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Emma Stefansky

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‘Sweetpea’: The Making of a Murderer Has Never Been This Funny

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...

12.10.2024 4

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Emma Stefansky

‘Lonely Planet’: It’s Laura Dern’s Turn to Bang a Younger Stud in a Movie

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...

11.10.2024 8

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One Girl’s Hallucinogens Summon Aubrey Plaza From the Future

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...

27.09.2024 3

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Kathy Bates’ Superb ‘Matlock’ Reboot Has Fall TV’s Biggest Twist

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...

22.09.2024 9

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‘Omni Loop’: Ayo Edebiri’s Winning Streak Continues With New Time-Loop Comedy

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...

21.09.2024 3

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‘Child Star’: Demi Lovato Reveals the Horrors of Being Young and Famous

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...

17.09.2024 3

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‘Transformers One’ Is High Art. We’re Being Serious.

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...

16.09.2024 4

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Netflix’s ‘KAOS’ Turns Jeff Goldblum Into a Greek God. Finally.

It’s a tricky thing to use the foundations of something familiar to build something unexpected. Without sounding too grand, the history of human...

29.08.2024 4

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‘Emily in Paris’ Season 4 Is Still Absurdly, Adorably Idiotic

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...

15.08.2024 10

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‘Industry’ Season 3 Is Wilder, Funnier, and More Hellish Than Ever

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-...

09.08.2024 3

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‘House of the Dragon’ Finale Ends, Finally, With the Promise of Bloody War

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...

05.08.2024 4

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‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 7 Recap: Is This the End of the Targaryens?

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...

29.07.2024 3

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Kit Harrington’s ‘The Beast Within’ Is the Next Great Werewolf Horror Story

When horror fans talk about horror movies, they always stress one thing. No matter what subgenre the film belongs to, whether it’s about...

26.07.2024 3

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The Big ‘House of the Dragon’ Kiss Finally Happened

(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...

22.07.2024 7

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‘House of the Dragon’ Episode 5: Is King Aegon Still Alive?

(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...

15.07.2024 3

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Emma Stefansky