Niecy Nash-Betts has no appetite for horror. So it’s hard to fathom her decision to star as an alcoholic detective in the FX horror series Grotesquerie, which opens with a murdered family hogtied and stuffed like a roasted pig. But presented with an irresistible script by Ryan Murphy — with …
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Nearly 20 years after his death, it’s easy to forget the ways that R&B legend Luther Vandross impacted pop music. His suavely rhythmic hits, many from the Eighties, don’t get the same amount of airplay as New Wave classics of the same period. It’s also easy to forget how complex …
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T he actress Juno Temple is good at many things, but one of them is not — and has never been — living in the real world. “I’m fucking really not good at reality,” she’d said on a recent Friday afternoon, while taking a turn or two around Tokio7, one …
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This post contains spoilers for the finale of Agatha All Along, now streaming on Disney+. For a show where the power of witches’ circles was so prominent, Agatha All Along felt like an appropriately full-circle moment for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It was a direct sequel to the very first …
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If you’ve visited Salem, Massachusetts, in the last decade or so, you’re probably well aware that the Disney movie Hocus Pocus was shot there. During spooky season, which now starts in the middle of August and runs through Halloween, the historic coastal city known for being the site of the …
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Ari Graynor has tears in her eyes. We had been scheduled to speak this afternoon, Oct. 24, about her role in Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, the Netflix miniseries that has helped reignite public fascination with the 1989 murder case in which the two brothers, 18 and 21 …
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Even if you haven’t seen Practical Magic — the 1998 fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as cursed sister-witches — you know the “midnight margaritas” scene. It happens shortly after Gillian and Sally Owens (Kidman and Bullock, respectively) accidentally murder Gillian’s abusive boyfriend Jimmy Angelov (Goran Višnjić). They …
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In the 1982 comedy classic Tootsie, Teri Garr plays Sandy Lester, a struggling actress and close friend of Dustin Hoffman’s Michael Dorsey. Between her chosen profession and her many bad choices in men, she has been conditioned to be life’s doormat. In an early scene, she vents that she was …
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Love Is Blind fans have plenty of questions heading into the Season Seven reunion, which streams Wednesday night on Netflix. For starters, does Ashley Adionser understand the full scope of her husband Tyler Francis’ involvement with his biological children? Will viewers learn the full scope of that situation after watching …
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As she enters her third season of work on The Diplomat, Keri Russell’s commute to England has gotten a lot shorter. While the political thriller’s first two seasons — featuring Russell’s Emmy-nominated performance as Kate Wyler, the harried U.S. ambassador to Great Britain (Season Two premieres on Netflix Oct. 31) …
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