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Cassandra Peterson on Releasing Her New Cookbook and Writing Recipes as Elvira Cassandra Peterson talks her longtime cookbook dreams, her writing process, and bringing Elvira to a kitchen near you.

New at @pastemagazine.bsky.social, I talked to @therealelvira.bsky.social herself, Cassandra Peterson (!!!), about ELVIRA'S COOKBOOK FROM HELL and achieving her dream of becoming the "Martha Stewart of the Macabre."

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Liam Hemsworth’s Arrival Is the Least Interesting Thing About The Witcher Season 4 Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Though everyone will likely want to talk about Liam Hemsworth joining #TheWitcher this season, it's the series's women who are the major reason to tune in. (All hail Anya Chalotra.) My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

NYFF: Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Isn't So Boss Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere has its moments, but you might be better off with biographies or a 33 1/3 book.

RIP, White House Movie Theater, 1942-2025 Since 1942, U.S. Presidents have famously hosted film screenings in the plush White House theater, which Donald Trump just destroyed.

Since 1942, U.S. Presidents have famously hosted film screenings in the plush White House theater, which Donald Trump just destroyed.

William Fichtner’s Magnetic Performance Punches Up Talamasca: The Secret Order’s Supernatural Slow Burn Talamasca: The Secret Order doesn't rise to the heights of Interview with the Vampire, but it's a solid addition to AMC's Anne Rice universe.

AMC’s new Anne Rice series #Talamasca: doesn’t reach the campy, melodramatic heights of Interview with the Vampire — what does, really?? — but it’s got a fun spy thriller premise and William Fichtner is reason enough to watch on his own. My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

Cameron Crowe: To Begin With… Everything Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Paste sat down with the former Rolling Stone writer and Almost Famous filmmaker Cameron Crowe for a long talk about... everything.

ICYMI: The Newsreader Season 2 Is One of Modern TV’s Most Nuanced Portrayals of Queerness While The Newsreader may have started out as a strict drama the series evolves into a fascinating queer character study.

Our #ICYMI column highlights Australian series #TheNewsreader, which may have started out as a strict drama, but has evolved into a fascinating queer character study:

It: Welcome to Derry Sinks Like a Lead Balloon Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Arriving six years after audiences last ventured down into the town’s sewers, Welcome to Derry is a flat and perplexing journey.

Wild Kinetic Dreams: Rush's 'Power Windows' Turns 40 Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

For all of its bold melodies and modern production, Power Windows is still a Rush album: complicated, unpredictable, and lovably nerdy.

Fight Night: Freddy vs. Jason Delivered on its Title Freddy vs. Jason feels like the end of an era, a send-off to iconic slasher kingpins in the most early 2000s wrapping imaginable.

I am revisiting cinema's best, most noteworthy, or just ridiculous fight scenes in my Fight Night feature at @pastemagazine.bsky.social, and usually the pain is on the screen. But this month I watched Freddy vs. Jason, and it un-graduated me from high school. www.pastemagazine.com/movies/fredd...

Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia Makes Absurd Mockery of the American Psyche Emma Stone and especially Jesse Plemons lift the corporate and conspiracy satire of Bugonia to enjoyably frenzied heights.

Despite trailers marketing the film as a raucous, bloody affair, Bugonia might actually be Yorgos Lanthimos’s most digestible film to date.

The Best New Fantasy Books of October 2025 From anticipated sequels to fuzzy debuts, these are the fantasy books we'll all be reading this spooky season.

The best fantasy books of October include the final installment of Philip Pullman's Book of Dust trilogy, Stephanie Garber's adult fantasy debut, and lots more.

Relationships Both Foreign and Domestic Complicate The Diplomat’s Emotionally Frustrating Third Season The Diplomat's third season is still bonkers fun to watch, but it unfortunately privileges narrative twists over emotional depth.

#TheDiplomat's third season remains as bonkers as ever when it comes to political intrigue, but too often privileges narrative twists over emotional depth.

Enter Talamasca: The Secret Order in This Exclusive Clip From AMC’s Latest Anne Rice Series Watch an exclusive clip from the series premiere of Talamasca: The Secret Order, AMC's latest installment in their Anne Rice universe.

Watch an exclusive clip from the series premiere of Talamasca: The Secret Order, AMC's lastest installment in their Anne Rice universe:

The Best New YA Books of October 2025 From anticipated sequels to buzzy debuts, these are the YA books we'll all be reading this spooky season.

So excited to see #TheLibraryofLostGirls in this list from the incredible Paste magazine! @pastemagazine.bsky.social
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It Was Just an Accident Is Jafar Panahi's Suspenseful and Human Search for Answers A procession of Iranian characters weigh both the value of vengeance and the pain of uncertainty in Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident.

IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT is making its way to screens stateside (and just played LFF in the the UK), and I reviewed the film for @pastemagazine.bsky.social. A wry and moving film from Jafar Panahi, perhaps more about how life rolls on than actual revenge

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Don’t Stop, Girlypop! Channels Old School Shooter Fun Alongside Y2K ‘Tude Between its Y2K aesthetic and buttery smooth bunny hop-adjacent movement, Don't Stop, Girlypop! seems like one to look out for.

Between its Y2K aesthetic and buttery smooth bunny hop-adjacent movement, Don't Stop, Girlypop! seems like one to look out for. www.endlessmode.com/article/dont...

Toon In: Animated TV Highlights for October, from Smiling Friends to Hazbin Hotel Animation is everywhere this September, and we've got a full rundown of what you can watch from Solar Opposites to Hazbin Hotel.

Animation is everywhere this October, and we've got a full rundown of what you can watch from Solar Opposites to Hazbin Hotel.

Taylor Swift, 'The Life of a Showgirl' Album Review Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Given Max Martin’s track record with Taylor Swift, her 12th album rings a tad disappointing. Even so, it delivers on the promise of a punchier pop album and justifies its existence with crisp production and unexpected melodies—if you can stomach the lyrics. www.pastemagazine.com/music/taylor...

Gallery: The Sights and Sounds of All Things Go 2025 Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Upgrading from two days to three, this year's All Things Go Festival went big and bold in 2025, bringing in some of the best young talent to Forest Hills Stadium.

The 5 New and Under-the-Radar Shows You Can’t Miss This October From Boston Blue to The Last Frontier, here are the five new TV shows that we're most excited to see in October.

From Boston Blue to The Last Frontier, here are five underrated new TV shows that we're excited to see in October.

NYFF: George Clooney Looks Back at a Fake Career in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly In Noah Baumbach latest, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, an actor looking back. Is it the character or movie who feels incomplete?

In Noah Baumbach latest, George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, an actor looking back. Is it the character or movie who feels incomplete?

NYFF: Daniel Day-Lewis Returns with Family On His Mind in Anemone Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Ronan bring plenty of artistic integrity to Anemone, but there's some self-indulgence here, too.

Daniel Day-Lewis and his son Ronan bring plenty of artistic integrity to Anemone, but there's some self-indulgence here, too.

In Murder Before Evensong, Solving Crime Is a Vocation Cozy crime drama, Murder Before Evensong, sees Harry Potter star Matthew Lewis wrestle with questions of faith, family, & murder

Matthew Lewis and Amanda Redman are great together in Acorn TV's newest cozy crime drama #MurderBeforeEvensong, a mystery series where the murder is the least interesting part of the story. My review at @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

100% worth watching.

Parenting And Resistance Are Just One Battle After Another (And Another And Another) Both revolution and fatherhood present Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with crackling tension.

I wonder if people like Anderson and Leo and Taylor and del Toro and Hall all wake up in the morning consciously devoted to outdoing themselves, or if I just have recency bias? Each hits a new height in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, is why I'm asking. My review, for @pastemagazine.bsky.social:

How the Oasis Reunion Has Become 2025’s Most Wholesome Story Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and more. Discover your favorite albums and films.

Apparently, we’re all putting our lives in the hands of one particular rock and roll band, and the Oasis reunion is proof that a little bit of love, forgiveness, and rock and roll can still fix the world.

The Most Anticipated YA Books of Fall 2025 From new titles from big-name authors to buzzy debuts and thrilling sequels, Fall 2025 is bursting with new titles for YA readers.

From new releases from big-name authors to buzzy debuts and long-awaited sequels, Fall 2025 is full of exciting new titles for YA readers.

Parenting And Resistance Are Just One Battle After Another (And Another And Another) Both revolution and fatherhood present Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with crackling tension.

Both revolution and fatherhood present Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another with crackling tension.

Streaming Marvel: Agent Carter Was an Earnest Attempt at Genre Fiction Across its all-too-brief two seasons, Marvel's Agent Carter subscribed to a consistently winning genre formula.

Across its all-too-brief two seasons, Marvel's #AgentCarter subscribed to a consistently winning genre formula.