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Megan Thee Stallion and Cordae are among the music stars lending their name and faces to a new collaboration between Japanese streetwear brand Bape and American luxury house Coach.

In a collaboration of fashion juggernauts, the two brands have banded together to create a genre-blending clothing collection that includes high-end shirts, hoodies, bags, and footwear in limited-edition patterns and pieces. Megan teased the collaboration on her Instagram earlier this month, posing in a matching Bape x Coach outfit with her dogs.

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It’s a tricky road to navigate: Keeping an audience interested throughout an intentionally mundane film that’s nothing except a flat measured pace to a dramatic conclusion. Slow builds are usually a nice thing, but too slow, especially when that’s 95% of your short movie, and a director risks losing the viewer’s interest. Plus, for those who put the time in waiting to see the conclusion, well, that ending had better be a good one.

Christopher Werner’s The Neighbors chronicles an average suburban dinner get together between two couples, Heather (Sandy Kim) & Patrick (Bernhard Forcher) and Amber (Taryn Matusik) & Matthew (Robert Grant). There’s nothing extraordinary about them, other than Heather and Patrick living in a spacious McMansion. The extended dialogue-free opening credits sequence shows each of them getting ready, putting on clothes, cooking the meal, etc.

It’s a long opening with not much happening. All...