Each episode of Netflix‘s One Day takes place on July 15 of successive years, from 1988 through 2007. Each year, we check in on the evolving relationship between idle rich boy Dexter Mayhew (Leo Woodall) and the more serious-minded Emma Morley (Ambika Mod), who start out as would-be lovers, instead …
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In all my years covering television, I have only everonce cursed out an interview subject, even in jest. This was back in 2009, when I was speaking with Russell T. Davies about the end of his tenure as showrunner of Doctor Who, and the launch of spinoff miniseries Torchwood: Children …
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Ever wish Back to the Future was more like Scream? Was your main beef with Halloween: “Hmm, not enough time travel?” Then Totally Killer is for you. Amazon‘s glossiest, wildest new horror-comedy finds Jamie (Kiernan Shipka) reeling after her mother (Julie Bowen) is murdered by a masked menace known as …
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If the rousing strains of a Danny Elfman theme didn’t make it clear, if the image of a jagged batlike aircraft in the sky didn’t do the trick, the sight of Michael Keaton back in black rubber should: The Flash, the long-delayed superhero extravaganza that raced into multiplexes this weekend, …
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