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Designing a TV quiz show is a sacred art. Get it right and your format can live through the decades and become a part of the cultural landscape. Think Mastermind’s black chair or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’s ‘phone a friend’. Get it wrong though, and you leave audiences

Doctor Stephen Strange may have the ability to see 14,000,605 futures, but his actor Benedict Cumberbatch cannot. So let’s cut him a bit of slack for being wrong when he initially said that he would not be reprising his role as Doctor Strange for the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday. Cumberbatch retracted

On the one hand, it’s a simple enough image: Oscar Isaac, veteran stage and film actor, stands before an audience of physicians and academics. We can tell from the style of dress and unkempt hair that Isaac’s Dr. Frankenstein lives in the 19th century (so a bit unlike his literary

This article contains spoilers from Squid Game season 2. Things ended on a pretty bleak note for Squid Game contestants at the conclusion of the show’s second season. Following in the footsteps of fellow downer middle chapter The Empire Strikes Back, Squid Game‘s “empire” of very rich psychopaths led by

Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and director Robert Eggers go way back. They’ve worked on every one of Eggers’ features to date—The Witch, The Lighthouse, The Northman, and Nosferatu—plus several shorts well before those, starting with 2007’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Yet while their resources and scale have exponentially increased, culminating in last