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  Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Everett Collection (Hopper Stone/Sony Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures), Apple TV+, Gilles Mingasson/Disney Terrifier 3, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Apprentice, and a movie about a bunch of people scrambling 90 minutes before showtime: There’s a lot of scary movies out there, all right. But there’s more than just horror, like the sweet …

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  Photo: Cineverse Corp./YouTube Art the Clown has dethroned Arthur Fleck as the box office’s favorite killer clown whose first name is Arthur. Weird that there are two! Terrfier 3 debuted at number 1 at the domestic box office, earning $18.3 million in its first week. Below that, Joker 2 came in second, with just …

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  Photo: Will Heath/NBC At the end of the stagnant black-and-white sketch that closed out last night’s Saturday Night Live, Michael Longfellow appears as a Rod Serling figure breaking down what we’ve just seen. He starts with a pithy synopsis of the sketch, about a trio of, uh, hotel detectives, before delivering the Twilight Zone …

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  Photo: Brian Douglas/Paramount+ Dwight Manfredi don’t need no education. Dwight Manfredi don’t need no thought control. No self-expression and creativity, basketball with no points, and gender-neutral Little Orphan Annies in the classroom. Teacher, leave dem kids alone. Eyyy, teacher, leave dem kids alone! In a cold open that could have been co-written by a …

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  Photo: Electric Entertainment, Lionsgate and Miramax This article was originally on November 6, 2018. The latest movie about an American president, The Apprentice, is in theaters now but is not included on this list. One aspect of all movies about real-life presidents — an aspect one worries future films will not share — is …

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  Photo: Mauricio Santana/Getty Images Hear ye, hear ye! It’s the day Matt Rogers has been dreaming of ever since he donned his first honey blonde wig. Mariah Carey will appear on Las Culturistas Wednesday, as the official Most Iconic Figure in Pop Culture Today. Rogers and co-host Bowen Yang have been counting down the …

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  Photo: Colin Hutton/HBO Some elements of comic-book storytelling are so absurd and, well, cartoonish that they just don’t translate to the big screen. Such is why there was a major push in the 2000s — from the Bryan Singer X-Men movies through to the Nolan Batman trilogy, the Snyderverse, and much of the MCU — to …

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  Photo: Macall Polay/HBO If you’ve been basking in Cristin Milioti’s performance as Sofia Falcone the last few weeks, this origin story (within an origin story) will be a major highlight of the series. “Cent’anni” makes the most of the show’s secondary villain, flipping the script on Sofia’s “Hangman” origins in Tim Sale’s Dark Victory …

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  Photo: Shannon Finney/Bravo Throughout all of the relationships I’ve built in my life, I have come to three major conclusions about friendship: (1) almost always split the check; it is just easier and will very often even out over time; (2) be judicious about the friend groups you mix and how they relate to …

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