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Invincible: Robert Kirkman Discusses Season 2 and Beyond

Anyone who has experienced 10, soon to be 11, seasons of The Walking Dead can tell you that comic writer Robert Kirkman enjoys a lengthy story. Kirkman’s zombie comic series from which the AMC adaptation takes its inspiration ran from 2003 through 2019 and featured a staggering 193 issues. What’s even more impressive, however, is that The Walking Dead wasn’t the only expansive serialized story Kirkman was telling at the same time. Alongside illustrators Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley, the prolific author produced 144 issues of Image Comics landmark superhero imprint Invincible from 2003 through 2018. Now that Invincible has…
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The Haunting of Bly Manor: Mike Flanagan Discusses Standout Eighth Episode

The following contains spoilers for The Haunting of Bly Manor. When developing Netflix’s 2018 horror hit The Haunting of Hill House, writer/director Mike Flanagan always intended to film an episode that flashed back to the history of the titular house and spent time with all the former inhabitants before the Crain family arrived. Unfortunately, things didn’t work out. “We didn’t get to do it,” Flanagan says. “We’d written it, we’d cast it, we’d scheduled it. It got excised before we could shoot it as we struggled to try to get the season done on time and on budget. That was…
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Skyman: Don Miggs Discusses Universal Sonics

The mock-documentary Skyman doesn’t tell the usual UFO encounter story. Director Daniel Myrick, who broke on the scene with the groundbreaking horror thriller The Blair Witch Project, does not put this together using found footage. The film examines the aftermath of an alien visitation, and the story is told by a witness and survivor. Carl Merryweather (Michael Selle) was seven years old when he saw the “skyman” in Barstow, a small town in California. The event changed him. He’s spent years obsessively collecting UFO magazines, as well as first-person accounts of other contactees. It made him the neighborhood “character.” Skyman…
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A Secret Love Filmmaker Discusses Sharing His Family’s Story

Several years ago, filmmaker Chris Bolan gathered with the rest of his family at the suburban Chicago house of his two great aunts, Terry Donahue and Pat Henschel. Over some rum and Cokes, Terry and Pat let their family know there was something they had to tell them. Terry and Pat weren’t just lifelong friends and roommates; they are gay and have been each other’s romantic partner for decades.  The statement opened up a floodgate of emotions, with the family roundly supporting the pair and asking them questions about their relationship. Terry and Pat were finally able to open up…
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