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The best stuff to watch with your friends on Netflix Party

The vast majority of humanity is in isolation for the next few weeks or months, maybe longer. Which means people are desperate for ways to connect with their loved ones from afar. With so many households undoubtedly binging similar things (ahem, The…

By Kara Weisenstein

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'A Charlie Brown Christmas' won't be on TV this year, and our parents are devastated
By Shawn Cooke
No matter how many sea changes come for the broader streaming ecosystem, there are certain shows or movies you imagine running on cable for the rest of its existence. The Oscars, the Super Bowl, It’s A Wonderful Life around Christmastime, The King…
8 horror movies that will also make you laugh
By Shawn Cooke
It’s hard to pinpoint which exact film birthed the use of “elevated horror,” “prestige horror,” or any number of dubious signifiers that designate high-minded, good scary movies from schlocky trash. If the latter isn’t always the best that horror…
'Dick Johnson Is Dead' is a sweet, twisted documentary about dying
By Shawn Cooke
There’s something inherently elegiac about home movies. You might trace it to their fading cultural real estate, crowded out by fleeting short form video, or the fact that you can always film and instantly edit whatever you want now. But watching…
Going to the movies is cancelled for how long?
By Kara Weisenstein
Remember how No Time To Die was supposed to premiere last April? The 25th James Bond flick was the first major movie delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, just six months ago — though it feels like a century has passed. We thought we’d finally get to…
Would you endure a 24-hour horror movie marathon for $1,000?
By Shawn Cooke
Every few weeks, you’re likely to encounter a Twitter prompt with the following: a photo of like, three McDonalds meals, underneath text asking, “are you eating all of this in an hour for $300,000??” It’s a mind-numbing exercise, only intended to…
Billie Eilish's Bond theme is here, even if 'No Time to Die' never comes out
By Shawn Cooke
Already a film cursed by delays, an unhappy star, and reshoots, it just added insult to injury that a James Bond movie called No Time to Die would set its release right as a pandemic engulfed the world. It was eventually pushed back to November,…

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