Month: August 2024

Fast food giant Chick-fil-A has ruffled feathers over new reports claiming the company is working to expand its chicken sandwich and waffle fry empire into the entertainment space. Chick-fil-A is apparently moving quickly to create its very own streaming platform with a slate of original and licensed content, Variety and Deadline reported Wednesday. The service
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Neil Young has announced four of his classic albums are receiving vinyl reissues. Freedom, Ragged Glory – Smell the Horse, Weld, and Arc will all be back in print on October 4th. Notably, 1989’s Freedom includes “Rockin’ in the Free World,” which was played with Young’s permission while vice presidential nominee Tim Walz took the stage at DNC 2024 earlier
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Happy Friday, book-lovers. Unwind with some Book Riot stuff. Those times are long gone, as my eight-year-old loves to remind me, and so if you’re like me, and want some nostalgic reads or an escape from *waves hands* all of this, grab your favorite snack—bonus points if it’s something that was also around in the
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Play video content MSNBC Kamala Harris is ripping Donald Trump as an unserious man … but she says the threat he poses to America is very real … and she says he’s out of his mind. The Vice President blasted Trump in accepting the Democratic nomination for president Thursday on the final night of the
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As we prime up for The Witcher‘s highly anticipated return to Netflix for its fourth season, we’re keeping track of which characters will return and who will be new. The Witcher Season 4 cast and character guide will keep you apprised of all the latest news about the series ahead of its release in 2025
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Terror Tuesday: Extreme combines the experience of call-in radio shows with Thailand’s unique brand of modern horror. This new, eight-episode anthology series is inspired by the popular EFM radio program, Terror Tuesday, where listeners share their own frightening (and supposedly true) tales. Viewers will be lured in by the “based on real events” angle, but
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Pop starlet Griff sat down with SPIN as part of our Decades of Sound collaboration with Bose, celebrating 60 years of the speaker and music equipment company. The UK-born singer-songwriter, who opened for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in June, discusses all things the 2000s, or the “noughties” as they say in the UK, which is
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is getting a modern adaptation in The Grays, which is being developed by Netflix. The show is executively produced by Greg Berlanti’s production company, as well as Rina Mimoun (the showrunner), Lee Toland Krieger (the director), Katie Rose Rogers (the writer), Sarah Schechter, and Leigh London Redman.
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Image Credit: Getty Images Olivia Pope and President Fitzgerald Grant had the best reunion in real life. Former Scandal co-stars Kerry Washington and Tony Goldwyn snapped a few photos together during the third evening of the Democratic National Convention, and the 47-year-old actress shared them to social media. “Giving the people what they want,” Kerry
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Those of us enamored with shark horror generally accept Jaws as the unrivaled king.  Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic not only perfects the art of underwater suspense, it expertly blends high seas adventure with family drama and genuine dread. But Spielberg’s masterpiece fails to answer one glaring question: what if sharks were super smart? That’s the
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Beatles fans can now party and sleep like the band at the Casbah Coffee Club, where they often played during their early days, by booking it on Airbnb. Over six decades after original drummer Pete Best’s mother opened the basement Liverpool venue in their family home, Best and his brother Roag have converted the property into
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Would Anne and Emily be friends if they met? I asked myself as a young reader. Would Anne beat Emily in a bar fight? I ask myself today. I, like so many others before me, gobbled up the
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Universal Pictures has announced that they’ve recruited Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes director Wes Ball to helm an adaptation of Reikon Games’ brutal cyberpunk shooter, RUINER. In addition to Ball directing, Turistas writer Michael Arlen Ross has joined the project to write the screenplay. As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, on top of
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“The process of music is from brain to someone’s ear, basically. The less that gets in the way of that little journey, the better,” Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones once said. “Strings are the link between you and the guitar. If they are slowing you up or giving you too much friction or impeding you
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As the last days of summer approach, we’re getting some great summer reading recaps. Most recently, three Bookshop.org members have rounded up their three favorite or recommended reads for summer. It’s a good mix of new, relatively new, and older releases. There are brilliant biographies, sobering sci-fi tales, and ravishing romances. Below are the 9
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