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From the moment Netflix first greenlit Squid Game, it stands to reason that the streamer was already bouncing ideas around about how it could parlay the dystopian drama’s popularity into some sort of spinoff simulating the experience of being in the contest. It’s more than a bit morbid to imagine people watching the original series and thinking, “I want to do that,” as seems to be the case with the contestants of Squid Game: The Challenge. But for all of its thematic poor taste, overly self-aware characters, and uneven…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTom Cruise had a good reason for filming Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One’s most dangerous stunt on the first day of production.In the seventh film in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Cruise join forces with Avengers star Hayley Atwell to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens humanity.In what is being billed as “the most dangerous stunt of his career”,…

Awkwafina photo Unique Nicole/Getty Images, Flounder courtesy Walt Disney Pictures Comedy actress Awkwafina has been getting a lot of attention for playing Scuttlebutt in the live action remake of The Little Mermaid, and not only because people want to stab their eardrums when she sings. In a recent interview with SlashFilm, Awkwafina and costar Jason Tremblay (Flounder) were asked one of the most pertinent questions anyone could ever ask about mermaids: what do they eat? And also, wouldn’t they want to eat…

Metal band Morbid Angel is mourning the loss of one of its fans who was killed Friday when a theater roof collapsed during a tornado. On Saturday, Morbid Angel — currently composed of Trey Azagthoth, Steve Tucker, Scott Fuller and Dan Vadim Von — shared a statement to its social media pages about the Friday incident at the Apollo Theatre AC in Belvidere, Ill., and the loss of Fred Livingston Jr., who died at the concert venue at age 50.“We want to personally send our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of our…

One person is dead and dozens more were injured after a severe storm caused the roof to collapse during a heavy metal concert at the Apollo Theatre in Belvidere, Illinois, on Friday. Roughly 260 music fans were in attendance for a concert featuring Morbid Angel and other bands when 90 mph winds blew through the area and caused the historic venue’s roof to cave in. One person was killed and 28 others were injured, five of them severely, according to the Associated Press. “Tonights show is…

Image via Illumination More characters in the Mario franchise have received their time in the spotlight in the third and final Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer, but not in the way that you expect, unless you’re familiar with the Super Mario lore. During the first scene in the newest trailer, Luigi was lowered down in a cage inside a lava dungeon. Surrounding him were the penguins that were featured in the first trailer, and another newly introduced character. It was a Lumalee, a Luma from the Super Mario Galaxy…

Credit: Itsabandoned | Instragram Click on hashtag #abandoned on Instagram and you'll find more than 9 million posts. For hashtag #urbex, there are more than 11 million. It's a seemingly endless supply of haunting photographs of ruins—abandoned houses in the middle of nowhere, crumbling industrial complexes overrun with weeds, ancient graveyards submerged under water. …

The MCU is considered to be light entertainment by many, but that isn’t always the case. The studio has a way of making us sob with heartbreak, especially when it came to Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Now one fan is trying to set us all off again as he asks one of the more morbid questions. Marvel is more often than not light-hearted, humorful, action-packed, and fun, so when it does decide to go down the more bleak route it catches us off guard all the more. Loki’s abrupt death at the (literal) hands of Thanos at…

Morbid Metal, the hack 'n' slash action roguelike game, is coming soon to PC. During the Future Games Showcase, fans were given a brand-new look at the title with a full-length gameplay trailer which features third-person action.In Morbid Metal, players will be able to shapeshift between four different "blade-wielding badasses" in real-time and take on futuristic enemy bosses in what looks to be arenas. Each character will have unique abilities and stylish attacks and the action is very reminiscent of…