Yesterday, I was standing in front of my desk, piled high with books I had checked out from the library or received for review, trying to decide what to read next. I shifted from foot to foot and gave myself a pep talk. “Pretend you are a normal reader. You’re just picking whatever book looks
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View gallery Image Credit: BACKGRID Kylie Jenner, 25, turned heads on Saturday night! The makeup mogul rocked a form-fitting black latex dress with a white top section and matching heeled boots as she attended her nephew Mason Disick‘s bar mitzvah with her sister Kendall Jenner, 27, in Los Angeles, CA. She accessorized with sunglasses as
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John Straley is both a criminal investigator and an award-winning crime novelist. His home is Alaska, he clearly loves the place, and he was the state’s writer laureate from 2006 to 2008. His fine storytelling and literary skills are on full burn in Blown by the Same Wind, the latest novel in the quirky, non-sequential
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There was a time when conspiracy theories were entertaining. No, seriously, I swear it’s true! In fact, tons of films took inspiration from them, including Prometheus, Transformers 3, and even the very first Captain America, just to name a few. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Christopher MacBride‘s paranoid thriller The Conspiracy, a found-footage indie
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French author and now filmmaker Annie Ernaux is having a year. She was just awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature. Her autobiographical L’Événement was adapted by director Audrey Diwan into the critically acclaimed Happening, released last spring. And this weekend, Kino Lorber presents her directorial debut, The Super 8 Years, at Film at Lincoln Center and DCTV
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SATURDAY UPDATE: James Cameron’s Avatar sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, added eight further material international box office markets on Friday to fill out the global landscape. Through yesterday, the anticipated return to Pandora has amassed $127.1M from a total 52 offshore markets, and $180.1M worldwide when factoring in domestic. Given the previously noted swing
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When Marvel Comics artist Danny Bulanadi died last month, fans around the world took to social media to share his illustrations of well-known and well-muscled characters including Captain America, the Fantastic Four and the Transformers. But in Canada’s easternmost province, the Bulanadi drawings shared by fans were of a mysterious cloaked figure who sought oneness
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RAVAGE NATION from writer/director Michael Moutsatsos is coming soon to DVD & Blu-ray. In 2036 CV5 was born. A stronger strain vaccine resistance. Mothers gave birth to hybrid creatures and mutations Others had zombie like qualities. A mere bite or scratch and within 12 seconds you were turned. This was the new normal. Beasts hunted
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It’s Wednesday Addams like you’ve never seen her before. Jenna Ortega, who plays the title character on the Netflix’s new Addams Family spinoff series Wednesday, has debuted an edgy new look. The brunette actress traded in her medium-length locks for a sassy, chopped, layered bob. In a Dec. 16 Instagram post and appearance on The Tonight Show
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