Richard Powers’ epic nature novel The Overstory has won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The sweeping and evocative novel, which unfolds in interlocking fables tracing the relationship between humanity and the natural world, has been one of 2018’s most lauded. It was also shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize and the (still pending) PEN/Faulkner Award,…
Game of Thrones set a massive ratings record for its final season premiere. The HBO hit delivered 17.4 million viewers on Sunday evening across multiple airings and including some streaming. That makes the GoT season 8 premiere the biggest telecast in HBO’s history and the most-watched scripted entertainment program of the year (the prior record…
“You are expensive. Very expensive.” That’s what an underworld figure growls to the bounty hunter in the new Star Wars series The Mandalorian, but it also applies perfectly to a similar masked figure who shocked this year’s galactic fan gathering in Chicago. That would be a 1979 Boba Fett toy — one of three extremely…
Turn on, tune in, and drop out with the summery pop psychedelia of LSD, the acronymous supergroup comprising British multi-talent Labrinth, chart-topping singer-songwriter Sia, and Grammy-winning cross-genre DJ/producer Diplo. Like Diplo’s first album with his band Major Lazer (Guns Don’t Kill People… Lazers Do), the 10-track LSD isn’t afraid to get weird. “Welcome to the…
The new Hellboy film, not surprisingly, is packed to the brim with monsters. But amidst the blood queens and pig demons, the most unsettling scene in the movie belongs to a little old Russian witch who lives in a chicken-legged hut — and moves like no creature you’ve ever seen. Baba Yaga has captivated Hellboy…
Disney Parks We’re about to visit Galaxy’s Edge by way of Chicago. The Disneyland and Walt Disney World theme park attractions took center stage at Star Wars Celebration on Saturday morning. Entertainment Weekly is on the scene, and here’s where we’ll be reporting all the news and revelations from the panel. Developing …
The first family of Winterfell had been separated since the second episode of Game of Thrones, with some of their journeys devastatingly cut short. And though the North remembers, not everyone has a perfect memory of where each of the wolves went. Ahead of the eighth and final season of HBO’s fantasy epic, let’s retrace…
We’re going in … The Galaxy’s Edge theme park attractions at Disneyland and Walt Disney World kicked off Day Two of Star Wars Celebration in Chicago on Saturday. Entertainment Weekly has an early preview — which is as close as you can get without buying a ticket. Here’s your guide to the planet of Batuu…
Don’t fret if you couldn’t fork over a pile of Benjamins to gain access to the Coachella Festival this weekend. It’s streaming online for free. Granted, only a fraction of the acts in Indio, CA. are available via Coachella’s YouTube channel, but they are the best ones. The feed began on Friday at 4 p.m.…
We’re going to be heading over to George and Martha’s next year. Laurie Metcalf and Eddie Izzard will play the battling couple in a new revival of Edward Albee’s searing play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, producer Scott Rudin announced Saturday. The production, directed by Joe Mantello, will run a limited engagement beginning on March…
