The 30th edition of the Fantasia International Film Festival is upon us, perhaps the largest genre film festival in the world ...

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40 years later, James Cameron's follow-up remains the clearest blueprint for expanding a franchise without repeating it.

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Franco has been posting strange videos on TikTok since early June 2026.

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The Fringe Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary this fall with a month of experimental, genre-blending, and provocative ...

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A new preprint from David Kipping, assistant professor of astronomy at Columbia University, has suggested that our first contact with aliens will likely be atypical, and particularly bleak. Since at ...