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Lucy Liu's groundbreaking horror movie Presence makes its streaming debut on Hulu this week. Director Steven Soderbergh's box office hit shatters genre expectations by using a first-person Pov in its depiction of a haunting.

Presence is one of several horror movies coming to Hulu this week and will premiere on the streaming service on Tuesday, June 3. The project reunites Soderbergh with screenwriter David Koepp following their collaboration on the 2022 thriller Kimi. Presence was made in complete secrecy and not announced until a month before its worldwide premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024.

Presence Debuts on Hulu on Tuesday

Soderbergh's unsettling movie uses a first-person perspective in its chilling story of a family convinced there is an otherworldly presence in their new home. Parents Rebekah and Chris Payne (Liu and Chris Sullivan) must protect their children from forces beyond their understanding as nightmarish events unfold in their supposed dream home.

Based on Soderbergh’s personal experiences, ‘Presence’ promises a unique and immersive ghost story that explores the intricacies of the human psyche. Ghost stories have always intrigued humanity. Whether it is an urban legend such as La Llorona that terrifies children across all throughout the entire Mexican country or the deified spirits that were the Cihuateteo in Aztec Mythology. Every culture in human history had its belief in some sort of afterlife, and therefore, its belief in those who were not able to go to the afterlife being stuck in our realm to the end of times. From the famed ‘Ghostbusters’ franchise to the classic horror film ‘The Shining’. The ghost genre has seen many interpretations and evolutions across the years. Yet, as the genre rose in popularity, the plots and storylines began to feel somewhat repetitive and “cliché”, with a slight few sliding away from the established norm. Starring Lucy Liu as Rebekah Payne,...

The Mail on Sunday newspaper reports that Top Gear, in all likelihood, will not return to screens following a near-fatal crash involving one of its star presenters, Freddie Flintoff. Following the show being put “on hold” in March, the paper claims that the hit show’s production team has been dismantled.

This follows the departure of two key senior creatives from the team – editorial director Clare Pizey and development producer Chris Payne.

The newspaper reports that BBC sources have confirmed there are no plans to develop a fresh series, and plans to broadcast the most recent series 34 have been shelved.

Former England cricketing hero Flintoff received serious injuries to his face and ribs in a car accident back in December 2022. Although Flintoff returned to public life a fortnight ago – photographed practising with the English cricket team – his injuries remained visible, and questions about the BBC’s liability for the accident...

San Francisco, Aug 18 (Ians) Elon Musk-run Tesla did not fix the Autopilot system after a fatal crash in the US in 2016 that killed a driver, the electric car-maker’s engineers have reportedly admitted in their testimonies.

According to Bloomberg, the engineers admitted this in a testimony in 2021 in a family’s lawsuit over a similar 2019 fatal Tesla collision that is now headed for a trial in the US.

Despite the company’s knowledge “that there’s cross traffic or potential for cross traffic, the Autopilot at the time was not designed to detect that,” according to the testimony given in 2021 by company engineer Chris Payne that was excerpted in a recent court filing.

Engineer Nicklas Gustafsson provided a similar account in a 2021 deposition.

“The electric-car maker didn’t make any changes to its driver-assistance technology to account for crossing traffic in the nearly three years between two high-profile accidents...