Handling the Undead Is the Most Somber Zombie Movie You’ll Ever See

Earlier in io9’s 2024 Sundance Film Festival coverage, we reviewed In a Violent Nature, one of the most unconventional slasher movies ever made. That theme continues with Handling the Undead—a most unusual zombie movie, and one that offers proof (yet again) that the genre still has the ability to innovate. Does Mali Elfman Believe in … Read more

Pope’s patriarch observes somber Christmas Eve in Bethlehem

December 24, 2023 at 5:54 p.m. EST The Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, as he arrives at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem West Bank, on, Sunday, Dec. 24. (Heidi Levine/for The Washington Post)Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BETHLEHEM, West Bank — On Christmas … Read more

Somber Bells Mark Armistice Day Across Globe, Wars Rage On

YPRES, Belgium — With somber bugles and bells from Australia to western Europe’s battlefields of World War I, people around the globe on Saturday remembered the slaughter and losses just over a century ago that was supposed to be “the war to end all wars.” Yet the rumble of tanks and the screeching of incoming … Read more