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Sentinel Staff Writer FAIRMONT — Former Fairmont resident Andrew Slinde loved writing since he was a kid. Slinde’s first novel “Six-Gun Sorcery” debuts later this month, but the idea is 25 years in the making and he is excited, but also nervous for the novel to debut. “I’m absolutely thrilled and it’s a dream come true,” Slinde said. “At the same time it’s nothing I’ve ever done before with this level of attention, and drawing this level of attention to myself makes me ex...

WandaVision’s Weekly Mystery Box Is a Throwback to the Glory Days of Lost WandaVision Halfway through the series, there are a lot of things I love about WandaVision. First and foremost, it finally kicks off Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) — quite a shift from the original plan due to COVID-19. Getting to spend more time with Wanda Maximoff and Vision — two characters with rich comic book histories who weren’t fully fleshed out in films — has been a treat. And it’s al...

M. Night Shyamalans New Mysterious Movie Old Gets First Teaser The full trailer for the upcoming thriller will be revealed during the Super Bowl. The first look at M. Night Shyamalans new thriller Old has been revealed. The full trailer will be released during the Super Bowl this Sunday, but ahead of that, the director has posted a short teaser. Shyamalan posted the promo for Old on Twitter. Its extremely short, and shows a family heading somewhere in their RV. The kid in the back asks "are we ...

[Warning: Spoilers for The Stand’ s seventh episode follow.] CBS All Access’ 10-episode adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand is, like the book on which it’s based, an unwieldy beast overflowing with characters, ideas, gore, and more. Not every episode’s been a home run, but each has been enlivened by Owen Teague’s harrowing turn as Harold Lauder, a bullied teen who, in the wake of an apocalyptic pandemic, can’t stop his resentments from boiling over into violence. As we’ve no...

Blumhouse Productions’ 2017 Halloween offering has a pretty unbeatable premise: Groundhog Day crossed with a slasher film, in which co-ed Tree (short for Theresa) is endlessly chased and killed by a psycho with a knife wearing a nightmare-fodder cartoon baby mask on her birthday. Every time she gets murdered, she wakes up on her birthday again. Happy Death Day refreshes the time loop premise by making the archetype who would usually bite the dust early in the movie—that is, the clueless s...

George Clooney is being eyed to star in and will executive produce a new tv adaptation of “Buck Rogers” for Legendary.

Top 10 Movie Flops Everybody Expected To Be Great Expectations have a lot of power when it comes to movies and their success at the box office, and nowadays, Hollywood has capitalized on that power with the universal tool that is the internet. But that doesn’t stop certain projects from being a victim of their own hype online. Certain movies that have created a major sense of excitement with audiences ended up being major disappointments, and these flops always seem to hurt more. Here are 10 ...

The great poet and playwright Louis MacNeice composed during long, liquid lunches Credit:  Kurt Hutton Last week Alex Mahon, CEO of Channel 4, told her staff to spend 90 minutes of the working day not working. “We will have an all-C4 lunch break daily at 12.30-2pm,” she wrote in a memo. This new policy was met with surprise. Didn’t the languorous lunch-break die out in the 1980s, along with lunchtime martinis? You can’t just stop for an hour and a half… can you? In the age of the sm...

Authors build elaborate worlds through everything from carefully-chosen foods to amateur map-making to breathtakingly detailed wikis, their attention to detail a signal that these are worlds worthy of getting lost in. Often these are specific moments in the text, or a helpful hand-drawn atlas bookending the epic adventure, or a bonus feature that’s just a click away. But some storytellers go the extra mile, embedding worldbuilding details into their texts as a sort of “found footage”—fi...

CinemaBlend Copy to clipboard As many Stephen King adaptations have been made over the years, it’s actually surprising how few of them have been television series. We’ve seen plenty of feature films, TV movies, and miniseries, but you can count the number of straight-up shows on your fingers: 2002’s The Dead Zone, 2004s Kingdom Hospital, 2010’s It’s not an easy thing to complain about just given the quantity of adaptations we’ve seen going back to the mid-1970s,...