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Carmageddon is a graphically violent vehicular combat 1997 PC video game. It was later ported to other platforms, and spawned a series of follow-up titles. It was inspired by the 1975 cult classic movie Death Race 2000. The game was produced by Stainless...

5/12/2021 Mélanie Laurent plays an amnesiac who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with a countdown on her life in Alexandre Ajas lean Netflix sci-fi survival thriller. Since the shock and gore of his 2003 breakout  High Tension ushered him into the Splat Pack, Alexandre Aja has taken an entertaining detour with rip-roaring excursions into creature horror, in the self-explanatory Piranha 3D and the gators-in-a-hurricane disaster movie, Crawl. The French genre specialist abandons that gleefully sc...

Like Beige and Lilac A sheep rests in a field of lilac flowers.Credit...Carsten Rehder/picture alliance via Getty Images By Isaac Aronow Feb. 24, 2021 THURSDAY PUZZLE — I hope it comes as no surprise that I, the writer of a column about crossword puzzles, have many niche interests. With that in mind, this puzzle scratched a number of itches for me: Obscure car models and makers, quirks of citations, cartographic lingo and card games are all present in this grid. Dylan Schiff offers us a stron...