Shudders new horror film Beach House isnt exactly trying to be innovative: its basically a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with some zombie-movie tropes thrown in. But theres nothing wrong with going back to tried-and-true favorites, especially when youre smart enough to update them so they resonate with…

When COVID-19 emerged as a domestic threat back in March, local officials acted quickly, and that involved shuttering non-essential businesses in an effort to keep people in their homes and curb the spread of the virus. But while imposing lockdowns made sense from a health perspective, it was detrimental from…

Oppo has rolled out the Android 10 update for the R15, complete with a fresh new in-house ColorOS 7. The R15 was announced in March 2018 and hit the stores in April, running then-current Android 8.1 Oreo with ColorOS 5 on top. The new release includes built-in Android 10 goodies…

Trying to talk about the original Deadly Premonition is complicated. On a fundamental level, it’s a mess – a groaning slab of technical shortcomings and design deficiencies that would usually be enough to sink a game without a trace – and it’s a game that’s often dismissed, unfairly I think,…

We pictured a milkshake maker here, because fathers care about more than the stuff that appears in every Father’s Day card ever made, like BBQ grills. You’ll find grills in this sale, but you’ll also find a lot more, like outdoor fryers, TVs, patio furniture, beverage coolers, a Coca-Cola snow…

Four Vietnam vets reunite for a mission, one that will lean on their wartime exploits but also expose more than a few old tensions. No, this is not a revisit of “Da 5 Bloods” but a brief description of the genial, cliché-encumbered, Aussie comedy “Never Too Late.” Directed by Mark…

Mercedes has dropped the first announcement video showing the upcoming AMG GT Black Series in all its glory getting stolen by none other than YouTuber Shmee150. The video shows the lad sneaking inside a garage, snapping a few photos of the new Black Series, and taking it for a joy…

Google has rolled out Android 11 Beta 2, an update that brings stability to the APIs and behavior of the upcoming release. It’s also more stable, usage wise, than the initial release, but there are still some quirks here and there. Maddeningly for Pixel 4 users, some have found a…

Following a spate of recent fiction considering the strange intersection of our work and leisure lives novels such as Ling Mas apocalyptic satire Severance and Sayaka Muratas oddly affecting Convenience Store WomanThe Disaster Tourist offers up another fresh and sharp story about life under late capitalism. Yona Kim is a…

Time has warped. Paradoxically, during the pandemic, it seems to be going both slower and faster. The mid-March lockdown feels like an eternity ago. Yet those nearly four months have blurred into speeded up sameness, punctuated by well, nothing. I feel off balance even before the daily death tolls that…