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The Blackcoat’s Daughter Looks Like a Solid Entry in the ‘Horror at Boarding School’ Genre

Imagine if you were stuck at your bleak boarding school over winter break—a place which apparently has a dark, secret past and maybe some Overlook Hotel tendencies. Stack The Blackcoat’s Daughter next to Phenomena, The Woods, and Picnic at Hanging Rock, and you’ve got yourself a dreadfully well-themed film festival. Here’s the official synopsis: A…

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Tony Dow Is Making a Movie About Waiting In Line for Star Wars Movies

Sadly, it’s not an official Star Wars Story anthology movie. Variety has announced that Dow—best known for his role as Wally on Leave it to Beaver, but also as a director with credits for Babylon 5, Deep Space Nine, and more under his belt—is directing The Line Kings, which is literally a comedy movie about…

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Trump’s New FCC Chair Is Screwing Everything Up as Fast as He Can

Less than two weeks after Ajit Pai assumed leadership of the FCC, the agency quietly announced several troubling actions Friday afternoon, including major blows to net neutrality and a program designed to give poor people internet access. https://gizmodo.com/trump-appoints-anti-regulation-net-neutrality-foe-to-he-1791438195 This week, the agency notified AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast that their inquiry into “free data” plans…

Tech News Libby Watson and Michael Nunez

IMDB Kills Its Message Boards and Nothing of Value Was Lost

Whether you’re trying to remember the name of that guy from the thing, or just contrasting a score against Rotten Tomatoes’s to see if it’s worth spending 15 goddamn dollars to see something in theaters, the Internet Movie Database is an indispensable consumer resource. There are many reasons IMDB has become an internet mainstay for…

Movies Avery Ellis

Why Chewing Sounds Make You Want to Flip a Table

The snapping of gum. The slurping of soup (*shudders*). If you, like me, have misophonia, these sounds are more than merely annoying—they’re rage-inducing. Being trapped in a room of snappers and slurpers is enough to make us walk away or set ourselves on fire. All too often, folks with misophonia—which literally means “hatred of sound—are…

Tech News Rae Paoletta

In His Mind, Billy Dee Williams Is Always Lando

Billy Dee Williams created Lando, and although Donald Glover has been cast as the character in the standalone Han Solo film, Williams says he never thought of what it would be like for someone else to be Lando. And, you know what? That is more than fair. Williams sat down for an interview with The…

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These Pom-Pom Crabs Are Everybody’s Super Bowl Mascot

Here’s a great cheer for any cheerleading boxer crabs planning to watch the Super Bowl this weekend: 2! 4! 6! 8! I force anemones to propagate! 3! 5! 7! 9! Don’t even think about stealin’ mine! Just in time for the big game, Israeli researchers observed boxer crabs and their adorable habit: Grasping onto sea…

Biology Ryan F. Mandelbaum

A Brief History of Michael Bay Quitting the Transformers Movies

For years, Michael Bay has teased us with the possibility that he might leave the Transformers franchise that he’s nurtured into regular explosion-fests that we have come to, well, not love, but expect. The director has just announced that The Last Knight will be his final Transformers movie, and you shouldn’t believe it now anymore…

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Our First Look at Stranger Things Season Two Is Just Gosh Darn Adorable

The Stranger Things kids were already adorable enough. But now they’re dressed up in Ghostbusters costumes for Halloween and I don’t think anyone could be adequately prepared for just how cute it actually is. Entertainment Weekly has revealed the first official picture from Stranger Things season two, featuring Dustin, Mike, and Lucas dressed up as…

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Nazi Sub Portrayed in Raiders of the Lost Ark Discovered in the North Atlantic

German researchers have discovered the wreck of U-581, a Nazi sub that sunk near the Azores in February 1942. The 220-foot-long VIIC U-boat—the same type of sub featured in the classic films Das Boot and Raiders of the Lost Ark—was found broken in two, and at a depth of nearly 3,000 feet. Researchers with the…

Tech News George Dvorsky

Doctors Pull Live Cockroach From Woman’s Skull After Complaints of ‘Crawling Sensation’

On Tuesday, a 42-year-old Indian woman went to the hospital, complaining of an extremely painful “tingling, crawling sensation.” After being transferred three times, doctors determined that there was a “foreign body that seemed to be mobile” in her head. Yes, your worst nightmare is a reality. “It was a full grown cockroach,” Dr. M.N. Shankar,…

Tech News Eve Peyser

NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest

Right now, OSIRIS-REx is one of the busiest spacecrafts in the solar system. OSIRIS-REx, which blasted off in September 2016, has been getting ready to rendezvous with the object of its mission—an asteroid called Bennu—in order to bring back samples to Earth. But before the spacecraft links up with Bennu in 2018, it’s been assigned…

Space & Spaceflight Rae Paoletta

Suspiria Is Just as Terrifying and Fantastic Now as it Was 40 Years Ago

Dario Argento’s Suspiria turns 40 this year, but age hasn’t diminished its status as one of the scariest, goriest, and most gorgeous films ever made. With the Dakota Johnson-starring remake on the horizon, there’s no better time to lace up those ballet slippers and revisit the original. Suspiria isn’t the only memorably shocking and stylish…

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Greg Berlanti’s Black Lightning TV Show Is Now Officially Coming to the CW

The CW/DC TV universe is about to welcome a new superhero show. This morning there were rumors that the Black Lightning TV series had been dropped by Fox, but now we know where it’s headed: the CW has officially ordered a pilot for the series. Last night Deadline reported that after ordering a pilot commitment…

Television James Whitbrook

Overeating at the Super Bowl Is Bad, World’s Least Surprising Study Finds

This year, over a hundred million people will shout and flail at flashing screens, completely engrossed by the “Super Bowl,” a live Lady Gaga concert bookended by scenes of strong, spandex-clad men amassing in huge, sweaty piles, hoping to “score points” to “win.” Those hundred million people will inevitably consume far more food than they…

Health Ryan F. Mandelbaum

Facebook Users Are Marking Themselves as ‘Safe’ From Kellyanne Conway’s Made-Up Terror Attack

Inept fabulist and Counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway continued her campaign of foisting verifiably false information onto members of the press yesterday when she claimed a terrorist attack had taken place in Bowling Green. Now she’s the butt of a great many jokes on Facebook. Doubling down on her position as a source of…

Tech News Avery Ellis

Swirling Underwater Fish Tornado Makes Sharknado Look Tame

As currents shift in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, they bring an abundance of nutrients and plankton to the region, luring predators of all sizes. Swarms of anchoveta arrive first for an easy meal, but soon find themselves having to come up with unique ways to fend off larger predators like sharks and tuna. The result…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

How a Bike With Infinite Gears Changed The Way I Commute

For the past three months, I’ve been riding the Priority Bicycles Continuum, a commuter bike outfitted with a handful of low-maintenance components and a drivetrain system with an “infinite” number of gears. It’s been an absolute joy to ride and has regularly shaved about 15 minutes off my hour-long trips around Brooklyn and Manhattan. Besides…

Reviews Michael Nunez

Local News Teaches You How to Wish Teens a Fiery Death in Emoji

Behind the seemingly cute symbols, something sinister lurks. Earlier this week, Q13 FOX Seattle reported on the secret emoji codes teen use to evade the watchful eyes of their parents. “A skull, arrow and a flame,” news anchor John Hopperstad warned. “That can be saying to someone, I hope you die in a fire. Now…

Tech News Eve Peyser

Let It All Out in the Gif Party

The gif party is your place to cut loose. As long as you do it in gif form.

io9 Katharine Trendacosta

The Blackcoat’s Daughter Looks Like a Solid Entry in the ‘Horror at Boarding School’ Genre

Tony Dow Is Making a Movie About Waiting In Line for Star Wars Movies

Trump’s New FCC Chair Is Screwing Everything Up as Fast as He Can

IMDB Kills Its Message Boards and Nothing of Value Was Lost

Why Chewing Sounds Make You Want to Flip a Table

In His Mind, Billy Dee Williams Is Always Lando

These Pom-Pom Crabs Are Everybody’s Super Bowl Mascot

A Brief History of Michael Bay Quitting the Transformers Movies

Our First Look at Stranger Things Season Two Is Just Gosh Darn Adorable

Nazi Sub Portrayed in Raiders of the Lost Ark Discovered in the North Atlantic

Doctors Pull Live Cockroach From Woman’s Skull After Complaints of ‘Crawling Sensation’

NASA’s Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Just Got an Amazing Side-Quest

Suspiria Is Just as Terrifying and Fantastic Now as it Was 40 Years Ago

Greg Berlanti’s Black Lightning TV Show Is Now Officially Coming to the CW

Overeating at the Super Bowl Is Bad, World’s Least Surprising Study Finds

Facebook Users Are Marking Themselves as ‘Safe’ From Kellyanne Conway’s Made-Up Terror Attack

Swirling Underwater Fish Tornado Makes Sharknado Look Tame

How a Bike With Infinite Gears Changed The Way I Commute

Local News Teaches You How to Wish Teens a Fiery Death in Emoji

Let It All Out in the Gif Party

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