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When a whole sector of the MIT Museum goes under wraps for months, it's a surefire sign that mad science is brewing.
Golden Ngrams
Two weeks ago, Google chucked a shiny new Web toy down the chimneys of Internet-research nerds everywhere: the Google Books Ngram Viewer, a search tool/treasure hunt that shows you the frequency of specific words in literature going back to the 1500s.
Mucha Lucha
Wander into Royale this Monday, and you'll be treated to pituitary cases in chicken masks and pubic wigs pummeling each other and busty "buxoticas" putting on their best Cirque du Soleil moves.
A trip report from the land of nightmare wraiths, chainsaw butchers, demon clowns, and zombie paintball
SpookyWorld is deadly serious business.
In a surprise twist, this Shyamalan-affiliated film ain't half bad
Forget Satan — these days, is anything scarier than being trapped in an M. Night Shyamalan movie for 80 minutes?
It's no Resident Evil 4 , but it'll do
Within the first 15 minutes of Resident Evil: Afterlife , an army of Milla Jovovich clones have ripped 500 bad guys to shreds and Tokyo has been reduced to a smoking crater. The action gets only more gonzo from there.
A gore and cheese masterpiece
No one owns his Splat Pack cred quite like Alexandre Aja. The French horror director works gore the way Michelangelo slung egg tempera.
Nicolas Winding Refn gets gloomy
When last we encountered director Nicolas Winding Refn, he was busy pulverizing us with Bronson , the story of Britain's greasiest, brawlingest prison inmate.
Bragging Rights
Unless you work in the alt-weekly business, you almost certainly weren't in Toronto this past weekend to whoop it up with a horde of slightly disheveled journos at the 33rd annual Association of Alternative Newsweeklies conference.
[REC] 's contagion rages again
Children with the blackest evil bubbling under their innocent little faces. Ordinary folks mutated into face-chewing berserkers by a virus from Hell. And all the carnage caught on film by an unsuspecting documentarian.
Deft cast makes Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner shine
Noir may be the MSG of genres — a little pinch makes almost any film tastier — but does it work for Ozark gothic drama?
John Waters gets up close and personal
John Waters gets up close and personal
'Tis torture, and not mercy
After tugging at our heartstrings in Dear John , Amanda Seyfried once again takes on the role of a do-gooder infatuated with letter writing.
Be bold, be bold, but not too bold
Every good fairy tale taps into carnal dread, and Bluebeard is no exception.
Birds of prey
Down-and-out lesbians on the skids, looking for trouble and doomed to end up with blood on their hands — it’s material that’s always worked wonders for tawdry pulp novels and grindhouse flicks.
Fun Lola Fun
Was the world clamoring for a comic-erotic lesbian tribute to Run Lola Run?
Unspeakably gross, yet oddly compelling
Just when you thought there could be nothing new under the horror-cinema sun, here comes Dutch director Tom Six with an astonishingly fiendish idea.
The murkiness of the Middle Way
It’s no secret that the Chinese government is only too happy to stifle cries of “Free Tibet.”
A kinky reunion
As his 40th birthday looms, Boston Globe writer Geoff Edgers is on a mission to reunite the Kinks — a band who spat out a string of hits (“You Really Got Me,” “Lola”) and endured for decades, only to collapse from the sibling rivalry between founders Ray and Dave Davies.
Subversive chemistry
At one point, Dirty Pictures transports us to Burning Man, where we watch a pack of free spirits cruising around the desert in flame-spewing tentacle-mobiles. Which is exactly the kind of blissy neon bacchanalia that springs to mind when we think of recreational Ecstasy use. But what started it all?
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