EXCLUSIVE: Cineverse and its horror division Bloody Disgusting have acquired North American VOD and streaming rights to Self-Help, the latest feature from fraternal filmmaking duo Erik and Carson ...

Draw boundaries. Protect your peace. Worry less about pleasing others. The prevailing (and best-selling) wisdom of the day encourages an inward turn. By Emma Goldberg There’s a certain flavor of ...

If you’re a reader, and you’re on Instagram, chances are the algorithm has fed you posts promising that “this book will change your life” or touting “five books that made me successful.” These claims ...

We’re not even going to sugar coat it: we’re living through some crazy times. It’s hard not to pay attention to all of the ways communities of color are being targeted by the MAGA agenda, so we ...

I first discovered fraternal filmmakers Erik and Carson Bloomquist when I critiqued their breakout feature, She Came from the Woods, for Dread Central in 2023, and I have been a fan of their output ...

When I was in seventh grade, I read Jen Sincero’s “You Are A Badass,” an extremely popular self-help book at the front of every bookstore in 2013. Part of the appeal was a friend’s insistence that it ...

In a 1954 New Yorker essay “Howtoism,” writer and critic Dwight Macdonald states that authors of how-to books are to other authors as frogs are to mammals, and encourages people to read other genres.

While we may have heard that it’s important to treat ourselves with kindness, sometimes this is easier said than done, especially when we’re under stress. When we’re facing challenging circumstances, ...