From the pages of Stephen King's 1986 novel to Tim Curry's iconic performance in the 1990s mini-series, and most recently, Bill Skarsgård's nightmare-fuel reinvention in 2017's smash hit IT Chapter One, Pennywise is a horror staple that has terrified generations. With IT Chapter Two arriving in theaters on September 6, the child-eating dancing clown is about to strike again, and in the hands of director Andy Muschietti and producer Barbara Muschietti, the otherworldly menace is poised to be at his most devious. After New Line Cinema's all-out IT Chapter Two …
When you make a feature debut that gets as much attention and acclaim as Ari Aster's Hereditary did last year, you better believe that there's going to be a lot of curiosity about the followup. Fortunately, Aster stuck the landing with Midsommar, a film that's less visceral and haunting but just as gorgeous and, surprisingly, very funny. Aster trades dark, cramped corners and broken families for sunny European splendor and broken romance, following a co-dependent couple forced deeper into their dying romance by tragedy (played by Florence Pugh and Jack Reynor,) who travel to a sun-…