By Doug Leibowitz (Will Brill) is an ostensibly mild-mannered but deeply disillusioned middle school theater teacher and once maybe promising playwright. When the Cedarhurst Middle School teacher is forced to confront the reality that his ex-girlfriend Abigail (Gillian Jacobs), who he thought he was still “on a break” with, has started
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During Ghost Month, the boundary between the living and the dead is supposed to thin. The gates of hell open up. The ghosts get hungrier. Or so says Gracie’s Nai Nai (Fiona Fu), who delivers this unsettling tidbit with the weary authority of someone who’s seen some things. For Gracie’s
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The news of Catherine O’Hara’s death at age 71 is sure to prompt fond remembrances of her work. Some will recall the outrageous characters she portrayed on the groundbreaking Canadian sketch series SCTV. Others will mention her playing tacky artist Delia Deetz in Beetlejuice or the formerly rich Moira Rose
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Apple TV is staking a claim to the entertainment world’s next big fantasy adaptation: Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere universe. (Sometimes, dreams do come true!) The streamer has acquired the rights to Sanderson’s Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive books, two key pillars of his sprawling fictional fantasy universe, as well as some
