Tag: It
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“Nonfiction is the Most Successfully Explored Genre in the Dominican Republic”: Victoria Linares on Lo que se hereda (It Runs in the Family)
Working through familial memory is often as complicated as it is difficult. Dominican filmmaker Victoria Linares embarks on this very process in her feature debut Lo que se hereda (It Runs in the Family), about the near-erasure of her cousin Oscar Torres’s existence in their native Dominican Republic. As the film unfolds, Linares learns how…
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James McAvoy Didn’t Get Much Advice Out Of Stephen King While Researching His Role For It
When the “It” film series was preparing for its second installment, few were more jazzed than star James McAvoy, who would get to meet celebrated author Stephen King. “It: Chapter 2” is the latter of a two-part adaptation of King’s behemoth 1986 novel, “It,” released a couple of years after the first “It” in 2017.McAvoy…
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Stephen King Doesn’t Pay Much Mind To His Movie Adaptations
Since the release of Stephen King’s novel “Carrie” in 1974, the author has been one of the most famous American horror writers of all time. In his long career, he has created homicidal cars, psychotic clowns, and obsessive fans. King’s macabre stories always keep avid readers entertained, and his characters and plots are often adapted…
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New Planet Of The Apes Installment Finds Andy Serkis’ Successor In The Stand’s Owen Teague
If you’ve been wondering what has been up with that Wes Ball “Planet of the Apes” movie that’s been whispered about for over three years now, it looks like we have some movement on that front. The Fox/Disney merger is a likely suspect in the delay of a new run of “Apes” movies, but Deadline…
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‘The Terminal List’: Creator Jack Carr Claims Critics Hate It Because “Woke Stuff Isn’t Shoved Into It”
Chris Pratt‘s Amazon Prime Video series “The Terminal List” debuted on July 1 to interminably bad reviews. Critics loathed the series, with The Daily Beast calling it “an unhinged right-wing revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, Variety described it as a “military vanity project for a charisma-free Chris Pratt.” In a word, ouch.Read More: ‘The Terminal List’: Antoine…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3 Trailer: Mariner Is Taking It To The Limit
“Star Trek: Lower Decks” is proving to be — most definitely by design — the black sheep of the Trek franchise. Animated, irreverent, and endlessly self-effacing, “Lower Decks” lets its showrunners poke fun at some of the more ridiculous conceits of “Star Trek,” while still endlessly paying homage to them; not an episode will pass…
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Vecna From Stranger Things Season 4 Is An Allegory For Depression
Warning: there are spoilers for “Stranger Things” season 4 below.”Stranger Things” season 4 is here — and it’s bigger, more ambitious, and the scariest chapter set in Hawkins yet. Vecna, the sci-fi show’s latest big bad, is the most terrifying monster in the show’s history — and makes the previously introduced Demogorgons and Mind Flayers…
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Salem’s Lot Footage Reaction: This Stephen King Adaptation Looks Scary As Hell [CinemaCon 2022]
Thanks in large part to the success of 2017’s “It” and its sequel “It: Chapter Two,” Hollywood is more obsessed with the work of Stephen King than ever. Granted, adaptations of his work have been happening for decades now, but the tide has turned in a way, with these being treated as big events. And…