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Stars: Leven Rambin, Jake McLaughlin, Dee Wallace, Shane West, Sohvi Rodriguez | Written and Directed by Marcos Efron

Opening with a quote from Carl Sagan, “For small creatures such as we, the vastness is made bearable only through love” Last Night on Earth then shows us a brief glimpse of a couple and their young son camping. The man seems troubled, the woman so obviously upset that the boy asks his father about it. “She’s just tired” he replies unconvincingly.

Nearby, Holly and Ryan are staying in a trailer. They seem happy, although there are hints to the contrary scattered through their conversations and actions. A flashback to a party only heightens the feeling.

Writer/director Marcos Efron teases the viewer, making it clear that something is very wrong with the world we are seeing, but not giving any clues as to what that is. And if you actually did...

In today’s TV news roundup, the CW announced premiere dates for upcoming dramas including “Walker” and “Batwoman” Season 2, and Bravo announced “The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s” return date.

Casting

CBS All Access announced that Lana Parrilla, B.K. Cannon, Jordane Christie, Matthew Daddario and Veronica Falcón have been cast in the second season of “Why Women Kill.” They join the previously announced Allison Tolman and Nick Frost in a brand new storyline for the anthological dark comedy, this time set in 1949 and exploring the lengths one woman will go to belong in a society that has long ignored her.

Nickelodeon announced that “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” will feature all-new members of the Midnight Society for its second season. The new characters and cast members are Luke (Bryce Gheisar), Jai (Arjun Athalye), Hanna (Beatrice Kitsos), Gabby (Malia Baker), Seth (Dominic Mariche) and Connor (Parker Queenan). The six-episode second...

The first global LGBTQ+ virtual cable TV network Revry is set to launch Oml on October 29. Oml on Revry is the first 24/7 live TV channel catering to queer womxn which includes those who identify as lesbian, bi, trans female, gender non-binary and queer.

The Oml on Revry channel highlights queer female or femxle stories in a truly “always on” environment and free of charge. This unprecedented move expands on the company’s early 2020 unveiling of its new queer-focused live, multi-channel platform–a niche twist on the growing emergence of free virtual cable TV networks such as Pluto TV, Peacock, and Xumo.

“I’m incredibly proud of the brand we’ve built and the relationships we’ve cultivated with the LGBTQ+ community for the last decade,” said Oml founder, Shirin Etessam. “What started as a portal to curate and share quality lesbian video content has become a powerful platform to launch,...

Our horror film, “Crazy Bitches,” was released on Valentine’s Day 2015. We invested in an online marketing campaign that resulted in two times the industry clickthrough rate and 2.6M social media impressions in the week leading up to the release. So, we had reason to expect a successful return.

What we didn’t count on was a reality more frightening than the movie. In the hours and days after it became available online, pirated copies spread like wildfire across platforms ranging from KickassTorrents to YouTube. We tried to take them down by filing Dmca notices, but when we clicked through a torrent site to find out where to send the notice, we were exposing our computer to viruses.

We finally found a takedown service and in the first week of release a total of 725 URLs were removed. Each one of these links was an invitation to thousands of potential viewers...