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Golden Globes Show Love For Horror Shows LOVECRAFT COUNTRY & RATCHED The Golden Globe give nominations to the HBO horror show Lovecraft Country and Netflixs Ratched for Best Television Series - Drama By Mike Sprague Lovecraft Country and Netflix’s Ratchedsnagged Best Television Series noms. They will go up against The Crown, Ozark, and Evan Romansky created and Ryan Murphy developed Ratched based on the character from Ken Kes...

Dracula is of course full of queer potential, but sadly, Lucy Westenra’s desire to have three husbands goes largely unexplored on the page. S.T. Gibson’s new novella, A Dowry of Blood, responds to the latent queerness of the original with a page-turning, heartbreaking retelling of the lives of Dracula’s brides. Told from the perspective of Constanta, Dracula’s eldest wife, the book follows her journey through Europe at his side. Centuries pass in a blur in this haunting retelling that ...

Golden Globes Nominations: 18 Biggest Snubs and Surprises Danielle Turchiano, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The Golden Globes never stick to a script, but this year they couldn’t keep their regular calendar date because of COVID-19. The annual A-list dinner typically kicks off the year in the first weekend of January (with the guest list mapped out in December). But the 78th ceremony was pushed back to late February, with (virtual) hosting duties to be carried out by Tina Fey and Amy Poeh...

The "Tomb Raider" sequel marks the feature directorial debut of Misha Green.

Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green joins the sequel to 2018's Tomb Raider starring Alicia Vikander as director.

Remember the  Tomb Raiderfranchise? MGM has just unearthed their plans for a sequel to the 2018 series reboot, starring Alicia Vikander as a young Lara Croft. After a few years with limited progress, they’ve found a new filmmaker to get  Tomb Raider 2 moving again. That’s Misha Green, who just wrapped showrunning the first season of  Lovecraft Country on HBO. Green will write and direct Vikander’s  Tomb Raider 2 according to Deadline. After several big projects in television, the ne...

Illustration by Andrea Ventura. Omelas, the utopian setting of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1973 short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,” is built on deception. Le Guin introduces the city on a day of celebration, dwelling on its merry crowds, gorgeous architecture, and picturesque proximity to a bay and snow-capped mountains. As the narrator roves through this vista, describing the sights with pride and wonder, the admiration grows defensive. “Do you believe? Do you accept the festiva...

The Shoggoths Arrive Lovecraft Country got off to a running start with Atticus (Jonathan Majors), Leti (Jurnee Smollett) and George (Courtney B. Vance) encountering the horrors of racism and the supernatural on their trip to Ardham, Massachusetts. But no moment in the premiere better set the stage for the series than the Shoggoths, creatures taken from H.P. Lovecrafts lore and blended with the concept of the vampire. Their arrival marked a shift for the characters understanding of their world, ...

Lovecraft Country Wins Best Horror Series at Critics Choice Super Awards ✖ The very first Critics Choice Super Awards took place on Sunday with the new award from the Critics Choice Association recognizing genre entertainment that doesnt always get its due, including horror, action, animation, and super hero genres. And while 2020 was a year unlike any other in entertainment, horror television was still there to give viewers thrills, chills and other scares. And while there were a number of g...

The Best TV Shows: 2020 + Video December 28, 2020 by: 2020 was almost the year without movies. With multiplexes closed around the world for a substantial part of the year, many of us turned to the small screen for entertainment. With a lot of time on our hands, there was also substantial programming to boot. From event series to new streaming launches, there have been so many excellent shows that aired in 2020 that we had to extend our list to include the 20 best! It was still hard to whittle...