Month: December 2022

And we’re back. In their second episode dedicated to The Dark Tower, the last book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower saga (that isn’t Wind Through the Keyhole), The Losers’ Club gets caught in the web of the book’s most controversial character: the child-spider Mordred. Is the hungry arachnid one of King’s most vicious villains or
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Barbara Walters, the broadcast journalist whose impressive career spanned over 60 years, has died, according to ABC News. She was 93 years old.  Bob Iger—the CEO of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ABC, Walters’ longtime employer—said she died Dec. 30 at her home in New York.  “Barbara was a true legend, a pioneer not just for women
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Actor Bob Penny, who scored minor roles in the films “Forrest Gump” and “Sweet Home Alabama,” has died. Bob passed away in Huntsville, Alabama on Christmas Day, according to an online obit from Laughlin Service Funeral Home. His cause of death was not disclosed. Penny was a bit part actor in dozens of films and
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In So Much Snow, author Kristen Schroeder and illustrator Sarah Jacoby take readers through the days of the week by exploring the joys of a big winter snowfall in the woods.  “On Monday, it starts to snow,” the book opens as a tiny mouse watches huge three snowflakes fall to the grass. “How high will
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News Joanna Newsom, Hayley Williams, Japanese Breakfast, and More Appear in New Rodarte Campaign Kilo Kish and Maggie Rogers also feature in the fashion brand’s new photo series By Nina Corcoran December 29, 2022 Facebook Twitter Hayley Williams, Joanna Newsom, Michelle Zauner (Getty Images) Facebook Twitter Rodarte, the Los Angeles fashion brand founded by sisters
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AMC Entertainment has rejiggered is board, announcing the election of two new directors and one who is exiting. The former Sundance Institute chief and Miramax production president Keri Putman, a big advocate for independent film, as well as Dee Clark, who has worked in information technology at Hasbro, Mattel, Warner Music and Apple, will join
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Remember that fan project back in April that aimed to put Ernie Hudson into Ghostbusters on the Sega Genesis? The Ghostbusters: Special Edition is still very much alive, and Ghostbusters News has dropped a little update on the project, which along with the addition of Hudson’s Winston Zeddemore, features a few other goodies. One of
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Vivienne Westwood — whose fashion designs are largely credited for bringing punk styles to the mainstream — has died. A statement from Westwood’s team announced she died Thursday peacefully and surrounded by loved ones in South London. The statement reads, “Vivienne continued to do the things she loved, up until the last moment, designing, working
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As is the tradition here on Crime Fiction Lover, each year our reviewers discuss their five favourite crime novels. Likewise, we all talk about what a difficult task choosing them presents, although this year I found it fairly easy. Some books get their hooks into you, enthralling you when you’re reading and seeping into your
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Although they aim to provoke contrary emotional responses, horror and comedy needn’t be mutually exclusive. Granted, they are strange bedfellows but can pair together nicely under the right circumstances. Indeed, some of our most beloved scary movies also happen to be quite effective rib ticklers. Even if you discount those that occupy the realm of
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