Michelle Rodriguez didn’t think her character in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves was funny. But when the fantasy adventure screened at SXSW, the audience clearly disagreed.

“I'm like, ‘They're laughing. They must think Holga is funny,’” Rodriguez tells Inverse in a Zoom interview. “I wasn't really trying to be funny. It was funny because I wasn't trying to be funny.”

Inverse spoke to Rodriguez about stretching her comedy chops, Honor Among Thieves’ astonishing use of animatronics, and how many protein shakes she had to down to pull off her ax-wielding fight scenes.

Inverse spoke to two acclaimed filmmakers and several sound editors to understand how the sound of The Birds influenced everything from the modern "quiet horror" movement to the Coen Brothers to Todd Field’s singular character study Tár.

As residents of East Palestine, Ohio continue to grapple with the aftermath of a toxic chemical spill following the Norfolk Southern train derailment in February, another environmental disaster is unfolding about 400 miles east.

Late Friday, March 24, officials in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, warned of an accidental spill from a chemical plant. An estimated 8,100 gallons of latex emulsion solution — which is used to make a variety of adhesives and plastic products — trickled from Otter Creek into the Delaware River.

Officials and residents in nearby communities (including the 1.5 million people living in Philadelphia) are rightfully concerned about the impacts that this spill will have on human health and the environment. Here’s what we know so far, and why chemical disasters seem so common these days.