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After having limited involvement in Schmigadoon! Season 1, Jane Krakowski returns in Season 2 and delivers all the bells and whistles you’d expect from the Tony Award-winning performer.

Her big showcase comes in Episode 3, when Keegan-Michael Key’s Josh Skinner goes on trial for a murder he did not commit. The judge thinks he’s guilty, the jury thinks he’s guilty, and the front page of the Schmicago Tribune infers he’s guilty. Suffice it to say, it doesn’t look like Josh is going to get a fair trial. But all that changes when his attorney Billy Flynn Bobby...

Few country bands embody the pirate lifestyle more than Midland — they’ve never met a bar they haven’t plundered. Now the “Drinkin’ Problem” country trio are taking their swashbuckling ways into international waters by partnering with music-at-sea giants Sixthman for a new cruise. “Midland’s The Last Resort Cruise” sets sail April 1-5, 2024. Expect lots of tequila onboard: The band’s own Insólito brand will be the featured spirit.

Made up of Mark Wystrach, Cameron Duddy, and Jess Carson, Midland released their latest album The Last Resort: Greetings From...

Critical Role's Matt Mercer is one of the most prominent Dungeon Masters in the world because of his ability to create memorable NPCs, his worldbuilding skill, and his adaptability as a storyteller. With the newest season of Legend of Vox Machina on the horizon and the continuing adventures of Bells Hells in Campaign 3, the homebrewed world of Exandria continues to grow in new and interesting ways. However, plenty of guest DMs have sat in the chair over the course of the series, and the best guest DMs in Critical Role each offer their own unique contributions to Exandria.

From the guest DMs of Exandria Unlimited to Critical Role one-shots led by other cast members, the series has seen a lot of talented people behind the Dm screen. Of course, some appearances are more memorable than others for fans of the Actual Play series. For both old and new audiences...

Adele didn’t seem impressed by Harry Styles’ big win.

On Sunday night, Harry Styles took home the top prize at the Grammys, winning Album of the Year for his 2022 hit album Harry’s House.

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But as a video shared to Instagram showed, while most of the other stars in the room at the Crypto.com Arena jumped up to celebrate Styles, Adele remained in her seat and didn’t appear to be clapping.

Adele said “I don’t fink so babes! I ain’t clapping for ‘em” pic.twitter.com/aOkxlwL2Sn

— Meech (@MediumSizeMeech) February 6, 2023

The clip quickly went viral on Twitter, garnering thousands of likes and inspiring plenty of jokes from users.

Where’s Kanye when u need him lol https://t.co/Zk48XFXnBb pic.twitter.com/4fz7f2O4BZ

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Hello, everyone! We’ve got a bunch of new home media releases on tap today including a handful of classic films and some new genre offerings as well. Mvd is showing some love to The House on Sorority Row and Mortuary (1983) with Special Edition Blu-rays, and Cauldron Films is resurrecting The Crimes of the Black Cat and Beyond Terror in HD as well. As far as new horror goes, Arrow Films has put together a stellar home release for Threshold, Scream Factory is releasing Dark Spell on both formats, and if you haven't had a chance to check out A Nightmare Wakes yet, Rlje Films has you covered.

Other releases for July 6th include Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 4K, Doors, Medusa, Claw, Hell’s Bells, Scarecrow County and Sharks of the Corn.

Beyond Terror

Their Nightmare Was Further than Fear... It was Beyond Terror ! After a drug-fueled night of violence,...

Greta Van Fleet have released a new track, “Broken Bells,” from their upcoming album, The Battle at Garden’s Gate, out April 16th via Lava/Republic.

“Broken Bells” is a sprawling ballad filled with tangled guitar lines and sharp string stabs that builds and exhales with a blazing guitar solo that makes ample use of the wah-wah pedal. “I believe there comes a time,” Josh Kiszka wails on the track, “When out of silence we will sing/And even broken bells will ring.”

In a statement, bassist Sam Kiszka said...

Arrow Video have announced brand new 4K restorations of both Demons and its sequel Demons 2, presented in more vivid and terrifying ways than ever before, alongside a wealth of bonus features old and new, making this the ultimate experience in celluloid terror.

In the early 1980s, Dario Argento, the famed horror maestro responsible for such classics as Suspiria and Deep Red, branched out from directing into producing, shepherding the work of his fellow filmmakers to the screen – among them Lamberto Bava, son of the legendary Mario Bava. Together, they crafted two tales of terror that would become synonymous with Italian 80s horror, in which the veil between the real world and the silver screen is torn asunder.

In 1985’s Demons, a motley assortment of unwitting filmgoers accept invitations to a screening at the mysterious Metropol theatre. However, as the brutal slasher film unspools, the horror breaks free from the constraints of the screen,...

Apparel company LA Pop Art has been working double time on the production line to launch its new fully-licensed collection of AC/DC threads. And let’s just say it’s a lot more conducive to declaring your fandom and working from home than a schoolboy uniform.

The AC/DC “Word Art” collection features T-shirts, hoodies, tanks, long-sleeve tops, baseball tees, and tote bags, all featuring the iconic AC/DC logo fashioned from the band’s most famous song titles (think “Highway To Hell,” “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” and perennial karaoke selection,...

Ian Holm, the classically trained Shakespearean actor best known to film audiences for his performances in films including the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” movies, “Chariots of Fire” and “Alien,” has died. He was 88.

A rep for the actor has said Holm died in hospital on Friday morning. The actor had been battling Parkinson’s Disease for a number of years. However, as recently as January, Holm appeared in person to collect the Newport Beach Film Festival’s Icon Award in London.

Holm, who was celebrated for interpretations of most of the Shakespeare canon, including a towering “King Lear,” also excelled onstage in the original production of Harold Pinter’s “The Homecoming,” which he also brought to Broadway. He began working in films only midway through his career, debuting with an adaptation of his stage performance in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 1968.

In later years, however, he worked increasingly...

She was a Chicago TV pioneer who went on to co-create two enduring TV franchises, the CBS soap operas “The Young and the Restless” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.”

But more than anything else, Lee Phillip Bell, who died Feb. 25 at the age of 91, was remembered by friends and colleagues as a gracious, erudite and kindhearted person who was the definition of a “great lady,” in the words of “Y&r” star Eric Braeden.

“When she walked into a room, you just knew that this was someone worthy of enormous respect,” Braeden tells Variety. “You knew from talking to her that she was someone who was so informed about various subject matters and was so used to talking intelligently on television about them.”

Phillip Bell got her start in her native Chicago when television was in its infancy. She was a forerunner of future Chicago-based talk show personalities Oprah Winfrey...

Lee Phillip Bell, who along with her late husband William J. Bell created CBS’ The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, two of the most popular soap operas in TV history, died yesterday. She was 91.

Bell’s death was announced by her children, William James Bell, Bradley Phillip Bell and longtime Young and the Restless actress Lauralee Bell Martin. A cause of death was not immediately available.

An Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist, Bell also won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series as co-creator of The Young and the Restless in 1975 and was recipient of the Daytime Emmys’ Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.

“Our mother was a loving and supportive wife, mother and grandmother,” the family said in a statement. “Gracious and kind, she enriched the lives of all who knew her. We will miss her tremendously.”

Born in Chicago, Illinois on June 9, 1928, Bell began a...

With Vincent Price, it’s all about the dance; the way his voice dips and swoons regardless of partner, the wave of his hand signaling the start of a new song. A little dramatic and florid, yes; but an artist of his stature deserves all the sweeping fanfare bestowed upon him; and nothing makes me want to strike up the band more than The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971), a gorgeously demented waltz for the ages.

Produced and released by American International Pictures stateside in May, Phibes was a big hit with critics and audiences alike; and really, what was not to love? Wickedly funny and ghoulish, people were ready to be in on the joke like Price had been all along.

A black cloaked figure sits at a pipe organ, in an ornate mansion with marble floors surrounded by life size automated band members dubbed Dr. Phibes’ Clockwork Wizards. The figure...

Until you start watching killer rat movies, you don’t realize how few killer rat movies there are. It’s not a sub-genre that sparked off franchises (does Willard and its sequel Ben count? Let me know) or inspired Funko toys, but rather has films strewn here and there throughout horror history. Today we’re scurrying back to my particular turf for Deadly Eyes (1982), Golden Harvest’s Canadian-lensed attempt to move over from Kung Fu to Rodent Fu. (Sorry Joe Bob Briggs, I couldn’t resist.)

Released in October by Golden Harvest (the Honk Kong based studio with nearly 300 production credits) in Canada and stateside by Warner Brothers the following April, Deadly Eyes (aka Night Eyes) laid droppings all over the place according to critics and audiences alike, and was quickly relegated to clamshell heaven. Was it a film ahead of its time? God no. But Deadly Eyes is way more fun than I remembered,...

2011 marked the fourth consecutive year of "100 Best Kills" at Fantastic Fest – a celebration of horror’s most memorable and outrageous death scenes, no matter how obscure. This year Cinefamily, which has its own version of this sick celebration, joined in on the fun, adding a new technological breakthrough allowing the controller to move frame-by-frame, back-and-forth, and even record scratch each kill like some sort of sadistic DJ.

A montage set to “Stairway to Heaven” kicked off the midnight fun, featuring all of the classic kills from favorites like Scanners, The Thing, Zombie, The Omen, Chopping Mall, Maniac, and more. Instead of watching these scenes that have all been indelibly marked on our twisted psyches over the years, why not get them out of the way first so the more obscure kills can get their due, right?

There was a noticeable rift in the theater between horror fans last night: those...

[Editor's note: In light of the release of Jason Eisner's Hobo with a Shotgun, we thought we'd ask the world's leading expert on Canadian exploitation cinema and Managing Editor of Canuxploitation, Paul Corupe, to share his five favourite and most outrageous Canadian expoitation films]

The Canadian film industry has a dirty little secret. For every critically lauded drama by celebrated auteurs, dozens of unacknowledged low-budget horror, science fiction, sexploitation, action and lowbrow comedy films lurk just below the surface. Although many of these “Canuxploitation” films appeared during the 1970s and '80s, when generous tax laws helped nurture the budding careers of directors like David Cronenberg, Bob Clark and Ivan Reitman, Canada's rich history of exploitation films stretches from almost the very beginning of moving pictures.

Our most recent entry, Jason Eisner's Hobo with a Shotgun, has been earning positive reviews due to its gleeful devotion to exploitation carnage, it's only the tip of the ice floe when it comes to the dark side of Canada's film industry. In more than a decade of hunting down obscure Canadian B-movies, the five films below are some of the wildest examples of Canuxploitation, a legacy created...