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Lee Mendelson wanted to spare Charlie Brown a bit of trouble. The CBS executive, overseeing director Bill Melendez’s efforts to animate Charles Schulz’s new Halloween special, bristled at Melendez’s suggestion that three voiceless neighbors hand the trick-or-treating character a rock.

Can you believe October is over already? I know I can’t. With October just about in the rearview mirror and the final weekend happening over Halloween, plenty of people are probably planning their Elizabeth Holmes-inspired get-ups or figuring out how to perfectly drape some old sheets to approximate the period costumes from “The Odyssey.” If you’re a…

Slashers operate best when things are kept simple and straightforward. The average slasher film is going to clock in close to 90 minutes long and have a fairly standard plot, in which a group of innocent bystanders is put squarely in the path of some deranged lunatic with a sharp object and a penchant for…

November is here. Put away the pumpkins, get out the turkeys and, if you’re feeling wild, the other holiday decorations too. The holiday season is upon us. A time to stay home and stream to your heart’s desire. Yes, it’s time for the Nerd’s Watch, the place to find out all the best genre titles coming…

In Dead-End Job, the scariest part is not finding monsters inside a convenience store or running into something impossible during a temporary job. It is realizing that Hyeok-jun has reasons to keep showing up even after he knows he could die. That is where the Netflix series finds its strongest idea: the worse the job…