Did we really need a new take of Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter? The 1984 movie starring Drew Barrymore was reasonably compelling in that way that most early King movies were, if not particularly exceptional or memorable. (Aside from the highly unfortunate “red-face” casting of George C. Scott as a …
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Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon grapple with the most intense parenting problem imaginable — protecting a child with superpowers from a creepy federal agency — in the new trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter. The film is set to arrive in theaters and stream on …
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When Rolling Stone asked Stephen King to pick his best book in 2014, he didn’t go for an obvious candidate like The Stand, The Shining, It, Carrie, or Misery. Instead, he picked the relatively obscure Lisey’s Story. The 2006 novel centers around a woman who travels to an alternate universe …
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Welcome to the Hotel Castle Rock: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave … except chopped up into little pieces, stuffed inside garbage bags and dumped in the back of a station wagon. This week’s episode (“Past Perfect”) continues the Stephen King-inspired show’s hot streak, …
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