Month: December 2024

Rebecca Joines Schinsky Chief of Staff Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky. View All posts by Rebecca Joines Schinsky Monday through Friday, Today in Books highlights news from around the
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The long wait for Retrofiction Games’ 2D survival horror title Dead of Darkness is almost over. The solo developer has announced that the game, which still has a demo available on its Steam page, will be launching on Thursday, January 23rd. Coinciding with the announcement is a brand-new trailer announcing the date, while also filling
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s Blue Bloods series finale and Season 14 ender ‘End of Tour.’ “I’m handing you the keys,” a wounded New York Mayor Peter Chase (Dylan Walsh) says to NYPD Commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) in the Blue Bloods series finale tonight as murderous gangs rage on the streets killing police, judges,
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Today, I have another installment of “The Best Queer Books of 2024, According to…” Previously, I sifted through The New York Times, Amazon, Publishers Weekly, and Barnes & Noble lists for the queer titles included. This time, I’m
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Popular paranormal investigator Zak Bagans (“Ghost Adventures”) is headed into the world of horror cinema with new production company Scarehouse Films, Deadline reports today. The outlet details, “Scarehouse Films, which will initially be funded with a multi-million dollar investment by Bagans, plans to go into production on three independent horror films in 2025.” Zak Bagans
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Who plays Jay in the new Hallmark Channel movie Hanukkah on the Rocks? That’s Daren Kagasoff and lets fill you in on him! The 37-year-old actor is best known for starring as Ricky Underwood on five seasons of the acclaimed ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Daren has also been seen
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Christmas and Other Horrors edited by Ellen Datlow Why read one holiday horror story when you could read 17? Christmas and Other Horrors, edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, features new horror stories about Christmas and the winter solstice by many of your favorite horror authors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Josh Malerman,
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Popular paranormal investigator Zak Bagans (“Ghost Adventures”) is headed into the world of horror cinema with new production company Scarehouse Films, Deadline reports today. The outlet details, “Scarehouse Films, which will initially be funded with a multi-million dollar investment by Bagans, plans to go into production on three independent horror films in 2025.” Zak Bagans
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EXCLUSIVE: Filming the adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude in Colombia delivered a 225BN Peso ($51.8M) economic boost to the country, the streamer said. Sharing the headline figure with Deadline, Netflix Lat-Am said it is a measure of the impact to Colombian GDP and includes both the impact of its direct spending on the
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Let’s get it out of the way: Yes, singer-songwriter Miller Campbell is related to Glen Campbell, but only distantly. “I’m just one of the many cousins,” she laughs. “It’s a massive family.” In fact, despite how large he looms in family lore, she counts herself more fan than kin. “A lot of my new record
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir by Ina Garten I grew up watching Food Network, so I’m always here for a celebrity chef biography. But Ina Garten, well she’s something special. She’s straightforward, practical, and her recipes are always delicious. She published a host of bestselling cookbooks, but now—for the first time—she’s here
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President-elect Donald Trump continued his hit parade of political appointments for extended family, Fox News alums, and other assorted goobers Wednesday night on Truth Social, announcing Kari Lake as his pick for director of Voice of America, the government-funded international news outlet. There’s just one (several) tiny (significant) problem(s): The VOA, which is part of
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Critic’s Rating: 4.7 / 5.0 4.7 I’ve watched many Hallmark holiday films, and Hanukkah on the Rocks stood out as one of the best. It was charming, witty, and fun, making viewers smile. Around 2019, the Hallmark Channel started integrating Hanukkah into their Countdown to Christmas line-up to celebrate how others celebrate the holidays. While
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In this virtual Q&A, Academy Award-winning director Alexander Payne steps up to interview Eva Nathena, director of Greece’s official Oscar submission Murderess (Fonissa). Despite being on opposite sides of the globe—Nathena at home in Athens and Payne, who had just been in Greece, in New York—the two Greek filmmakers and longtime friends share a candid and
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