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Bwoom-woob-woob-woob! How a Handful of Sound Effects Took Over Movie Trailers

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Bwooooom. That rumbling bass-drop noise isn’t in every movie trailer — Beauty and the Beast does just fine without it — but it sure seems like it. The trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2 uses the drop. So does the Power Rangers trailer. Even the trailer for the Holocaust drama The Zookeeper’s Wife can’t resist. The sound is so common in movie trailers that CinemaRaven, a video-production company, made a mocking supercut about the trope. Read More...

Drought, plague, fire: the apocalypse feels nigh. Yet we have tools to stop it | Art Cullen

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OpinionWildfires This article is more than 3 years oldDrought, plague, fire: the apocalypse feels nigh. Yet we have tools to stop itThis article is more than 3 years oldArt CullenIn climate change, the Four Horsemen have a perfect force of destruction. Maybe these fires and floods will be a wake-up call to stop stalling As the west coast burns into an orange hellscape you have to wonder if those preaching the end of time aren’t on to something. Read More...