Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Monday banning the state's public colleges and universities from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. "If you look at the way this has actually been implemented across the country, DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination," DeSantis said during a news conference at New College of Florida in Sarasota. "And that has no place in our public institutions.

Catherine Keener must have an attraction to odd universes. In Being John Malkovich, she worked on the mysterious 7 1/2 floor. In Where the Wild Things Are, she was the mother of a boy who escapes to a magical land with Maurice Sendak-ian monsters. In last year’s Get Out, she could hypnotize victims away to the Sunken Place with a simple stirring of a teaspoon. And this fall, she can be found in two fantastical TV settings: perfecting the puppets on the children’s show depicted in Showtime’s Kidding and — major spoiler alert!

TV reviewHorror (TV)ReviewSet in a cursed apartment building, Sky’s sinewy horror series has promise amid its random carnival of disgust It’s dark, and rain pours down thickly, as wan teenager Juri (Tristan Göbel) and his ursine father Jaschek (Charly Hübner) arrive at the tower block they’ll soon regret calling home, in the opening scene of the German chiller Hausen (Sky Atlantic). Prepare for horror of the dripping, oozing, inky kind, set in a cursed building where the taps seem to be watching you, the condensation on the windows has a threatening aura and mould is a supporting character.

We can name plenty of gross food scenes from movies — from the hairy pizza that Zack made a bully “hoover” in She’s All That to Buddy’s pasta breakfast in Elf. But few compare to the poop-filled pie that was snuck on a character in The Help. No, it wasn’t real, but that didn’t make it any less disturbing for some of the actors. Here’s what was really in the pie in The Help and how one actor felt about that infamous scene.

Despite all the technology you can want at your fingertips thanks to our phones, there's something about a book that can provide some much-needed escapism. While a beach holiday seems unlikely this year, we're all about curating a summer reading list and for 2021, we've got our eyes on the best poetry books to enjoy. A great poem can evoke the biggest of emotions in even the most steadfast of people, and whether it's joy, injustice, race or gender, poetry can explore all aspects of life.