indeed, conquer the existential dread of aging, but not without ruining a marriage, breaking a lot of expensive furniture, and pulverizing her own eyes and face while duking it out with a demon in the process.

It is inherently reductive and unnecessary to try to contain movies into rigid genres, but for all intents and purposes, Opening Night is a horror film. In the way that its title sequence magnifies the mundane cheers of an audience into a violently furious sound, it takes our reality and presents the concurrent darkness within like the truth-driven horror films such as Get Out. In the way that it drapes Gena Rowlands in long, black, specter-like capes and collars—and the primal world around her colored in bright, bloody reds—it turns a funhouse mirrorThe young and the old are equally the victims of a slow and slowing economy, according to Ronald Brownstein in National Journal.

Recent college graduates are frustrated by their apparent inability to enter the workforce. Members of the class of 2011 will face unemployment rates of roughly 17% among their peers.

Brownstein writes that the problem for new graduates will compound itself year-over-year, as 2011 graduates now have to compete with 2010, 2009, and 2008 graduates, and next year's graduates will have to compete with job-seekers who left school in 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, etc.

Obversely, senior citizens who thought they would be able to begin retiring around now are having difficulty leaving the labor force, with their post-retirement financial security increasingly in jeopardy.

From the National Journal:

"Together, these twin trends have