There’s no better way to kick off Halloween season than with Universal Orlando’s always epic Halloween Horror Nights, which opened this past Thursday jam-packed with several new houses and scare zones infested with bugs, cursed by witches, and hunted down by chupacabras. While I am a huge fan of local haunts, Halloween Horror Nights is
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Neon in association with National Geographic Documentary Films said director Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love will cross $1 million at the box office this weekend, becoming the biggest documentary release of the year for combined domestic and international gross. The film opened this summer and is entering its ninth week in theaters nationally. It will stream
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Have you ever moved to a new town and, what do you know, there’s an abandoned farm ready for you to claim and revitalize all on your own? With adorable creatures to collect and eccentric townsfolk to befriend, Ooblets doesn’t follow a completely unfamiliar formula. But while the unique twists it adds to that structure
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Scientists reviewing over a decade’s worth of studies on the fate of notorious pollutants – dubbed ‘forever chemicals’ for the way they persist in waterways, soils, and sea ice – have unearthed where environmental hotspots of contamination lie. The review, led by hydrologist Xueyan Lyu of Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, focused specifically
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News Listen to Pixies’ New Song “Dregs of the Wine” The latest single from their forthcoming LP Doggerel was co-written by guitarist Joey Santiago By Madison Bloom September 6, 2022 Facebook Twitter Pixies (Photo by Tom Oxley). Facebook Twitter Pixies have released a new single from their forthcoming album Doggerel. It’s called “Dregs of the
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UPDATED, Monday AM: In what was the second lowest-grossing weekend at the summer box office, despite goosing admissions from Saturday’s National Cinema Day, Paramount/Skydance’s Top Gun: Maverick smoked Sony/Marvel’s Spider-Man: No Way Home for No. 1 with $7.9 million. It’s as simple as that. Many yesterday were telling me that it was always destined for Top Gun 2 to
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Poet and author Ander Monson has seen the 1987 movie Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger on the run from an alien in a Guatemalan jungle, 146 times. To explain why, he wrote Predator: A Memoir. Through a scene-by-scene exploration of the film, which he describes as “satire wrapped in gun pornography,” Monson reckons with his lifelong
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Amid the continuous noise about cryptocurrencies, it’s often hard to pick out what really matters. However this month, if all goes to plan, the energy-hungry digital sector will undergo its biggest shake-up in years. Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency, is tomorrow expected to start a technology changeover which, once complete, should cause its carbon emissions
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Hello and welcome back to Max Q. Happy Labor Day! Due to the scheduling of the newsletter, I’ll have finished writing this by the time NASA makes the second launch attempt of the Artemis I mission. By now, you probably already know how it all went down anyway! In this issue: SpaceX lands more astronaut
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Mark Rosman‘s The House on Sorority Row (1982) and Stewart Hendler‘s Sorority Row (2009) feel shoved aside in their respective horror classes. Titles like Pieces, Black Christmas, and The Dorm That Dripped Blood get more frequent mentions when discussing pre-90s sorority or dormitory slashers. Remake debates rarely include Sorority Row in their reassessments of unfairly
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We’ve been waiting a long time for the arrival of Indiana Jones 5, and as things currently stand, Harrison Ford’s reprisal of the fedora-wearing, whip-wielding adventuring archaeologist is a little under 10 months away from hitting theaters. However, during a recent concert at the Hollywood Bowl, John Williams debuted a new theme for the upcoming
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The sacredness of a relationship between parents and children can’t be overstated. This sacredness reinforces the boundaries that exist or ought to exist within the confines of the relationship. But sometimes, the limits are crossed. And when this happens, these relationships become corrupt, perverted, manipulative, and downright wrong such that they end up being weird.
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