Halloween Ends, Chainsaw Man Begins, Shakespeare Gets Cool, and Angela Lansbury Saves Her Family From Charles Manson
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This edition of the newsletter features one of the most unexpected Angela Lansbury news stories you will ever hear. We've also got a review of Halloween Ends, another review of Chainsaw Man, the story of how Rick Baker got pushed aside on The Wolfman remake, a tribute to the '90s Cool Shakespeare boom, and much more. All that, plus traffic and weather.
Have You Heard the News?
Here's that wild Angela Lansbury story I mentioned: Lansbury, who died recently, revealed in a previous interview that in the late 1960s, she took her family and fled Los Angeles because her children were growing close to the Manson Family. Yes, really.
Bughuul, the demon from Sinister, originally looked almost identical to the Babadook. Obviously, that changed.
Halloween Ends arrives this week. Will it mark the final time Jamie Lee Curtis goes up against Michael Myers?
Trevor Noah will say goodbye to The Daily Show in December. And I will say hello to egg nog in December, am I, right folks?? Ah, we love to laugh around here. Anyway.
Remember Zack Snyder's Justice League? Well, it's getting a new theatrical release thanks to Kevin Smith.
Reviews
Halloween Ends concludes David Gordon Green's new trilogy, but does it offer us a satisfying ending, or is it more trick than treat? Here's our review.
What if I told you there was a man...who was also a chainsaw? And his name is Chainsaw Man? It's true, and we have a review of his anime series right here!
The new book Star Wars: Path Of Deceit delves into the fear of the Jedi.
Features and Exclusives
In the 1990s, Romeo + Juliet launched an era of Cool Shakespeare movies. Come along with us on a journey through those films.
Legendary makeup artist Rick Baker pretty much invented the modern werewolf transformation in movies, so why did The Wolfman remake opt to use terrible CGI for its big transformation scene? We investigate.
Andor season 1 is halfway through, so we went ahead and ranked every major character on the Star Wars series.
Not all remakes are bad, so here are Sci-Fi Remakes That Are Better Than The Original.
The Winchesters challenges the Supernatural canon. Here's how.
Video of the Day
Today's Video of the Day features the legendary John Carpenter talking to Variety about his career. As Carpenter gets older, his interviews get more amusing, because he essentially says the same thing every time: "I don't really care about anything, I just like to get paid and play video games." An absolute legend. One of the best to ever do it.