Month: August 2024

The popularity of Free Ad-supported Streaming Television is on the rise as subscription-based streamers continue to increase their fees and cycle through various corporate owners.   One of the best features of FAST services is their role as an unofficial national archive for classic shows from the decades-spanning history of television.  Many of these vintage shows
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WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for the Alien franchise.  Of all of horror’s many sagas, few have produced such complex and dynamic female characters as the Alien franchise. From space-trekking astronauts and idealistic scientists to outlaw clones and alien queens, this cinematic galaxy is bursting with inspirational – and sometimes despicable – women fighting
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In celebration of National Read a Romance Novel Month, Bookshop.org is having a sale on select romance books with the code ROMANCE. It’s good until August 31st. Since 2020, Bookshop.org has earned more that $32 million for local bookstores—more than 80% of which has gone directly to bookstores and publishers—so buying from Bookshop.org is directly
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In 1991, New York-based Carolina Herrera launched its first men’s fragrance—Herrera for Men. Since then, the brand and the legendary woman behind it have produced dozens of mainstay and limited-edition fragrances (to say nothing of its menswear, womenswear, accessories, and more). Though your spritzing options are dizzying, today is all about the best Carolina Herrera
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If you know of an old house for sale around the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, preferably pre-1800, we might have a buyer.  “My sweetie and I are just crazy about historical homes, early colonial architecture and old homes,” says singer-songwriter Ray LaMontagne, his “sweetie” being his wife, poet Sarah Sousa.  For 16 years they’d lived
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This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Publishing Stays Racist If you thought publishing turned a new leaf after Black Lives Matter protests generated a
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Image Credit: Getty Images for Sony Pictures Blake Lively may be best known for portraying Manhattan’s ‘IT’ girl, but recent events revealed a different side of her personality, leading a reporter to consider quitting their job. Jkersti Flaa had the opportunity to interview the 36-year-old actress during a press junket alongside her co-star Parker Posey
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Who doesn’t love an uplifting and heartwarming children’s movie about death and grief? John Krasinski’s IF is a surprisingly good family film that I enjoyed and my five-year-old loved. So much so that we are already watching it again. IF begins with the main character’s mom dying of cancer and—cut several years later—her dad also
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The latest edition of the Popcorn Frights Film Festival is underway, unleashing movie premieres, repertory screenings, and horror celebrations with much more still to come.  Opening weekend kicked off with a variety of repertory screenings of Psycho Cop Returns, Maniac Cop 2, Maniac, Society, the “lost” cut of Return of the Living Dead 3, and more
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Gena Rowlands, the award-winning actress known for her roles in films such as A Woman Under the Influence, Gloria, and The Notebook, has died at the age of 94. Rowlands died Wednesday, August 14th, at her home in Indian Wells, California, according to TMZ. She had been battling Alzheimer’s disease. Hailing from Cambria, Wisconsin, Rowlands
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Book Riot Managing Editor Vanessa Diaz is a writer and former bookseller from San Diego, CA whose Spanish is even faster than her English. When not reading or writing, she enjoys dreaming up travel itineraries and drinking entirely too much tea. She is a regular co-host on the All the Books podcast who especially loves
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In space, no one can hear you scream. In the theater, you may hear screams of joy because after many attempts, we finally have another legit Alien movie. Alien: Romulus, from Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe and 2013’s Evil Dead), returns to the franchise’s roots with a claustrophobic and lean-to-the-bone thriller, a shift away from Ridley
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Selling Sunset Season 8 is just around the corner. Netflix subscribers have been eagerly anticipating more drama and chaos from the Oppenheim Group real estate agency in sunny California. While the agents compete to sell homes and keep their heads above water in the ever-changing real estate market, they’ll have their share of personal drama
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The Shade, a supernatural horror film starring Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty, Mending the Line) and Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti (tick, tick… BOOM!, No Hard Feelings), has been acquired for North American distribution by Level 33 Entertainment. A family finds themselves dealing with more than grief in the new, exclusive trailer. Writer/Director Tyler Chipman’s feature
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How does an unknown band, one that’s never headlined an established venue, manage to sell out their first show at the Echo in Los Angeles? For garbagebarbie, the quartet of Fletcher Milloy (singer/guitar), Daniel Karasev (drums), Anson Knopp (bass), and Braedon Huff (guitar), the answer was easy. “We promoted the shit out of it,” says
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