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It’s no secret that Instagram is losing the social media war to TikTok. If Meta’s app is ever going to reverse this trend, it needs to come up with new and interesting features. Or so you’d think. Instead it appears that Instagram is going to continue the Facebook tradition of ‘If You Can’t Beat It, Copy It.’ And goddamn, it’s copying the hell out of TikTok. The mighty plan? To make every video posted on the platform a Reel. A feature that, if you remember, was stolen from TikTok anyway.…

via Terror Films More than any other genre, horror loves to capitalize on a formula that’s proven successful for someone or something else, with these trends, fads, and bandwagons inevitably being run into the ground. Given that The Purge franchise has spawned five feature films and a TV show, generating over $500 million at the box office in the process, it was only a matter of time before something like Evil at the Door came along. While writer, director, and star Kipp Tribble (who has a phenomenal name, it…

There’s a split in the world of fitness trackers when it comes to your access to the data they collect. Some companies charge a monthly subscription for complete access to the accompanying platform, while others include everything in the cost of the device alone. From a business perspective, subscriptions make sense. They lock people in, encourage future hardware purchases, and generate steady income after the initial device sale. But from a consumer perspective, these are either inconsequential or negative traits.…

via Open Road Films Sean Penn takes himself very seriously, and while his two Academy Award wins reinforce the undoubted fact he’s one of his generation’s finest talents, he also tends to rub a lot of people the wrong way. With that in mind, it wasn’t exactly unexpected that his self-indulgent detour into action hero territory in 2015’s The Gunman went down like a lead balloon. Once Liam Neeson proved that middle-aged character actors could reinvent themselves as unlikely ass-kickers, plenty of other stars of…