You might not immediately associate the horror genre with children’s books, but in fact, there may be no fan of scary stories more passionate than a kid. From the gentle introduction to the genre that is Bunnicula (now also available as a graphic novel) to the spooky Goosebumps series (also available as graphic novels) to
When Roseanne premiered in 1988, the ABC series offered viewers a bold new take on the traditional family sitcom. In the era of Full House, The Cosby Show, and Growing Pains, the Conners reminded Americans that not all households are filled with affluent parents imparting valuable life lessons to their grateful, obedient children. The Simpsons
Where do we even begin? Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 3 Episode 8 was the best hour this season, with several storylines moving forward and setting up the final two hours in spectacular fashion. There’s almost too much to unpack after this one, but I will surely try. Overall, Power Book III: Raising Kanan
There are several series beginning on cable this week, including FEUD: Capote vs The Swans and GENIUS: MLK/X. Of course, that’s not all, as our favorite networks keep pumping out the programming as we try to climb our way back to normal after the strikes. See what we recommend you watch this week! Saturday, January
When a show starts with dialogue as wicked as what we enjoyed between Sam and Philippe in 1955, you know you’re in for an entertaining hour. Every word from Spade’s mouth was golden, and Philippe did his best to match him step for step. Philippe: You understand what I’m saying?Sam: Not really, but then I
As we’ve previously discussed, True Detective Season 4 has taken on an awful lot in terms of plot, theme, character development, and just about every other aspect of storytelling. In fact, if someone asked what this series is about, you could play it safe and say, “A murder investigation in Alaska,” or you could go
We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again — the pond wants what the pond wants. What the pond didn’t want on The Way Home Season 2 Episode 2 was for Alice to travel with Kat. Kat’s travels are dangerous. Maybe the pond knows not to send a child where they won’t know how
Ava and Stefan are in trouble… or are they? Days of Our Lives spoilers for the week of 1-29-24 suggest that the cops are getting closer to busting the drug ring — but it can’t be that easy, can it? After all, these are the heads of the two most powerful crime families in Salem,
A long-awaited new series from Taylor Sheridan is staffing up and bringing a TV Fanatic favorite along for the ride. Kayla Wallace (When Calls The Heart), James Jordan (Yellowstone), Mark Collie (Nashville) and Paulina Chávez (The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia) join Paramount+’s highly anticipated original drama series Landman as series regulars. We can’t count
It’s hard to fathom a world where Law & Order: SVU isn’t part of the TV landscape. This landmark series celebrates its 25th year on the air during the 2024 season. Law & Order: SVU has evolved over the years as times changed, but from its first episode, it has always been about empowering survivors and
Most of the buzzed-about network dramas of the 1990s have been largely forgotten these days. ER and NYPD Blue might have been the talk of the town during the Clinton years, but in the Biden age, they’re seldom discussed outside of retrospectives about what the cast members are up to these days. Interestingly, the network
Madame Web is headed East. Sony said today that its stand-alone origin tale from Marvel will hit China on March 1, two weeks after its North American bow. Dakota Johnson stars as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future and realizes she can use that insight to change
Pharrell Williams‘ life will be told via Legos in the new Focus Features movie Piece by Piece, directed by 20 Feet from Stardom Oscar winner Morgan Neville. The pic will hit theaters on Oct. 11. The 13-time Grammy winner and double Oscar nominee posted about it on social today, saying: “Who would’ve thought that playing
The Dev Patel directed and starring action thriller, Monkey Man, is now getting a release via Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw and its deal at Universal. In more good news for exhibition, the movie will hit theaters on April 5. You can watch the trailer here: Monkey Man was originally set up at Netflix, however, Peele had
Zoë Kravitz’s feature directorial debut, the suspense thriller Blink Twice (formerly known as Pussy Island), is getting a global theatrical release from Amazon MGM Studios. It will hit cinemas August 23. In the movie, written by Kravitz and E.T. Feigenbaum, tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) meets cocktail waitress Frida (Naomi Ackie) at his fundraising gala, and
EXCLUSIVE: Picturehouse will release the documentary, Carol Doda Topless at the Condor, exclusively in theaters on March 22 in New York and San Francisco, followed by a March 29 debut in LA, with a further breakout to 40-plus markets. The doc, from San Francisco filmmakers Marlo McKenzie and Jonathan Parker, premiered at the 2023 Telluride
EXCLUSIVE: In an arguable first for a Disney+ movie, Disney is contemplating a theatrical release for the Daisy Ridley starring, Joachim Rønning directed feature take of Glenn Stout’s Young Woman and the Sea after the picture scored in the high 90s. Deadline is hearing that a May 31 theatrical release date is being eyed with
A handful of indies bow or expand this weekend as Oscar hopefuls from Poor Things to The Holdovers and American Fiction crowd theaters after nominations earlier this week. Anatomy Of A Fall is getting a big bump. Oppenheimer is back on Imax. New specialty releases include Daisy Ridley-starring Sometimes I Think About Dying by Rachel
Toho International’s Godzilla Minus One – with an Oscar nom and a $2.6 million estimated three-day gross – was no. 10 at the U.S. box office in week 9, and hit a milestone Friday. The giant radioactive reptile, on 2,001 screens, became the third highest-grossing foreign-language film Stateside passing Hero (2002, $53.7m) and Parasite (2019,
In a weekend without any studio wide entries — all due to the strikes– the overall theatrical marketplace is bound to reach some sort of low: Either lower than 2023’s bottom of $51.8M for all movies (Sept. 22-24) or lower than 2022’s floor of $35M (Jan. 28-30). After last weekend saw a 2024 YTD low
“Home Alone” star Devin Ratray‘s domestic violence trial has been delayed … after his lawyers informed the judge he was hospitalized “in critical condition.” A family member tells TMZ … Devin — best known for his role as Buzz McCallister — has now been released from the NYC hospital and is back home resting on
El juicio por violencia doméstica por el que está pasando el actor de “Mi Pobre Angelito” —Devin Ratray— se ha retrasado después de que sus abogados le informaron al juez que fue hospitalizado “en estado crítico”. Un miembro de la familia le dice a TMZ que Devin —más conocido por su papel de Buzz McCallister—
Alec Baldwin just filed his first official response to the new charges being brought against him in the “Rust” case in New Mexico — and the first thing out of his mouth is … hurry up! According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, the actor has been ordered to appear before a judge in
Alec Baldwin acaba de presentar su primera respuesta oficial a los nuevos cargos presentados contra él en el caso “Rust” en Nuevo México y lo primero que sale de su boca es… ¡Date prisa! De acuerdo con nuevos documentos legales, obtenidos por TMZ, el actor ha sido ordenado a comparecer ante un juez para responder
In her first picture book, You Broke It! (Rise x Penguin, $18.99, 9780593660409), New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck takes an irreverent look at the endless barrage of reprimands that parents routinely fling at their offspring—“Sit still!” or “Get the hair out of your eyes!”—and twists them in ways that will leave both parents and young
What happens to a family after a dangerous, life-changing and historic journey? That’s the focus of Veera Hiranandani’s wonderful Amil and the After, which follows 12-year-old Amil and his family, who, during the Partition of India in 1948, have just migrated to Bombay from what would become Pakistan. It’s a worthy companion novel to Hiranandani’s
Some of Ben Guterson’s most treasured childhood memories center around two now-defunct grand old department stores in downtown Seattle: Frederick & Nelson and The Bon Marché. They “were absolutely places of magic for me,” the author reminisces in a call from his home in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. “At Christmastime, I would go
Anna Sinjari is a Kurdish woman dealing with both office drone existential dread and the lingering trauma of the violence she escaped when she immigrated to America. Ssrin is an alien on the run, who immediately bonds with Anna when they encounter each other in Central Park. As a cosmic crisis looms, the pair’s uncanny
As a 19-year-old undergraduate, Antonia Hylton read an academic paper that mentioned Crownsville State Hospital, known at its founding as the Hospital for the Negro Insane. That reference triggered an obsession with the hospital’s bleak history that has carried her through the 10 years it took to produce Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles As the days become shorter, there’s nothing more comforting than immersing myself in a sweeping historical novel—the bigger, the better! When my book club recently voted to read Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow (Penguin, $18, 9780143110439), I welcomed the opportunity to escape nightly into the grand halls