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An asteroid can be a serious threat to Earth. In fact, it can be a catastrophic event based on how big it is. Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to tackle the threat posed by asteroids that may crash into our planet and this can be done by finding ways to alter the asteroid's orbit and make it move away from Earth. NASA has tried that by crashing a spacecraft against an asteroid and successfully moved it from its orbit. Now, a company has come up with an ingenious solution.A California-based nonprofit organization is…

In February 2013, an asteroid about the size of a house punched its way through Earth’s atmosphere and broke apart over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The blast was so strong, it left a bright streak in the skies and triggered a powerful shockwave, shattering glass and resulting in the injury of over a 1,000 people.What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewSure, it wasn’t armageddon, but even asteroids as small as Chelyabinsk—which measured roughly 62 feet (19 meters)…

Image via A24 If you’ve found the time to head out and check out Ari Aster’s lengthy third feature film Beau is Afraid, you’ll know that it has certainly turned out to be… something. While the internet is hard at work breaking down all of the film’s messaging, both blatant and subliminal, it turns out that the man in the director’s chair isn’t so sure himself of what exactly he ended up creating.  Many folks who have seen the film would argue that Beau is Afraid arrives somewhere at the crossroads between…

Beau may be afraid but Ari Aster certainly isn’t. Of the many words used to describe the writer-director’s previous two films — “Hereditary” and “Midsommar” — timidity was never of them. This is a filmmaker who has sent Toni Collette skittering across the ceiling and intricately arranged mutilated bodies the way some people make bouquets. But if any doubts remained about just how far Aster is willing to go, “Beau Is Afraid” should pacify them. Not because of the degree of terror within it; by Aster’s high standards, “Beau…

Photo via A24 Of all the genre giants that frequent the box office these days, perhaps the single most fearless of them, ironically enough, is the horror genre. Indeed, it’s no unfair statement to say that horror fans eat the best as far as pure creative weirdness goes, and with names like Jordan Peele, Zach Cregger, and Brandon Cronenberg pumping out such flicks as Nope, Barbarian, and Infinity Pool recently, there’s no end in sight to the fuel for this particular fire. But Ari Aster is set to bring a whole new…

Image via A24 When it comes to sheer, off-the-chain creativity, you can find few better conduits of such a thing than within the ranks of A24. From White Noise to Bodies Bodies Bodies to Tusk to The Green Knight to their crown jewel of Everything Everywhere All at Once, it’s near impossible to suggest that any film studio embraces the creative spirit quite like A24 does. And few have taken advantage of such a mandate quite like Ari Aster has; with the likes of Hereditary and Midsommar having established…

Ari Aster Begged ‘Joker’ Joaquin Phoenix To Star In ‘Beau Is Afraid'(Photo Credit –IANS) Filmmaker Ari Aster, who sent shivers down the spine with his atmospheric horror film ‘Hereditary’, spent six months begging Joaquin Phoenix to star in ‘Beau Is Afraid’. The 36-year-old filmmaker has helmed the surrealist horror film ‘Beau Is Afraid’, and was desperate to cast the Oscar-winning actor in his movie, reports Female First UK. Discussing his first meeting with Phoenix, Ari told Variety at the movie’s Los Angeles…

Having given us two classic scary movies with Hereditary and Midsommar, film-maker Ari Aster now unfortunately beckons us down the rabbit hole for a giant and epically pointless odyssey of hipster non-horror. Running at over three hours, Beau Is Afraid is a colossal recovered memory of mock Oedipal agony which is scary, boring and sad in approximate proportions of 1 to 4 to 2. It’s a movie in which Aster has surrendered some of his own originality and distinction for an indulgent, derivative flourish that seems to…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThe new film from Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster has debuted.Titled Beau is Afraid, the film stars follows Joaquin Phoenix’s “paranoid” lead character as he ”embarks on an epic odyssey” to get home to his mother, who is played by Patti LuPone.Those who had bought tickets to see the director’s cut of Aster’s previous film, Midsommar, in Brooklyn, New York were surprised to…

Image: A24Director Ari Aster is known for his critically acclaimed horror films Hereditary and Midsommar, but his upcoming film Beau Is Afraid seemingly has a twist. As its title implies, its main character (Joaquin Phoenix) is certainly terrified by the world... but that world looks far more bizarre than threatening, at least as this buck-wild first trailer shows.There’s no official synopsis, but when you watch it, I think you’ll see why:Beau Is Afraid | Official Trailer HD | A241) There’s probably no explaining the film…