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Kevin Bacon achieved cult success with 1990's Tremors, but he also starred in another film that somehow didn't achieve the same lasting success, despite being one of his strongest performances. That film is Stir of Echoes (1999), an unjustly ignored supernatural thriller adapted from a novel by by Richard Matheson. It had the misfortune to hit theaters the same year as The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project.

Now Bacon is reuniting with Stir of Echoes writer and director David Koepp in You Should Have Left, a forthcoming psychological horror film from Universal, co-produced by Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions. The official trailer just dropped, and we're getting some strong The Others meets The Shining vibes from this tale of a haunted house that doesn't want to let its occupants leave, which bodes well for the final film.

The film is adapted from a 2017 German novella of the same name by bestselling author Daniel Kehlman. It's written in the first-person style of a diary belonging to an unnamed screenwriter attempting to write a sequel to an earlier hit film. With the studio pressuring him for a draft, he rents a house and takes his wife—an aging actress for whom work is becoming scarce—and four-year-old daughter on a long vacation in hopes of finishing the script.

Kevin Bacon achieved cult success with 1990's Tremors, but he also starred in another film that somehow didn't achieve the same lasting success, despite being one of his strongest performances. That film is Stir of Echoes (1999), an unjustly ignored supernatural thriller adapted from a novel by by Richard Matheson. It had the misfortune to hit theaters the same year as The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project.

Now Bacon is reuniting with Stir of Echoes writer and director David Koepp in You Should Have Left, a forthcoming psychological horror film from Universal, co-produced by Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions. The official trailer just dropped, and we're getting some strong The Others meets The Shining vibes from this tale of a haunted house that doesn't want to let its occupants leave, which bodes well for the final film.

The film is adapted from a 2017 German novella of the same name by bestselling author Daniel Kehlman. It's written in the first-person style of a diary belonging to an unnamed screenwriter attempting to write a sequel to an earlier hit film. With the studio pressuring him for a draft, he rents a house and takes his wife—an aging actress for whom work is becoming scarce—and four-year-old daughter on a long vacation in hopes of finishing the script.

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  The Motorola Fusion+. [credit: Motorola ]

Pop-up camera phones aren't dead yet. After the release of the Motorola One Hyper, Motorola's next pop-up camera phone is the dramatically-named Motorola One Fusion+.

For specs, you have a 6.5-inch LCD. Thanks to the pop-up camera, the LCD has a glorious blemish-free design, with no camera holes or notches. There's a 2.2 GHz Snapdragon 730, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and a 5000mAh battery. The body is actually plastic, instead of the usual glass. There's a headphone jack, a rear capacitive fingerprint reader, a USB-C port, and a Micro SD slot. The pop-up camera is 16MP, and you get four rear cameras: a 64MP main, 8MP wide-angle, 5MP Macro, and a 2MP depth camera.

As we've seen with so many Motorola phones, the company must have something against NFC in 2020. This phone doesn't have it, and neither do the Moto G Fast, G Power, G Stylus, and Moto E. To get NFC on a Motorola phone, you've got to spend at least as much as the One Hyper, which is $400.

Enlarge / Dreaming of finding buried treasure? Someone just solved a ten-year treasure hunt. (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Ten years ago, an antiquities dealer named Forrest Fenn buried a treasure chest filled with gold, rubies, emeralds, and diamonds somewhere in the Rocky Mountains. He hid the clues to its location in a poem that is part of his 2010 self-published memoir, The Thrill of the Chase. Over 350,000 people have tried and failed to find it over the last decade, and now one of them has finally succeeded. The man who found the treasure—a cache estimated to be worth over $1 million—sent confirmation of his discovery to Fenn with a photograph of the chest.

"It was under a canopy of stars in the lush, forested vegetation of the Rocky Mountains and had not moved from the spot where I hid it more than ten years ago," Fenn wrote on his website. "I do not know the person who found it, but the poem in my book led him to the precise spot." He told the Santa Fe New Mexican that the man who found the treasure declined to be named publicly but hailed from "back east."

Fenn claimed he set up the hunt to inspire people to explore nature by giving them a "good old-fashioned adventure." It was also a way to offer hope to those deeply affected by the Great Recession that followed the collapse of the housing market in 2008.

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Not all 51 mini-games inside of Clubhouse Games, the latest first-party Nintendo game for Switch, are worth recommending. But if you like the idea of old, public-domain board and card games on Nintendo Switch in polished, easy-to-play format, a majority of them are.

The series, which last appeared on Nintendo DS in 2006, revolves around digital translations of timeless tabletop games. A list of the included games does a lot to narrow the usual "who is this for" conversation. I'll start by listing everything in this package that I'd recommend as a good two- or four-player game for a diverse audience of ages and experience levels:

Air Hockey	Backgammon
Battle Tanks / Team Tanks	Bowling
Carrom	Chess
Chinese Checkers	Darts
Dominoes *	Hanafuda *
Hex	Mancala
Nine Men's Morris	Renegade (Othello)
Shogi / Mini Shogi	Six-Ball Puzzle
Slot Cars	Toy Boxing
Toy Curling	Toy Soccer

The above list is specific to mini-games that impress as digital translations. There's an additional selection of good-enough games that are, with some exceptions, ideal for children sharing a Nintendo Switch during a long trip:

Checkers	Dots and Boxes
Fishing	Four-in-a-Row (Connect Four)
Gomoku	Hare and Hounds
Last Card (Uno) *	Matching
President *	Sevens *
Shooting Gallery	Sliding Puzzle
Solitaire (Mahjong, Klondike, Spider)	Speed (card game)
Yacht Dice (Yahtzee)

In all, that's 35 good-enough games (with some grouped together as similar variants) in a $40 package. The asterisks in those lists indicate which games require more than one Switch console to work in versus mode, but thanks to a clever "guest pass" system, they only require one paid copy of the game. (Solitaire isn't marked because it's inherently single-player.) Even with that issue, that's 30 decent classics for a single Switch console, and they all benefit from repeat-play scrutiny, robust production values, and family-friendly explanations for kids and newcomers. (They also save you the trouble of packing cards, dice, and other easy-to-lose pieces.)