[Book Review] ‘Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird’

To any external observer, some indifferent alien surveyor, it would be the insects who rule the planet known as Earth. They fill the gamut of ecological niches, from lowly grazer to apex predator. They’ve developed agriculture and architecture as well as less visible, but no less complex, social structures. They outnumber the planet’s dominant mammalian species, an amusingly recent development in its bio-history, by a factor of nearly 1.5 billion to one.

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‘Jaws’ 50th Anniversary: There’s Still Blood in the Water

“You’re going to need a bigger boat,” Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) trembles, having seen the great white shark Quint (Robert Shaw) and Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) have been collectively searching for—hunting for—for the first time since the people of Amity Island started being consumed by the eating machine.

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Movie Review: “Plan 9 from Outer Space” (1959)

While protestors fight tooth and nail for a better future where Black lives are protected, cherished and uplifted, we sit squarely at a cultural crossroads where the U.S. has the chance to reckon with the atomic graveyard of its past.

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