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Emma Stefansky

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 5

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‘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 terrorized...

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 10

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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 of...

22.09.2024 10

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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 Edge...

21.09.2024 10

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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 open...

17.09.2024 5

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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 9

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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 10

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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 20

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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...

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 5

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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 5

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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 hauntings,...

26.07.2024 7

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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 10

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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 6

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Jenn Makes History in the Best ‘The Bachelorette’ Premiere in Years

Like Sunset Boulevard, Fight Club, and Ratatouille, the premiere of The Bachelorette ’s 21st season begins with a traumatic flash-forward to the...

09.07.2024 10

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‘House of the Dragon’: Who Was the Shocking Death in Dance of Dragons?

(Warning: Spoilers ahead.) Now we know why we’ve barely seen those CGI monsters for the past few episodes. In the first half of this season of ...

08.07.2024 5

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‘Daddio’: Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn Are Trapped in a Taxi Going Nowhere

Movies taking place in cars are part of a subgenre of single-set filmmaking that’s tricky to find, but usually pretty good. Steven Spielberg cut his...

28.06.2024 10

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‘My Lady Jane’: The Fun New Series That Gives a Middle Finger to History

“We’re all born to certain roles. Our destiny is set,” a character explains in an early episode of My Lady Jane, Prime Video’s new take on an...

25.06.2024 30

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‘Orphan Black: Echoes’ Is the Rare Brilliant Spin-Off Series

It makes sense for the clone show to get its own clone. Almost seven years after the conclusion of Orphan Black , the Canadian drama that launched...

23.06.2024 10

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‘Trigger Warning’: Jessica Alba Is Finally Back in Ass-Kicking Action Mode

Along with sexy, sweaty Regency-era romance shows and middling science-fiction movies, military and military-adjacent action movies are one of...

21.06.2024 10

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‘Gasoline Rainbow’: An Instant-Classic Film Just for Gen Alpha

There are many moments in Gasoline Rainbow, the teen road trip drama directed by Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross, that defy classification into either...

10.05.2024 30

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‘Prom Dates’ Proves the Teen-Girl Raunchy Sex Comedy Is Here to Stay, Thank God

03.05.2024 20

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Ethan Hawke Directs His Daughter in ‘Wildcat.’ But Their Movie’s a Bust.

Wildcat, the Ethan Hawke-directed, Maya Hawke-starring Flannery O’Connor biopic, begins with a trailer for an entirely different movie, a...

03.05.2024 10

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‘Infested’: The Horror Movie That Used 200 Real Spiders to Scare Audiences

“You have to understand why you’re afraid of spiders,” director Sébastien Vaniček tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed. “And as soon as you...

30.04.2024 30

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A Horny Cat King Helps Bring ‘Dead Boys Detective’ to Life

Depending on your personal interpretation, you may subscribe to the notion of ghosts as unquiet spirits, haunting the realm of the living until some...

25.04.2024 10

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‘Stress Positions’ Is the First Genuinely Funny COVID Period Piece

Most of us still cringe when we hear the phrase “COVID movie,” not because it’s “too soon,” but because seemingly every angle of the...

12.04.2024 10

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