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Stephen King recommends the movie, TV show, and book you should check out this Halloween
What is the best film, TV show, and book to be checking out this spooky season? That’s the question we recently put to Stephen King when he and his writer son Joe Hill called EW to chat about Netflix’s adaptation of their novella In the Tall Grass. Unsurprisingly, the author of The Shining had some [...]
‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Review: ‘Zombieland’ Definitely Didn’t Need A Sequel
Zombieland was released all the way back in 2009, an age in which we genuinely found The Hangover hilarious, an age in which we found Avatar so compelling, it left some fans depressed at the fact that they would never live inside a harmonious, hunter-gatherer society on another planet. Zombieland 2: Double Tap feels exactly like a film [...]
Disney Delivers a Truly Bizarre Sleeping Beauty Sequel
The first Maleficent film, released in 2014, offered a storytelling twist on the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty. Like many a live-action remake from the studio (think Alice in Wonderland or Dumbo), it viewed its animated forebear as a jumping-off point, turning the cold-blooded villainess Maleficent (played by Angelina Jolie) into a misunderstood antihero; she was rewritten [...]
Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo joint winners of Booker Prize
Judges tore up the rule book on Monday, awarding the prestigious Booker Prize for Fiction jointly to Canadian author Margaret Atwood for "The Testaments" and Anglo-Nigerian author Bernardine Evaristo for "Girl, Woman, Other". Atwood becomes only the second female author to win the award twice, sharing the £50,000 ($62,800, 60,000 euros) prize [...]
Peter Handke: Avant-garde writer, Nobel critic
Peter Handke, one of the most original German-language writers alive, once used his famously sharp tongue to call for the Nobel Prize in Literature to be abolished. The prize brings its winner "false canonisation" along with "one moment of attention (and) six pages in the newspaper," the novelist, playwright, poet [...]
A master of the short story finds humor in the darkest places
Mastering the short story is no easy feat. An engaging one shines with the lyricism of poetry and the deliberate action of a play shuttling from scene to scene. Every line is critical. Israeli author Etgar Keret doesn’t just produce memorable short stories but short short stories. Some are no longer than [...]