A judge has ruled that Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress Netflix's "Inventing Anna" is based on, can be released from jail on bond while she fights deportation -- if certain conditions are met.
Flexing different muscles, Marvel's "Werewolf by Night" is a nifty Halloween-timed special designed as a black-and-white homage to the Universal monster movies of the 1930s and '40s. Told with wry humor while tapping into unexplored quadrants of comics lore, it's a bit too gory and scary for younger kids but a gift to fans that raises enticingly monster-ous possibilities.
A Hollywood TV producer was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, including rape, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced Wednesday.
Joe Berlinger maintains he didn't set out to become the official chronicler of notorious serial killers, but the producer finds himself capping off a "trilogy" of real-life horror via Netflix's "Conversations With a Killer" series, which -- after multipart documentaries devoted to Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy -- shifts to "The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes."
If all shows were animated like "The Simpsons," networks wouldn't need to strain to keep them alive. Yet live-action dramas come with shelf lives, which explains the CW's twin attempts to extend two of its franchises with prequels: "Walker Independence," a back-to-the-Old-West adjunct to its Texas Ranger reboot; and "The Winchesters," a one-generation-back rekindling of the "Supernatural" flame.
Although the new "Hellraiser" is billed as "reimagining" Clive Barker's 1987 horror film, it's not like the title ever went away, raising six direct-to-video productions (the last one in 2018) after the four theatrical movies. If you somehow skipped, ballpark, nine of those, this direct-to-Hulu version offers a credibly creepy retelling in an over-inflated package that would benefit from a few targeted pinpricks.
Add "Mr. Harrigan's Phone" to the relatively short list of really good Stephen King adaptations, garnishing a coming-of-age story with understated hints of the supernatural and thoughtful rumination about cellphones that finds true horror in their ubiquity. Amid a month of Halloween-tinged offerings, it might be one of the few to share with the kids -- at least, before the next time you punish them by taking their phone away.
One of Molly Shannon's most popular "SNL" characters, hyperactive Catholic school girl Mary Catherine Gallagher, stems from Shannon's childhood of loss.
