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As Halloween approaches, The A.V. Club is celebrating all that goes bump in the night, be it on screen, stage, or the page with our 2026 Horrors Week.
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A new Wired feature published Wednesday highlighted authors and employees at major publishers who are frustrated by the insistence on using AI tools in their workflows.
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John Goodman will join Claire Danes in season two of Netflix's The Beast In Me.
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Former Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy is now in charge of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, following Peter Rice's move to Netflix.
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Nice news for prestige TV horror-heads: Crystal Lake racked up an impressive 1.3 billion watch minutes in its first 11 days on Peacock, making it the fourth most-watched scripted original series on the platform.
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Stage and screen legend Tovah Feldshuh called costar Adam Brody's recent statements condemning Israel's Gaza actions "right out of Hitler's playbook."
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During an appearance on Call Her Daddy, Jennifer Lawrence confirmed she'll return as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping, along with Josh Hutcherson and Woody Harrelson.
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The tragedy in the documentary Everest: The Other Side underscores how personal psychology has usurped natural awe.
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Controversial Twitch influencer Hasan Piker claims CNN commentator Scott Jennings deliberately manipulated recordings to make him appear to advocate lynching.
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Peter Medak, director of the 1980 psychological horror film The Changeling and the 1993 crime thriller Romeo Is Bleeding, died peacefully in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to a statement from his family. He was 88.
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Emma Corrin, Olivia Colman, and Jack Lowden star in the first full trailer for Netflix's Pride And Prejudice.
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November's most anticipated books: Look forward to a new epic fantasy from John Gwynne and a fiction debut that will almost certainly end up in your book club.

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Ryan El-Hosseiny claims that Elizabeth Holmes told him the billboards—which feature a photo she told Nathan Fielder she didn't like—were her favorite ones.
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Jafar Panahi, the acclaimed, oft-imprisoned director of Oscar-nominated It Was Just An Accident was sentenced in absentia.
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After setting hearts "aflame" in the wildly popular hockey romance series Heated Rivalry, Connor Storrie could be "igniting" a new "rivalry" in the MCU as the villain in Shawn Levy's Ghost Rider.
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Disgraced comedian Russell Brand took the stand today, denying all the allegations levied against him.

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Former Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman appeared as the show's "resident Maine resident" to explain the swing state's Senate race.
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With Clayface, DC could be sitting on something unique: A superhero series that stands on its own by leaning into the genre that animates it.
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Ice Cube will write and star in the long-awaited Last Friday, the fourth movie in the Saga of Craig.
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With The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Tobe Hooper gave audiences "exactly what they did not want," but maybe what they needed, 40 years ago.
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VisionQuest falls back into old habits in two episodes that struggle to combine its desires for emotional stories and fun action.
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