Reddit Said to Tap Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs for IPO
Social media platform Reddit, whose message boards became central to meme stock trading frenzy in 2021, is tapping Wall Street banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group for its initial…
14 Movies That Prove Not All January Releases Are Trash
January is Hollywood’s “dump month,” when studios release misfit movies that aren’t worthy of Summer blockbuster season and aren’t good enough for December’s award-eligibility season—movies that seemed like a good…
9 of Our Favorite Apps of 2021
Screenshot: Letterboxd For more than a decade, I’ve been tracking every book I read on Goodreads, and I have no idea why it took me so long to start doing…
30 ‘Beloved’ Movie Classics That Don’t Hold Up, According to Lifehacker Readers
The Goonies is the one ‘80s classic I never managed to see as a kid. By the time I watched it in college, it was too late: It’s ugly, shrill,…
19 of the Best Movies With the Worst ‘Uncanny Valley’ Effects
Screenshot: Alita: Battle Angel/20th Century Studios A movie doesn’t have to be a special effects extravaganza to be worth watching, but it seems like we’re increasingly uninterested in going to…
35 Movies That Scarred Us for Life As Kids, According to Lifehacker Readers
A decade or so ago I made the (poor) decision to rewatch this movie while under the influence. As my memories suggest, there’s not a great amount of difference between…
25 Movies That Could Never Be Made Today
Screenshot: The Last Samurai/Warner Bros. There’s been a sea change in the way Hollywood makes theatrical movies. COVID has altered the landscape in ways I’m not sure we can foresee,…
20 of the Best Ghost Movies of All Time
It’s surprising that, before 1944, ghost stories were hardly a presence at all in feature films, and were overwhelmingly played for laughs when they did appear. The Uninvited’s cool, serious…
18 Demonic Films to Stoke Your Satanic Panic
Screenshot: The Babadook/Causeway Pictures Demons can be a little hard to define, and sometimes in horror the term is used as a catch-all for anything that isn’t a ghost, werewolf,…
22 of the Best Un-Halloween Movies for When You Love Fall but Hate Horror
Screenshot: When Harry Met Sally/MGM Autumn’s here (on paper, anyway), and I, for one, have… mixed feelings. Milder weather is great and all, as are the forthcoming fall colors, but…