Smile

| Emily Thomas' debut graphic novel A Smile Like Yours is a queer YA graphic novel which follows Rhys Moore, a university freshman with developmental prosopagnosia, as he navigates his new collegiate life, friendship and even a romance with a cute roommate. "How far would you go to avoid people? How about moving from a tiny Welsh village to the busiest pace in England – all for the sake of slipping under the radar? Rhys Moore is unable to recognise people's faces and is constantly fearing the reprocutions of not being…

October is just around the corner, bringing with it the official countdown to Halloween, but the end of September still has a creepy treat to deliver before the launch of spooky season. The new movie Smile is hitting theaters on Friday following its premiere at Fantastic Fest last week, and the reviews for the feature have made it sound like a freaky, jump scare-filled delight. It has solid buzz going into its opening weekend, and only enhancing it is the opinion of genre legend Stephen King. The Carrie and The Shining…

If you’ve ever had this word addressed to you as an instruction, followed up with “… it may never happen!” you already know how grotesquely unnatural smiling is if you don’t feel like it. It’s much more difficult than pouting when you’re happy, a skull-grimace of misery, betraying the heartbreak within. Incidentally, I lost a bet with myself as to which Nat King Cole song would be ironically played over this film’s closing credits.Smile is a queasy, nasty horror-melodrama from first time feature director Parker Finn. Like…

Image via Universal Pictures Can you feel that, Halloween fanatics? It’s the sensation of a fresh lineup of horror news that is guaranteed to give you the chills and force you to turn all the lights on! With the month of October in arms reach, the horror world is offering an overabundance of spooky goodies — including the jaw-dropping final trailer for Halloween Ends, which teases one last epic battle between Michael Myers and Laurie Strode. In addition to that, the recent marketing campaign for new horror film…

When you hear the title of the movie Smile, you likely wouldn’t jump to presume that’s describing a psychological horror. But pair that title with any of the film’s promotional material, or at the end of the creepy-as-hell trailer, and the word starts to sound a lot more menacing. How is it possible to make a grinning person seem so threatening? Smile, from Paramount Pictures, is based on Parker Finn’s 2020 short film Laura Hasn’t Slept, and the reviews are here to tell us how well the director translated his vision into…

The smile is the star in Smile.Image: ParamountThere’s no real formula for a great horror movie. A great horror movie can be poignant and slow. It can be fast and exciting. It can be gross, it can be understated. Really as long as a horror film is scary, interesting, or engaging, anything goes. Smile, the directorial debut of Parker Finn, wants to be many of these things, but in an attempt to check those boxes, it fails at the most important one: being enjoyable to watch.Smile stars Sosie Bacon (13 Reasons Why, Mare of…

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Lena Dunham has opened up about a failed childhood audition with the late Penny Marshall after the actor refused to “smile on command”.The 36-year-old Girls creator was 12 at the time when she tried out for a role in the director’s 2001 dramedy, Riding In Cars With Boys.“She asked all the young actors to say our name, our height, where we were from, and smile,” Dunham recalled during a Tuesday (2 August) appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show.“And I said, ‘I’m Lena, I’m from New York, and I don’t smile on command,’”…

Lena Dunham has opened up about a failed childhood audition with the late Penny Marshall after the actor refused to “smile on command”.The 36-year-old Girls creator was 12 at the time when she tried out for a role in the director’s 2001 dramedy, Riding In Cars With Boys.“She asked all the young actors to say our name, our height, where we were from, and smile,” Dunham recalled during a Tuesday (2 August) appearance on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show.“And I said, ‘I’m Lena, I’m from New York, and I don’t smile on command,’”…

Credit: Scientific American MIND, July/August 2022Advertisement A fascinating study was published in 2015 showing that in cultures with higher rates of immigration, its citizens tended to smile more. Presumably among people who speak an array of languages, nonverbal communication is more crucial for everyone to understand one another and get along. The U.S., with 83 “source countries” populating its communities, scored far higher on this scale of emotional expressiveness than, for example, China, whose population is…