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An Axios survey of college and graduate students found that 79% don’t use dating apps even once a month. Most of them said they’d rather meet a partner in person. Niche, community-driven platforms tell the same story from the other ...

Sick of Netflix throwing the dreaded proxy error? We just re-tested eight VPNs that cost less than $5 a month across 4K streams, speed labs, and big-screen apps. Three services rose above the rest: Surfshark, TorGuard, and PrivateVPN. Below you’ll ...

Casino movies have a special kind of electricity. A card turns over. A chip stack moves forward. A gambler smiles like they know something the room does not. Then the whole story starts tightening around one question. Is this confidence, ...

Movies like Molly’s Game and 21 show how real people found smart tricks and made millions of dollars. These stories are not made up. They are about real math experts and secret poker clubs. Today, you can easily play legal ...

For people outside the hobby, a prop gun and an airsoft gun can look nearly identical. Both are often modeled after real firearms, both can feature impressive detail, and both are commonly used in visual media. Yet once you move ...

Canadian film fans often remember the moment before a choice. A character pauses at a door, keeps a secret, misses a train, or places one last bet. That small beat can carry more weight than a loud final scene. This ...

We humans are indeed odd creatures; for example, we pay to sit in a dark room and scare ourselves with imaginary monsters on screen. Gore and scare elements may be prevalent in modern horror films, yet fundamental psychologies lie at ...

Cape Town’s film industry is moving into a new phase. For years, the city’s screen economy has been described through its landscapes: beaches, mountain roads, period streets, vineyards, and urban backdrops that can stand in for multiple countries. While this ...

Long before everyone carried a camera in their pocket, movies understood something powerful about photography: a photograph is never just an image. It can be evidence, obsession, memory, illusion, proof of love, or proof of guilt, writes Vanessa Rogers. Across some ...

The conversation surrounding cannabis in the UK has changed dramatically over the past decade. What was once treated almost entirely through political debate or counterculture stereotypes is increasingly being discussed through the lens of healthcare, wellbeing, creativity, and modern lifestyle ...

Enter a converted warehouse in Brooklyn or a strip-mall arcade in Austin in 2026, and you’ll find a familiar scene: glowing cabinets, the hum of old machines, and lots of youngsters who will never even imagine what arcades were originally. ...