If there is one advantage to new-age cinema, it is the ability to live through the thrill of events that have happened or could never possibly occur. Real-life disasters are terrifying, but sometimes, a little on-screen thrill and suspense is what audiences need to unwind and remember that there is […]
The excerpt below is taken from « Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future » (Princeton University Press, 2023) by Stephen Porder. It looks at how one of the biggest events in Earth’s history came to be: plants colonizing the continents. Plants are so ubiquitous on land […]
What is the worst movie you’ve ever seen? I want you to think about this question. Really think about it. It’s a common hyperbole thrown around right after you exit the theater of a movie you didn’t like: “Oh, that’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen.” But Tommy Wiseau is […]
Elemental is a true anomaly in the current movie-going landscape, as the big-budget Pixar film distributed by Disney had the lowest opening for the studio since Toy Story way back in 1995 and had everyone write it off as a flop, but since then, Elemental has held up really well […]
PS5 systems are melting USB ports during extended gameplay sessions, according to a report from Kotaku on Monday. The issue was noticed this past weekend at Evolution in Las Vegas, the world’s largest fighting games tournament. Players from around the world descended on the Mandalay Bay Convention Center to compete […]
In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. Even after many years of scientific research and government investigation, there are still many […]
La vue ont collectivement critiqué le gouverneur de Floride, Ron DeSantis, dans l’épisode d’aujourd’hui du talk-show, accusant le politicien conservateur d’avoir tenté d’interdire l’histoire afro-américaine de l’AP dans les écoles. Après avoir montré des images de manifestants descendus dans les rues de Floride pour protester contre la loi Stop Woke […]
La première bande-annonce officielle du film catastrophe à venir d’Uncork’d Entertainment, Firenadoa été publié, taquinant un événement météorologique absolument extrême et ridicule. Le film, qui se présente comme un rival d’autres films catastrophe comme Géotempête et Le surlendemainmet en vedette Sian Altman, Nicola Wright, Stephen Staley, Toby Wynn-Davies, Gordon Millar, […]
There’s a simple reason why inflation is increasing: If the money supply rises while the demand for goods and services stays steady, the value of money will go down, which means that the price of everything else will go up. And with the federal government issuing stimulus checks and unemployment […]
Detective Dennis O’Sullivan vividly remembers getting the call: a man was terrorizing residents of an apartment building, preventing them from leaving, and someone summoned police for help. It was in 2019 and O’Sullivan and other members of the NYPD’s elite Emergency Services Unit responded — with no idea what was awaiting them. […]
