Emma Stefansky

New York

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Articles

10 Hit Movies That Never Got Sequels, But Should Have

1 week ago | popcrush.com | Emma Stefansky

If you can believe it, there was a time when a movie would come out, end up being a massive success critically and commercially, and then that would be it. In this day and age of sequels, prequels, and franchises built on just about anything, it’s honestly pretty difficult to find a popular movie that didn’t end up spawning its own cinematic universe. But they’re out there, and they’re probably some of your favorites.
10 Hit Movies That Never Got Sequels, But Should Have

1 week ago | 929nin.com | Emma Stefansky

If you can believe it, there was a time when a movie would come out, end up being a massive success critically and commercially, and then that would be it. In this day and age of sequels, prequels, and franchises built on just about anything, it's honestly pretty difficult to find a popular movie that didn't end up spawning its own cinematic universe. But they're out there, and they're probably some of your favorites.
10 Hit Movies That Never Got Sequels, But Should Have

1 week ago | screencrush.com | Emma Stefansky

If you can believe it, there was a time when a movie would come out, end up being a massive success critically and commercially, and then that would be it. In this day and age of sequels, prequels, and franchises built on just about anything, it’s honestly pretty difficult to find a popular movie that didn’t end up spawning its own cinematic universe. But they’re out there, and they’re probably some of your favorites.
10 Best Zombie Movies That Are Actually Scary

2 weeks ago | popcrush.com | Emma Stefansky

With zombie-centric horror back in the news (is it ever not in the news??) we’re all back to debating the pros and cons of certain types of undead monsters and the various infections, incantations, or pathogenic spores that can resurrect them. Whether you’re a fast zombie fan or a slow zombie defender, we can all agree that some of them have that je ne sais quoi that makes them truly terrifying. But what is it, exactly, that makes one zombie scarier than another?
The 10 Best Zombie Movies That Are Actually Scary

2 weeks ago | screencrush.com | Emma Stefansky

With zombie-centric horror back in the news (is it ever not in the news??) we’re all back to debating the pros and cons of certain types of undead monsters and the various infections, incantations, or pathogenic spores that can resurrect them. Whether you’re a fast zombie fan or a slow zombie defender, we can all agree that some of them have that je ne sais quoi that makes them truly terrifying. But what is it, exactly, that makes one zombie scarier than another?
The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Last 10 Years

3 weeks ago | screencrush.com | Emma Stefansky

It’s a truth universally acknowledged — okay, maybe a theory that is arguably true — that you can always tell what’s going on in society and pop culture during a certain time period by taking a look at what kinds of horror movies they were making. In the 1950s, we were worried about nuclear bombs (Godzilla, Them!). In the ’70s, we were afraid of foreign invaders (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dawn of the Dead) and violence from within (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Martin).
10 Classic Songs You Didn’t Know Were Written for Movies

3 weeks ago | popcrush.com | Emma Stefansky

There’s an art to the perfect movie soundtrack single. It’s gotta be catchy, it’s gotta be thematically appropriate, and it’s gotta be something the people will remember long after the release of the movie it was written for. This trend goes in and out of fashion. It was popular in the 1970s and ’80s when radio play was just as important as box office numbers, and has had a bit of a resurgence in recent years (even the Avatar movies have had original songs that play over the credits).
10 Classic Songs You Didn't Know Were Written for Movies

3 weeks ago | 929nin.com | Emma Stefansky

There's an art to the perfect movie soundtrack single. It's gotta be catchy, it's gotta be thematically appropriate, and it's gotta be something the people will remember long after the release of the movie it was written for. This trend goes in and out of fashion. It was popular in the 1970s and '80s when radio play was just as important as box office numbers, and has had a bit of a resurgence in recent years (even the Avatar movies have had original songs that play over the credits).
10 Classic Songs You Didn’t Know Were Written for Movies

3 weeks ago | screencrush.com | Emma Stefansky

There’s an art to the perfect movie soundtrack single. It’s gotta be catchy, it’s gotta be thematically appropriate, and it’s gotta be something the people will remember long after the release of the movie it was written for. This trend goes in and out of fashion. It was popular in the 1970s and ’80s when radio play was just as important as box office numbers, and has had a bit of a resurgence in recent years (even the Avatar movies have had original songs that play over the credits).
‘Black Mirror’ Aims at Its Closest Target Yet

4 weeks ago | theatlantic.com | Emma Stefansky

Black Mirror has never been subtle. Charlie Brooker’s famously bleak Netflix sci-fi series has skewered the role of technology in our lives—dating apps, surveillance culture, social media—across its seven seasons; it has shown us how our overreliance on the convenience of the digital world can harm the real one. Black Mirror is also often self-referential to a fault, dotting its episodes with Easter eggs to other installments, building a large shared universe.