While John Carpenter has become synonymous with fictional horror storytelling, the 75-year-old director is dipping his toe into true life terrors with his new show, “John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams.”.

Here are my five best horror films to watch this Halloween season.

The Venice Film Festival is awarding its lifetime achievement award this year to Jamie Lee Curtis.

I have written more about music than probably any other topic over the years. I ended up going down a wormhole online and stumbled upon a Spotify playlist called Songs in 5/4. Again, I can’t read or write music but that was my idiot takeaway on the matter. If three of my all-time favorite pieces of music are in 5/4, would I like anything else in the same time signature/syncopation? Suffice to say if you look up the Spotify playlist “Songs in 5/4” you can do your own research.