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Adrienne Brodeur’s New Memoir, Wild Game, Is Wild ...

Perhaps everyone has a memoir in them — but only some lives are instant and undeniable blockbusters. Adrienne Brodeur’s is one. In her memoir, Wil

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Who's Who On The Risqué New Netflix Show Baby?

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How To Be Lady Gaga In All Of Her Eras For Halloween

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Which Taylor Swift Should You Be For Halloween?

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18 Terrifying Books That Will Keep You Up At Night

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The Modern Love Cast Knows How To Sweep You Off Your Fee...

Modern Love, premiering on Amazon Prime Video October 18, is not as romantic as the star-studded trailer, featuring a moony-eyed Dev Patel and an Anne Hath

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Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil Gives New Meaning To The Ph...

Inevitably, movies about female monarchs become stories of women clinging to power. Not because the tippy-top of a monarchy is an inherently precarious pos

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What’s Real & What’s Imagined At The End Of Netflix&#...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the ending of Netflix’s Fractured. A wise band called Coldplay once said, “I’m going back to the s

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Best of Netflix

How Catherine Of Valois & Henry V’s Real Relationship Compa...

Say what you will about The King, a new reimagining of Shakespeare’s Henry V premiering in theaters October 11 and on Netflix November 1 — the movie h

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Annie Wilkes Is The Star Of Castle Rock — Here’s W...

In season 2 of Castle Rock, premiering on Hulu on October 23, Annie Wilkes gets a new look – and a new story. Though Castle Rock is set in the modern da

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These Celebrities Absolutely Slayed At Halloween

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35 Netflix Movies To Get Excited For In 2019

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How Much Of The King Is True?

Warning: Spoilers for Netflix’s The King ahead. King Henry V, who ruled England from 1413 until his death in 1422, tops most unofficial English monar

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Time’s Up’s New President & CEO Tina Tchen Has Big Plans

On October 7, Tina Tchen was named the new president and CEO of Time’s Up, an organization famously launched in a full-page New York Times ad in the wake

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Have Fun This Halloween. Be A Female Villain.

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Channel The Pastel Hues & Pettiness Of The Politician ...

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The Books Of 2019 We Can't Wait To Read (So Far)

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Our Favorite Books Of October 2019

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How Can A Movie About The Undead Be This Heartwarming?

Australia is home to a slew of supersize, venomous creatures that seem to have slithered right out of R. L. Stine’s imagination — so, be careful when v

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We Admit It: These Kids’ Movies Absolutely Still Terrify Us

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Clever Halloween Costumes No Bookworm Can Resist

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What To Watch On Hulu If You Want A Good Scare

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Entertainment News

A #MeToo Timeline To Show How Far We’ve Come — & How Far We...

It’s been two years since the New York Times and New Yorker investigation into the sexual misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein unleashed the #MeToo movement and

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We Solved The Confusing Ending Of Netflix’s In The Tall...

In the Tall Grass, premiering on Netflix on October 4, has a clear lesson: When driving through the American heartland, don’t stop to meander through a t

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Entertainment
How To Be The Women of Hustlers For Halloween
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Halloween
How To Be Jon Snow & Daenerys Targaryen For Halloween
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Movies
Parents Pay This Clown To Scare Their Kids & Now He’s Here ...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that clowns are terrifying. At some point in their long history, clowns’ exaggerated makeup and goofy voices went
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