Anya

Carnegie Mellon professor Uju Anya’s tweet wishing the late Queen Elizabeth II excruciating pain in death incensed swaths of the internet.Photo: Suzanne Plunkett / WPA Pool (Getty Images)Hundreds of students have signed an open letter condemning Carnegie Mellon University for publicly throwing professor Uju Anya under the bus after tweeting that she wished the late Queen Elizabeth II “excruciating pain” in death for serving as the head of a “thieving raping genocidal empire.” Coincidentally, Carnegie Mellon actions came…

It’s a great time to be a horror fan. The genre has been thriving for a number of years now, resulting in some of the best horror movies returning to theaters. But the genre is also known for innovation, and one highly anticipated upcoming movie is Mark Mylod’s The Menu, starring The Queen’s Gambit actress Anya Taylor-Joy. And the new horror movie is a perfect recipe of comedy and horror.While the horror genre is known for blood and guts, some of my favorite entries also feature moments of levity. This includes classics…

Image: Cloverworks/WIT StudioEarlier in the year, Spy x Family debuted on Crunchyroll, and took the anime world by storm. Created by Tetsuya Endo, the delightfully strange series stars master spy Loid Forger who adopts a young girl named Anya as part of his new mission, and later gets into a fake marriage with a woman named Yor Briar to sell his cover. But here’s the twist: Yor’s an assassin, neither her or Loid knows the other’s secret, but Anya knows both of their secrets because she can read minds. With a premise like…

Image via Searchlight Pictures Searchlight pictures has released a pair of posters for the upcoming dark-comedy horror movie The Menu, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes. Taylor-Joy recently starred in The Northman and is currently filming the 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road spin-off Furiosa. Meanwhile, Fiennes is set to star in Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar alongside Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel and Ben Kingsley. Searchlight previously released a trailer for the film, which was directed…

Filming has begun for Mad Max prequel Furiosa, with star Anya Taylor-Joy looking remarkably different than usual on the set of the film in Australia. After Mad Max: Fury Road hit cinemas in 2015, audiences were astonished by Charlize Theron’s Furiosa who turned an already strong movie into a great film. The prequel film was greenlit soon after, but with Last Night in Soho star Anya Taylor-Joy taking on the titular role. Shooting is taking place in Sydney’s southern suburbs, and the production has been spotted by…

The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy has reportedly married her boyfriend Malcolm McRae in a secret ceremony in the US. As per multiple reports, the couple tied the knot in an intimate ceremony recently before Anya flew to Australia to resume shooting the Mad Max spinoff Furiosa. The couple has remained low key ever since they began dating sometime last year, making very few public appearances together. Also read: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck get married after 20 years of romanceAnya has appeared in popular shows like…

Image: Tor BooksJuly’s hefty pile of new sci-fi, fantasy, and horror releases brings lesbian vampires, politically motivated magic, interstellar bounty hunters, a jazz musician who teams up with mecha pilots, mermaids, robots, fairy-tale riffs, and so much more. There’s still plenty of summer reading time left, so what are you waiting for?Image: Flatiron BooksActs of Violet by Margarita MontimoreTen years after a famous magician vanishes onstage, her introverted sister is forced to face the truth about what happened in…

Screenshot: Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha, Spy x Family ProjectImagine James Bond was sent on a mission needed to pose as a family man, but he also needed to somehow procure a wife and child by himself. Furthermore, Bond would need not only to pose as the perfect father, but somehow get his adopted kid into the world’s most prestigious school and turn her into a genius. Now, imagine that this Bond movie was also a genuinely hilarious comedy, unbelievably heartwarming, and also didn’t star James Bond because he’s a chauvinist pig.…

Image: Disney PressWe all know the story of Cinderella—the fairy godmother, the ball, the glass slipper—but her wicked stepsisters’ lives have always been a bit less illuminated. In The Wicked Ones, National Book Award-winning author Robin Benway (Far From the Tree) offers a new perspective on the familiar fairy tale. The Wicked Ones is the first book in Benway’s Dark Ascension series for Disney Press focusing on its most famous villains, and we’ve got the cover and an exclusive excerpt to share today. First up, here’s a…

Image: Del Rey Publishing/LucasfilmIt’s the start of a new month, and you know what that means!Read: I’ve been trying to make an effort to read more this year, and one of the books I’ve managed to complete has been Star Wars: Brotherhood by Mike Chen. The book is set during the early days of the Clone Wars post-Attack of the Clones, centering on Anakin shortly after being promoted to Jedi Knight, and Obi-Wan getting his detective on in Cato Nemoidia after a terrorist attack. Fittingly, it feels very much like it could’ve…