Maika Monroe in “Longlegs.” (Neon) By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS Any horror movie that opens, as “Longlegs” does, with a quotation from a...

Richard Simmons, teaches a class at his gym in Beverly Hills, Calif., Nov. 21, 2009. Simmons, who for years was the face of home fitness...

Over the first four seasons of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty, with Luke Perry) went from naïf to vixen. (FOX) By...

By Erik Piepenburg Many directors fall in love with scary movies through late-night cable binges or with friends at a drive-in. Osgood...

By Alissa Wilkinson If Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” was a twist on the centuries-old Gothic horror genre, there was no one better...

By A.O. Scott “I am not a senator, a governor or a former cabinet secretary,” JD Vance wrote on the first page of “Hillbilly Elegy,” by...

By Brian Raftery In 1973, the first chapter of an unpublished novel was photocopied and passed around the Manhattan offices of Doubleday...

By Julia Jacobs While dismissing the involuntary manslaughter case against Alec Baldwin on Friday, the judge did not hold back. She...