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Online editor at Contagious magazine.
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The End of Oak Street Isn’t So Dino-Mite

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The End of Oak Street may technically be an original movie, but I’m pretty sure the director of the film was clearly inspired by one of the most obscure properties imaginable: a late 1980s trading card set. A world where prehistoric beasts emerge from mysterious wormholes and begin eating suburbia alive? A good 35 years before The End of Oak Street, that was *precisely* the premise of the infamous Dinosaurs Attack! line from Topps.
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A Tribute To Screaming Mad George

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By James Swift Verified
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Screaming Mad George lived the American Dream. His name alone kinda signifies the uniqueness of his immigrant experience. When Joji Tani left Japan for the U.S., he rechristened himself as a triple tribute to what he perceived as the grand titans of American culture — shock rock pioneer Screaming Jay Hawkins, Mad Magazine and — presumably — a whole buncha guys named George.
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Remembering Hayden Panettiere: Forever My Cheerleader

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By James Swift Verified
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I was twelve years old when I first watched Hayden Panettiere’s character, Kirby Reed, flip horror trivia on its head in Scream 4. Her ability to convey such emotion in a scene that demanded nothing less stuck like flies to a trap in my mind, only these flies never died; it is safe to say I did not let them. Hayden Panettiere passed away on August 16, 2026. She was 36. I starkly remember my grandma sitting me down in her living room one night with the words, “You’re going to love this.
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