Movies were better this year. Not perfect, not immune to franchise fatigue, but better and deeper than 2024. Audiences showed up a little more often, and box office totals ticked up, albeit modestly.

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The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Schwab’s centuries-spanning epic Bury Our Bones links three women who gain the power to reshape their constrained, frustrated lives when they become vampires, though that experience takes radically ...

For more than a century, filmmakers worldwide have brought vampires to life on screens big and small across hundreds of interpretations. While cinematic bloodsuckers have ranged from the ...