Month: September 2022

Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt are about to travel back in Hollywood history, again. The two previously worked together on Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Now, these two and a fun ensemble cast are traveling further back to the 1920s in the film Babylon. While this reunion of two of the best
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TORONTO — After two years of pandemic-disrupted events the Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday evening promising a return to form, although the death of the Queen cast a pall over the celebrations, which included a concert in the heart of the city. Rapper Kardinal Offishall hosted the official opening of Festival Street on
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Brad Anderson (Session 9, The Machinist) is back with psychological horror movie Blood, and Deadline reports today that Vertical Entertainment has scooped up North American rights. Deadline notes in their report, “While the feature will be released to both theaters and digital platforms, a release date has not yet been disclosed.” Michelle Monaghan (“True Detective”) stars
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The America Library Association reported 729 book challenges in 2021 that impacted nearly 1,600 titles, the highest number of challenges the organization has recorded in 20 years. Despite this increase in challenges, only 43% of the librarians who took the School Library Journal’s (SLJ) 2022 Controversial Books Survey reported facing a formal book challenge— which
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Rachel Aviv’s first book explores questions of self-knowledge and mental health, subjects she’s previously examined in her award-winning journalism for The New Yorker. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us is a stunning book, offering sensitive case histories of people whose experiences of mental illness exceed the limits of psychiatric terminology,
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Writer/Director Zach Cregger’s Barbarian goes full-throttle on unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat horror (read my review here). Releasing in theaters on September 9, Barbarian stars Georgina Campbell as Tess and Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell, Tusk) as AJ. Both characters get caught up in a rental nightmare beyond imagination. Ahead of the release, Bloody Disgusting spoke with the actors about joining the cast of one visceral,
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A love story fit for royalty. On Sept. 8, the British royal family announced the heartbreaking news that Queen Elizabeth ll died at the age of 96, sharing in a Twitter statement, “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.” The queen’s death comes a little more than a year after her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, passed away in April 2021. There’s
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Avant-garde, a bit gritty, and relentlessly vibrant, Manhattan’s East Village has long been haven for artists, musicians, and creatives. It’s a magnetic neighborhood brimming with energy, creativity, and history and is—unsurprisingly—a beloved hang out spot for NYC fashion insider Ivy Getty. “I feel so lucky to live here and call New York City home,” she
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Bernard Shaw, one of the anchors who put CNN on the map, has died from pneumonia … according to his family. His family announced his passing Thursday morning, and said the pneumonia was unrelated to COVID-19. When CNN launched in 1980, Shaw was the network’s first chief anchor, and famously anchored presidential debates, and especially
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View gallery Image Credit: Jack Dredd/Shutterstock If you believe in signs, then this one says it all. As mourners gathered around Buckingham Palace following the announcement of Queen Elizabeth II’s passing at 96, double rainbows appeared clear as day over the home. Whether it was a sign of the Queen reuniting with her late love
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Bigger isn’t always better when it comes to the horror genre. Sure, a larger and more elaborate follow-up to a horror property can sometimes result in a masterpiece, like in the case of Aliens or Evil Dead II, but added complexity can often sabotage an over-ambitious sequel. This also applies to videogames, with developers sometimes
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In his third novel, Brooklyn-based Cuban translator and author Ernesto Mestre-Reed delves into Fidel Castro-era Cuba in a beguiling, meandering story that unfolds in dense and dizzying prose. Though challenging at times, Sacrificio is an invitation to slow down and pay attention. The rewards are plentiful for readers willing to give themselves over to a
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