Haunting

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies.I just want to express my personal feelings of shock and sadness at the death of Lisa Marie Presley at age 54 on Thursday. This came only two days after she was out supporting the movie “Elvis” at the Golden Globes. She is gone too soon, taken from a family that has seen their lives too often scarred by tragedy.Enter the VardaVerse at the Academy. The Academy Museum opens a new series this weekend with “Enter the…

There have been a variety of theories posited about the steady but inexorable rise of 23-year-old Cian Wright, from viral sensation – thanks to a 40-second clip of him leaning out of a car window, rapping with such so-what detachment that you keep expecting him to shrug – to the Top 10. He submits one himself on his debut mixtape as Clavish. “I don’t even rap,” he says. “I illustrate”.Listening to Rap Game Awful, you see what he means. His worldview is strikingly drawn and bleak, devoid of politicking, expressions of…

She's out there somewhere, lurking in a parallel universe of possibilities. All you have to do to summon her into being is type the right prompt into an AI image generator.Like a digital incantation, the words will reveal the eerie face of a middle-aged woman with dead eyes, a vacant stare, and a disturbing grimace.Her name is Loab (pronounced like 'lobe'), and she was "discovered" by a Swedish-based artist who goes by the name of Supercomposite on Twitter.Supercomposite is among the first wave of modern creators to…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press A gentle and mournful spell is cast by Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter,” a ghost story where memory is manifested – visited, intruded upon and, finally, made to glow. The film begins, enchantingly, with fog drifting through barren tree branches and a white taxi winding through a country road. The gothic mood is immediately cozily familiar. “The Eternal Daughter,” set entirely in a creaky country manor, is very consciously working in a genre tradition, but from a very personal angle.…

NASA’s Artemis I mission lifted off from Earth just a few short weeks ago, and since then, the Orion capsule has captured a breathtaking view of Earth and even completed its lunar flyby. While preparing to enter what NASA calls a distant retrograde orbit, the Orion capsule also managed to capture a photo of the Moon’s surface as it came within 80 miles of our lunar body. The results of the photos have now been shared with the world, with NASA posting them on its Flickr account for all to see. The photos of…

via Relativity Media These days, anyone with even a passing interest in all things spooky will know full well who Mike Flanagan is and what he brings to the table, but the masses first found out what was in store for the next decade of spine-chilling terror almost a decade ago when Oculus left them terrified in the aisles. While it wasn’t the filmmaker’s first feature, an honor that goes to the Kickstarter-funded Absentia, it was his sophomore effort that put him on the map. Earning $44 million at the box…

Bitcoin mining farms have multiplied in the United States since China halted this activity in 2021. In the US border town of Niagara Falls, residents accustomed to the soothing roar of the famous waterfalls recently discovered a much less pleasant sound: the "haunting hum" of bitcoin mining farms. "I get four hours of sleep, maybe, because of that constant noise," said Elizabeth Lundy, an 80-year-old retired hairdresser. "I can hear the noise even through the storm windows." On a sunny October morning, a…

By Lindsey Bahr | Associated Press It is 1862 in a remote Irish village when an English nurse is called in by a local council to observe and investigate a phenomenon in the haunting new film ” The Wonder.” There is, she’s told, an 11-year-old girl who has not eaten food in four months and seems to still be healthy. The nurse, Lib Wright (Florence Pugh), is to watch the girl, in alternating shifts with a nun — it is Ireland, of course — and report back as to what she observes. They say they’d like to know if it’s a miracle…

The European Space Agency (ESA) this week released 5 minutes of haunting, crackling audio – revealing what Earth's magnetic field sounds like.Earth's internal magnetism, called the magnetosphere, generates a comet-shaped field around the surface of the planet that provides protection from harmful solar and cosmic particle radiation, as well as erosion of the atmosphere by the solar wind, according to NASA.Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark took magnetic signals, measured by ESA's Swarm satellite mission…

“This is the beginning,” says the voice of Niamh Algar, “of a film called The Wonder.” As Matthew Herbert’s haunting seascape of a score swoops, clangs and swirls, we see a film set – scaffolded buildings within a vast studio, much like the opening of Pedro Almodóvar’s recent short film The Human Voice. Ace cinematographer Ari Wegner’s camera slowly ventures into one of these sets to rest upon the face of Florence Pugh, as Algar’s hypnotic narration continues, telling us: “The people you are about to meet, the characters,…