Month: February 2023

They say that March comes in like a lion, and that’s the kind of energy we’re bringing to our latest issue. We’ve got a crime-solving nun, an antiquarian bookseller-turned-author, Women’s History Month picks for all ages and major new releases from Jenny Odell, Shannon Chakraborty and Samantha Shannon! Plus, stay tuned for future issues, where
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Bankrupt Regal parent Cineworld said it had multiple bids for all or some of its assets in initial expressions of interest due last week. Its business includes Regal in the U.S.; Cineworld and Picturehouse in the UK and Ireland; and “rest of world” cinemas in Central and Eastern Europe, and Israel. Cineworld attorney Joshua Sussberg
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Aptly named for the acidic smell of deteriorating film, Vinegar Syndrome made an auspicious debut in 2013 with its inaugural release, The Lost Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis. In the decade since, they have unearthed, restored, and distributed hundreds of cult, exploitation, horror, action, and adult films. Popping in a new Vinegar Syndrome disc is
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Damon Albarn and Gorillaz, August 2022 (Per Ole Hagen/Redferns) News Gorillaz Movie Not Moving Forward at Netflix, Says Damon Albarn An animated feature starring the cartoon band is apparently in limbo after the streamer’s withdrawal By Jazz Monroe February 21, 2023 Facebook Twitter Facebook Twitter An animated movie from Gorillaz creators Jamie Hewlett and Damon
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This week brings the larger-than-life horror comedy Cocaine Bear, from director Elizabeth Banks (Charlie’s Angels) and arriving exclusively in movie theaters on February 24, 2023. The movie, written by Jimmy Warden, “finds an oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens converging in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound apex predator has ingested a staggering amount of cocaine and
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Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn’s eponymous new imprint gets off to a roaring start with acclaimed poet and editor Margot Douaihy’s debut mystery, Scorched Grace. Set in New Orleans, Scorched Grace follows Sister Holiday, a former punk rocker who investigates an arson spree that threatens her community. The endlessly fascinating character represents everything Douaihy loves
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The publisher Puffin has removed or changed hundreds of words in Roald Dahl’s books in new editions to “modernize” them, including Augustus Gloop being described as “enormous” instead of “fat,” Mrs Twits no longer being called “ugly,” “female” being changed to “woman,” Oompa Loompas described as “small people” instead of “small men,” and a line
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In Rebecca Makkai’s engrossing novel I Have Some Questions for You, a successful podcaster and film critic takes a job at a New Hampshire boarding school where, 23 years ago, a white female student named Thalia Keith was murdered. The school’s athletic trainer, a Black man named Omar Evans, was convicted of the crime and
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Alec Baldwin‘s involuntary manslaughter charge in the case of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins‘ fatal shooting has been downgraded. Prosecutors for the District Attorney of Santa Fe County in New Mexico dropped a five-year gun enhancement attached to Baldwin’s charge, significantly reducing his possible prison sentence if he were to be convicted, according to court documents filed on Feb. 17
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