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Forever chemicals, or PFAS, have been discovered in beers brewed across the U.S., with the highest levels found in regions where local water supplies are known to be contaminated. A new study reveals that nearly all tested beers contained PFAS. Credit: Stock Researchers found PFAS in 95% of tested beers, with the highest levels linked to contaminated local water sources. …

ROSELAND, La. — Tyreik Taylor had barely wiped the oil from his hands when the sky behind him lit up.  Fifteen minutes after the 26-year-old drove home, a roar thundered from the plant where he helped mix chemicals for motor oil and had just punched out. Fire consumed the air, the collapsing metal groaning and liquids hissing as they escaped …

Macon Blair has had a charmed run since 2013’s Cannes Film Festival.  That’s when he and childhood best friend Jeremy Saulnier turned heads with their micro-budget revenge thriller, Blue Ruin. In 2015, Saulnier directed Blair in yet another critically acclaimed thriller known as Green Room. The following year, Blair moved into the director’s chair on I Don’t Feel at Home …

There’s a new movie called “The Toxic Avenger” in theaters. Somehow, that might be a problem for its built-in audience.  This movie, which follows a sickly janitor who transforms into a mutant vigilante, is more of a tribute than a remake of the proudly crass 1984 superhero comedy of the same name. That earlier movie has become synonymous with the …

Nothing makes me feel older than the inescapable, soul-crushing passage of time, which waits for no one and marches ever forward, towards — without any exceptions — our lonely deaths. But coming in second I would say it’s probably Troma, the little independent movie studio that could. And what it could do, was sleaze. Cheap, scuzzy, prurient sleaze with, somehow, …

Paralvinella hessleri accumulates microscopic particles of arsenic on its outer skin, which reacts with sulfide to form a microscopic armour of yellow orpiment.Credit: Wang et al./PLoS Biol (CC BY 4.0) A bright-yellow worm that lives in deep-sea hydrothermal vents is the first known animal to create orpiment, a brilliant but toxic mineral used by artists from antiquity until the nineteenth …

An out-there marketing campaign can do wonders for a horror movie, but Cineverse is forgoing anymore stunts to advertise The Toxic Avenger in favor of spending the rest of their budget on something more important, and closer to home, than radioactive justice.  In Macon Blair’s long-awaited Troma reboot The Toxic Avenger, Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a downtrodden janitor …

A doctor has revealed the five ‘toxic’ health habits that everyone must stop doing immediately – especially young people. The information was shared in a new video posted to TikTok this week by New York City-based cardiologist, Dr. Evan Levine. Dr. Levine often takes to his TikTok account to share his expert tips and advice. This time was no different, as …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Devon Walker has announced his departure from “Saturday Night Live.” The comic, who had appeared on the show for three seasons, posted a series of photos on Instagram with the news. “To me, jobs in this industry feel like a bunch of little marriages. Some of em last for a long time if we’re lucky, but …

The Toxic Avenger, a semi-reboot of the 1984 superhero splatter-fest, made the rounds of the festival circuit back in 2023. But all the violence and gore scared off most distributors, so the film—starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the title role—has been languishing in the vault for much of the last two years. Thanks to Cineverse, The Toxic Avenger …