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Decades of bewitching rom-coms pose the eternal question: Is love stronger than magic?

From Bell, Book And Candle’s Gillian to Practical Magic’s Sally, quite a few movie witches have found romance with mere mortal men to be more powerful than spells or curses

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Berlin's Madame Tussauds puts Trump in trash as "preparatory measure"

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For nearly 50 years, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have made a meal out of raw panic

With Run The Series, The A.V. Club examines film franchises, studying how they change and evolve with each new installment.

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Comedy Bang! Bang! always slays with its Halloween specials, where the humor can best be described as Vincent Price pushed to perverted extremes.

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Sara Is Missing, Sentenced, and I Am Innocent try to emulate realistic looking phone screens for faux true crime thrills. But they also import the genre's obsession with dead white girls.

Shannon Miller

Podcasts

What's the better werewolf movie, The Howling or An American Werewolf in London?

Werewolves had a moment in 1981. Excluding Wolfen, whose killer canines technically don’t fit the species description, Hollywood produced not one but two odes to the lycanthrope that year: John Landis’ Oscar-winning An American Werewolf In London…

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How do the best horror scores scare the crap out of us with just a few notes?

We asked Daily Show correspondents: Are we all Charlie Brown with a football right now?

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Ninja-demon Batman: 8 character ripoffs in ’80s Japanese games

John Teti,

Anthony John Agnello,

Joe Keiser,

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10 episodes of Frasier for when you hear the blues a-callin’

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A former Obama staffer on what most politicians get wrong about using Twitter

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“Kramer, meet Feldman”: 19 TV Bizarros

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Caroline Framke,

Erik Adams,

Rowan Kaiser,

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Saving Private Ryan brought some gravitas to a summer of loud, dumb Hollywood spectacles

In a time when big Hollywood movies were getting increasingly silly, Saving Private Ryan was the exception and also the victor

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Asylum seekers face horrors supernatural and not in the Netflix chiller His House

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Family separation haunts recent takes on the La Llorona myth

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Hellboy faces off against The Seven Wives Club in this exclusive preview

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Here's what's coming to (and going from) Hulu in November

As we round the corner from Spooky Season into the more nebulous period of weeks known only as “Turkey Time,” the need for distraction is never-ceasing. Luckily, there may be no three entities on the entire planet more distracting than the Warner…

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Amazon Video cheerfully reminds consumers that they don't own shit

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Lizzo's "fly on Mike Pence's head" costume is the only one we'll be needing this year, thanks

In a less completely hellish year, the fly on Mike Pence’s head—remember that? From forever ago?—would probably be the perfect smartass Halloween costume. It’s political, timely (sort of), and not especially difficult to pull off, which would have…

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Sophie Turner to hang out with another spoiled jerkass HBO Prince

Sophie Turner is set to add yet another “spending time with a royal child of questionable moral character” role to her resumé, apparently, as HBO has just announced that the Game Of Thrones star has signed on for its HBO Max animated comedy The…

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Berlin's Madame Tussauds puts Trump in trash as "preparatory measure"

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Jon Stewart concedes that Stephen Colbert won their whole sanity versus fear contest

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Clive Barker grants his spooky blessing to HBO's Hellraiser show

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Heartstopper Volume 2 finds joy in the quiet moments of teen romance

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The lights go out in Don DeLillo’s familiar yet slight The Silence

Batman: Three Jokers is a jumbled mess that borders on parody

Marilynne Robinson finds transcendence in the stunning, soul-searching Jack

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