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5 Non-Horror Movies That Scare the Crap Out of Me
If anyone knows true horror it’s Millennials, who grew up with children’s films that were certifiably weird, dark, and chilling. Here are the ones that have haunted me the most.
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Authors of ‘MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios’ on Kevin Feige, MCU Horror, and Defending Thanos
12+1 questions on their favorite behind-the-scenes “what ifs”, MCU horror they’d love to see, casting the Ringer crew as X-Men, and much more!
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Top 10 Horror Movies
Narrowing down our favorite horror films to only 10 meant killing a lot of our darlings. But here are the ones that survived.
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Growing Up (and Blowing Up) in ‘Spontaneous’
For the characters in Brian Duffield’s genre-bending 2020 film Spontaneous, managing to “survive school” is more than just hyperbole.
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Eat Your Ice Cream: Beauty and Belonging in ‘Little Miss Sunshine’
“Be like Olive” and other takeaways from Abigail Breslin’s sweet, pageant-obsessed character in Little Miss Sunshine.
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A Movie Inspired My Career
For Coming of Age Month, we put out a call for anyone whose career direction was inspired by a movie. Here are some of those submissions.
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Why ‘The Fabelmans’ Should Have Won Best Picture
Everything Everywhere All At Once conquered the 2022 awards circuit with its quirky, multiversal charm. But what if I told you there’s a parallel universe where Steven Spielberg’s auto-biopic rightfully won the top Academy prize?
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Gimme a Thousand Words on ‘Almost Famous’
While I knew Cameron Crowe’s heart-soaked, intergenerational coming of age classic would be with me forever, I couldn’t have predicted how it would change with me as I moved through life.
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Movies Are Us: Why the Nicole Kidman AMC Ad Matters
It’s been two years since AMC’s memed-to-death ad debuted, but only recently did it give me a moment of clarity about why movies matter.
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Top 5 Better Ways Lloyd Could Have Gotten Diane’s Attention in ‘Say Anything’
Just sayin’.
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Winona is the Best Jo and Other ‘Little Women’ Opinions
Four reasons to savor Louisa May Alcott’s timeless story like a handful of confiscated limes.
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Kami Kostelny’s Coming of Age—on VHS
Kami Kostelny, aka @magicghostbaby on Instagram, spotlights her favorite coming-of-age titles from her VHS collection.
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Top 10 Coming of Age Movies
Growing up is hard. Whether that happens in school, city streets, or the savannah, our Top 10 Coming of Age movies show just how universal yet deeply personal that experience is.
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Interview: Author Glenn Frankel on Westerns, John Wayne vs Gary Cooper, and ‘Midnight Cowboy’
12+1 questions about The Searchers, the artistry of High Noon, his literary-cinematic universe, John Wayne vs Gary Cooper, Billy Wilder, and more!
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The Greatest Westerns According to Our Dads
There’s arguably no genre more beloved by dads than westerns, so we gave our own dads a chance to praise their own favorite of the Wild West.
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Western Quotes for Your Dating App Bio
These’ll make ‘em swipe right…
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7 Underrated Westerns from the Last Decade
A few lesser-known titles from the past decade that are well worth seeing.
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4 Things A Cowboy Needs and the Westerns That Provide Them
I’ve loved westerns since I was kid, but it wasn’t until I got older and saw more of the world when I found ways to identify with the cowboy experience and how it informed my real life.
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A Gal ‘Gunslinger’? Oh My Stars and Garters…
A harbinger of Le Borg’s The Dalton Girls, Roger Corman’s Gunslinger clouds the commonly rigid gendered rules of westerns.
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David Quinn on the Beauty and Darkness of the ‘One-Eyed Jacks’ Score
The Illinois country/blues singer-songwriter David Quinn on his favorite western score.
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The Best Modern Western is ‘Star Wars’
As a fan of westerns, I enjoy watching how they have influenced and combined with other genres. But there’s one modern sci-fi western that remains 12 parsecs ahead of the rest.