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Movies are very good at telling us when we’re supposed to be happy. The music swells, the couple kisses, somebody finally gets what they wanted, and we’re sent home feeling like everything worked out. Sometimes it’s better not to ask what happens next. A few movie endings become considerably less

History has had enough strange timing to make a fiction writer jealous. Two people who would change the 19th century were born on exactly the same day, two former presidents died hours apart on a particularly meaningful anniversary, and one family somehow ended up connected to Abraham Lincoln in two

Every age of cinema has its own ups and downs, its winners and losers. Yet as time passes on, the bygone eras of the medium start seeming like the time where everything shined brightest, particularly when nearly all of its protagonists are long gone. We become enamoured with the stylings

When thinking about bleak scenarios for the future, it is always important to hope for the best, while preparing for the worst. As such, there are plenty of scenarios that could lead humanity into a third World War, but where said conflict would take place shall depend largely on what

The 1980s had a particular kind of excess that modern life seems determined to sand away. Everything was brighter, louder, more physical, and often considerably less convenient. Some of that is probably for the best, but nostalgia has a funny way of making even questionable products and obsolete technology seem