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Anya Taylor-Joy Promises Her Furiosa Prequel Is “Epic”
David Cronenberg is set to start filming what will likely be another horror masterpiece in April, and I’m looking forward to The Shroud more than I’m looking forward to my next birthday. From the Spider-verse, Thomas Hayden Church (who played the Sandman in various films) might be ready for a return to Marvel. Plus, you’ll…
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It Chapter One Made Stephen King Worth Watching Again
Stephen King is one of the most famous living authors today, and whose bibliography feels like it’s never not being adapted by a streamer or film company. Throughout the decades, those many adaptations have run the gamut of being good, with some caveats, or bad despite the glimpses of potential you can see in the…
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This Video Showcases All The Myriad Transformations Of Pennywise The Clown
Pennywise, the antagonist of all iterations of Stephen King’s It and its adaptations, is generally a very menacing clown. But he’s not only a menacing clown—he’s also a freaky shapeshifter with a penchant for creative disguises and the occasional goofy stint as, like, a fish tank or something.*
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It Chapter Two’s Queer Subplot Is Too Subtextual To Be Scary Good
It Chapter Two opens with a horrific, homophobic hate crime that Stephen King plucked from the headlines and incorporated into his 1986 novel. After a group of very human bigots attack Adrian Mellon and his boyfriend, they unceremoniously dump Adrian over the side of the bridge, and just as he begins to drown, he sees…