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via 20th Century Fox Parodies and spoofs used to be genuinely funny – as well as a consistently successful stream of hit movies – until the infamous duo of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer arrived on the scene. The pair delivered several of the worst mainstream comedies you’re ever likely to see, but Vampires Suck mercifully kick-started the beginning of the end for a craze that had overstayed its welcome. Between them, Friedberg and Seltzer used their background as writers on the smash hit Scary Movie to…

Bear Grylls: UK schools are ill-equipped to tackle mental health issues(Photo Credit –Instagram) British adventurer and television presenter Bear Grylls, who is known for his show ‘Man vs. Wild’, has a word of advice for the UK’s schooling system. He wants to improve the school system in the UK when it comes to helping students deal with mental health issues, reports Mirror.co.uk. Bear Grylls believes that while things are getting better, schools are still “woefully ill-equipped” and are failing to teach children a…

Experts believe a magnitude seven volcano eruption would cause damages comparable to the pandemic.Experts say that the risk of a catastrophic eruption is “a roll of the dice”.According to experts from the University of Birmingham and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) at the University of Cambridge, the world is “woefully underprepared” for a catastrophic volcanic eruption and its expected effects on global supply networks, the climate, and food.They claim that there is a “broad misconception” that the…

The eruption of Mount Pinatubo on June 15, 1991 in the Philippines was the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century. Photo: ARLAN NAEG/AFP (Getty Images)When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted in Tonga on January 15, the result was devastation. The eruption literally blew up an island, caused mass flooding in the surrounding areas, coated whole communities in a thick layer of ash, and took out telecommunications for weeks. Yet in that eruption, we got lucky, according to a new commentary article…

via Paramount Plus Last summer, filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman directed Jamie Foxx in Project Power, which deconstructed the superhero genre and became one of Netflix’s most-watched original movies ever. In a huge coincidence, each party had a brand new film debut on-demand yesterday, with the former’s Secret Headquarters and the latter’s Day Shift both instantly reaching top spot. As per FlixPatrol, Joost and Schulman’s latest has instantly become the number one feature on Paramount Plus, while…

Dir: Carrie Cracknell. Starring: Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Richard E Grant, Henry Golding. PG, 109 minutes.Autumn de Wilde’s Emma, from 2020, was such a moreish delight – it met Jane Austen’s wittiest and prickliest heroine on her own terms, defiantly selfish and loveable all the same. A confectionery construction of florals, pastels, and gilded frames, it found a way to satisfy modern tastes without betraying the authenticity of the Regency era. It remains one of the best modern adaptations of…

Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick has been winning rave reviews, with the long-awaited sequel being lauded as one of 2022’s best movies already, which may be the reason why another movie related to fighter pilots has been performing above expectations on home studio Paramount’s streaming service. As per FlixPatrol, 2006’s forgotten flop Flyboys has rocketed almost 40 places on the platform’s global charts since yesterday, making it the fourth-top title around the world. That’s not a bad way to make a return to the realms of…