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This article contains spoilers for The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol episode 1. In the first season of The Walking Dead, quiet, submissive Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) spends most of her time trying to keep out of trouble, both with the walkers who routinely invade camp and with her husband, Ed…

This review contains spoilers for The Penguin episode 2. Oz Cobb starts the second episode of The Penguin feeling good about himself. He finesses a tense negotiation with jailed former crime boss Salvatore Maroni (Clancy Brown), convincing the one-time kingpin (and his aggressive wife and daughter) to take the fall for the murder of Alberto…

Friends still reigns supreme on streaming services worldwide because it captures audiences’ love with charismatic characters, witty one-liners, and romantic pairings straight out of a scripted version of The Bachelor. Romance emanates through Central Perk, Monica’s (Courteney Cox) apartment, and 1990s New York City with plenty of gusto. Why wouldn’t it? These six pals are…

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis had a rough opening weekend. A film that reportedly cost $120 million—most of it self-financed by the filmmaker after he sold a portion of his winery business—the epic is estimated to have grossed a mere $4 million in its first three days. That’s not even enough to crack the top five…

Can you be nostalgic for a moment while you’re living in it? It’s a question posed earnestly and quietly between two characters in Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s deeply nostalgic film about a time, a place, and a pop culture moment that was simultaneously fleeting and never-ending. The film is, after all, about the birth of…

Even if you don’t know Nosferatu, you know Nosferatu. Part of that knowledge comes from the promotional trailers that Focus Features has been running for the past several months, building excitement for the film’s Dec. 25 release. The latest one, in fact, focuses on Lily-Rose Depp as the story’s Ellen Hutter, a Mina Harker equivalent…

The biggest name in Japanese horror in any medium is prolific and enormously influential manga creator Junji Ito, whose celebrated catalog includes numerous body horror and psychological thriller stories. Ito’s arguable magnum opus is his 1998 award-winning manga series Uzumaki, which has now been adapted into an anime series produced by Production I.G USA and…

This article contains spoilers for The Penguin episode 2. It’s a long way to the top of the Gotham City crime ladder for Oz Cobb, but as HBO’s The Penguin heads into its second episode, he’s slowly waddling his way there. As Matt Reeves’ Batverse, which started with 2022’s The Batman, continues to expand, some…

This article contains spoilers for Industry season 3 episode 8. An unexpected challenge facing pop culture websites with international readerships is simply determining where certain properties come from. In our increasingly globalized economy, a TV series can be commissioned by a corporation from one country, filmed by a local crew in another, and then receive…

Big joys ahead. At the age of 17, while I was restricting calories and working out a ton, I remember looking in the mirror while getting ready for a party and realizing, oh my god, those indentations between my hips and my thighs (called “hip dips”) don’t seem to be there anymore! I was elated.…