"AREN'T YOU GONNA say hello?" asks the mega-frightening Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Tim Curry) when he first appears in ABC's 1990 adaptation of Stephen King's It. The story about the shape-shifting cosmic creature who devours children and the group of friends who defeat him twice, as kids and as adults-is an iconic horror tale. And yet, after 32 installments of The Simpsons' annual Halloween treat, "Treehouse of Horror," it's one that had yet to be parodied when episode writer Cesar Mazariegos pitched it. "We all looked at each other and were like, 'How did we not ever do It?'" he recalls.
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BLITZ FRIDAY, NOV. 22
It is clearly \"the worst of times\" in this stirring Dickensian nail-biter of a movie, set during WWII's early days, when the German Luftwaffe bombed London nightly for months.
INTERIOR CHINATOWN TUESDAY, NOV. 19
Willis Wu (Silicon Valley's Jimmy O. Yang) is stuck.
BEATLES '64 FRIDAY, NOV. 29
In February 1964, the Beatles made their first flight to an America still reeling from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS
\"There's no one else like John Williams,\" says Laurent Bouzereau, director of this documentary.
Spellbound FRIDAY, NOV. 22
Three years after earning Oscar nods for Being the Ricardos, Javier Bardem and Nicole Kidman are playing a much different celebrated couple with issues.
Our Little Secret WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27
The Lindsay Lohan (below) renaissance continues with this sassy anti-rom-com about a woman miserably stuck spending the holidays with her bitter ex (Pretty Little Liars' lan Harding) after they realize their new significant others are siblings.
The Merry Gentlemen WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20
If you've seen Chad Michael Murray in the closing number of Netflix's Mother of the Bride, you know he has the moves (and the abs) for his gig in this Magic Mike meets balls, er, boughs of holly.
BLACK DOVES THURSDAY, DEC. 5
Oh, bullet hole-y night!
Emilia Pérez WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13
A gritty crime drama about a Mexican cartel boss that's also a pulsating musical?
Our Oceans WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20
Nature docs always aim to top what has come before, and this five-parter delivers with glorious footage and facts that will make your jaw drop to the sea floor.
