She’s sold 35 million books, tamed literary snobs, and has a major Netflix adaptation in the works. As her 16th novel ‘My Favourite Mistake’ is released, Irish author Marian Keyes tells Jessie Thompson about putting everything from menopause to alcoholism on the page
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, 2024. Directed by Wade Allain-Marcus. Starring Simone Joy Jones, Patricia Williams, Jermaine Fowler, June Squibb, Nicole Richie, Iantha Richardson, Tyriq Withers, Miles Fowler, Gus Kenworthy, Donielle T. Hansley Jr., Trishna, Ayaamii Sledge, and Carter Young. SYNOPSIS: Tanya finds her summer plans canceled when her mom jets off for a […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original...
The Christina Applegate-led dark comedy from the 90s gets a shrewdly made update that acts as a blueprint for how Hollywood should revisit older materialDon’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead is the ultimate ode to the latchkey generation. To watch the 1991 film now is to be reminded of a simpler time when parents barely checked in, house parties were all the rage and Christina Applegate was the ideal girl nextdoor. Given its place in the grand tradition of coming-of-age classics, somewhere...
There are enough nods to the first film to please fans looking for those Easter eggs, but they don’t get in the way of the story itself, a teen comedy that keeps it real, despite the heightened circumstances.
There are enough nods to the first film to please fans looking for those Easter eggs, but they don’t get in the way of the story itself, a teen comedy that keeps it real, despite the heightened circumstances.
For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the ’90s. Between our very own “Choice Awards” and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Nerf retailers flooded TV screens with images of independent youngsters with the magical ability to eat McDonald’s whenever they wanted. “Kids rule,” the tagline for 1994’s Camp Nowhere read, and it was an ethos injected into the culture four years earlier with the release of Home Alone. But Steven Herek’s HBO...
We may not have gotten the new remake without a last-minute change
Alex Pereira, the reigning UFC light heavyweight champion, has set tongues wagging with his recent callout for a heavyweight fight. After a dominant knockout victory over Jamahal Hill at UFC 300, Pereira expressed his desire to move up in weight class. But is this a wise decision, or is he venturing into treacherous territory? Alex Pereira is eyeing UFC 301 Since Jon Jones vacated the light heavyweight title in August 2020, the division has been in flux. Multiple vacancies and lackluster draws...
There’s a dance-based competition show currently airing Mondays at 9 pm. New episodes land on Fox. Cat Deeley’s the host. And yet, despite those familiar trappings, or the title that runs across the screen at the start of each episode, I’m having trouble believing that the show in question is actually So You Think You […]
Fans have been in an uproar over a revelation in the Fallout TV series, but Todd Howard is here to reassure you that there was no retconning.
When it was announced that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers would be making her London West-End debut starring as Juliet alongside Hollywood actor Tom Holland as Romeo, it should have been a celebratory moment. Instead, the young actor — who has already starred in productions of Othello, Macbeth as well as a BBC drama — was faced with a heartbreaking, but all too familiar, sequence of events in which she received thousands of racist and misogynistic comments online. The social media harassment got...
A SELF-PROCLAIMED hippie made the bold decision to grow out her armpit hair after taking up a nomadic lifestyle. Mya Loftus took the leap into hairy life after deciding she spent too much time, eff