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Watch out, Michael Myers, Laurie Strode [Jamie Lee Curtis] is ready for you.

Arts

This 'Halloween,' Jamie Lee Curtis Reckons With 40 Years Of Trauma

4:38pm October 19, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Michael Myers is back and, so is Laurie Strode. Jamie Lee Curtis was 19 when she starred in the original Halloween. This sequel ignores the others to focus on what has happened to Laurie since 1978.

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Here Comes Satan Clause: Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) and Miss Wardwell (Michelle Gomez) literally deal with the devil in Netflix's Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Arts

'Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina' Is Wicked, Good

3:11pm October 19, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka ably carries the Riverdale-adjacent series on Netflix about a young woman who's half mortal, half witch and all hero.

"I ... am! Your singing tel-a-gram!": Michael Myers (Nick Castle) pays a visit to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) in David Gordon Green's Halloween.

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'Halloween': This Time, Laurie Strode Is Locked And Loaded

6:46pm October 18, 2018

by Monica Castillo

Critic Monica Castillo says this Halloween sequel takes as its true subject the lingering effects of the trauma Jamie Lee Curtis' character experienced in the 1978 original. (Also there's stabbing.)

Forging Ahead: Melissa McCarthy is Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Melissa McCarthy's New Signature Role: 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

5:00pm October 18, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Melissa McCarthy plays a real-life literary forger left behind by the publishing industry in a new and thoughtful comedy.

Ruth (Blythe Danner) and Bridget (Hilary Swank) share a moment in writer/director Elizabeth Chomko's intimate family drama, What They Had.

Arts

A Family In Quiet Crisis Gathers To Assess 'What They Had' — And What They've Still Got

5:00pm October 18, 2018

by Ella Taylor

In her debut feature, writer/director Elizabeth Chomko brings fresh insight — and a stellar cast — to the "dysfunctional family" subgenre; the result is "funny and sad, but never mawkish."

She said see you later boy: Stevie (Sunny Suljic) stars in Jonah Hill's Mid90s.

Arts

In 'Mid90s' Jonah Hill Looks At Skater Culture Through A Lens, Blankly

5:00pm October 18, 2018

by Scott Tobias

Jonah Hill writes and directs this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a boy who embraces skater culture; the film faithfully documents the era, but offers no point of view.

Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan in Wildlife (IFC Films).

Arts

In 'Wildlife,' Carey Mulligan's Performance Blazes Bright

5:00pm October 18, 2018

by Andrew Lapin

Paul Dano movingly adapts Richard Ford's 1990 novel about a couple (Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan) whose marriage crumbles as their son (Ed Oxenbould) watches.

A British advertising watchdog group ruled on Wednesday that the Spotify horror ad is "likely to cause undue distress to children."

Music & Culture

Watchdog Group Finds Spooky Spotify Ad Is Too Scary For Kids, Causes 'Distress'

4:57pm October 17, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

In 60 seconds, the commercial showcases a medley of horror film tropes, including a maniacal doll that presumably kills a group of young people whenever they play a catchy pop song.

Alicia Goranson and Sara Gilbert play Becky and Darlene on ABC's The Conners.

Arts

Without Roseanne, 'The Conners' Go On

11:14am October 17, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The first episode of the post-Roseanne era of the Roseanne revival struggled to make its jokes land, but it proved that there's plenty of story there to make a good show.

Sophie Calle, at a private concert by Pharrell Williams in Paris on May 26, 2014. Pharrell contributed to the album Souris Calle, in tribute to Sophie Calle's dead cat.

Bono, Pharrell, Laurie Anderson And More Memorialize A... Cat

2:22pm October 16, 2018

by Andrew Flanagan

French artist Sophie Calle's cat died in 2014. To mourn him, Calle asked dozens of musicians — including Michael Stipe, The National and Jarvis Cocker — to memorialize him.