskyThe Daily Beast |
All six episodes of Starz and Sky Atlantic’s extremely black comedy Sweetpea begin with one chilling line of dialogue: “People I’d love to...
If all you did with your time was watch movies, you’d think that aliens were always on the brink of invading our planet, masked killers...
At a certain age, we start to wonder what it would be like to revisit our younger selves, with the foreknowledge we now have as adults: What advice...
The discourse about TV reboots has already run its course multiple times in our current era of streaming and prestige television. There are a lot...
Since Groundhog Day reinvented the genre, time-loop movies have been a way to tell a high-stakes story in a low-stakes way (the exception being...
Child Star, the new documentary about youth fame co-directed by Demi Lovato and Nicola Marsh, begins with a confession. Lovato, one of our more...
The Transformers brand is so ubiquitous in pop culture that even if you’re not a superfan, and even if you haven’t seen any of the movies, you...
It’s a tricky thing to use the foundations of something familiar to build something unexpected. Without sounding too grand, the history of human...
The Olympics may be over, but the campy Parisian hijinks have only just begun, heralded by the arrival on Aug. 15 of Season 4 of Netflix’s...
Three seasons into HBO’s financial drama Industry , I often find myself wondering, How are any of these people still alive? The show has single-...
The specter of open warfare has loomed over the entirety of the second season of House of the Dragon , and while we haven’t seen full-on battles...
Watching House of the Dragon is playing a game of contradictions. You want to see cool fantasy warfare, even though you don’t want to see your...
When horror fans talk about horror movies, they always stress one thing. No matter what subgenre the film belongs to, whether it’s about...
(Warning: Spoilers ahead for House of the Dragon .) Westeros needs dragons. With Rhaenys and Meleys gone, there’s only one big dragon left in the...
(Warning: Spoilers for Episode 5 of House of the Dragon ahead.) Things in Westeros are spinning out of control. The Greens and the Blacks have...