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01 Dec

Link Tank: The Most Popular Christmas Movies by Country

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Did you know that Elf is Canada’s favorite Christmas movie, or that Singapore loves Home Alone? Check out the most popular Christmas movies by country! “The start of the holiday season means it’s time to recommence the annual debate over which Christmas movies are the best. If you’re discussing the matter with a friend from France or Brazil, they might be arguing hard for Gremlins, the 1984 cult classic that may or may not actually be a Christmas movie. India, on the other hand, is home to many fans of 2000’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” Read more at Mental…
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19 Oct

Lovecraft Country Soundtrack: Complete Details and Playlist

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HBO’s latest blockbuster drama effort, Lovecraft Country, is a unique Lovecraftian beast. As adapted by Matt Ruff’s novel of the same name, the show takes classic horror, sci-fi, and adventure tropes and adapts them into a timely story of American racism. Though the series is certainly timely, it’s also timeless. As evidenced by our helpful explainer article, it wasn’t immediately clear when Lovecraft Country even took place. That’s partly because the Jim Crow era of American institutionalized racism was a lengthy one. And the fact that Atticus “Tic” Freeman was a war veteran didn’t help out much. Which war coincided…
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19 Oct

Meet the Monsters of Lovecraft Country

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The finale of Lovecraft Country landed last night with a roar marking a closer to one of the most exciting, intelligent horror series around. As well as the characters, the settings, the history, politics and winding plot some of the biggest delights of the show are the monsters and monstrous effects within the show. UK FX house Framestore worked across the whole of the show in different capacities, including creating early concept art of some of the show’s key episodes. “You start with mood boards and it gives the director or the production designer a very clear idea of the…
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19 Oct

Lovecraft Country Ending Explained

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This article contains spoilers for Lovecraft Country episode 10. In the end, Lovecraft Country was all about legacy. The show follows Atticus “Tic” Freeman from estranged son and war vet to literal Magic Negro, and heir to a magical birthright. Tic, his father Montrose, friend-then-lover Letitia “Leti” Lewis, and her sister Ruby Baptiste become entangled with magic and the racist white folks who wield it. Tic seeks to understand and utilize the power inherent in his blood, and in doing so, is forced to face horror after horror in pursuit of his goal. The Lovecraft Country finale, “Full Circle” packs…
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19 Oct

Lovecraft Country: Will There Be a Season 2?

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This article contains spoilers for the Lovecraft Country finale. Lovecraft Country is an unambiguous hit for HBO. The supernatural horror adaptation of Matt Ruff’s book of the same name helped prop the network up during the dog days of summer as the television landscape was unusually dry to the coronavirus pandemic.  Under normal circumstances, a Lovecraft Country season 2 would be a given and HBO would have already publicly announced its commission. But as the Lovecraft Country season 1 finale reveals, this might not be normal circumstances and the show really may have been envisioned as a one-season enterprise.  The…
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19 Oct

Lovecraft Country Episode 10 Review: Full Circle

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 10 Tic recites the spell to open the Book of Names, then he and Leti fall unconscious. Their subconscious/spirits are brought to an ancestral plane and it’s there they learn the truth about magic from the ancestors. They are tasked with casting Hannah’s spell, which will use Christina’s spell against her to take magic from the Braithwhites. The ancestors help Tic and Leti heal Dee, then send them back to their bodies to enact their plan. The season finale of Lovecraft Country is entertaining but emotionally hollow. Maybe it’s the fact…
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12 Oct

Lovecraft Country Episode 9 Review: Rewind 1921

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 9 Last week on Lovecraft Country, Diana outran Topsy and Bopsy, then stood her ground to fight them off. But Montrose restrained her, which allowed the evil piccaninnies to slash her arm, leaving her in a coma. Now Dee’s arm is dead and in time, so too will she be. Tic, Montrose, Leti, and Ruby all failed to protect her, and now they have to do whatever they can to save her life. They argue over who is to blame and what to do. And when Tic decides to ask Christina…
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08 Oct

How Lovecraft Country Uses Topsy and Bopsy to Address Racist Caricatures

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The following contains spoilers for Lovecraft Country episode 8. Lovecraft Country puts racism at the forefront of its storytelling. Anti-Blackness is as much a character as Leti and Tic. It manifests in many ways on the show, through the protagonists’ engagement with white characters and the systems they control. And through characters like Ruby, whose internalized racism sometimes puts them odds with their own. Anti-Blackness takes on a specific visual language in episode 8, “Jig-A-Bobo”, when Diana is chased by malevolent “pickaninnies”. Diana runs away from the line to view the body of her deceased best friend, Emmet “Bobo” Till,…
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05 Oct

Lovecraft Country and the Legacy of Emmett Till

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The following contains spoilers for Lovecraft Country episode 8. We meet young Emmett Till in episode three of Lovecraft Country, “Holy Ghost.” Till, referred to as “Bobo” and portrayed by Rhyan Hill, is seen using a Ouija board in Leti’s basement the night of her housewarming, alongside Diana (Jada Harris), and Gil (Scott-Heron, played by Maceo Smedley). The kids take turns asking questions, which the board answers, and when Bobo asks if he’ll have a good time on his trip, the board says no. It’s a brief moment in the story, but the meaning becomes much deeper once you realize…
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05 Oct

Lovecraft Country Episode 8 Review: Jig-A-Bobo

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 8 Lovecraft Country has never shied away from depicting the brutal reality of the violence committed against Black people, and this episode is no different. However, instead of forcing the audience to experience the trauma of Emmett Till’s death through a visual of his mangled body, “Jig-A-Bobo” focuses on the emotional trauma stirred by his death. Till, known fondly as Bobo, is one of Diana’s best friends, and his murder comes on the heel of her father’s death, and her mother’s prolonged absence—though she has not been told that Hippolyta has…
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30 Sep

His House: See Lovecraft Country’s Wunmi Mosaku in New Netflix Trailer

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If you’ve been enjoying Wunmi Mosaku’s performance as Ruby in this first season of Lovecraft Country as much as we have, then we have a trailer for you. Netflix just dropped a first proper look at His House, a social horror film coming to the streamer at the end of October, and it sees Mosaku alongside Humans‘ Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith in a story that centers migrant refugee trauma in a small English town. As you can see from the trailer, His House stars Mosaku and Dìrísù as a Sudanese couple fleeing war and trying to resettle…
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28 Sep

Lovecraft Country Episode 8 Trailer & Details

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Lovecraft Country‘s wild ride continues next week with “Jig-A-Bobo,” which, from the trailer, seems to be putting Diana “Dee” Freeman, aka Hippolyta and George’s comic-creating daughter, front and center. In the trailer, we see Captain Lancaster coming after Dee, grilling her about magic. In his rush to get away from the observatory in last week’s episode, Tic left Dee’s comic book alongside an officer’s dead body (shot by Hippolyta), so we can guess why Lancaster thinks Dee has answers, but presumably Dee’s storyline in episode 8 will be about so much more than her entanglement in Lancaster’s racist, power-seeking quest.…
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28 Sep

Lovecraft Country Episode 7 Review: I Am.

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 7 “I Am.” is what happens when women are given the space to explore every facet of their being, and are allowed to embody even the ugliest parts of themselves. It is another in a succession of strong episodes that center women, and allow for their self-discovery and actualization. The last time we see Hippolyta, she and Diana detour from Boston to Ardham. What she finds there are the collapsed ruins of Ardham Lodge and evidence that George had been there, confirming her suspicions that she wasn’t told everything about his…
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22 Sep

Lovecraft Country Episode 7: Hippolyta Takes Center Stage in New Trailer

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As a kinda-sorta anthology series, Lovecraft Country has enjoyed spending whole episodes highlighting characters other than just the core duo of Tic (Jonathan Majors) and Leti (Jurnee Smollett). Episode 5 caught up with Leti’s sister Ruby (Wunmi Mosaku) and her transformative ways. Then episode 6 introduced Ji-ah, an important, foxy figure in Tic’s life. Based on the trailer for episode 7, Lovecraft Country is set to feature its supporting cast even more now. By all appearances, “I Am.” is the Hippolyta Freeman hour of the show. Give the teaser a watch below. To refresh your memory on who Hippolyta even…
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21 Sep

Lovecraft Country: What is a Kumiho?

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Through five episodes, Lovecraft Country has introduced audiences to some of the Lovecraft canon’s most terrifying monsters and some of North America’s most notable mythological creatures. In its sixth episode “Meet Me in Daegu,” however, HBO’s horror anthology-esque series takes a trip East to delve into one of the Korean Peninsula’s most famous beasts.  “Meet Me in Daegu” centers around a “kumiho” and the “mudang” who summoned it. While Lovecraft Country does an admirable job in holding the viewers’ hands through kumiho lore, it still might not be entirely clear what the Korean mythological creature played by Jamie Chung is…
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21 Sep

Lovecraft Country Episode 6 Review: Meet Me In Daegu

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 6 Lovecraft Country tells us magic exists, then shows us the ways it touches the lives of the characters we spend time with every week. But magic isn’t just theirs, and it doesn’t just affect them. “Meet Me in Daegu” is a fascinating exploration of the many ways magic manifests throughout the world. It expands the show’s lore by showing us one of the many forms magic can take, and is a welcome detour from the linear storytelling we’ve had so far. This episode takes us to Daegu, South Korea in…
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16 Sep

Lovecraft Country: What Ruby’s Hillary Davenport Transformation Means

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The following contains spoilers for Lovecraft Country. We first meet the body that’ll come to be known as Hillary Davenport in “Whitey’s on the Moon”, the second episode of Lovecraft Country. The woman, Dell (Jamie Neumann), guards Ardham’s village jail food storage with two aggressive hounds, while waxing poetic about those meddling “Blacks.” We only see her for a brief few minutes but her disdain for Tic, Leti, and George is clear. The next time we see her in episode 5, she’s waking up in William Braithwhite’s bed, scared, and confused. When she looks in the mirror, she doesn’t recognize…
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14 Sep

Lovecraft Country Episode 5 Review: Strange Case

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country Episode 5 A white woman (Jamie Neumann) wakes up in an unfamiliar place and doesn’t recognize herself in the mirror. She runs away looking for help, and in her distress, bumps into a Black boy. Black folks on the street look on in horror as cops threaten the boy for “assaulting” the woman. She assures them the boy was only helping. She’s shocked at white strangers’ concern for her, and Black folks’ fear of her, and realizes how powerful the weapon of white femininity is. Cops take her back to William, who…
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10 Sep

How Lovecraft Country Silences Yahima

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. Lovecraft Country is a rapturously violent dramatic horror series where pain and death are par for the course. And while the show delights in depicting wickedness, the violence always feels purposeful. Even with that in mind, however, last week’s episode, “A History of Violence,” makes the disappointing choice to unceremoniously kill Yahima, an indigenous, gender-variant character.  After an Indiana Jones-esque journey through a booby-trapped tunnel Tic, Leti, and Montrose enter Titus Braithwhite’s underwater vault, a room full of the remains of indigenous people —made apparent by their regalia—  and a corpse holding Titus’ pages…
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06 Sep

Lovecraft Country Episode 4 Review: A History of Violence

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This Lovecraft Country review contains spoilers. The episode is available to stream now on all HBO platforms. Lovecraft Country Episode 4 Christina pulls into the Northside in her silver Bentley, unscathed, backdropped by Rihanna’s “Bitch Better Have My Money”, perfectly capturing her vibe of wealth and privilege and lack of fucks to give. A mood. Neither the destruction of Ardham Lodge or Tic’s ill-advised murder attempt have slowed her down, and she’s up to her usual cryptic nonsense. She’s looking for Hiram’s orrery, apparently the key to his time machine—because why not?— and has upset the local wizard wannabe, Captain…
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