On Friday, August 21, 2026, I’ll be screening “H4” right next to the former Vincent Drug building featured in the film – at The Bambino restaurant on their outdoor patio, located directly beside Vincent Drug. The restaurant will be serving pizza and desserts all evening and as the sun goes down over Midvale, Halloween music will echo through the night… and The Shape returns!
This is the hottest nostalgic Halloween ticket of thr summer!
For years people who have taken the powerful psychedelic compound DMT have reported something that sounds more like science fiction than neuroscience: encounters with strange beings. Some describe mechanical elves, others report godlike entities or shadowy figures that seem aware of their presence.
A growing body of researchers is now taking these reports seriously—not necessarily because they believe the entities are real, but because the experiences are so consistent across thousands of users that scientists want to understand what’s happening inside the human mind.
One of the more ambitious ideas comes from neurobiologist Andrew Gallimore, who is exploring something called “extended DMT” (DMTx). Instead of the usual short but intense trip that lasts around 10 to 15 minutes, this method keeps people in the altered state longer through controlled infusion, giving researchers more time to study what participants see and experience. Gallimore has even proposed something he calls “SETI for the mind,” a concept where scientists might try to communicate with these perceived entities during the experience to see whether the encounters show signs of intelligence or are simply elaborate hallucinations created by the brain.
Not everyone in the scientific world is convinced, of course. Many researchers believe the human brain is wired to recognize faces and personalities, meaning psychedelics may simply scramble our perception enough that the mind invents characters to make sense of the chaos. Still, the phenomenon remains one of the strangest recurring elements in psychedelic research. Whether the entities are nothing more than neurological fireworks or something deeper tied to consciousness itself, the question remains fascinating—and just mysterious enough to keep people asking what exactly the mind is capable of seeing when the doors of perception are pushed wide open.
Tonight is one of those rare astronomical events. The blood moon.
The moon will be eclipsed at the 33rd minute of the hour 6:33 a.m. eastern daylight time and 3:33 a.m. Western daylight time.. It will take place of course on March 3rd, 3 3 at the 33. It begins at 3:44 a.m. eastern Daylight Time..
There is no path of totality it could be seen widespread across the planet. At least when darkness prevails during the eclipse time.
This world war rages in the Middle East and expands, the president has a strange rash on his neck, and everyone just feels more and more like the off-kilter world is going upside down. Life during wartime. Life during the blood moon..
So much for the Rotten Tomatoes.. the bad reviews.. the critics be damned. SCREAM 7 has made enough money that people are now clamoring for a SCREAM 8!
The film is expected to scare up around $60 million by the end of the weekend, far surpassing Scream VI’s franchise best opening weekend of $44 million.
Scream 7 also saw the best opening day/previews for the franchise at $28.8M.
Pre-sale tickets happening before review embargo was lifted most likely helped.
Pre-sales were heavy with 53% of the audience buying their tickets within the last week or a week ago..
Casualties have been reported in Operation Epic Fury..
MORE..
US Central Command has stated that as of 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time on March 1, three U.S. service members have been tragically killed while serving in Operation Epic Fury. Five additional service members were seriously injured.
Officials say several others sustained minor shrapnel injuries and concussions and are in the process of being cleared to return to duty. Major combat operations remain ongoing as response efforts continue.
According to Iranian reports, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed together with his bodyguard during an Israeli airstrike on the country, while under house arrest.
Serving as Iran’s sixth president between 2005 and 2013, Ahmadinejad is remembered as one of the Islamic Republic’s most extreme and antisemitic voices. He was open about his aspiration to destroy Israel.
In the mean time, there are new fears that Iran will awaken “sleeper cells” in Western nations in response to military actions in the country..
It comes as one of Iran’s most senior grand ayatollahs declared it a religious obligation for all Muslims to avenge the death of the country’s supreme leader.
Iran’s militant and unyielding supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who ruled the Islamic Republic for more than three decades, has died after an Israeli strike in Tehran after his compound was reduced to rubble..
“Khamenei was the contemporary Middle East’s longest-serving autocrat. He did not get to be that way by being a gambler. Khamenei was an ideologue, but one who ruthlessly pursued the preservation and protection of his ideology, often taking two steps forward and one step back,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD’s Iran program told media..
The assassination of the second leader of the Islamic Republic, who had no designated successor, would throw its future into doubt and raise the prospect of a protracted conflict, given Iranian threats of retaliation.
Trump said his death is “the single greatest chance for the Iranian people to take back their Country.” The death occurred after a joint U.S. and Israeli aerial bombardment that targeted Iranian military and governmental sites.
MEANWHILE.. Signs in the sky..
A rare celestial event will be taking place in the sky on Saturday night, as six planets are expected to be visible in what is being called a “planetary parade.”
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn were all be lined up along an arc at sunset and visible to the naked eye creating a literal parade of planets.
The alignment only occurs every few years, with the next one not until 2028.
Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are frequently seen in the night sky, but the addition of Venus and Mercury made this planet lineup particularly noteworthy.
Breaking News: We are now seeing what appears to be a regional war.
Explosions are being reported in Abu Dhabi, the Capital of the United Arab Emirates. At least 6 different countries are now reporting attacks or explosions (Iran, Israel, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Kuwait).
At least 7 countries have closed or restricted their airspace.
Russia also just called out the United States, with Dmitry Medvedev accusing President Trump of hypocrisy, sarcastically referring to Trump as “the peacemaker” who has “once again shown his true colors.”
Developing…
U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed to the Iranian people to “take over your government.”
Smoke was seen rising in Tehran on Saturday after the U.S. and Israel said it launched an attack on Iran. The first apparent strike happened near the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Updated 5:58 AM EST, February 28, 2026
The U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on targets across Iran on Saturday.
U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iranians to take cover during the strikes, but then: “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.” It was an extraordinary appeal that suggested the allies could be seeking to end of the country’s theocracy after decades of tensions.
In a video posted on social media, Trump claimed Iran has continued to develop its nuclear program and plans to develop missiles to reach the U.S.
The first strikes of the attack appeared to target the compound home to Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in downtown Tehran. It wasn’t immediately clear if he was there at the time. Smoke could be seen rising from the Iranian capital.
Iran appears to be striking US targets in several countries at once, with blasts heard from the beaches of Dubai to the streets of Doha.
Things are moving fast. It’s not clear if those explosions were the sound of missiles being intercepted, or hitting their targets.
The long-anticipated next installment in the legendary franchise has arrived, and as expected, the reactions are all over the place.
Critics? Not impressed. Early reviews have been rough — some calling it excessive, others saying it leans too heavily into shock value. Fans? A very different story.
Rotten Tomatoes is hovering around 77% from audience scores, which tells you everything you need to know about the divide. Horror has always been that genre where critics and fans rarely sit at the same lunch table. And honestly… when have they ever fully agreed on Scream?
Financially, though? This thing came out swinging. The film already pulled in $7.8 million, which is reportedly a franchise record for that particular preview window. It’s now poised to land somewhere between $40–50 million by the end of the weekend.
That’s not nostalgia money. That’s “we showed up” money. Now here’s the part that matters. A big opening doesn’t automatically mean the movie is good. We’ve all seen horror films open hot and disappear faster than a teenager in the third act.
But it also doesn’t mean it’s bad. People have been clamoring for more brutality. More gore. More risk. For years, fans said the franchise was getting too safe, too self-aware, too polished. Well… from what’s being said, they got their wish.
The question now isn’t whether it delivers blood. It’s whether it delivers staying power. Will people still be talking about it in three weeks? Will it spark debate? Will it create a new iconic scene? Or will it simply be remembered as “the gory one”?
Opening weekends are adrenaline. Longevity is legacy. And that’s something you can’t measure in a Friday night number.
For now, it’s a Scream 7 weekend. And whether you’re going for the kills, the chaos, or just to see if Ghostface still has that magic… the only real verdict comes after the crowd leaves the theater and the conversation begins. Let’s see if this one sticks.
The reviews are now coming in after the Embargo is lifted and they’re bad. Some of the lowest ratings of the entire Scream series on Rotten Tomatoes currently exist with critics lampooning the film such as The Daily Beast calling it shockingly terrible.
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Hollywood Reporter‘s review was one of the more negative takes on the new film, writing, “The overfamiliarity would be more palatable if the dialogue were as fresh and funny as it was in the early installments, or if the kills were more creatively staged. But there’s a rote quality to the proceedings that makes Scream 7 feel like a slog despite its high body count and copious gore.”
The film is probably largely review-proof, with the movie expected to open around $60 million globally for the second-best start in the franchise..
But just because it may have a successful box office doesn’t mean it would be a good movie.
Netflix has premiered the first photos from its new supernatural mystery drama “The Boroughs” .. it is launching on May 21..
“Stranger Things” creators the Duffer Brothers are executive producing the series which also has “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews as showrunners and executive producers.
The series is set in a retirement community where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.
There are tons of jokes here.. with how long it took STRANGER THINGS to finally get made there is a chance the kids are the same actors in this retirement community..
Alfred Molina Geena Davis Alfre Woodard Clarke Peters Denis O’Hare Bill Pullman
Welcome to THE BOROUGHS. A new supernatural series from the executive producers of STRANGER THINGS. May 21. pic.twitter.com/3K09qVutkp
