Life and Arts

Family relationships are already complicated enough, but adding magic and witchcraft to the mix makes everything all the more complicated.

If you’re looking for a quick show to binge watch, “On My Block” is it.

“Circe” is Madeline Miller’s second novel and the spiritual sequel to her highly acclaimed retelling of “The Illiad,” through “The Song of Achilles.” The novel reinvents “The Odyssey” through the eyes of a sorceress, Circe, who garners little attention in the story’s original adaption.

Blumhouse Productions is known for creating surprisingly strong low-budget horror films, and the fun trash of “Truth or Dare” seems to be directly in their wheelhouse. It’s unfortunately a major swing-and-miss, failing to reach the heights of predecessors “Unfriended” and “Split.”