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A Better Way to Spend a Winter Night In
By Beau Hayhoe
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5 Picks From the 2025 Film Festival Season, Based on Movies You Already Love

I survived festival season. These are the films I haven't stopped thinking about since.

By Andy Crump
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The Best 2025 Horror Blu-ray Releases For Halloween

Because this genre belongs in physical form.

By Andy Crump
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4 Shows to Binge If You Liked Fargo

The movie or the show or both.

By Lanny Fuller
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Prepare Yourselves: Amazon Prime Day Starts on Monday

The chaos that is Amazon Prime Day is almost upon us once again. It officially kicks off on Monday, July 15, but this time around it's a "A two-day parade of epic deals." Seeing as how many of the deals start earlier and last longer, they should probably just start…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Nintendo Switch Lite

When Nintendo decided to release another console after the Wii U that was also built around the idea of a screened controller we had our doubts--especially with weird little detachable controllers called Joy Cons. We were wrong. The Nintendo Switch is awesome, and one of the best parts is the…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Gameshell Open Source Portable Gaming Console

We're not going to tell you that the Clockwork GameShell is just an open source version of a very popular, old school Nintendo portable gaming console. But if you drew that conclusion on your own based on looks alone, we wouldn't fault you for it. That sentiment is true on…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Our 10 Favorite Episodes of Anthony Bourdain’s TV Shows

Anthony Bourdain was a storyteller who used food and drink as a way to explore culture and examine people. To describe him as "the host of a food show," as if he simply emceed a reality cooking competition, is a disservice. Through Anthony Bourdain, we saw the world. He took…

By Mike Newman
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The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People

It's been said on more than one occasion that creative people have brains that are just wired differently. The most famous of them--we're talking Mozart, Beethoven, Picasso, Kant, Franklin, Murakami, etc.--still had routines, but they're very different when compared against what we'd describe as a routine. A few years back,…

By Cooper Fleishman
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