Warning: This post contains spoilers for M3GAN 2.0. M3GAN became a surprise hit in early 2023, earning nearly $182 million worldwide against a budget of just $12 million, due in part to the balance the movie managed to strike between creepy horror and campy comedy. Here was an AI-powered doll who …#movies#culturepod#Explainer M3GAN 2.0 Is a Horror Sequel With No Horror
F1 The Movie, which is out in U.S. theaters and IMAX on Friday, has summer blockbuster potential, given the huge budget—north of $200 million—and star power—Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, cameos by Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and other Formula 1 drivers—involved. So if you’re an F1 newbie looking to …#movies#culturepod#Explainer All Your F1 Questions Answered, Ahead of F1 The Movie
On Feb. 10, 2013, a fire damaged the cables powering the cruise ship Carnival Triumph, leaving 4,000 passengers aboard stranded in the Gulf of Mexico for almost a week with overflowing toilets and sewage dripping down the walls. Netflix revisits the crappy incident in Trainwreck: Poop Cruise, a …#movies#culturepod#Explainer The True Story Behind Trainwreck: Poop Cruise
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Ritual. Considering it provided some inspiration for William Friedkin's seminal 1973 horror classic The Exorcist, the real-life exorcism case of Emma Schmidt (who was also referred to by the pseudonyms Anna Ecklund and Mary X) is unsurprisingly one for the …#movies#culturepod#Explainer The Real Story Behind The Ritual and the Woman Who Inspired The Exorcist
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Bring Her Back. The message of Bring Her Back may be that grief is the real monster. But desperate mother Laura (played with a harrowing intensity by Sally Hawkins) makes a pretty good one all on her own. As a follow-up to their acclaimed 2023 feature debut Talk …#movies#culturepod#Explainer Breaking Down the Brutal Ending of Bring Her Back
On the morning of August 16, 2017, Antonio Navarro Cerdán, a 36-year-old industrial engineer, left his home to go to work in Valencia, Spain. He lived in the Patraix neighborhood with his wife, María Jesús Moreno Cantó—known as Maje. Antonio never even started the car: he was ambushed in the …#movies#culturepod#Explainer#freelance The Shocking True Story Behind Netflix’s A Widow’s Game