The new culinary horror film “House of Spoils,” starring Ariana DeBose, premieres on Prime Video Thursday, Oct. 3. This spooky, witchy movie follows an ambitious fine-dining chef (DeBose) as she starts a new restaurant venture at a farm in rural upstate New York, and encounters the threatening spirits of the cooks who inhabited the gardens and kitchen before her.

John Amos, star of TV’s ‘Good Times’ and ‘Roots,’ dies at 84

The original “Matlock,” which aired from 1986 to 1995, was a reimagining of the long-running “Perry Mason” legal drama. But instead of a hardnosed attorney at the center of its case-of-the-week format, “Matlock” leveraged star Andy Griffith’s ability to play deceptively unthreatening, and then, in a climatic courtroom showdown, remarkably effective, even lacerating. With the new version of “Matlock” on CBS, it’s best to go into it understanding that it’s not a reboot so much as a show with a tenuous connection to the intellectual property of its title. But nothing gets green-lit today unless it’s IP, so here we are.

Tornadoes have been a subject of film fascination since “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939, but Dutch filmmaker Jan de Bont helped to solidify the appeal of the cinematic cyclone with his 1996 summer blockbuster “Twister,” about a group of adrenaline junkie storm chasers. A new installment, “Twisters,” arrives 28 years after de Bont’s film, chasing away all those “Sharknados” that have cluttered up the tornado movie subgenre, and reminding us of what made “Twister” so appealing to begin with: it wasn’t necessarily the airborne fauna, but rather, the human dramas that play out as tornadoes roam across the landscape.