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"Wicked" is a bewitching spectacle that smartly probes who has power in a beloved fairy tale

Defying gravity is hard, sure. But defying expectations is nearly impossible, especially when it comes to adapting a property as universally beloved...

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Kathy Griffin’s comeback wins the night at Carnegie Hall, despite Trumpian turbulence outside

Ramping up to a nail-biting election, a slew of people with steadfast political beliefs and questionable moral values descended on New York City from...

28.10.2024 6

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In "Anora," director Sean Baker paints a dazzling portrait of love, loss and self-discovery

Though her name means “light and bright,” those two adjectives are hardly how anyone would describe Ani, Mikey Madison’s titular sex worker with...

19.10.2024 10

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‘Fantasmas’: Emma Stone Just Did the Best Real Housewives Parody of All Time

To be a Real Housewives obsessive is to wade into the murky darkness of the death-laden and designer label-strewn realities of being an affluent...

13.07.2024 20

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‘MaXXXine’ Is a Bloody, Brilliant Capper to A24’s Iconic Trilogy

MaXXXine, the final film in Ti West’s bloody-brilliant X trilogy, has a lot riding on it. X was not only a smash success that made its $1 million...

04.07.2024 10

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Nicole Kidman and Zac Efron Are Absurdly Sexy Together in ‘A Family Affair’

If you enjoyed watching Anne Hathaway play a mother seduced by her daughter’s favorite superstar in last month’s The Idea of You , but found...

28.06.2024 10

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Can the Moviegoing Masses Handle ‘Kinds of Kindness’?

There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we...

25.06.2024 20

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With Her New Indigenous Drama, Lily Gladstone Is Unstoppable

Watching a diligent artist and actor finally get their due is one of the rare gratifying, non-toxic experiences that Hollywood can offer an outsider....

21.06.2024 10

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‘Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person’: A Vamp Who Can’t Kill and a Boy Who Wants to Die

Vampires have problems too. Sure, they’re ruthless, fiendish, bloodsucking creatures of the night. But just because they’re immortal doesn’t...

20.06.2024 10

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Bethenny Frankel Deserves to Be the New Lifetime Movie Queen

The ability to fake cry is a tried-and-true ability that any person must be armed with to make it onto reality television. It’s an essential tool to...

19.06.2024 10

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Maya Hawke’s ‘Inside Out 2’ Character Is All Too Relatable

There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we...

18.06.2024 10

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‘Jackie’s Back’: The Best Mockumentary You’ve Never Seen Turns 25

Do you know what you’re doing for Jackie Washington Day next month? You know, July 15, Jackie Washington Day! It’s the annual holiday that...

16.06.2024 5

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A Giant Talking Bird Is No Match for Julia Louis-Dreyfus in ‘Tuesday’

For as much as studies of grief and death have been twisted and mangled into trite gimmicks in the genre films of late, it’s rare to see a...

13.06.2024 30

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2024 Needed a Good Neo-Noir. ‘Lake George’ Is (Almost) It.

After the sun-drenched disappointment of Colin Farrell’s Sugar , it’s nice to see a Los Angeles-set neo-noir that manages not to squander its...

12.06.2024 8

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‘Rent Free’ Wants Twentysomethings to Finally Grow the Hell Up

Are you really an adult if you haven’t couch-surfed for at least a brief period of your life? The vagabond in me, who once slept on his friend’s...

08.06.2024 20

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‘The French Italian’ Is the Funniest New York Movie in Years

New Yorkers know that living in the city comes with a certain amount of unavoidable noise. The construction, shouting, car horns, and bumping bass are...

07.06.2024 10

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Even Lesbian Dakota Johnson Can’t Make This Coming-Out Comedy Fun

It’s Pride month, which means that if you’re within 100 yards of an open bottle of Tito’s vodka or a DSW with a sale on Tevas, you’re liable...

06.06.2024 10

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Kim Kardashian and Chloë Sevigny’s Actors Chat Is a Smooth-Brained Delight

The latest of Variety’s wacky Actors on Actors pairings reads a little bit like one of those old-school clickbait headlines (which I’m told still...

05.06.2024 10

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‘Hit Man’ Proves Glen Powell Is Officially Hollywood’s Best Heartthrob

There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we...

04.06.2024 20

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Watching ‘Summer Camp’ Is a Great Way to Waste Your Time

Each summer, I am left chasing a high that is increasingly difficult to reach, and that high would be a little thing called “seeing matinees at 3...

31.05.2024 20

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No Movie This Year Will Make You Cry Like ‘Robot Dreams’

If you heard the film Robot Dreams be called among the five Best Animated Feature nominees at this year’s Oscars ceremony and said, “What the...

31.05.2024 30

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Julio Torres’ ‘Fantasmas’ Will Shock and Delight You

While I’d never root for a movie to be delayed, especially not because of a labor strike, I think it may have been divine intervention in the case...

30.05.2024 30

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The ‘Hacks’ Finale Levels the Playing Field With a Big Twist

Max’s Hacks may have just finished out its third season, but the show has never felt quite so energetic. In Season 3, young comedy writer Ava...

30.05.2024 30

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The ‘Garfield Movie’ Product Placement Is So Very Depressing

Lasagna is not healthy. You can hear the sound of hundreds of meat tenderizers slapping the palms of some angry Italian hands right now, but it’s...

28.05.2024 20

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‘Atlas’: J.Lo’s New Movie Spits in the Faces of AI’s Critics

There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we...

28.05.2024 20

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Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica Ball’ Film Oozes With Joy and Sweat

The start of the COVID-19 pandemic gave us some of the absolute worst media imaginable. Anne Hathaway’s luxury department store heist movie was...

24.05.2024 40

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J.Lo’s AI Sci-Fi Flick Is One of the Year’s Biggest Misfires

As a creative, I am constantly worrying myself with questions about artificial intelligence. Will my job be obsolete one day? Can AI as we know it...

24.05.2024 30

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You’ve Been Watching ‘The Kardashians’ Wrong This Whole Time

There’s something strange happening to the Kardashians. When I check in on America’s First Family every few months—often timed to the release of...

23.05.2024 20

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‘The Garfield Movie’ Wastes His Ninth Life

Who the hell gave Garfield a smartphone? Granted, the world has changed significantly in the 46 years since Jim Davis’ comic strip about the...

22.05.2024 80

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‘Furiosa’ Will Make Everyone Obsessed With Anya Taylor-Joy

There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we...

21.05.2024 20

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Bella Hadid’s Perfume Line Will Awaken Your Inner Romantic

There is something preternaturally alluring about Bella Hadid. Maybe it’s the supermodel-activist-lemon heiress’ cheekbones, which look like...

19.05.2024 60

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‘Mary & George’ Finale Ends Fittingly: Spectacular Murder and One Last Sex Scene

18.05.2024 50

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‘Drag Race All Stars’ Premiere Reads RuPaul for Filth

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They Tried to Make an Amy Winehouse Biopic. We Said ‘Zzz.’

15.05.2024 10

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Why Do People Keep Seeing the ‘Planet of the Apes’ Movies?

14.05.2024 40

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There’ll Never Be Another Show Like Kathy Griffin’s ‘My Life on the D-List’

14.05.2024 60

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‘Mary & George’ Gets Even More Morbid, If You Can Believe It

11.05.2024 30

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Charli XCX Gathers Online It Girls for Charitable Cause: Hotness

10.05.2024 20

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‘Bodkin,’ Netflix’s ‘Only Murders’ Knockoff, Is Miles Better

You, me, and anyone with even a tangential grasp on modern technology may have true-crime podcast fatigue. But for the people of Bodkin, Ireland—the...

09.05.2024 50

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‘Pretty Little Liars: Summer School’ Belongs in Detention

There have been five—count ‘em, five!—entries in the Pretty Little Liars franchise since the pulpy teen drama, based on the popular book...

09.05.2024 30

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He Stole Millions by Impersonating Hollywood’s Biggest Execs

As if being a freelancer weren’t hard enough, try being a freelancer chasing down invoice payments halfway around the world, after already getting...

08.05.2024 20

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Everyone Is Thirsting Over Kennedy Grandson Jack Schlossberg—for Good Reason

In Pablo Larráin’s 2016 film Jackie , Natalie Portman—playing John F. Kennedy’s wife Jaqueline Kennedy, following her husband’s...

07.05.2024 20

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‘Unfrosted’ Is Proof Jerry Seinfeld Has Lost His Touch

There are roughly 47,000—oh, wait, a new Netflix Original just dropped; make that 47,001—TV shows and movies coming out each week. At Obsessed, we...

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‘OMG Fashun’: Julia Fox’s New TV Show Is a Glorious F-U to Fashion Normies

If there is one person who can shake up the stale reality competition show format, it’s Julia Fox. The actor, model, author, sometimes singer, and...

06.05.2024 30

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J.Lo’s Career Identity Crisis Needs a New ‘Monster-in-Law’

Welcome to modern rom-com week at The Daily Beast’s Obsessed! In honor of two big romance releases this week—The Fall Guy and The Idea of...

05.05.2024 50

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Stylist Icon Law Roach Listens to Critics. Just Don’t Come for Zendaya.

Law Roach is no stranger to controversial looks. Whether the renowned celebrity stylist and image architect is showing up bulge-first to the 2023 CFDA...

05.05.2024 20

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‘Mary & George’ Stop the Relentless Sex to Wage War—and It’s Just as Satisfying

As if there weren’t enough power struggles being waged from week to week on Mary & George , real war is brewing for the English in 1618, and Mary...

04.05.2024 20

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‘Hacks’ Season 3 Is So Good, It’s Almost a Miracle

In bad relationships, coffee shops that turn into wine bars after a certain hour, and television productions, there is one core rule to abide by:...

02.05.2024 10

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Vanessa Williams’ New Song Is Bringing MILF Culture Back

During my tenure at the Fashion Institute of Technology, I was required to take one fashion merchandising class, where my professor impressed upon me...

30.04.2024 20

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‘Velma’ Season 2 Proved Haters Wrong With the Perfect Scooby-Doo Joke

Alright, ready those tomatoes and warm up your pitching arm because I’ve got something to say: Max’s Velma series is fantastic. In a world...

29.04.2024 30

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