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James Wan has cemented himself as a studio favorite to take on mainstream horror and turn single movies into greater franchises, so it may come as a shock he wants to reboot a movie very few people have ever seen. The Australian director has become one of the very few who could be trusted to produce bankable horror movies at the box office, with Saw, The Conjuring, Insidious, and Malignant all successes on a minimal budget. Perhaps his love for small-budget horror perfectly explains why a mostly forgotten 80s B-horror…

The headline of this piece is likely to turn a few heads. The Supreme Court’s last term, after all, was an orgy of conservative excess unlike any since the Court’s Great Depression-era attacks on the New Deal. And it culminated in the demise of Roe v. Wade, arguably the most closely watched Supreme Court decision since the justices declared school segregation unconstitutional in 1954. But this term, a potentially even more consequential issue than the right to an abortion is on the Court’s docket: democracy itself. A…

The Nissan Leaf, a pioneer electric vehicle and one of the cheapest EVs currently on the market, is nearing the end of its life span. According to a report in Automotive News, Nissan does not plan on introducing a next-generation version of the Leaf and may even discontinue the nameplate altogether. Production of the current version of the Leaf is set to wind down by mid-decade, the outlet reports, citing three anonymous sources. In the report, a spokesperson for Nissan declined to speculate on the Leaf’s future but…