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Fifty Shades Freed

‘Fifty Shades Freed’ Trailer: The Final Climax has Arrived

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Whips and Chains are exciting, but why not have guns and car chases as well.

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‘The Shape of Water’ and How Falling in Love with Monsters Can Set You Free

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In praise of del Toro’s Gill-Man: Why fantasy is the political genre we need and deserve right now.

The Mummy

The Future of the Dark Universe is Unclear, But It Always Has Been

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‘The Mummy’ director Alex Kurtzman, who has also been a producer of the whole franchise, might be exiting.

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The Monstrous Empathy of Lon Chaney

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Hereditary Horror: Lon Chaney, his son, and confronting the human grotesque.

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The Fate of Cinematic Universes

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Bad franchise beginnings like The Mummy can soil an entire brand.

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The Mummies of the ‘Mummy’ Franchise, Ranked

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From Universal to Hammer, the reincarnated baddies in the ‘Mummy’ franchise have presented themselves in various iterations throughout the years — some scary, some funny, others a little bit of both, some neither. Let’s rank ’em.