TV amp; Movies

The twisted magic of the original Conjuring movie seems awfully distant these days, doesn’t it? In James Wan’s 2013 horror hit about a big blue collar family being tormented by an ancient demon, old-fashioned jump scares and a relentless sense of dread mixed expertly with a deeply human story; the …

Just days after Crazy Rich Asians opened at Number One, Warner Bros. confirmed plans to begin work on developing a follow-up film, according to The New York Times. Crazy Rich Asians was based on a novel by Kevin Kwan; before the film version hit theaters, Deadline reports that the rights …

Sissy Spacek has come unstuck in time. The actor who once played Carrie, the Stephen King creation who could kill with a thought, is now Ruth Deaver — an Alzheimer’s patient hopelessly trapped inside the maze of her own mind. This week’s episode — “The Queen” — is a fascinating …

MTV revealed during the 2018 Video Music Awards that the stars of The Hills, the network’s mid-2000s reality series about a group of young women in Los Angeles, will reunite for a new series dubbed The Hills: New Beginnings. “Based off the docuseries that changed the landscape of TV history, …

Music fandom among males is a specialty of author Nick Hornby (see: the vinyl nerds, on page and screen, of High Fidelity), and the British writer continues his probe into the pathology of rock obsession with Juliet, Naked. The fan in question is Duncan (Chris O’Dowd), an academic who teaches …

Robert Redfordtold Entertainment Weeklythat he would retire from acting following the release of his next film. “Never say never, but I pretty well concluded that this would be it for me in terms of acting, and [I’ll] move towards retirement after this ’cause I’ve been doing it since I was …

Warden Dale Lacey was on a mission from God. Before he severed his own head, that is — though on a show like Castle Rock, doing something after you decapitate yourself isn’t outside the realm of possibility. His mission, according to his suicide note: “Never again let him see the …

The daring rescue of a Thai youth soccer team trapped in a cave has ignited a Hollywood race to bring the feel-good story to the big screen. Pure Flix Entertainment, the production company behind the God’s Not Dead Christian film series, have already announced plans to adapt the cave rescue …

In 2001, French director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for the film Murder on a Sunday Morning, about the wrongful murder conviction of a 15-year-old black teenager named Brenton Butler. The documentary offered a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the uphill battle waged by Butler’s …

Samantha Bee addressed the controversy surrounding her “feckless cunt” remark about Ivanka Trump during the Full Frontal host’s speech at the Television Academy Honors Thursday night. Earlier in the day, Bee apologized for the insult, which occurred during a segment about the migrant crisis at the U.S. border. “I would …