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Vicky Wight’s “Happiness for Beginners” asks a question that it answers with more authority than just about any other film I’ve ever seen: Can something still be considered a Hallmark movie if it was made by Netflix? Legally, not so much. In every other sense, however, there’s no longer even a shred of doubt.

A flat and glossy film about a newly divorced woman who decides to walk the pain away on the Appalachian Trail (a two-week excursion that finds her tripping over tree trunks and falling for a hunky ex-doctor who looks like the human manifestation of a Home Depot), this veritable “Eat, Pray, Hike” leaves no trace of originality or dramatic consequence. The advantages it has over the likes of “We Wish You a Married Christmas” and “Royally Ever After” are twofold: A likable cast, and dignified source material.

“Happiness for Beginners” is the second...

Duane Earl Poole, a writer and producer for Aaron Spelling, Hanna-Barbera and Sid & Marty Krofft whose credits include Hart To Hart, The Love Boat, The Smurfs and Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, died of cancer on April 1 in Studio City, California. He was 74.

His death was announced by his husband, Frank V. Bonventre.

Born in Prescott, Arizona, Poole was raised in Kennewick, Washington, Poole began working for King World Productions in Seattle after graduating from the University of Washington. He relocated to Los Angeles in 1975 to work for Hanna-Barbera, and soon became a prolific writer of such Saturday morning cartoon fare as The Great Grape Ape, Scooby’s Laff-a-Lympics, The All-New Super Friends Hour and The Smurfs, among others.

Poole also wrote for Sid and Marty Krofft, whose bizarre, colorful live-action shows rivaled Hanna-Barbera in Saturday morning popularity. Far Out Space Nuts, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, The Krofft Supershow and...

Saban Films has released a new trailer for Vivarium. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, who previously worked with one another on last year's under-the-radar gem The Art of Self-Defense. This time around, they seem to be treading into bizarre waters once again as this looks to be a unique and odd little thriller, which looks like it would be right at home in the Black Mirror universe.

The trailer kicks off by showing us the picture of a happy (ish) couple looking at a possible new home in a seemingly picturesque housing development. Everything is very cookie-cutter, with little to no variation from home to home. Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots then find themselves unwittingly trapped in the neighborhood after they decide that the house they were showing wasn't for them. Whether they like it or not, they're forced to accept domesticated life, whether they like it or not.