Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! It’s a day of national Irish pride that also somehow gives people an excuse to vomit up their green beer by 10 a.m. If you’re looking to celebrate the Emerald Isle but don’t want to get stomach bile on your Adidas, here’s the alternative: Your four-leaf-clover wielding friends at EW have programmed a 24-hour movie marathon that will not only give you a full range of St. Read More...
YA author Stacey Lee, one of the founders of the #WeNeedDiverseBooks movement, is releasing a followup to her first novel, Under a Painted Sky, in May 2016 — but EW has an exclusive cover reveal and excerpt right here. Outrun the Moon is set around the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as 15-year-old Mercy Wong, living in Chinatown, seeks to escape her life of poverty through education. When the earthquake strikes on April 18, Mercy must wait with her snobbish, spoiled classmates for their families to arrive, but she can’t sit idly by while people are suffering, so she’s forced to take matters into her own hands. Read More...
Marvel fans, assemble. Today marks the 100th birthday of Stan Lee, the comic book visionary who died in 2018 at the age of 95, and his friends and collaborators are marking the occasion. Under Lee's leadership, Marvel Comics created some of the most iconic and instantly recognizable characters in comics and cinema, including Spider-Man, Captain America, Black Panther, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, the X-Men, and, well, all the Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Read More...
