The long-awaited sequel to a Halloween favorite, Hocus Pocus 2 is on the way for the Disney+ streaming service, currently set to arrive sometime during the Halloween ’22 season. The film is being billed as “the spooky sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic,” with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy all back as the beloved Sanderson Sisters. Check out a tiny
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Welcome to our first crime fiction new books roundup of 2022, where we start off with two historical crime novels – one about a girl and one about a boy. Anna Mazzola’s The Clockwork Girl is highly anticipated and looks positively charming… in a creepy kind of way. The Burning Boy by Nicola White, on
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Just one week into 2022, another titan of cinema has fallen. On Thursday, January 6, Sidney Poitier—the first Black man to ever win the Oscar for best actor—died at 94. The timing of Poitier’s loss poetically and painfully echoes that of another Black icon of cinema, Cicely Tyson, who died in January of last year.
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PBS Masterpiece and ViacomCBS UK’s Channel 5 have shown faith in All Creatures Great and Small with a rare double season order. Lead writer and exec Ben Vanstone had already all but confirmed a third run but the commitment to a seven-episode fourth is demonstrative of the success of the reboot of the 1980s UK hit,
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After first winning a prize in Cannes in July and then successfully hitting the fall festival circuit, Iranian-born director Asghar Farhadi’s latest critically acclaimed film A Hero opens today through Amazon in theaters before streaming starting January 21. The wait is well worth it for fans of the filmmaker, whose remarkable career already includes not one
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Somehow, whenever a cop does something stupid, Frank ends up with divided loyalties. It’s not that he doesn’t want to police the police, but other people constantly try to stop him from doing what he knows is right because it’s politically inconvenient. Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 10 was no exception, featuring Mayor Chase’s latest
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Kai Harris’ debut novel is a stirring story of a transformative summer for a Black girl growing up in 1990s Michigan. What the Fireflies Knew drops us directly into the mind of 10-year-old Kenyatta, known as KB, who has discovered her father’s dead body in the garage of their home on a “dead-end street” in
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News The Weeknd Shares New Video for “Sacrifice”: Watch The latest visual from Dawn FM By Eric Torres January 7, 2022 Facebook Twitter The Weeknd in “Sacrifice,” directed by Cliqua Facebook Twitter The Weeknd has released a video for “Sacrifice,” a single from his latest album Dawn FM. Check out the Cliqua-directed video, featuring the
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Considering trying the 75 Hard Challenge? The 75 Soft Challenge might be a better choice if you want to commit to creating new habits that don’t involve dangerous restrictions or extreme lifestyle changes. If you haven’t heard about the viral 75 Hard Challenge that has taken TikTok by storm (that’s right, the term has over
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Los Angeles County’s 43,712 new Covid infections today is the highest daily total of the entire pandemic, breaking a record set just 24 hours before, when 37,215 new cases were announced. Thursday’s number had, in turn, skyrocketed up over 10,000 cases from 26,754 the day before. On Tuesday, the county recorded 21,790 new daily cases.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom today announced he has activated the California National Guard to support local communities with additional testing facilities and capacity amid the surge in Covid cases driven by the Omicron variant. The state’s National Guard plan will deploy over 200 Cal Guard members across 50 Optum Serve sites around California, providing interim
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Adrian Halen 01/07/2022 News DirectorStacey GreggSynopsisAndrea Riseborough (Black Mirror) is spellbinding as the distraught mother, haunted by the death of her young daughter, who develops an all-consuming obsession over the neighbor’s girl who she believes is the reincarnation of her child.When new neighbors move in, Laura (Riseborough) is awakened from her mundane daily routine of
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One of the key findings from a new study by the Pew Research Center shows that 30% of Americans now read ebooks, up from 25% in 2019. The number of those who read a print book stayed the same in that time period, while audiobook reading increased from 20% to 23%. The Pew Research Center
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