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As Hollywood embraces the #MeToo movement, will showrunners change the way they depict sex on TV?

Director Joel Edgerton and writer Garrard Conley tell EW what it took to adapt Conley’s gay-conversion memoir Boy Erased for the big screen (out Nov. 2, starring Lucas Hedges).

DIRECTED BY Frederick Wiseman | RATING NR LENGTH 2 hrs., 23 mins. FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS, FREDERICK Wiseman has been telling one story: the story of America. At any time, his subject may be a boxing gym or an inner-city high school or a prison for

STARRING Sunny Suljic, Katherine Waterston, Lucas Hedges DIRECTED BY Jonah Hill | RATING R LENGTH 1 hr., 24 mins. MOVIES THAT TRY TO BOTTLE YOUTH CULTURE—the slang, the shoes, the soundtrack—tend to have the built-in obsolescence of a Forever 21 w

STARRING Yoo Ah-In, Jeon Jong-seo, Steven Yeun DIRECTED BY Lee Chang-dong | RATING NR LENGTH 2 hrs., 28 mins. DON’T BE MISLED BY THE FULL-BLAZE PROMISE of the title: Burning gives off a quieter kind of heat, sustaining nearly all of its two-and-a-

In The Kitchen (out Sept. 20, 2019), comic stalwarts Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish star alongside Elisabeth Moss in dramatic roles like you’ve never seen them before.

Legendary filmmaker Orson Welles’ final movie, The Other Side of the Wind (out Nov. 2), at last reaches audiences—alongside a documentary about the project, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead.

It’s inspired by classic bedtime stories, but scare master Kevin Williamson’s Tell Me a Story (launching Oct. 31 on CBS All Access) is not for children.

Showrunner Barry Sonnenfeld teases what to expect from the final season of Netflix’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (launching in early 2019).

WATCH IT LIVE! Everyone will be talking about it tomorrow MONDAY OCTOBER 29 A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway 10–11PM | NBC NBC is having a celebration the Glinda (and Elphaba) way! A Wicked anniversary concert defies gra

Personal loss derailed Robyn’s creative spirit. Now the Swedish pop star is back with her first album in eight years, the sweet and tender Honey. She chats with EW about her long absence from the spotlight.

TITLE boygenius LABEL Matador | GENRE Rock THE WORD SUPERGROUP HAS always had a whiff of elder statesman about it; Traveling Wilburys with road-dog squints and stacks of platinum records already on the wall. But the three members of boygenius hardl

Her smash hit “Boo’d Up” turned the 23-year-old artist into a household name. Now the British-born singer has pulses skipping anew with her self-titled debut, which dropped this October. She chats with EW about her life-changing year.

BY Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah GENRE Short Stories PAGES 192 JUST OUTSIDE OF A PUBLIC LIBRARY, A WHITE MAN HAS decapitated five black children with a chain saw, and he’s in the process of being acquitted of the crimes as Friday Black begins. “I love

With her bracingly original take on a classic Greek myth, Daisy Johnson not only reinvents a story—but also the whole notion of storytelling itself.

The drag superstar and author of GuRu—a collection of fierce witticisms and tips for the modern glamazon—opens the library on his literary influences.

BY Rosellen Brown PAGES 349 | GENRE Historical Fiction FLEEING THE POGROMS OF RUSSIA for the promise of America, Chaya Shaderowsky winds up, improbably, in the wilds of 19th-century Wisconsin. But her people are not farmers; “gray-faced and weak-fi

BEST-SELLING AUTHORS ELEVATION BY STEPHEN KING MYSTERY King returns to Castle Rock with a novella that feels—dare we say?—uplifting. A group of people try putting aside their differences to help a man plagued by a bizarre condition. DARK SACRED NI