In an early scene in “Smile 2,” the fictional pop superstar Skye Riley is in her drug dealer’s apartment. “Do you believe in weird stuff?” he asks her, between doing lines of coke. You certainly will after this horror romp — writer-director Parker Finn’s second movie that ...

Let’s put on a happy face, at least to start, for “Joker: Folie a Deux.” If there’s one undeniably compelling thing about both Todd Phillips’ divisive 2019 original and his new follow-up, it’s that these movies are best when they dance. The first movie might have been a muddled ...

Home Depot was about to launch something big — really big — when the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020: a 12-foot skeleton. “There were a lot of internal discussions. It was like, is there going to be Halloween this year?” said Lance Allen, senior merchant of decorative holiday at ...

NEW YORK — Live from New York! It’s 50 seasons later for “SNL.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host and not one but two musical guests: Billy Preston and Janis Ian. On ...

By JOCELYN NOVECK AP National Writer Quick. Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal? Nope, and there’s no signal at Paddy and Ciara’s house, either, deep in the English countryside. Soon, that land line will be cut, too, but we’re getting ...

NEW YORK — When Jennifer Kent’s “The Babadook” opened in theaters a decade ago, it played at two cinemas. When it returns to theaters next month, it will be in 500. “It’s strange but in a wonderful way. I can’t quite believe it’s been 10 years already. But it’s fantastic to ...