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Review: ‘Harley Quinn’ Season 5 Returns to Form with the OG Crew Taking over a New City | Black Girl Nerds

Dean Lorey just might be one of the hardest-working executive producers in the industry. In the past year, he served as showrunner for James Gunn’s Creature Commandos and “Harleyverse” spin-off Kite Man: Hell Yeah!, both while gearing up for his return to Harley Quinn, which he co-created with Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker (Abbott Elementary).


While all three were still executive producers on the show, they handed the showrunner reins over to series writer Sarah Peters (Ghosted) for S...
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Review: ‘Goosebumps’ Returns with Next Chapter of YA Horror in ‘Goosebumps: The Vanishing’ | Black Girl Nerds

When Disney+’s R.L. Stine adaptation Goosebumps debuted in October 2023, it was only a 10-episode limited series. But with its Season 2 renewal, the series has become a serialized anthology that tells a new story every season. Co-creators Rob Letterman (2015’s Goosebumps) and Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) return this season with Letterman and Hilary Winston (Community) serving as co-showrunners again. 


While we won’t be following our characters from the previous, the second ins...
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Review: Netflix's ‘Squid Game’ Returns with a Bold and Bloody Season 2

In September 2021, Netflix premiered Squid Game, a South Korean drama series about desperate people playing schoolyard games for money. To everyone’s surprise, it became an overnight sensation, the platform’s most successful show. It’s hard to believe series creator, director, and executive producer Hwang Dong-hyuk, who originally envisioned the story as a film, spent over a decade shopping it around.
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Halloween Classics: Disney’s Forgotten 'Tower of Terror'

On July 22, 1994, Walt Disney World Resort in Florida debuted the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a dark drop-shaft ride standing 199 feet high, the first thing guests see when entering Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney-MGM Studios). The experience begins with riders queuing up in the decrepit Hollywood Tower Hotel, giving them a chance to enjoy the eerie ambiance and creepy elegance of the abandoned lobby covered in dust and cobwebs.
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Review: Brandon Espy’s ‘Mr. Crocket’ Promises a Fun and Frightening Good Time

This Huluween, writer-director Brandon Espy makes his feature directorial debut with Mr. Crocket, which he co-wrote with Carl Reid (Grounded). The film is based on his 2022 short of the same name featured in the third season of Hulu’s Bite Size Halloween series. If you thought that glimpse of the titular TV personality was terrifying, get ready for the stuff of nightmares.
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