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In a handwritten list from the 1660s, Robert Boyle made a number of guesses about what the future would hold including "the cure of diseases at a distance

Though Jennifer Hudson came in seventh place on American Idol, her performances on the show caught the attention of the Dreamgirls casting directors, who invited her to audition for Effie White. She won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, and a Critics' Choice Movie Awards for Best Supporting Actress for the role.

An R-rated horror movie might be expected to pull out all the stops in the shock department, but even the most horrific films have to rein it in sometimes.

On the 40th anniversary of its release, JOE is arguing that the 1983 movie The Dead Zone is the best Stephen King adaptation.

The 1970s gave rise to an audacious evolution in filmmaking, with blaxploitation emerging as a mode of storytelling that met its cultural moment.

Looking for a scary flick that will get your heart racing and haunt your dreams? These movies are scientifically proven to do that – at least the first part.

The Science of Scare Project strapped heart-rate monitors to 250 test subjects and measured which horror films impacted their heart rate in two important ways.

Looking for a scary flick that will get your heart racing and haunt your dreams? These movies are scientifically proven to do that – at least the first part.

Looking for a scary flick that will get your heart racing and haunt your dreams? These movies are scientifically proven to do that – at least the first part.

Looking for a scary flick that will get your heart racing and haunt your dreams? These movies are scientifically proven to do that – at least the first part.