While morbid, equally fascinating .. vivid nostalgic dreams are common near the end of life..
Dreaming is believed to help us process our emotions, store memories, strengthen neural connections, reduce stress, solve problems, and think creatively.
Vivid dreams happen most often during the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep stage, when the brain is particularly active.
Chuck Norris, the martial arts champion and karate school teacher who jumped fist- and feetfirst into stardom with 1980s action movies like Missing in Action and the long-running CBS drama Walker, Texas Ranger, has died. He was 86.
Norris died suddenly Thursday in Hawaii after being hospitalized, his family announced in a statement.
“He lived his life with faith, purpose, and an unwavering commitment to the people he loved. Through his work, discipline, and kindness, he inspired millions around the world and left a lasting impact on so many lives,” they said
Here’s some good Chuck Norris jokes ..
Chuck Norris doesn’t do push-ups. He pushes the Earth down. 2. Chuck Norris counted to infinity… twice. 3. Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience. 4. When Chuck Norris enters a room, he doesn’t turn the lights on. He turns the dark off. 5. Chuck Norris can divide by zero. 6. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Chuck Norris allows to live. 7. Chuck Norris doesn’t sleep. He waits. 8. Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door. 9. The boogeyman checks his closet for Chuck Norris. 10. Chuck Norris once threw a grenade and killed 50 people. Then it exploded.
Don’t Come Upstairs has been showing up across a lot of social media feeds lately. Whether that exposure has been paid for by the documentary’s marketing team or is happening organically isn’t entirely clear, but the film itself has been made to look compelling and very watchable.
Don’t Come Upstairs is a 2025 documentary directed by Mike Lobel and commissioned by CBC in Canada. The film runs just under an hour and has been made available through CBC Gem, the network’s streaming platform. At the time of writing, availability appears to be primarily in Canada, though clips and promotional material have circulated online, contributing to its recent visibility around the planet…
While it is categorized as a documentary, an unsettling tone is said to linger beneath the surface. The title alone suggests tension, and from the footage that has been shared publicly, an atmosphere of unease appears to have been intentionally crafted. The subject matter seems to blur genre lines, protruding slightly into psychological territory, family drama, and even something adjacent to true-life thriller.
With a blizzard reportedly on the horizon across parts of the East Coast, at least at the time this post is being written, a window of quiet viewing time may soon be available. Films like this tend to benefit from that kind of stillness.
So perhaps it should be watched collectively– but don’t be deceived by the links the “full movie” on YouTube.. As mentioned before.. Non Canadians may have a hard time finding this one.
You will need a VPN..
It’s a LOT to do for a documentary but maybe worth it?
The infamous Faces of Death franchise is returning and already stirring controversy like the good ole days.
The upcoming remake, directed by Daniel Goldhaber (Cam) and co-written with Isa Mazzei, is scheduled for theatrical release in 2026. The film reportedly stars Barbie Ferreira, Dacre Montgomery, Josie Totah, Charli XCX, and Jermaine Fowler. This modern reimagining shifts the premise into the internet age, centering on a moderator for a YouTube-like platform who stumbles across disturbing footage that blurs the line between staged horror and possible real-world violence.
And then came the teaser.
A grainy, black-and-white trailer surfaced online, featuring brief flashes of extreme and unsettling imagery, scenes involving violent deaths and brutal accidents, presented in a raw, almost documentary style. It was uploaded in a strange, low-key fashion rather than through an obvious official studio channel. Shortly after, YouTube removed it for violating its terms of service, most likely due to graphic content guidelines. Which, honestly, feels very on brand for Faces of Death.
Now those showing the trailer are forced to blur the entire thing (they enjoy this too to drum up the bloodlust prior to the film release)
This franchise has always lived in that uncomfortable space between taboo and curiosity. In the 1980s and 1990s, it wasn’t something you streamed. It wasn’t trending. It wasn’t algorithm-fed to you. It was whispered about. Passed around on VHS. Rented from questionable corners of video stores. Found at a friend’s house.
And when you watched it… you weren’t sure what you were seeing.
There are plenty of jokes about Gen X and early Millennials coming of age on Rotten.com or on Faces of Death tapes as teenagers. I remember an ex-girlfriend of mine tracking down a copy from some friends. We watched a portion of it, and it was appalling — surreal, nightmarish, deeply unsettling. We genuinely couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t. We were dumb ’90s kids, and that uncertainty made it even worse.
As we now know, much of the original footage was staged — though some real archival material was mixed in. That’s what made it so macabre. It wasn’t just gore. It was the ambiguity.
Now, decades later, the franchise is stepping into the mainstream. But the mainstream doesn’t quite know what to do with it. The pulled YouTube trailer is proof of that friction. In the VHS era, controversy fueled mystique. Today, controversy gets flagged by community guidelines.
Will the new film be banned in certain circles? Probably debated heavily? Absolutely. Will it be a blockbuster smash? Unlikely. But it may do something more interesting — it could usher a new generation into the cult mythology of Faces of Death.
Or maybe we’re living in a time where reality already feels grim enough. Maybe the internet has made shock too accessible, too constant. Maybe we don’t need a fictionalized version anymore. Then again… maybe that discomfort is exactly the point.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer icon Sarah Michelle Gellar is opening up a bit more about the long-anticipated new chapter in the Buffyverse..
According to Gellar, this project isn’t a reboot, and it isn’t quite a sequel either. It’s Buffy, but something different.
Officially titled Buffy: New Sunnydale, the series will see Gellar, who starred as the Slayer for seven seasons, return in a guest capacity, passing the stake (so to speak) to a new generation. The new Slayer will be played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong, alongside a cast that includes Faly Rakotohavana (Unprisoned, Secret Society of Second Born Royals), Chase Sui Wonders (I Know What You Did Last Summer), Ava Jean (A Week Away, Law & Order: SVU), Sarah Bock (Severance), Daniel di Tomasso (Witches of East End, Major Crimes), and Jack Cutmore-Scott (Oppenheimer, Frasier). Speaking on the Shut Up, Evan podcast where she revealed the official title, Gellar clarified the show’s direction: “It’s not a sequel, it’s not a reboot — it’s a continuation.”
She explained that the series will explore where Buffy is now, what kind of world she lives in today, and how that world exists both with her and without her.
New Sunnydale sounds like it’s interested in legacy, in a very changed world since the show aired..
If done right, this could be exactly what fans have hoped for: not nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake, but a smart evolution of one of television’s heroes .m
But the real question now is will there be a musical.
The big winner of the box office numbers was 2025’s AVATAR and it is spreading its cash grab into 2026..
James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash, which flew past the $1 billion mark at the global box office on Saturday, continues to dominate theaters..
DEADLINE’s reporting has more numbers.. Avatar 3‘s global earnings through New Year’s Day (Thursday) were a mighty $935 million, including $266 million domestically and $699 overseas. On Friday, it earned another $14 million in North America from 3,832 theaters to finish the day with a domestic total of $280 million.
Lionsgate and Paul Feig’s well-reviewed sleeper hit The Housemaid could fall just six percent to $14 million for a domestic tally nearing $75 million.. This is a success that Sweeney needed as she has been skewered in media since she did a jeans ad..
On the Chinese calendar, 2025 was the Year of the Snake, and it really did slither by—sometimes fast, sometimes painfully slow—but either way, it’s now come and gone.
That brings us to our annual Year in Review, a tradition we’ve kept alive for more than 20 years. The good, the bad, and the ugly. What we lost, what stood out, the best and the worst of it all—and yes, our daring prognostications for the year ahead, along with a look back at what we predicted for this one.
We’re all feeling a bit bleak right now. Let’s hope things get a little less Slytherin in ’26.
Saturday Night Live’s alternate ending to Home Alone was apparently violent enough for NBC to add an additional flag to this weekend’s episode for “intense violence”—and to age-restrict the video on YouTube.
SNL typically carries a TV-14 rating for “intensely suggestive dialogue” and “strong coarse language,” last Saturday’s broadcast saw the addition of a “V” symbol, noting “intense violence.”
The sketch “Home Alone” imagined Ariana Grande as Macaulay Culkin’s Kevin McCallister. Putting a gory spin on the real film’s ending, the McCallister family’s return home devolves into extreme bloodshed when they encounter all of the traps that Kevin had previously set for the Wet Bandits. Among the injuries sustained: Fuller (Bowen Yang) gets both his arms sliced off by a chainsaw, Buzz (Colin Jost) is shredded head-to-toe by a box fan, while others are engulfed in flames. Though it’s all ultimately deemed to be imagined, Old Man Marley (Andrew Dismukes) winds up killing Kevin and his mother (Ashley Padilla) with a swing of his shovel.
Zac Brown just found himself in the middle of a very 2025 kind of controversy. His new Love & Fear show at the Las Vegas Sphere opens with fire-and-brimstone visuals, a descent-into-Hell sequence, and Brown onstage in imagery some viewers swear looks “demonic” or “satanic.”
Country fans shocked and stunned..
It is reported that the whole thing is meant to be a personal, cinematic journey through the darker and lighter corners of his life, but clips started circulating online with people calling it a “satanic ritual” before the first weekend was even over. Brown has said the show is about pain, redemption, and resilience, but the internet heard “Hell visuals” and ran with it.
The backdrop to all of this is the Sphere itself, which is basically a giant sci-fi eyeball dropped next to the Strip. It’s a 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide dome covered in LEDs on the outside and lined with a 16K-resolution wraparound screen and 160,000 speakers on the inside, built specifically to melt people’s senses with immersive art and sound. It can turn into a moon, an eyeball, a planet, a lava ball—whatever the artist wants—and inside, the screen stretches over and around the audience so the visuals feel less like “stage background” and more like being dropped into a movie.
Once the Zac Brown clips hit social media, reactions split instantly. Some country fans thought it was the coolest thing he’s ever done, praising the high-concept story and calling it his most ambitious project. Others, especially folks looking at it through a religious lens, saw the Hellscapes, angels, and cosmic chaos and declared it proof that mainstream concerts have gone fully “demonic.” At the same time, the controversy has done what controversy always does: boosted curiosity, headlines, and—by all early accounts—ticket demand for the Love & Fear dates.
This is still the Zac Brown Band we’re talking about—the same crew with songs like “Sic ’Em on a Chicken” in their catalog. So picture it: people online saying there’s a portal to Hell open in Las Vegas while thousands of fans inside the Sphere are singing along to a band best known for chicken, toes in the water, and island drinks. That’s the irony of modern outrage culture in one scene, golks convinced they’re witnessing a satanic ceremony..
