Following the success of The Haunting of Hill House in 2018, creator Mike Flanagan returned to Netflix two years later with The Haunting of Bly Manor: another meticulously styled, and surprisingly human ghost story centered around another doomed house filled to the brim with gorgeous people and ghosts. Read along as we jump, cry, and try to figure out what in the world (or other world) is going on inside the grounds of Bly Manor.
The structure of the story told in A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story is so predictable, it undermines the effectiveness of Jane Seymour’s performance in the title role. As this fact- based TV movie tells it, Smith was the publisher of a small-town newspaper in 1950s Mississippi who spoke out against injustice and tried to oust a bigoted local sheriff. In response, white racists wreck the newspaper office, a cross is burned on her lawn, and her husband, a hospital administrator played by D.
In 1984, Beverly Hills Cop cemented a then-23-year-old Eddie Murphy as a superstar who could sell a movie on his own. It spawned two more films, but it's been 30 years since we last saw Murphy as the eternally cool Axel Foley. Next summer the comedy legend returns to his most iconic role in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, streaming on Netflix. And the new movie's first teaser trailer just dropped (below).
What started as the Chicago Fire spin-off quickly turned into a show all its own. And I can say that confidently as someone who actually watched Chicago P.D. before I went back and started Fire. The world of Voight, the sometimes-dirty cop, and his Intelligence Unit was one of doing whatever it took to catch a criminal, and even more so, doing whatever it took to get revenge. And after a season finale cliffhanger that made viewers question everything they knew about Voight, it’s time to look back at the season as a whole — what got us hooked and what we could’ve done without.
Emma Stone didn’t get much conventional schooling, but thanks to last year’s Superbad and this summer’s The House Bunny, she’s getting an education on screen. ”I left my freshman year to come out to Los Angeles, so I didn’t really experience high school,” says the Arizona native. ”I shot Superbad in what would have been my senior year, and instead I was making a movie about senior year. In [Bunny], I am supposed to be in college, and instead I’m making a movie about being in college.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer has led a life as epic and full of tragedy and triumph as any fictional narrative. Americans know her best as a famous sex therapist — the woman behind radio program Sexually Speaking, a handful of television shows, and a lifetime dedicated to de-stigmatizing sex with her frank tackling of once taboo subjects. But as fascinating and titillating as her dedication to sex education and therapy is, Dr.
Baroque fantasy and modern-day wit mix happily in the Signature Theatre Company’s sparkling Off Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s 1988 play The Illusion, a play-within-a-play adapted from Pierre Corneille’s unnervingly cutting-edge ‘L’Illusion Comique’ (1636). In the story’s outermost frame, set in 17th-century France: A wealthy lawyer (David Margulies), plagued by grief over banishing his son (Finn Wittrock) 15 years ago, visits the cave of a magician (Lois Smith) who shows him dreamlike visions of his lost child’s life.
Animal Planet has announced in a press release that it will set up a livestream of the third annual Internet Cat Video Festival, which will take place at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis on August 14. Presumably, the thinking goes something like this: “Hey viewers, we heard you like watching videos of cats on the internet, so we’re going to have a festival for videos of cats on the internet and then stream our own video of cats—made from other videos of cats on the internet—on the internet.
Julie Orringer’s dazzling debut novel The Invisible Bridge, begins with an epigraph from W.G. Sebald, but her tale of war-torn Europe reaches back past his work, past the literature of the 1930s and 1940s — the era in which her story is set — ?all the way back to the works of Tolstoy and Stendhal. Like them, she chronicles sea changes in European history through the eyes of finely fashioned characters, and like them, she has created a story simultaneously epic and intimate.
In the last movie that many filmgoers saw in a theater, one horrifyingly tense scene was burned into our brains. Here, writer-director Leigh Whannell reveals how he cooked up the shocking restaurant scene in The Invisible Man. Horror-thriller The Invisible Man contains many jaw-dropping sequences as Elisabeth Moss’ heroine, Cecilia, is terrifyingly harassed by her psychotic ex-boyfriend, Adrian (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), the titular unseen gent. But none were as shocking as the scene in which the invisible Adrian uses a knife to slice the throat of Cecilia’s sister, Emily (Harriet Dyer), in a crowded restaurant while Moss’ character looks on in horror.