Although binge-watching isn’t always ideal, there’s nothing quite like losing yourself in a great story for a whole weekend. Luckily, Netflix offers a huge variety of highly-rated shows in every genre you could want for a marathon viewing session. Whether you’re into true crime, romance, or dark comedy, you’ll find shows with fantastic acting, captivating stories, and high-quality production values that will keep you hooked.
Choosing a game can be overwhelming, but these three stand out as great options for this weekend. They include a truly scary interactive horror game that’s a classic, a fighting game that still holds up today, and a survival horror experience guaranteed to give you a fright.
The latest *Tron* movie finished a disappointing beginning for the series, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney is now considering ending the franchise altogether.
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The Cowardly Lion has a very small part in the second act of the musical *Wicked* – originally, only a rope representing him was visible. But because the stage show is being adapted into two long, visually-rich movies, the filmmakers wanted a well-known actor for the role. Director Jon M. Chu told Deadline he directly messaged an actor he admired on Instagram, explaining the part wasn’t large but asking if they’d be interested. The actor enthusiastically agreed, and they quickly recorded the lines.
HBO announced on October 17th that Natasha Lyonne, known for her role in Poker Face, and Broadway performer Trisha Paytas will join the cast for the next season. Several other new actors will also appear, including Gideon Adlon, Bill Bodner, Colleen Camp, Homer Gere, Jessica Blair Herman, Hemky Madera, Kwame Patterson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Bella Podaras, Cailyn Rice, Eli Roth, Madison Thompson, Jack Topalian, Sam Trammell, and Matthew Willig.
Holland told Deadline that while they have a general idea of what will happen with Georgie’s story, the timing of those events is still flexible. This allows them creative freedom to weave those plot points into the narrative in a way that feels both organic and unexpected.
The main characters return, with the story picking up in 1982, a few years after the first film. Finney Blake (Mason Thames) and his sister, Gwen (Madeleine McGraw), are still living in north Denver. Though Finn is known as the boy who survived and defeated the Grabber, he hasn’t been celebrated for it. Instead, he’s struggling with his past and is shown aggressively confronting a classmate who mentions it, risking becoming the bully he once feared. Gwen, who possesses psychic abilities that helped her find her brother in the first movie, is now ostracized at school and labeled a witch. She’s also plagued by new, disturbing dreams. These dreams reveal her mother, Hope (Anna Lore), as a young girl in 1958 making a mysterious phone call near Alpine Lake, a Christian youth winter camp. In 1982, dream-Gwen answers the call.
The film unfolds over a single day, beginning late at night when Rashid and his family are forced to stop at a roadside garage after accidentally hitting a dog. There, a mechanic named Vahid recognizes Rashid’s prosthetic leg and believes him to be Eqbal, the man who brutally tortured him in prison – a torturer known as “Peg Leg.” Suffering from ongoing health problems caused by the abuse, Vahid kidnaps Rashid, intending to bury him alive, but starts to question if he has the right man. He seeks help from another former prisoner, who leads him to Shiva, a photographer currently shooting a wedding for a fellow ex-detainee, Golrokh. Shiva then involves her ex-lover, Hamid, who may have suffered the most from Eqbal’s cruelty. Together, this group of traumatized former prisoners embarks on a journey to confirm the man’s identity as the infamous Peg Leg and decide what to do with him.
To celebrate the season, let’s revisit 15 of the most memorable episodes, beginning with the Halloween special that launched this tradition.