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Goosebumps’ R.L. Stine Thinks This Is Stephen King’s Scariest Story 9 Story Media Group By Valerie Ettenhofer/Oct. 11, 2022 9:57 pm EST The R.L. Stine-to-Stephen King pipeline is real. If you were a kid who grew up reading “Goosebumps” or “Fear Street” under the covers, there’s a good chance your adulthood has at some point involved cracking open King classics like “It” and “The Stand.” I only got my hands on a few “Goosebumps” books as a kid, but I still wore out my copy of “The Cuckoo Clock of Doom” from rereading it so much....

Greg Daniels’ Original Plan For Upload Sounds Like A Completely Different Show Prime Video By Debopriyaa Dutta/Sept. 2, 2022 10:25 am EST Prime Video’s “Upload” poses an interesting premise about the future. The sci-fi comedy-drama is set in the year 2033, wherein humans can, you guessed it, “upload” their consciousness to a virtual afterlife. After gifted programmer Nathan Brown (Robbie Amell) dies suspiciously, he is uploaded to the swanky Lakeview, where he finds himself under the control of his girlfriend, Ingrid (Allegra Edwards), who is alive....

House Of The Dragon Proves You Don’t Need A Star – You Just Need An Actor As Good As Emma D’Arcy HBO By BJ Colangelo/Oct. 24, 2022 3:02 pm EST For the first five episodes of “House of the Dragon,” Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen was played by the precocious Milly Alcock, a rising star out of Australia known for performing in the dramedy “Upright” and the hit horror short “The Familiars,” which played as part of this year’s Etheria Film Night....

How An Army Of Extras In The Brutal Heat Created Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’s Mothership Scene Sony By Drew Tinnin/Oct. 17, 2022 3:56 pm EST It’s hard to imagine that even one frame of celluloid in Steven Spielberg’s alien epic “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” could be out of place. The intimate and sometimes difficult dramatic family scenes dovetail beautifully with the astounding visual effects that beckon Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) to venture out into the cosmos, leaving his old life behind....

How The Menu And Triangle Of Sadness Turn The Dining Area Into A Battlefield Searchlight Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/Nov. 18, 2022 2:00 pm EST This article contains major spoilers for “The Menu” and “Triangle of Sadness.” When the rich eat everything in their path, the only thing left to do is to make them spew it up, and feed it right back. Anti-capitalist stories about making fools of the one percent have been around for decades, but with the rate of billionaire schmucks making things difficult for normal folks to have a decent life, it makes sense that there’s been a significant influx as a result....

Itchy & Scratchy Let The Simpsons Writers Break Every Rule Of TV 20th Television By Witney Seibold/Aug. 20, 2022 9:00 pm EST Cartoon stars Tom and Jerry were invented by Will Hanna and Joe Barbera in 1940 for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Tom, a mute cat, and Jerry, a mute mouse, starred in 114 theatrical shorts in their initial run from ‘40 to ‘58, and won seven Academy Awards. Thanks to the gods of Saturday morning, many Tom and Jerry shorts made their way into heavy rotation on television, and the ultraviolent animal combat films became deeply entrenched in the subconsciousness of several new generations....

Jason Momoa Is A Lot More Like His Flamboyant Slumberland Character Than Khal Drogo In Real Life [Exclusive] Netflix By Shania Russell/Nov. 19, 2022 1:36 pm EST When you think of Jason Momoa, you probably recall his time as Khal Drogo, the frighting war lord who spoke little and murdered plenty in the first season of “Game of Thrones.” Or maybe you think of Arthur Curry, the muscle-bound King of Atlantis who is due to wield his trident at some point in 2023....

Who? Me? Warner Bros. “The Howling” tells the story of Karen White, a reporter recovering from the trauma of being stalked and assaulted by a man named Eddie Quist. When she and her husband travel to a resort called the Colony, Karen quickly begins to suspect that what is supposed to be a relaxing getaway is really far more sinister than it seems. The movie features some of the best werewolf practical effects around — thanks in large part to the insanely talented Rob Bottin — and did relatively well at the box office....

Kevin Smith Used A Simple Camera Trick To Sell The Bittersweet Ending Of Clerks II Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer By Witney Seibold/Sept. 29, 2022 11:20 am EST Kevin Smith has directed eight feature films since 2006’s “Clerks II” — including “Clerks III,” it so happens — but “Clerks II” might function best as the coda to his body of work. In the film, Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randall (Jeff Anderson), now in their early 40s, have been reduced to working at a low-price fast food joint called Mooby’s to make ends meet....

Kids Vs. Aliens Review: A Charmingly Simplistic Monster Movie [Fantastic Fest] RLJE Films By Chris Evangelista/Sept. 24, 2022 3:13 am EST Sometimes you just need a simple monster movie. Look, I watch a lot of horror and genre pics, and I love it when they stretch themselves beyond the boundaries of the genre. I love when filmmakers attempt to use the building blocks of horror and rework them into new, unique shapes....

Let’s Try To Solve The Biggest Unsolved Mystery In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Marvel Studios By Ben F. Silverio/Nov. 11, 2022 9:40 pm EST This post contains spoilers for “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Please proceed with caution. Like any good piece of art, a movie can make the audience think. An exceptionally executed film can leave audiences pondering the meaning of life or their place in the world, or maybe the special effects are so well done you wonder how the filmmakers pulled it off....

M3GAN Blasts A Woman With A Pressure Washer In New M3GAN Featurette Universal 1440 Entertainment By BJ Colangelo/Dec. 27, 2022 2:40 pm EST Remember that sweet spot in the 2010s when a show like “Black Mirror” was rightfully creepy in its approach to technology becoming a thing of destruction, but was still far enough out from reality that we could still have fun with the futuristic concepts from a safe distance?...

Matthew Modine Knows A Lot More About Papa’s Past Than Stranger Things Has Let Us See Netflix By Sandy Schaefer/Sept. 13, 2022 10:35 am EST When “Stranger Things” season 1 implied Matthew Modine’s Dr. Martin Brenner was killed off-screen by a demogorgon, anyone and everyone remotely familiar with the clichés of the horror genre didn’t buy it for a second. Sure enough, Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) insidious “Papa” resurfaced in season 4, a little banged-up but otherwise no worse for wear and back to controlling his “daughter” under the guise of helping her regain her powers....

Our Way-Too-Early Predictions For Who’s Going To Die In The White Lotus Season 2 Fabio Lovino/HBO By Valerie Ettenhofer/Nov. 1, 2022 9:00 am EST Mike White’s “The White Lotus” is back, and for the second year in a row, there’s some trouble in paradise on the horizon. This time, it comes in the form of a corpse floating in the ocean on glamorous housewife Daphne’s (Meghann Fahy) last day at the resort, plus what sounds like two more bodies somewhere on the hotel premises....

More talking, less smashing Marvel Studios Almost 15 years into the MCU’s unprecedented run of success, we’ve mostly only ever been subjected to one main mode of superheroing — smashes, punches, and POW!’s. That obviously comes with the territory, to say the absolute least, but haven’t we reached the point where we can look around and gently suggest that there has to be a better way … or, at the very least, a more interesting one?...

Jokes never replace quality 20th Century Studios In a human-interest spotlight for The New York Times, writer Carina Chocano dives into Loren Bouchard’s personal history and shares what it’s like to sit in on a Zoom writing session for an episode of “Bob’s Burgers.” Chocano summarizes that experience by saying: “I was struck not only by the ease and lack of hierarchy — like a family writing about a family — but by the way that, as adjustments were made to a script, the better joke didn’t always win; pacing, tone, and trueness to character were more essential....

The Daily Stream: Veronica Mars Shows Us What Resilience Looks Like Warner Bros Television By Jenna Busch/Aug. 12, 2022 3:00 pm EST (Welcome to The Daily Stream, an ongoing series in which the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching, why it’s worth checking out, and where you can stream it.) The Series: “Veronica Mars” Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: When “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” went off the air in 2003, fans were left with a longing for a powerful heroine who fought back against injustice....

The Goodnight Mommy Remake Snuck In A Mulholland Drive Homage With Naomi Watts [Exclusive] Prime Video By Lex Briscuso/Sept. 16, 2022 10:20 am EST The name Naomi Watts is now, in the year 2022, synonymous with horror royalty. The beloved actress has graced the silver screen in many a terrifying tale — “The Ring” and “Funny Games” come to mind — but she’s finally taking on another horror character and making it her own....

The Handmaid’s Tale Will Return For Its Sixth And Final Season Hulu By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 8, 2022 9:20 pm EST Ahead of this month’s season 5 premiere, the hit Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale” has been renewed for its sixth and final season. For the last five years, Elisabeth Moss has been taking us through the dystopian not-so-distant future envisioned by novelist Margaret Atwood of a world where religious fascists reign supreme and those with the ability to conceive children are treated like breeding stock....

The King Of The Hill Revival Won’t Air On Fox By BJ Colangelo/Sept. 7, 2022 5:54 pm EST ‘That’s our show, we don’t know you!’ - Hulu, hopefully “We’re really focused on what are the new shows that we believe can creatively break out, that we also have a significant ownership stake in, and if not outright own 100 percent of it,” he told THR. “And on a show like ‘King of the Hill,’ which we love, there’s really no opportunity for us to have an ownership stake in that show....