A powerful and luminous explosion of a star is referred to as a supernova. While a diary entry by a member of the Japanese imperial court in September 1811 calls it “a sign of abnormality,” another saw it as an “occasion for making auspicious offerings for a good harvest.” A Japanese history from the mid-1200s mentions that “A guest star …
Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone readying themselves to reread Edgar Allan Poe before he comes to Netflix. That shouldn’t be much of a stretch for creator Mike Flanagan, whose 2018 adaptation of another haunted-house classic, Shirley Jackson’s “The Haunting of Hill House,” made him one of Netflix’s go-to purveyors of horror. There are plenty of deep-cut “Star …
