Exit 8 gets lost in horror-movie maze, but Faces of Death proves the killer genre is alive and well

In the late ’70s, John Alan Schwartz’s original film Faces of Death briefly terrorized the nation’s more alarmist moral ...

O'Sullivan makes highest-ever break with historic 153

Ronnie O'Sullivan creates more snooker history by making the sport's highest-ever professional break with a 153 at the World ...
The New Yorker

“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source

In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, “Exit 8,” a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in ...
The New York Times

How Escape Rooms Helped Me Escape My Life

They allowed me to glimpse a future version of myself in a reality different than my own — one that might actually be OK. By Lauren Bans My sister suggested an escape room for what was ailing me, ...

Movie Review: Wahoo! ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ levels up the magic

Chris Pratt and Charlie Day return to voice Mario and Luigi in “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” which opens theaters globally ...

Woman definitely driving during Zoom court hearing insists she isn’t driving

A gobsmacked judge asked a woman ‘do you think I’m stupid?’ after she logged into a Zoom court hearing while quite clearly driving. Kimberly Carroll, from Detroit, Michigan, joined the hearing to ...
Nature

DNA detectives: How sequencing helps trace the source of viral outbreaks

In July 2020, months before COVID vaccines were available, six staff members of the emergency department at the Cleveland VA Medical Center tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. 1 They had been careful to ...