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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSeth Rogen has pointed out a “stressful” fact about the cast of Avengers: Endgame.The actor is busy promoting his new film, biographical Steven Spielberg drama The Fabelmans, for which he underwent a transformation to play a character inspired by the director’s uncle.Speaking on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Rogen explained that Spielberg’s uncle, had a “very receding…

Image via Orion Pictures Horror fans are celebrating the last “official” week of spooky season (although it lives on forever in our hearts) by bingeing all of the most spine-tingling and frightful films they can imagine. It’s not time for the cutesy horror or the wholesome family watches; fans are diving into the most frightening that horror has to offer. Honchō has put together a list of the most stressful horror films to watch, and it’s been crafted with carefully studied scientific research. The UK-based…

Susan Norcross has a real bone to pick with doughnut walls. Not their particular existence, but rather what they represent for her as a wedding planner: a trend she finds some of her clients asking about because they saw it online, and one that they absolutely don’t care about or need to have. “In 20 years, do you think you’re going to look at your husband and go, ‘We didn’t have the doughnut wall’? No,” Norcross, who owns The Styled Bride in Philadelphia, said. “For the most part, all these little tiny things, these…

Credit: Yustinus Tjiuwanda/Unsplash, CC BY Year 12 students around Australia are preparing to sit their final exams. For many young people this is one of the most stressful parts of school, with their future supposedly coming down to one number. …

Research by DS Automobiles found owners of electric and hybrid cars felt less stressed while driving than owners of petrol or diesel cars. In a survey of 2,000 UK drivers, over 78% had experienced stress while driving. However, 38% of electric and hybrid car owners said their current car made them feel less stressed than previous petrol or diesel cars they had owned. 31% of those who experienced stress admitted this…

Emergency, a comedy thriller about three college friends – two Black, one Latino – navigating a downpour of bad optics and decisions, traffics in several established lanes: the raucous one-last-epic-party romp a la Booksmart, where everything that can escalate will in the course of a single night; the hijinks-filled buddy road trip comedy albeit this time around campus; and the socially aware thriller in the shadow of Get Out, where every move is weighted by the looming threat of anti-Black racism in America. In other…

New study of train travel pre- and during COVID-19 suggests three ways to make commuting less stressful. Credit: Aston University A study by an Aston University engineering systems and management expert suggests that encouraging rail passengers to buy tickets via their smartphones is one of three changes that could make commuting quicker and safer.…

A harrowing report from The Wall Street Journal gives us a look at what happens behind the scenes at TikTok, with former employees describing unusually long work hours, stressful working conditions, and a cultural disconnect between TikTok’s US and Chinese branches. Employees at TikTok’s Los Angeles-based outfit reportedly say they’ve experienced sleep deprivation caused by working late and attending meetings with fellow workers located in China. According to the WSJ, some employees report spending around 85 hours per…