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Apple Podcasts – Top New Shows

By The Associated Press

Top New Shows (US)

1. Hey Jonas!, iHeartPodcasts

2. Brand Safe, Tana Mongeau

3. Hang Out with Sean Hannity, Fox News Media

4. What to Carry, What to Burn, Blair Braverman

5. Bill and Giuliana: The Podcast, iHeartPodcasts

6. Kingdom of Fraud, iHeart True Crime

7. The Lindbergh Conspiracies, The Free Press

8. Paper Trail, ProPublica

9. He Said, G Said, And Love Media

10. Bad Chat with Greg James and Alice Levine, Persephonica

Movie Review: ‘Backrooms’ goes from internet meme to the big screen

By The Associated Press
What evil lurks in the drabbest of interiors? The meme-rooted “Backrooms” is the latest movie to pull its mounting horrors out of liminal spaces. “Exit 8,” released earlier this year, was set entirely in a subway corridor. In “Backrooms,” a struggling furniture salesperson discovers beneath his store an underground labyrinth, all lined with yellow wallpapered walls and fluorescent lighting. Where “Backrooms” came from is more interesting — and potentially meaningful — than the result. The movie, directed by 20-year-old YouTuber-turned-filmmaker Kane Parsons, is a fitfully unsettling nightmare that never convincingly builds beyond its creepy, dated-decor premise. But the “Backrooms” backstory is more intriguing. In 2019, an anonymous post on 4chan creepypasta — an online repository for internet-created urban legends — provided the initial image of the seemingly infinite Backrooms with a caption describing “nothing but the stink of old moist carpet, the madness of mono-yellow, the endless background noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz.”
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