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The Asa Zoological Park’s fake bear walking out to the amusement of zoogoers.Screenshot: Hiroshima News TSSThe Asa Zoological Park in Hiroshima, Japan, held what might be the cutest emergency drill ever this past Sunday. The zoo had a worker cosplay as a bear on the loose to simulate an animal escape. The faux ursine was successfully corralled by the large group of employees, who went through the motions of bringing it down with a tranquilizer gun.Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror Movie The drill is…

Seasonal changes in subtropical circulation under greenhouse warming. a, b Changes in the 850 hPa streamfunction (shading) in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 5-8.5 (SSP5-8.5) experiment relative to the historical experiment during a the boreal winter (December–February; DJF) and b the boreal summer (June–August; JJA). The contours in a and b represent the climatology of the 850 hPa streamfunction in the historical experiment (interval: 5 × 106 m2 s−1).…

Nicolas Cage, a name synonymous with cinematic unpredictability, has unleashed his quirky charm and unparalleled acting prowess in the latest horror comedy flick, Dream Scenario. The movie revolves around a family man whose life takes an unexpected turn when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. (Also Read: Nicolas Cage says he did not shoot his Superman cameo in The Flash as it was: ‘I don't know what happened there') Nicolas Cage in Dream Scenario Before you explore this surreal…

Film: Dream ScenarioCast: Nicholas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Marnie McPhail, Lily Bird, Michael Cera, Dylan Baker, Tim Meadows, Dylan GelulaDirector: Kristoffer BorgliRating: 3.5/5 Runtime: 104 mins Is this film about a dream or a nightmare? This Nicholas Cage outing doesn’t slot itself in a specific genre. It’s a darkly humorous tragic-drama with touches of horror and whimsy to wind you up, as it gushes forth, fueled on pure imagination and great ideas that come good. In a bizarre turn of events in his…

Tesla’s stock (TSLA) has received a nice boost today from one of its biggest cheerleaders on Wall Street, and it’s based on the company achieving a “beyond an automaker” scenario. For years, Tesla investors have pushed the argument that Tesla is more than an auto company. That’s technically true. The company is also big in the energy space and it is making advancements in AI and other spaces. However, the financials are almost completely driven by its auto business so far. Therefore, the…

Have you ever spent countless nights awake pondering the correct collective noun for all of your Xbox consoles? Xboxes sound weird, and according to the father of that Microsoft console, there was almost something weirder floating around when the console was being developed. According to Seamus Blackley, who created and designed the original Xbox in 2001, there was a strong argument against keeping the console's internal name of DirectXbox, as the pluralized form of that word was the "most awkward" when…

Nicolas Cage has seen almost all of the memes inspired by his over four-decade-long career as one of Hollywood’s most distinct on-screen presences. He hasn’t always loved having to coexist with larger-than-life Nic Cage™ dwelling in people’s minds. But at 60, the actor has made a certain kind of peace with his status as a cinematic living legend.That peace, and Cage’s willingness to lean into his memeification, is what’s ultimately led to his recent metatextual turn in films like Lionsgate’s action satire The Unbearable…

By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press Quick: What’s a good adjective for Nicolas Cage’s screen presence? Mercurial, perhaps? Volcanic? Volatile? How about mundane, schlubby, average? Not the page we’d think to turn to in our Roget’s Thesaurus. Yet here Cage is, channeling his inner drabness to chillingly comic effect in Kristoffer Borgli’s “Dream Scenario.” As Paul Matthews (heck, even the name is drab), a college professor at nowhere famous, he performs his job with perfect mediocrity, and seems a fairly mediocre husband…

Nicolas Cage has perhaps never been Nicolas Cagier in what could be his Nicolas Cagiest performance ever. This is a surreal fantasy-satire about the unsafe space of social media and the nature of viral fame, something to be aspired to – or dreamed of – by everyone: the democratised and accessible stardom that can happen to anyone, despite or in some way because of their lack of achievement. This kind of fame can be alchemised from ordinariness, a fame produced and consumed on smartphones and capable of getting inside…

University professor Paul Matthews (Nicolas Cage) is an easy man to ignore. A deliciously peevish performance from Cage paints a character who wears his grievances as stubbornly as the anorak that rarely leaves his back. With his fretfully twitching upper lip and a whining inflection that turns everything he says – even his own name – into a pissy, worming complaint, Paul exists in permanent umbrage.Everything changes, however, when he starts to turn up, initially as a lurking, inscrutable onlooker, in the dreams of…