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Jaws Goes to the Bahamas is the latest dive into the killer shark franchise that still makes fans afraid to go into the water. Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg and based off of Peter Benchley’s novel, hit theaters in the summer of 1975. The blockbuster hit went on to spawn three sequels; Jaws 2 in […]

Blending the visceral violence of a deadly ritual with a rekindled bond between estranged sisters, Ready or Not 2: Here I Come covers a wide range of blood-soaked emotional beats and shocking tonal turns. It’s a truly unique story that requires an equally unique score, and thankfully composer Sven Faulconer was more than up to the task, building on Brian Tyler’s themes from the original film while infusing the sequel with plenty of magical and mysterious musical moments. To celebrate the digital release of Ready or Not 2: Here I Come—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack via Hollywood Records and Searchlight Pictures,…

We spend a good portion of our lives texting, DM-ing, and emailing. Is all of this electronic, written communication decreasing the amount of time we are speaking to other humans? Recent research suggests that the answer is yes and that the average amount of spoken words seems to decline with each passing year. A group of researchers recently (Tidwell et al., 2025) estimated the amount of daily words spoken from a sample of about 2,200 participants from the United States, Mexico, Australia, and Europe. The average number of spoken words per day was 12,792. They compared this to a similar…

So, Ed Gein: The House of Horrors is officially out of post-production and coming for all of us. TAW Entertainment made the announcement, and honestly, we couldn’t be more delighted. We needed something to be scared of. Are there like a million movies on this subject? Yes. However, as someone who has seen a million […]

A confession: I grew up without television. I was not off the grid but in a perfectly ordinary leafy Midwestern suburb in the 1960s, with five siblings and parents who “didn’t believe in TV,” the way other people don’t believe in astrology or extended warranties. We were raised on books, DC comics, and Mad Magazine, amd consequently alienated from everything our classmates talked about on Monday mornings. We did sneak our fix—afternoons at my grandparents’ house watching Bonanza and Bewitched, or football games flickering in friends’ basements. But the household belief was clear: Television rots the mind. Flash forward a…

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Walk into almost any bookstore today, and you’ll find a section—formal or not—devoted to what’s come to be known as “Quit Lit.” These are often the books people turn to when they’re questioning their relationship with alcohol or navigating early recovery, and over the past decade, they’ve become a category unto themselves. And, with few exceptions, they often have the same tone. Earnest. Thoughtful. Deeply sincere. From Quit Like a Woman to We Are the Luckiest to This Naked Mind, these books are important—and very serious. Because of that tone, there’s something that rarely makes it onto the page: recovery…

Long before the internet became part of our everyday lives, 1978’s Faces of Death (and its sequels) had viewers wondering if the chilling footage they were watching was actually real, a sentiment that is eerily echoed in the modern era of viral videos. It’s especially fitting then, that nearly a decade after collaborating on their streaming-centric film Cam, director / co-writer Daniel Goldhaber and co-writer / producer Isa Mazzei are diving back into the deadly waters of the online realm with a bold and timely new take on Faces of Death, in which a content moderator with a haunting past…

Sometimes you make a request at work. Perhaps you ask a coworker, customer, client, or patient to do something. When are those people most likely to respond “Yes”? Of course, there are some basic, common-sense answers to that question. For example, people are more likely to say yes to requests when they like the person making the request, or at least feel some connection to them. So be a nice, genuine person, and that is liable to go a long way in securing cooperation from others. Besides liking, there are several conditions or techniques that psychologists have identified as influencing…

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