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Before Katheryn Winnick became internationally famous as the warrior Lagertha in Vikings, she faced a very different kind of enemy in the darkly comic Halloween horror film Satan’s Little Helper. Winnick plays Jenna Whooly, a college student who returns to her family’s home on Bell Island for Halloween.
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The 2000s were a strange and magnificent decade for cinema. Hollywood was discovering how enormous franchise filmmaking could become. Digital technology was changing the way movies were shot and distributed. Animation was pushing beyond the idea that it belonged primarily to children. Independent filmmakers were experimenting with increasingly intimate forms
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Jodie Foster is bringing one of her most intriguing recent performances to Netflix US. A Private Life, originally titled Vie privée, is scheduled to arrive on the platform on July 29, 2026, giving subscribers access to a stylish French-language mystery built around an apparent suicide, a suspicious psychiatrist, and
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Alexandra Daddario’s performance as Allison Miller in Bereavement represents an important early milestone in her film career. Allison enters the story as a grieving 17-year-old whose life has been abruptly dismantled by the deaths of her parents. Sent to live with her uncle and his family in
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Some horror movies need darkness, monsters and elaborate sets to make you feel trapped. As Above, So Below had the Paris Catacombs. Released in 2014 and directed by John Erick Dowdle, the found-footage horror film follows archaeologist Scarlett Marlowe into the tunnels beneath Paris in search of the legendary
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Before Sam Raimi gave Spider-Man his webs, he created a superhero who barely had a face. His name was Darkman. Released in 1990, Darkman arrived at a fascinating moment for comic-book cinema. Tim Burton's Batman had become a phenomenon the previous year, but superheroes were still
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A mysterious stranger arrives in a small New Mexico town carrying an object powerful enough to determine the fate of humanity. A demon follows him. Before long, a group of strangers is trapped inside a run-down boarding house while creatures gather outside. There is nowhere to run. The doors
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Kristin Kreuk does not need much screen time in EuroTrip to completely destroy Scott Thomas' comfortable little world. She manages it before the European adventure has properly begun. Kreuk plays Fiona, Scotty's girlfriend at the beginning of the 2004 comedy. At first, her decision to end their
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More than two decades after Sam Raimi's Spider-Man introduced Willem Dafoe's Norman Osborn, one of his ugliest conversations has somehow become a viral relationship theory. The argument goes like this: Norman warned his son Harry that Mary Jane Watson was interested in him because he
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In 1971, Hollywood received a message it could not comfortably ignore. A fiercely independent filmmaker named Melvin Van Peebles had made a movie outside the studio system about a Black man who attacks racist police officers, survives a massive manhunt, escapes across the Mexican border, and—most shockingly for American
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A grieving mother discovers something monstrous inside her family. A Puritan household collapses under religious paranoia. A relationship disintegrates during a sunlit pagan festival. A group of young filmmakers arrive at a remote farmhouse to make pornography and end up in a bloodbath. These sound like premises from completely different
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On August 10, 1977, New York moviegoers encountered one of the strangest and most unsettling performances of Jodie Foster’s early career. She was only a teenager, but in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Foster plays Rynn Jacobs, a fiercely intelligent 13-year-old living in an