The ‘Walking Dead’ Comics Offer a Parade of Pain and Pleasure

This article is part of The Reading List, a monthly column in which we encourage you to take your enthusiasm for a particularly groovy TV show and direct it into a wide array of extracurricular studies. This entry explores The Walking Dead universe as seen in...

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The 50 Best Horror Movies of the 1980s

October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with...

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Legendary Scottish Actor Sean Connery Has Passed Away at Age 90

Noooooooo not another!! The one-and-only Sean Connery has died at age 90. His family reports that he has been "unwell for some time" (via BBC), and passed away in the Bahamas with much of his family with him. The original James Bond! Indiana Jones' dad! And so...

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‘Over the Garden Wall’ Beautifully Challenges Childhood Hurt and Fear

Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, our weekly column where we continue the animated boob tube ritual of yesteryear. Our lives may no longer be scheduled around small screen programming, but that doesn’t mean we should forget the necessary sanctuary of Saturday...

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Clever Girls: The Evolution of the Final Girl Trope

Welcome to The Queue — your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a montage of the evolution of the final girl. Final girls are as essential to horror as slasher villains and jump scares. But their legacy...

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Demonic Animatronics + Nicolas Cage in 'Willy's Wonderland' Teaser

"Hey kids, do you know what time it is?!" Well, I'm sold! Screen Media has released an official trailer for a wacky action horror coming up next year titled Willy's Wonderland. There's no date set - they're holding it until sometime in 2021 - but I'm already...

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One of the Best ‘Mad Men’ Episodes is All About the Women

This essay is part of our series Episodes, a bi-weekly column in which senior contributor Valerie Ettenhofer digs into the singular chapters of television that make the medium great. This entry revisits “The Other Woman,” a Mad Men Season 5 episode in...

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Jackie Chan is an Accountant in Explosive 'Vanguard' Action Trailer

"The enemy has moved in." Gravitas has released a new US trailer for the crazy cool action film Vanguard, starring Jackie Chan - who is still making action films despite announcing he would retire. This time he re-teams with the HK director of his classic action...

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Official Trailer for Relationship Drama 'The Killing of Two Lovers' Film

"You need to fight. You need to fight for us." Neon has released the first official trailer for the indie small town relationship drama The Killing of Two Lovers, which originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. David desperately tries...

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Ema Horvath Meets a Very Strange Man in 'What Lies Below' Trailer

"You're kind of, uh, a weird dude." "Yes I am. But I mean, weird is cool. Right…?" Vertical Ent + XYZ Films has unveiled an official trailer for What Lies Below, a dark mystery thriller that is the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Braden R. Duemmler. The...

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‘The Mandalorian’ Explained: Chapter 9 Redeems an Action Figure

The Mandalorian Explained is our ongoing series that keeps an eye on Lucasfilm’s saga about the Galaxy’s most dangerous single dad. In this entry, we look at what went down in The Mandalorian Chapter 9 — the first episode of Season 2 — and explain how its shocker...

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10 Most Harrowing Horror Movie Pregnancies

October is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as “31 days of horror.” Don’t bother looking it up; it’s true. Most people take that to mean highlighting one horror movie a day, but here at FSR, we’ve taken that up a spooky notch or nine by celebrating each day with...

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Fun First Trailer for 'The Stand In' Comedy Starring Drew Barrymore

"Okay everybody, let's flush this turd down the toilet!" Hollywood, eh? Saban Films has released an official trailer for an indie comedy titled The Stand In, an amusing Hollywood-life comedy about an actress and her stand in. From filmmaker Jamie Babbit, The...

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Shira Haas & Lior Ashkenazi in Trailer for Israeli Bakery Drama 'Esau'

"You feel this sour smell? It's the dough starting to rise… Nothing can stop it now." ShineHouse Group has debuted an official US trailer for an indie drama titled Esau an Israeli drama made by a Russian filmmaker. This originally premiered at the Shanghai Film...

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How They Did the “Birth of Frank” Sequence in ‘Hellraiser’

Welcome to How’d They Do That? — , a bi-monthly column that unpacks moments of movie magic and celebrates the technical wizards who pulled them off. This entry looks into the reverse melt sequence in Hellraiser. At its core, Hellraiser offers a perverse portrait...

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