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These $50 Hoka Look-Alikes Give You Max Cushioning and Floaty Support for a Fraction of the Price
Bonus: You can get them on Amazon. These days, it’s hard to find a pair of quality athletic sneakers on a budget. Be it a pair of walking shoes for casual strolls around the block or sportier sneakers made for long days in the gym, footwear is so dang expensive. The sportier they are, the…
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What It’s Like to Bring Up the Rear on a Group Trail Run—and Have Fun Doing It
Trail runners will never let you feel alone. These days, it’s hard to find a pair of quality athletic sneakers on a budget. Be it a pair of walking shoes for casual strolls around the block or sportier sneakers made for long days in the gym, footwear is so dang expensive. The sportier they are,…
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The Penguin Episode 1 Review: Colin Farrell Can’t Find His Place In The Batman Spinoff
How do you solve a problem like the Penguin? Sure, he’s been a member of Batman’s rogues’ gallery since his 1941 debut, but creators have never been sure what to do with him. He has the same grotesque features common to most of Batman’s Chester Gould-inspired villains, but he uncomfortably straddles the line between realistic…
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Agatha All Along Just Paved the Way for Wanda Maximoff’s MCU Return
This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along, WandaVision, and Doctor Strange 2. The first episode of Agatha All Along has brought Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) back…in a way. While still under Wanda’s spell in episode 1, the true crime obsessed Agnes a.k.a. Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) finds a body that is eerily reminiscent of…
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Link Tank: Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Promises Nightmare Fuel in Its Ninth Year
Check out the amazing programming at the ninth annual Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, happening October 17th through the 24th. And be sure to buy a badge! “The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival (BHFF) announces today the full program for its 2024 incarnation, running October 17-24 with all screenings held at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park…
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Civil War Indicts Its Activist Watchers
Despite sharing a vehicle with three veteran journalists, young aspiring war photographer Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) cannot help but break down into tears. The quartet just drove away from a gas station held by attendants who may, or may not, be combatants in a conflict that’s gripped the entire United States. They’re certainly armed when they…
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Dominick Dunne’s Tragedy Looms Large Over Netflix’s Lyle and Erik Menendez Story
This article contains spoilers for Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story through episode 8. Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is technically the second season of a Netflix true crime anthology series that began with 2022’s Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. At first, one might assume that the upgrade from one…
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The Penguin: Carmen Ejogo’s Eve Karlo Teases An Iconic Batman Villain
This article contains spoilers for The Penguin episode 1. With Matt Reeves’ The Batman putting the ‘dark’ in the Dark Knight and scoring big at the box office in 2022, it’s no surprise that word quickly spread about a return to this grittier take on Gotham City for a sequel and multiple spinoffs. While plans…
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The Best Games of 2024 (So Far)
For some, the best games of 2024 only solidify the narrative that this has been a bad year for gaming. Well…there’s certainly something to that. I doubt that 2024 will go down as an all-time great year for gaming, and a series of events that have negatively impacted the present and future of the video…
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Can Movie Theaters Become the New Malls?
In October 2019, master filmmaker Martin Scorsese famously opined that movie theaters had become diluted. With the rise of franchise films and a heavy emphasis by Hollywood studios on intellectual property, the director of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull lamented that cinemas “have become amusement parks.” He made the comments while speaking about his new…