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2Jan By Riley QuinnNo Comments

10 exciting TV shows in 2025

Series and Shows to Enjoy in 2025 As we leave 2024 behind, it's time to anticipate the incredible programs that 2025 has in store. This year, we’re highlighting 50 shows to get excited about, featuring a blend of returning favorites with new seasons alongside fresh shows and miniseries set to debut. The upcoming shows feature a return to dystopian settings in Severance and Squid Game, the reappearance of TV lawyers in Daredevil and Suits: LA, a new miniseries starring Robert De Niro, and a fresh project from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. Here are the series from 2025 that we're excited about: Severance Season 2 is set to premiere on January 17The first season of Severance ended with a bold, cunning, and surprisingly frustrating cliffhanger: the innies were in outright revolt, and...

2Jan By Ana ValdezNo Comments

Film & TV

13 Films In 2025

Films to See at Festivals We present our annual list of U.S. and international films we anticipate will be released soon. With an accuracy rate exceeding 80% for our 2024 predictions, this year's list includes several films that we still hope to see showcased at a festival in the near future. Similar to our previous prediction lists, we have highlighted titles that have either begun filming or are in post-production and have not yet been announced for any festivals. "Eleanor The Great" Scarlett Johansson, known for her work with Marvel, is making her debut as a feature film director with this uplifting story about a 90-year-old woman returning to New York after many years in Florida. In this new chapter of her life, she forms an unexpected friendship with a 19-year-old student. The cast is...

Top 10 Best Horror Film Performances of 2024

1Jan By Ana ValdezNo Comments

Film & TV

Top 10 Best Horror Film Performances of 2024

The Horror Genre The diversity of the horror genre has never been more apparent than the output seen in 2024. This year, we’ve seen a devious and bloody concoction of body horror, psychological torment, evil crime stories, and the return of everyone’s favorite clown and that isn’t even the tip of the iceberg. Despite the variety, the common thread binding these subgenres is killer performances from a talented cast of actors elevating their respective films to higher degrees. 10: David Jonsson – Alien: RomulusMuch has been said about the decision to deepfake the late Ian Holm into the latest xenomorph nightmare in space and I certainly don’t believe it to be a necessary addition to the otherwise solid Romulus. But spending my time bemoaning the inclusion of an uncanny digital face remini...

1Jan By Maya HuangNo Comments

Books & Media

Ways news media fuel polarization

Research on Public Discourse A Pew Research Center poll last year found that a majority of American adults say public discourse has become increasingly disrespectful in recent years.University of Pennsylvania political science and communications professor Diana Mutz has been studying this topic for years. Her 2015 book “In-Your-Face Politics: The Consequences of Uncivil Media” explores the rapid rise of news programming that encourages verbal sparring.Dubbing them “shout shows,” Mutz says the format primes people with opposing viewpoints “to really get riled up and to go after one another in a way that we seldom do in our face-to-face exchanges with others.” 1) Conflict is a ratings magnet Viewers who participated in Mutz’s research said that even though they found such uncivil program...