Praise be: The Handmaid's Tale season 5 is almost here. The new season, which premieres Sept. 14 on Hulu, picks up immediately after the events of the season 4 finale, which saw Elisabeth Moss' June finally exact her revenge on the Waterfords by making a deal with Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) and Nick (Max Minghella) to give them Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) in exchange for the release of 22 women of the resistance.
Enemies-to-lovers, but with a STEM spin! Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, is back with a new STEMinist love story, following Elsie Hannaway and Jack Smith-Turner. Read the official synopsis and an exclusive excerpt below! The Love Hypothesis synopsis "It's a rivalry as old as time: theoretical versus experimental physicists. Elsie Hannaway is firmly in the camp of theoretical physics—an adjunct professor by day, she toils long and hard to teach students about the laws of thermodynamics in hopes of landing tenure.
John Grisham is inviting readers to take a new look at East and West Egg. Few books loom as large in the canon of American literature as The Great Gatsby. The F. Scott Fitzgerald novel was not a huge hit when it debuted, but since the 1950s it's been considered an essential classic. The novel's copyright expires Jan. 1 (alongside all works published in the U.S. in 1925), promising a flurry of new editions.
Ari Aster has a fan in a fellow director you may have heard of, by the name of Martin Scorsese. The Irishman director penned a new introduction for a special collector's edition Blu-ray of Aster's Midsommar director's cut. In the essay, Scorsese praises the young filmmaker for his "formal control" of cinematic technique and storytelling, citing both Midsommar and Aster's debut feature Hereditary. "A couple of years ago, I watched a first film called Hereditary by a director named Ari Aster.
Wanda M. Morris' debut novel was 13 years in the making. She began the first draft of All Her Little Secrets in 2008 while working, and rising, in corporate law. Then, she says, she put it aside because "I convinced myself that nobody wants to read a book about a Black woman who works with awful people." She was wrong. After dozens of rejections, Morris' page-turner — about a successful attorney (with a wardrobe rivaling Olivia Pope's) who finds her boss dead and then gets caught up with a shady criminal organization — was snapped up by William Morrow.
Anthony Mackie was offered the role of Finn, owner of the underground robot boxing arena Crash Palace in the 2011 film Real Steel, over a phone call with director Shawn Levy. "He offered me the part with the idea of the part growing throughout the scope of the movie and hopefully the series—because I was like, 'Man, we could do part 2. We could do part 10,'" Mackie said during EW's oral history of Real Steel for the movie's 10th anniversary.
You may remember Danny Roberts from The Real World: New Orleans back in 2000. He was the charismatic, handsome—and remarkably rational—gay man who inadvertently became a poster child for the movement against the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy that banned gays from openly serving in the military. Roberts was dating an officer and MTV obscured the boyfriend's face so he wouldn't be discharged as more than 1,200 servicemembers were that year.
Director Gareth Edwards has been very savvy about not revealing too much of his monster before Godzilla officially opens in theaters on May 16. Initially, it was assumed that was part of a strategic decision to lure eager fans into theaters, but after Warner Bros. released some new photos of the giant radioactive reptile, some Japanese fans have another theory: Godzilla is fat. In ‘Zilla’s defense, he does turn 60 this year.
By now, it’s the internet equivalent of a rerun: Eccentric TV show (blank) debuts and quickly amasses a passionate following; fans build numerous Web pages devoted to (blank), complete with video, pictures, and sounds; (blank)’s studio sends threatening cease-and-desist letters, citing copyright infringement. Filling in the blank this time around is The WB’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Twentieth Century Fox, Buffy‘s studio, is producing bloodlust in online fans by targeting websites that feature Buffy video clips, sounds, and transcripts.
The first episode of Buckwild began with a disclaimer that reads — I’m paraphrasing — “Hello and Welcome to MTV’s newest youth-targeted reality show. You are about to watch a group of young adults who look like teenagers and act like fifth graders engage in absurdly destructive behavior guaranteed to cause personal injury, property damage, blood clots, explosions, implosions, broken bones, broken hearts, broken societies, glorious deaths, and miserable hangovers.” There followed an hour of television that we will have to spend the rest of our lives trying to understand.