How Smile 2‘s Fame-fueled Nightmare Levels Up The Franchise—and Makes Its Future More Exciting

In the mid-2000s, fans of the queer indie-pop band Tegan and Sara began receiving messages and emails from Tegan Quin, one half of the twin-sister duo. While most people today would immediately dismiss a message supposedly from a celebrity, at the time, it seemed possible that Tegan might email fans.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Smile 2. What’s worse, being infected by a sadistic demonic entity that feeds off its victims’ trauma or the crushing loneliness of superstardom? In Smile 2, now in theaters, Naomi Scott delivers a star-making performance as Skye Riley, a global pop sensation about to embark on a new world tour who finds herself in the hellish throes of both these phenomena over the course of one unending nightmare of a week.

It’s once again spooky season, which, for many, means it’s also time to cozy up on the couch, dim the lights—or turn them up to maximum brightness—and fire up a scream-worthy scary movie. Of course, with all the options out there, it can be difficult to determine which horror flicks are actually worth your time. Luckily, Netflix currently has a wide selection of quality choices, from timeless classics like Psycho and Jaws to modern-day slashers like Pearl and Thanksgiving to franchise refreshers like Evil Dead Rise and 2018’s Halloween.

In 2016, Titus Kaphar made The Jerome Project, a short documentary in which he confronted how his father’s abuse and drug use harmed his childhood. But upon completing it, he discovered that he had only scratched the surface. “When I finished the project, what was clear to me is that it did a good job of telling us where we were, but not how we got there,” says Kaphar.

Al Pacino made a swift exist after encountering a fan who was out of order. In his new memoir Sonny Boy, the 84-year-old recalled a wild night after grabbing drinks with fellow actor Gene

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