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The Long Walk is a dystopian slog where brutality is the main point

When Stephen King's The Long Walk was first published in 1979, dystopian young adult fiction had not yet become a wildly popular genre. With all of its gore and brutality, King's novel wasn't really meant for children. But in the book's story about disillusioned youths being made to march through wastelands as a form of […]

The Visit at 10: M. Night Shyamalan's unexpected found-footage reboot

It's been a decade since M. Night Shyamalan revitalized his career with the unlikeliest of means: found footage.

Wednesday's quickest death was also a Sleepy Hollow reunion for Tim Burton

We spoke to Casper Van Dien about his short time as Gideon Sterling in Wednesday season 2 and why it might not mean the end for his character.

Nothing’s Ear 3 earbuds have a microphone and ‘talk’ button on their charging case

Nothing shared the first full image of its next wireless earbuds today. The design of the new Ear 3 earbuds and their charging case appear very similar to the Ear 2 that debuted in 2023, but Nothing has revealed that the case is now partly made of 100 percent recycled anodized aluminum. For the first […]

Sega reportedly called police after mistakenly scrapping Nintendo dev kits

A UK-based video game reseller claims Sega was behind a police raid that seized a trove of Nintendo development kits from his home, according to a report from Time Extension. The seller, who reportedly purchased the collection from a scrapyard, accuses Sega of getting the police involved to recover the dev kits after mistakenly throwing […]