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Denis Villenueve’s Dune Trailer Drops, Features “Dark Side of the Moon” Cover
A new Dune trailer dropped on Wednesday for Denis Villeneuve’s epic reboot of the famous science fiction story by Frank Herbert.
2020 Quarantine Book Club Gives Debut Authors New Hope During Crisis
The 2020 Quarantine Book Club formed just two weeks ago, but it’s already marshaled 1,000 member to read the work of debut authors.
HBO & WB Form Warner Max Label to Make Original Streaming Content
HBO Max’s May 2020 premiere was already anticipated, but with Warner Max it’s clear WarnerMedia will enter the streaming wars guns blazing.
2020 Oscar Nominations: Joker Big Winner, Gerwig Snubbed
The 2020 Oscar Nominations were announced this morning for the 92nd Academy Awards, and Joker received the most nominations with 11 nods, including Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role, and Directing.
New Mutants movie not dead, trailer releases soon
The New Mutants movie, based on the X-Men horror spin-off, finished years ago but never released. Now, sources say it’s on its way in 2020 with a trailer in January.
Carrie limited series on FX gets greenlight
A Carrie limited series just got approved for FX based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.
Movies
If you haven’t seen all or any of director Denis Villeneuve’s movies, make the filmmaker’s catalog a priority on your watch list.
When reading a scary story, such as Stephen King’s Gerald’s Game, it’s our own perceptions of fear that visualize the words on the page.
Taika Waititi’s 2019 film Jojo Rabbit expands society’s collective memory of World War II.
Proceedings start slowly with Christine, as two high school friends, Arnie the geek and Dennis the jock, navigate life through high school.
This past award season, we bet there is one name you’ve probably heard more than any other: South Korean director and auteur Bong Joon-Ho.
Television
If you ever loved a movie, play, TV show, or book–anything with dialogue–take a moment and thank Aeschylus. Not convinced? Let’s talk.
A Carrie limited series just got approved for FX based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King.
The trailer for Hulu’s TV series remake of High Fidelity dropped today. The series and the original movie, starring John Cusack, is based on the Nick Hornby novel.
Thanks to various forms of fiction, popular culture is rife with different fictional locations from Hogwarts to the Mushroom Kingdom.
Just like bodies, no two examples of body swap fiction are exactly the same. They can range from the macabre to the quirky or cringe-worthy to brilliant.
Literature
Proceedings start slowly with Christine, as two high school friends, Arnie the geek and Dennis the jock, navigate life through high school.
In the Tall Grass is one of the more recent offerings to watch on Netflix. Has the streaming giant succeeded in transforming the Stephen King and Joe Hill novella from page to screen?
It’s a question we’ve all considered. In reading Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie, one might ask themselves: what would you die for?
Magnificent in decaying splendor, lonely, haunted and windswept, the big old building stands at the center of most Gothic fiction.
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson is a debut epistolary novel about a farmer’s wife’s correspondence with a Danish museum curator.
Games
Even before SpaceWar!, the earliest known video game, games have always crossed paths with computers.
DM dives deep into the striking parallels between Jungian archetypes and D&D character classes before suggesting ways to break the mold.
Narrative games today act more like an interactive work of fiction than games of the past, and no recent narrative-driven game proves this more than Spider-Man.
Recent lawsuits against Fortnite could affect more than just the game’s developer. The outcome of the suits could affect all of pop culture.
Researchers shook the Internet by the brain this week when they partially restored a quadriplegic man’s control of his hand, and we saw a glimpse of a potentially game changing brain-machine interface.
