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With a new Netflix adaptation of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House novels on the way, television fans are bound to recall the beloved series that aired 200 episodes and five movie specials between 1974 and 1983. The series starred Michael Landon and Karen Grassle as Charles and Caroline Ingalls,

As the weather warms and the children are out of school, thoughts and ears turn toward that ubiquitous sound of summer: the ice cream man’s jingle. Even though few professions could be more joyful than bringing cold confections to children, the jingle always feels a bit too loud, the sellers

Director Ben Wheatley has spent his career making films of all stripes. He has dabbled in cult horror, conspiratorial thrillers, twisty shoot-’em-ups, psychedelic dramas, surreal satires, murderous rom-coms, and schlocky B-movies. But it is within the intersections between genres that his best work lives. Take Kill List, Wheatley’s magnum opus.

Thirty-five years ago, some comic book fans left the theater absolutely disappointed, while a group of cartoon fans left utterly thrilled. These two groups both claimed to be fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and both had a deep appreciation for the adventures of Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael.

In the 2003 spy thriller The Recruit, Al Pacino’s CIA officer Walter Burke has a catchphrase. He’s “a scary judge of talent,” he says, before committing a string of inadvisable crimes. The Duffer Brothers, no matter what their perceived narrative crimes were during the five-season run of Stranger Things, also