Sadly, we both said goodbye to David last week; he died at age 71 on November 8 of esophageal cancer. He had just moved back after eight years taking care of his father in Poland, Maine. David grew up in Maine, attended the Putney School and St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, where he studied the Great Books. He started out supplying reviews to the Kennebec Journal and the Maine Times, where he discovered Stephen King, who he also profiled for Take One....

In a new interview with The Ringer, Fincher’s “Videosyncrazy” co-writer Rich Wilkes reflects on the HBO comedy series that never was. The show, which went by the working titles “Living on Video” and “Video Synchronicity,” filmed episodes in the early part of 2015. Fincher had assembled a cast that included Paz Vega, Charlie Rowe, Sam Page, Kerry Condon, and Corbin Bernsen. The first season began with the making of Berlin’s “The Metro” and was written to culminate in the production of Michael Jackson’s iconic “Thriller” music video....

The brief official synopsis for “Demonic” from IFC Midnight reads: “A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades old rift between mother and daughter are revealed.” “The main character is a girl who’s been estranged from her mother,” Blomkamp told Entertainment Weekly earlier this year about his new movie. “During the course of the film she gets sort of reunited with her mother and we learn about some crazy back story that she wasn’t aware of....

Blackhurst came to the project knowing little more than Gacy’s name. “[I had] kind of a cursory knowledge of what had transpired in the ’70s. The fact that I knew anything at all came from pop culture, listening to music in the mid-’90s and having seen the way John Gacy[‘s] name had been co-opted by the musician, Marilyn Manson,” he said. When Blackhurst was offered the documentary, he found himself immediately captivated by the work done over nearly a decade by independent journalists Alison True and Tracy Ullman which asserted how Gacy’s crimes had been allowed to continue due to his close relationships with Chicago area bigwigs....

Films now labeled with content advisories include “Peter Pan,” “Dumbo,” “The Aristocats,” and “Swiss Family Robinson.” TheWrap noted that the disclaimer for such films reads, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive future together. Disney is committed to creating stories with inspirational and aspirational themes that reflect the rich diversity of the human experience around the globe....

Premiering out of competition in Venice, “Dune” stars Timothée Chalamet in his first leading blockbuster role as Paul Atreides, whose family acquires ownership of the dangerous desert planet Arrakis. The planet is home to the galaxy’s most valuable resource, a drug known as “spice,” which extends human life and gives its users superhuman abilities. By taking ownership of Arrakis, the Atreides family becomes an enemy of the rival Harkonnen empire and the planet’s natives, known as the Fremen....

Helms spoke about how the “tornado of fame” that came with “The Hangover’s” success on a recent episode of the Conan O’Brien podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend,” calling it “a whole new level” of public scrutiny compared to his work on TV. “It was a tornado of fame and a lot of buffeting. It was very overwhelming” Helms said on the podcast. “I really was reeling a lot of the time, like in the aftermath of ‘The Hangover,’ I was getting scripts for all these different kinds of projects....