Experts claim that there’s a long-unheard secret tape of an “Invasion of Washington” UFO briefing – and they say the public could hear it very soon.
A tape recording a 1952 conversation between Air Force officials and scientists on unidentified flying objects is soon to be released, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.) told a room of UFO transparency advocates at Disclosure Forum 2026.
MUBI is hosting an “odorama” scratch-snd-sniff screening for ‘THE SUBSTANCE’ on July 11…
Upon entry, every attendee will be handed an exclusive, custom-engineered scratch-and-sniff card divided into specific, numbered panels. Audiences must watch the screen closely; when a corresponding cue flashes mid-scene, it’s your green light to scratch the matching card block.
Fans are guessing what the localized cards contain.. maybe the clinical, sterile sting of laboratory chemicals .. fresh neon-green stabilizers to the nauseatingly sweet aroma of Hollywood dressing room perfumes, overripe food, and iron-heavy puddles of stage blood..
The movie has already become one of the highest grossing horror films of all time .. and now an extra cut is is going to be re-released this week making the film even more potentially popular amongst hardcore fans..
The studio is giving its breakout horror hit an extended theatrical re-release, dubbed the “Everything Must Go Edition,” arriving Friday, July 3, with 15 minutes of bonus footage and a new runtime of two hours and six minutes…
Welcome to the world of expansion pack rereleases..
A24 doing what they can .. 🙂
Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to a father-daughter espionage thriller starring Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour from Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, A24 and studio-based producer Joe Hipps.
SPY IN THE BLOOD…
According to the summary for the new series, “Disgraced FBI agent turned security expert Matt Wolfe is drawn back into the world he left behind when his estranged daughter, Rebecca — now an FBI agent determined to follow in his footsteps — vanishes on a mission, forcing him back into a field that has evolved beyond him.”
More from the PR being released about the new show:
“We are delighted to bring this spy drama to life with an extraordinary group of talent we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with before,” Netflix Head of Scripted Series, US and Canada, said. “Jack Thorne’s ability to find the deeply human story inside a thriller is unmatched, and watching Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour reunite — this time as estranged father and daughter on opposite sides of a crisis — is something audiences are going to love. A24 is the perfect partner to bring this story to our members around the world.”
Everyone talks about that magical year when Stranger Things 4 arrived and completely took over pop culture, but I want to go back a little further. I want to talk about Stranger Things 3 and the summer of 2019, because for a lot of us, that was the summer that changed everything.
Think about the build-up. The excitement.. the freshness of what was coming.
This was Stranger Things embracing something completely different. Gone was the darker isolation of previous seasons and in came bright neon colors, the Great American mall, summer romance, arcades, and a season built around the idea that the kids of Hawkins thought they had already defeated the evil… without realizing something even worse was quietly waiting beneath the surface.
It gave us Starcourt Mall, one of the great fictional monuments to 1980s Americana. It gave us Fourth of July fireworks exploding over Hawkins while chaos unfolded underneath it all. It gave us a corrupt mayor bought and paid for, secret Russian experiments hidden underground, and finally let Murray become something more than just comic relief as his character began to fully develop.
Even the monsters felt fresh.
And then it happened.
July 4th, 2019.
The day Stranger Things 3 was released, right in the middle of summer, and somehow everything about that moment just felt perfect.
There was something magical about that summer. Maybe it was where we all were in life. Maybe it was the anticipation of a huge cultural event landing at exactly the right moment.. the posters, the fireworks, that unforgettable trailer, the colors, the music, the atmosphere.
It all clicked.
Even if you think Stranger Things 3 was not the strongest season, and many fans will argue the other seasons were better, there is something undeniably nostalgic about that summer and what it represented.
It embedded itself in our brains.
Hard to believe now, but it has been ten years since Stranger Things first premiered.
And seven summers since the summer that changed everything.
The truth is simple.
We will probably never experience something quite like that again.
And maybe that is exactly why we miss it so much.
Beginning August, a new live Broadway immersion into paranormal activity will occur ..
Early word is that the special effects will blow people away..
Paranormal Activity has moved up its Broadway opening date to Tuesday, August 25, at the August Wilson Theatre, several weeks earlier than previously announced.
The previously announced first preview performance of Friday, August 14, remains in place. The production will play a strictly limited 20-week run.
The synopsis: “James (Knight) and Lou (Álvarez) move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren’t haunted, people are.” The original story inspired by the film franchise, Paranormal Activity “reimagines the modern ghost story with an intimacy that only live theatre can provide.”
The Broadway production will follow a strictly limited pre-Broadway engagement in Boston at the Emerson Colonial Theatre from July 11 through July 30. Prior to Boston, Paranormal Activity played engagements at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, Center Theater Group at The Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington D.C., and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. A production in Toronto at the CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre began performances on June 9 and will run through July 5.
Here is the official site where you can also get tickets and learn more about the show..
This week brought disappointing news for horror fans. The long-planned and heavily rumored Halloween television series centered around Michael Myers is apparently dead before it ever even began.
Word coming from insiders suggests that the Moustapha Akkad family believes another Halloween movie makes more sense than a television series, and honestly, that is probably the right call. There also appears to be lingering friction involving David Gordon Green and the family, largely because they were not particularly thrilled with the recent Blumhouse Productions trilogy. While the films gave us a fantastic soundtrack and certainly had their fans, that final movie was, quite frankly, abysmal. Wrecked. Terrible.
The truth is, Michael Myers feels like a character built for the big screen. He belongs in dark theaters, not on a smaller screen or viewed on a phone. But there is a problem. If we look back over the last twenty years, most of the Halloween films simply have not been very good.
That said, I think there is one silver lining buried inside Halloween Kills that filmmakers should seriously consider exploring.
If you remember the opening sequence of Halloween Kills, we were suddenly back in the 1970s. Michael Myers had survived his confrontation with Dr. Loomis and was still on the loose that same terrifying night. Those first several minutes were incredible. The aesthetics were perfect. The gritty atmosphere captured the spirit of the original film almost flawlessly, and for a brief moment it felt like we were watching a continuation of John Carpenter’s original vision.
That is exactly where this franchise should go next.
I think fans are hungry for something new, and ironically the freshest idea might actually be continuing the original Halloween night itself. Pick up directly after the events of the 1978 film and follow the chaos unfolding across Haddonfield as the town realizes a serial killer is still roaming the streets.
The beauty of this idea is that it does not even need to center around Laurie Strode. Remember, originally Michael Myers was not hunting Laurie because she was family. That idea came later. In the original film, she was simply random. Wrong place, wrong time.
So why not embrace that again?
Keep Michael random. Keep the other characters from the original movie in the background while the Haddonfield massacre continues through the night. Show the town descending into chaos as police scramble, citizens panic, and Michael continues his rampage.
What makes this even more interesting is that this version of Michael Myers existed before he fully evolved into the supernatural force the sequels turned him into. There was still mystery there. He had survived six gunshot wounds from Loomis, hinting at something unnatural, but he still largely felt human.
That tension worked.
Honestly, if they made a movie like this, I would not even care if Michael dies again by the end. Bring him back later if you want. It does not matter.
The original Halloween remains the best film in the franchise, even if time has softened some of its horror impact for modern audiences. But a new movie that fully embraces that 1970s gritty Haddonfield atmosphere, exactly what we briefly saw in Halloween Kills, could absolutely work.
And here is the interesting part. If you ask true Halloween fans, those opening minutes of Halloween Kills are still often ranked among the best moments in the entire modern franchise.
One final thought, and this might be unpopular.
If someone wanted to revisit Halloween III: Season of the Witch and give us a modern remake?
I would be all for that too.
Because despite not featuring Michael Myers, Halloween III had something the franchise desperately needs right now.
An original idea.
And maybe that is exactly what horror fans have been waiting for all along.
Every week we fall victim to the same thing that everyone else does. The race at the box office, the summer season and comparing how much money a movie is making. But yet forgetting if a movie’s good or not.
A lot of people who have seen Supergirl don’t like it, a lot of critics lambasted it but some fans on rotten tomatoes are giving it some decent ratings. That being said the movie is going to finish probably under $40 million dollars for opening weekend, and that’s most likely going to be factored as a failure for the film.
In the weeks leading up to this moment, there have been a lot of predictions which continue to downgrade expectations lower each time, and now that the film has been released the real numbers are coming in and it’s not pretty.
But as a fan of Masters of the Universe, it’s not easy living through a box office moment like this.. some true fans will defend the movie till the end while others will probably be realistic in how good it really is. As for the rest of the box office toy story is ruling the day, the film will maintain its number one status and number three will be the return of the Jackass movie.. they’re all a little bit older and they’re relying on nostalgia from 20 years back to prop them up just one more time.
Notable that back rooms and obsession are lingering with still decent money..
We don’t know if they’ll be a Masters of the Universe part 2 but we sure don’t think there will be a second Supergirl…
I would genuinely love to know what it felt like for people who lived through major celebrations of this country in decades past, because celebrations right now feel a bit… off.
Queue the Patriotic Charlie Brown voice: It seems like everyone is supposed to be excited. Mattress companies and car dealerships are running their America 250 specials, Walmart has their made in other countries red white and blue products out, and yet there just seems to be something missing surrounding this enormous anniversary for the United States.
Maybe it is just me? If you are feeling it too, maybe it is just you! Of course, for every person feeling that way, there are probably plenty of others proudly hanging decorations and embracing the American 250 celebration with excitement and genuine patriotism. But something feels different.
When you look back through old fishwrappers and faded pieces of history from previous eras, it always feels like celebrations were bigger. Communities seemed more connected. The pride looked more visible. Maybe nostalgia distorts things, but history often paints that picture, with the Bicentennial seemingly being the most brilliant of all celebrations.. even black and white newspapers seemingly are filled with the patriotic colors..
Heck the Queen showed up and Johnny Cash was a parade marshall during the spirit of 76..
Here is Frackville PA in 1976:
Here is one from PA’s state capitol Harrisburg ..
We are fond of these old videos.. and there are plenty more still to be found.. Imagine the hidden videos still tucked away in basements or attics that we don’t even know exist yet!
But all of the images equally give a shock to the senses.. how much things have changed.. progress led to problems. Not all boats were lifted in rising tides and when the water levels are low, we all feel trapped in a daze of old glory mixed with a sense of patriotism in a past sense.. nostalgia has been replaced with anger..
Or maybe this is part of something larger. Perhaps it is simply the slow decline of small town America. Here in northeastern Pennsylvania, many towns have become hollow versions of what they once were. Industry faded. Populations shrank. Traditions quietly disappeared. There was a time when school bands filled long parade routes, floats moved through packed streets, and celebrations felt like the heartbeat of entire communities. That is not necessarily a reflection on the people living there today, but more the changing atmosphere that happens when communities slowly lose population, industry, and identity.
There is a really cool Reddit thread called Ask Old People (funny) … there is a pretty big discussion that focuses on just how big the 1976 celebrations were.. It seems like marketing was as big as it is now if not bigger.. From one post:
It was a huge deal. I graduated HS in 1976 and my memory of it is that it was mostly just a huge commercialization ploy. There was Bicentennial everything. From toothpaste to special edition cars if they could paint it red, white, and blue, they did. I have no idea the amount of “special edition” Bicentennial crap that was sold with the idea that it would someday become collectible. I suppose some of it actually did but most of it ended up in a landfill.
Another noted the interesting juxtaposition of the bicentennial right after traumatic national events.. After Vietnam and Watergate, the USA was feeling pretty down and the Spirit of 76 made people overall just feel a little better..
One more post from the Ask Old People thread:
It was pretty huge. It wasn’t just the actual birthday, but there was a big wave of subtle/not-so-subtle patriotism leading up to and continuing after 1976. It may have been fueled in part by people desperate to feel good after the turbulent 60s and getting out of Vietnam. There was certainly a lot of Red White and Blue branding going on – for example, Wonder Woman premiered in April 1976.
I’m a little concerned about 2026 – Waving a flag seems to mean something different today than it did in 1976 and it’s hard for me to picture a unified celebration.
That part rings true.. 2026, waving a flag seems to have a whole new meaning.. It seems divisive when it should not be.. It just all feels strange at the moment..
One of the scenes in television history has always been the final episode of The Wonder Years, where Kevin Arnold reflects on the closing chapter of his life in the 1960s and 1970s, including the death of his father, all while beautiful melancholy music plays against scenes of a Fourth of July celebration in his hometown. Fireworks. Americana. Family. Nostalgia. It captures it all:
I think that nostalgic view dominates how people imagine pride itself or great American celebrations. Maybe those moments really were bigger than life.
Maybe these moments never existed quite the way we imagine them, and we were simply led to believe they did. Or perhaps the truth is stranger…. those celebrations once existed exactly as we remember them, but somehow they do not exist in the same way anymore.
So how are you feeling, America?
Soaring with pride?
Or quietly drifting somewhere between nostalgia and sadness at 250?
Get ready for the onslaught of Supergirl reviews and they are not pretty.
None of them, this movie seems doomed. There’s a few things that are attempting to save it including a theme of a dog being in danger, something that always seems to get the viewers revved up.
However this go around it appears that the movie is so bad, the script is written so poorly, and apparently the lighting of the film is so harsh on the eyes, that there will be nothing redeeming about this film. It’s expected to be the next summer flop and the studio is already trying to think of a way to defend itself. Here’s one of the best reviews of the worst movie of the summer so far: