![]() ![]() ![]() Still, there are quality films to be found here, typically of the modern variety, from classics like Psycho, to comedies like The Babysitter, to more obscure (and disturbing) titles such as Creep, Apostle or newer films like His House and the Fear Street trilogy. All of those films are now gone-usually replaced by low-budget, direct-to-VOD films with suspiciously similar one-word titles, like Demonic, Desolate and Incarnate. At various points in the last year, for instance, Netflix could boast The Shining, Scream, Jaws, The Silence of the Lambs or Young Frankenstein, along with recent indie greats like The Witch, The Descent or The Babadook. As competing services, and especially genre-specific ones such as Shudder, continue to expand their horror movie collections, it’s harder and harder for Netflix to project any sense of comprehensiveness, and its library becomes more static and reliant upon Netflix Originals on a monthly basis. Assessing the quality of offerings available from Netflix in 2023, it quickly becomes clear that their horror library is a real mixed bag. ![]()
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Her talk, titled “Transforming the mindset in pursuing a transformative development agenda” was sponsored by the Permanent Missions of Austria and Pakistan at the United Nations in collaboration with the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination, U.N.-Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA).ĭweck’s research on “mindset" explores the beliefs that people have about the origins and changeability of their talents, intelligence and actions. ![]() ![]() Carol Dweck, PhD, professor of psychology at Stanford University and author of “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” spoke at the United Nations on Jan. ![]() ![]() The family moved about a great deal when she was young. ![]() Johanna Helen Howard was born on Main Germany, where her father, Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. But as passion runs high on their sea voyage, it becomes difficult to tell who is truly the captor and who is the captive. 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