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The MonsterVerse comes to Apple TV+ with Monarch: Legacy of Monsters teaser

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23 of the Best Boring Movies

Social media movie discourse is at it again. This time around, I'm being horrified by posts from younger moviegoers who freely admit to fast-forwarding through movies to skip past "the boring parts" (...

'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' makes its debut on Disney+

"Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3" is now available on Disney+ starting today.In the latest quest, the Guardians are living peacefully in Knowhere, a mining colony on the outskirts of space, when sudd...

You Can Get This Kodak Film Scanner for $170

Old media doesn't need to waste away in a box. Instead, you can convert them into digital files about as easily as you'd scan any other photo. The Kodak Slide N Scan is a film and slide scanner that c...

The Easiest Ways to Make Your Kid's Bedroom Less Scary at Night

A child's bedroom isn't supposed to be scary, but sometimes a weird sound or unusual shadow can make a young one's imagination run wild, leading to lost sleep, anxiety, and nightmares. It can also mea...

News breaks of surprise cameo as Warner Bros. drops final The Flash trailer

We have one last trailer for The Flash in advance of the film's release on June 16, 2023. Its release coincides with some spoiler-y casting news. Apparently director Andy Muschietti spilled the beans ...

You Can Add Privacy to Your Windows With Decorative Film

Upgrading your windows for privacy or to reflect light to keep your home cool can get expensive. Changing the shape of windows or the glass type can run into the hundreds per window and window treatme...

What's New on Disney+ in June 2023

It's been a rough 2023 for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania disappointing financially, critically, and in pretty much every other way, and even the long-delayed Gu...

French painters inspire new insights into the physics of soap bubbles

French painters Jean Simeon Chardin and Edouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit more than a century apart. Those realist...

Eight Unexpected Ways Adults Play Too Rough With Kids

Children, especially those between the ages of 4 to 6, love to play rough. Not only can it provide an outlet for their endless energy, but there's also a purpose behind it: According to the University...

Star Wars: Visions Volume 2 is pure signal in a franchise full of intergalactic noise

By being set firmly outside of any established canon, Disney Plus' Star Wars: Visions animated anthology series has been free to tap into the essence of the franchise without being burdened by all the...

Where's the director's commentary on streaming?

In the height of the DVD era, director's commentary was a staple of movie watching. But if you look at any of the streaming services today, almost all fail to include these treasured bonus features. A...

The first action-packed trailer for Dune: Part 2 is finally here

We've been waiting to catch a glimpse of Dune: Part 2, the second part of Denis Villeneuve's visually stunning, ambitious adaption of Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi novel. Warner Bros. dropped the fir...

Now You Can Call ChatGPT on the Phone

ChatGPT can do a lot, but we haven't reached Hollywood-levels of AI just yet. OpenAI doesn't let you ask ChatGPT questions with your voice, and it won't respond in kind, at least not without a browser...

Intense new trailer for The Flash wows the crowd at CinemaCon

Warner Bros. dropped an intense new trailer for The Flash during this week's CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the annual convention attended by movie theater owners from all over the world. The trailer is just...

Are Sleepovers Finally Over?

By third grade (circa the early 1980s), I was regularly sleeping over at friends' houses. Birthday slumber parties were common, as well as random Friday nights watching VHS tapes in dark dens until ou...

What's New on Disney+ in May 2023

This month on Disney+, it's everything everywhere all at once as the streamer premieres a new limited series based on an acclaimed graphic novel and featuring most of the cast of this year's Best Pict...

Makoto Shinkai wants Suzume to build a bridge of memory between generations

In Suzume, Your Name and Weathering with You director Makoto Shinkai's latest film, an ordinary highschooler finds herself pulled into a life of chasing down otherworldly creatures and sealing portals...

'The Acolyte' Star Wars series will debut on Disney+ in 2024

At the Star Wars Celebration in London, Lucasfilm announced that Star Wars spinoff "The Acolyte" will premiere on Disney+ in 2024. The series is set at the end of the High Republic era before the even...

The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Is the Mario Movie Actually...Good?

This week's Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide explores two of the main forces shaping young people's lives in 2023 America: Corporate-created culture like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Barbie, and grassroo...