Cue your midnight margaritas, belladonna, and flipped pancakes, because a Practical Magic sequel is officially underway. From Hocus Pocus to Beetlejuice, millennials’ favorite Halloween movies have all gotten the sequel treatment. But Practical Magic, the 1998 fantasy film starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as cursed sister-witches, is the one …
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At the start of the opening credits of each episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Anson Mount delivers a variation of the same famous speech that so many Trek captains have recited before him, about space being the final frontier, the voyages of the starship Enterprise, and how the …
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When we talk about snubs and surprises with this year’s Emmy nominations, we’re at times stretching each term. Some of the “snubs” mentioned below involve shows or performances that weren’t necessarily the best, but fit the pattern of the kinds of things that usually get nominated, while others were great …
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By the time Love Island USA concluded on Sunday, millions of viewers who tuned in this summer felt defeated. Countless posts that flooded everyone’s timelines on X were exhausted, delirious, and even angry. Let’s state the obvious: the seventh season of the show was an absolute mess. The four remaining …
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This post contains spoilers for the Season Two finale of Poker Face, now streaming on Peacock. The second season of Poker Face nearly ends on a cliffhanger. Towards the end of the finale —appropriately titled “The End of the Road” — the show’s human lie detector heroine, Charlie Cale(Natasha Lyonne), …
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Disrupt the blood. Hack the hate. In Mountainhead, written, directed, and produced by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong, these are just a few of the technocratisms bandied about by the four tech bros (played by Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Ramy Youssef, and Cory Michael Smith) who have gathered at a mountaintop …
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M eg Stalter was fighting in a hot tub. She had come to a water park in Wisconsin to relax between stops on her comedy tour, which was styled as a series of fake rallies for a rich, famous, and clueless person running for president. (I know this is a …
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Lionel Boyce is almost surprisingly soft-spoken and mild-mannered, just like the quietly dedicated pastry chef he plays on The Bear. But Boyce swears he and Marcus Brooks are not that similar. With four seasons of playing the character under his belt— complete with a 2024 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting …
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Speak the truth, AliciaSilverstone: “Searching for a boy in high school is as useless as looking for meaning in a Pauly Shore movie.” Happy 30th birthday to Clueless, Amy Heckerling’s coming-of-age comedy starring the dynamic duo of Silverstone and Stacey Dash. Ever since it arrived in July 1995, it’s been …
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You can be an actor who stars in more than 200 movies in your career, with parts ranging from leads to glorified cameos, and yet it’s just one film that people associate with your name for the rest of your natural-born life. And occasionally, the role you’re lucky enough to …
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