Prime Video has released the trailer for House of Spoils from Amazon MGM Studios and Blumhouse, which shows their newest horror thriller movie, starring Ariana DeBose. “The film follows an ambitious chef (DeBose) as she opens a restaurant on a remote estate where she battles kitchen chaos, crushing self-doubts… and a haunting presence who threatens to sabotage her at
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. In The Shack with Robert Caro Good long read on Robert Caro, The Power Broker at 50, and his progress on the next book. Spending decades on a multi-volume biography feels like a relic of
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American stand-up comedian and actress Anjelah Johnson was in her mid-20s when she first played Bon Qui Qui — the obnoxiously rude fast food employee turned music star on MADtv — back in 2007. Although the 2007-2008 writer’s strike prevented Anjelah from landing many lines on MADtv, the popularity that came from her Bon Qui
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While the future of the main John Wick film series remains shrouded in uncertainty considering the way John Wick: Chapter 4 ended, the franchise as a whole isn’t going anywhere. Next up is Ballerina, the Ana de Armas-led spinoff that takes place between the third and fourth John Wick movies, and will be one of
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Audiences hungry for David Cronenberg’s infamous brand of body horror may have hoped that 2022’s Crimes of the Future marked his return to the genre. That film, which formed an unofficial trilogy that began with 1983’s Videodrome and continued in 1999’s eXistenZ, featured several callbacks to the Canadian director’s recurring visual and thematic interests. The
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This spring, aspiring “indie outlaw” singer Sarah Gross performed a Patsy Cline-ified cover of “Red Wine Supernova” at a gig in Long Island. “Rip Hank Williams he would have loved Chappell Roan,” she wrote when she uploaded the video to TikTok in April, with a caption that’d soon become prophetic: “The honkytonk-ification of Chappell Roan is
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Well, that’s certainly something you don’t see when cruising past a McDonald’s. One of the fast food chain’s franchisees is using red arches instead of the traditional “golden” or yellow ones that are on just about every other of location across the world. Does McDonald’s Always Have Golden Arches? Think about it: How many times
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Tuesday, we covered the announcement of the 2024 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature. Since then, this year’s National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature has also been released. The ten titles on the longlist were translated from six different languages—Danish, Arabic, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Swedish. They explore everything from “disorienting
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A quick word of caution before we swan dive into an Olympic-size swimming pool of the most complimented cologne offerings available to you right now. No, it’s not to advise you against diving into cologne-filled pools, though… sure. That too. It’s to give you a friendly reminder that fragrances are entirely subjective. What’s going to
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Nilüfer Yanya is less interested in naming the feeling than learning to trust it. It’s not always a straightforward path; her songs have a way of winding around a range of themes and emotional states, finding warmth and purpose in the in-between where others would see a maze of unanswerable questions. “There’s nothing out there/
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Presented by Paramount Scares, Friday the 13th Week sees Bloody Disgusting heading to Camp Crystal Lake for a series of features that celebrate the Voorhees family and their influence. On Monday, the Halloweenies listed their 13 favorite kills in the franchise, and today, Rachel Reeves looks at other camp-adjacent scares. When Friday the 13th was
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The first trailer has arrived for The Apprentice. It is a new biographical drama movie that is about Donald Trump during the 1970s and 1980s. It stars Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn, Maria Bakalova as Ivana Trump, and more. “1970s New York. Determined to emerge from his powerful father’s shadow and make a name for himself in Manhattan
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HBO has granted a series order for an untitled Rachel Sennott comedy, which initially received a pilot order last March. In addition to leading the series Sennott will also serve as the show’s creator, writer, and executive producer. “Rachel is as hilarious as she is charming. With Lorene and Emma, she has captured the comedy and the beauty that
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Anna McClellan has announced a new album, Electric Bouquet, which is slated for release on October 25 via Father/Daughter. Along with the announcement, she’s released the single ‘Endlessly’, which follows the recently shared ‘Jam the Phones’, ‘Hold You Close’, and ‘Like a Painting’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below. “‘Endlessly’
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Fans have been waiting for Taylor Swift to make her 2024 presidential endorsement public, and she finally did so minutes following the Harris-Trump debate on Sept. 10. Just moments after the debate between current vice president Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump closed Tuesday night, Swift posted a lengthy message to her Instagram account
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