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Disney Plus is adding channels as streaming inches ever closer back to cable

Streaming is taking yet another step toward cable. Just weeks after combining its Hulu and Disney Plus services, Disney Plus is adding streaming...

18.04.2024 30

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Austen Goslin

The dirty secret to making sci-fi believable

Over the last decade, there’s been a glut of sci-fi and fantasy series on television and streaming. With peak Game of Thrones , House of the...

17.04.2024 30

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Dune: Part Two is really Zendaya’s movie

Denis Villeneuve’s planned trilogy of Dune movies is unmistakably focused on telling the story of Paul Atreides, as played by Timothée Chalamet....

06.03.2024 10

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Tenet is back in theaters — and it’s secretly a vibes-only Christopher Nolan masterpiece

The world wasn’t ready for Tenet when it was originally released in 2020. That’s both literally true — it was the middle of the pandemic —...

23.02.2024 20

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Did Greta Gerwig get snubbed at the Oscars because Barbie is the year’s Dark Knight?

The Oscar nominations are in, and there’s something missing from the Best Director and Best Picture nominees — or is there? None of us at Polygon...

23.01.2024 10

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Robert Downey Jr. proves we didn’t run out of real movie stars, we ran out of real movies

For years now, pundits have been declaring that movie stardom is dead. Everyone from Jennifer Aniston to The New York Times seems to have agreed that...

23.01.2024 30

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Streaming exclusivity doesn’t matter anymore

In the early days of the streaming wars, library content seemed to be king. Peacock holding onto the rights of extraordinarily valuable parent-company...

14.12.2023 3

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The new Hunger Games movie makes a great case for Marvel’s year off from MCU movies

It’s been eight years since the last Hunger Games movie and, as it turns out, fans were eager to come back for more of Panem’s most brutal game...

05.12.2023 3

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A Hunger Games reality show could be great, actually

The Hunger Games is supposed to be a horrifying condemnation of commodified violence and a statement about the brutality of class-based spectacle...

15.11.2023 8

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Captain Marvel should have been the MCU’s first true jock

The Marvel Cinematic Universe can’t escape the quippy protagonist. Throw a stone at any of the series’ 33 movies and you’re bound to hit a...

14.11.2023 30

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No one in Loki wanted to stop H.H. Holmes?

Loki season 2 is already in full swing. There’s a new Kang variant, a few intersecting plots that hold the fate of every universe in the balance, a...

20.10.2023 30

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Fall of the House of Usher lets the real villains off the hook

Mike Flanagan didn’t start his storytelling career on Netflix, but it is where he found his voice. Starting with The Haunting of Hill House ,...

17.10.2023 10

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The Fall of the House of Usher’s lemon speech is embarrassingly out of touch

Monologues are Mike Flanagan’s specialty. From his earliest movies, he’s loved to let characters wax poetic about their motivations, the...

14.10.2023 3

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The Creator is the first real post-‘war on terror’ movie

The United States’ officially designated “Global War on Terrorism” began 22 years ago, just three days after the Sept. 11 attacks. The U.S....

30.09.2023 4

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Ahsoka’s Baylan Skoll could have been Star Wars’ Ned Stark if he wasn’t such a mess

Motivations in Star Wars aren’t often complicated. Sure, plenty of characters change their minds between the Dark Side of the Force and the Light...

21.09.2023 10

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