'Flowers in the Attic,' V.C. Andrews's debut novel, was a Gothic gateway for many a young romance reader. And the numerous reviews that deemed the incestuous plot scandalous and shocking only enticed readers more.

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The superhero franchise went dark for 2020 but is set to come back in a big way, with immortals, multiverses, and more Groot.
Celebrities fade in and out of fashion, and so do the magazines that cover them. Here are 11 retro celebrity magazines that covered classic movie, music, radio, and television stars.
Taking on another person's identity is hard, but playing a family member presents a different kind of challenge for actors.
The 1958 horror film 'The Blob' features a malevolent muck terrorizing a town. It turns out there's a history of unidentified space goo causing confusion.
From 'The Shawshank Redemption' to 'Parasite,' these are the movies with the highest IMDb ratings from each country.
When movie theaters are open for business, snacks make up nearly half of their profits. But when movie houses first cropped up, managers banned food outright.
The 1941 pan by a 'Chicago Tribune' reviewer has blemished the flawless 100 percent score for 'Citizen Kane' on the review aggregator site.
This video on the making of 'The Shining' shows Stanley Kubrick, Jack Nicholson, and Shelley Duvall on the set of the classic horror movie.
If you enjoyed 'The Witcher' and 'Bridgerton' on the small screen, continue the stories by picking up the novels they're based on.
Movie previews can reveal big plot points or moments that can spoil everything. So why do studios do it?
Netflix's 'Seaspiracy' and the BBC's 'Blue Planet II' make the list of the top-rated nature documentaries.
In 2011, 'Bridesmaids' silenced chauvinists who believed that men had the monopoly on laughs and spearheaded a wave of female-fronted comedies. It also turned Melissa McCarthy into a bankable leading lady.
From Biff in 'Back to the Future' to James Spader in pretty much everything, audiences in the 1980s loved to hate a bully.
In 2001, Sony was accused of enlisting a fake movie critic to rave about films like Rob Schneider's 'The Animal.' But was Manning really a figment of someone's imagination?
Meryl Streep’s Oscars track record is impressive and perhaps impossible to beat, but Al Pacino might have the best chance of catching her.
The prolific director was once enamored with a biography of Thomas Crapper, one of the innovators behind the flush-system toilet.
Tim and Aurelia Sanders have teamed up with IMDb to create an at-home movie critic's chart of their top 100 fan-ranked movies.
Judy Garland, spouse Vincente Minnelli, and daughter Liza Minnelli passed several memorable years in this lavish oceanfront abode.
From ahead-of-the-curve furniture design to geeky scientific fact-check details, here’s what to zoom in on the next time you’re sitting awestruck watching Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey.'
The modern trailer for ‘Alien’ could help you convince a teenager that it’s cool enough for them to watch.
One of Philadelphia’s best-kept secrets is its thriving community of Black cowboys, who have called the city home for more than a century.
You know that Tom Hanks is an Oscar-winning actor, and that he recently played Fred Rogers on the big screen. But did you know that he's actually related to Mr. Rogers? (And to Abraham Lincoln, too.)
If 'Godzilla vs. Kong' were a pooping contest, who would produce the most waste: a radioactive amphibious lizard or a colossal ape?