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Why The Blair Witch Project Ruled (And Its Imitators Sucked)
What the balls happened to this genre? How is it that the original 'Blair Witch' managed to remain the highest-grossing found footage film by a large margin?
- By David Christopher Bell
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- September 13, 2016
5 Movies That Were Filmed In Literally Unbelievable Ways
Let's take a moment to celebrate the projects that only got made because the filmmakers went a little crazy.
- By Raoni Lacerda, T.D. Woodward, Adam Koski, Mitch Anderson
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- September 11, 2016
5 Horror Subplots More Interesting Than The Movie They're In
The greatest horror protagonists are actually the actors in the background that we get only a glimpse of before we go back to the main story about unsafe summer camp conditions.
- By Daniel Dockery
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- September 10, 2016
5 WAY-Too-Common Movie Lines No Actual Human Has Ever Said
Characters in movies say things all the time that you and I don't say, because our lives aren't dictated by a script some coke-head wrote out on a napkin at Starbucks.
- By Felix Clay
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- September 09, 2016
5 Deeply Troubling Questions The Marvel Movies Don't Address
The MCU has avoided dealing with some of the inevitable life-changing implications of its stories.
- By Stephan Roget
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- September 06, 2016
6 'FUN FACTS' About Movies That Are Extremely Not Facts
The following pieces of trivia have been repeated so often that they've all been accepted as fact, even though in reality they're just as stupid
- By Adam Koski, Markos Hasiotis, Nathan Wadowski
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- September 04, 2016
6 Beloved Kids' Characters Who Received Baffling Reboots
While children need to learn that life isn't all baby-powered sunshine and rainbows, we're still pretty sure we could've done without these.
- By Isaac Cabe
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- September 04, 2016
Super Dark Deleted Scenes You Won't Believe Existed At All
Sometimes cutting scenes can save a movie from epic stupidity. And sometimes cutting scenes can save these films from plunging into a bottomless hole of sadness.
- By Carolyn Burke
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- September 02, 2016
5 Famous Sci-Fi Devices That Totally Ignore Actual Science
Just like in the real world, these fanciful Hollywood inventions would have terrible unforeseen consequences that would make living in a sci-fi universe a waking nightmare.
- By Tara Marie
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- September 02, 2016
JK Rowling Will Be The Next Disney (And It's All Our Fault)
She's really kind of a few steps away from becoming George Lucas too.
- By Amanda Mannen
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- August 31, 2016
7 Films With Symbolism You Didn't Notice (And Can't Unsee)
Some blockbusters have surprisingly rich layers of meaning hidden under all those one-liners and explosions.
- By JM McNab
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- August 29, 2016
5 Existential Dilemmas Behind Every Redneck Reality Show
The insanity of these shows deserve to be documented, so that our descendants can look back on us and figure out exactly where we failed them.
- By Daniel Dockery
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- August 27, 2016
6 Reasons Why Drive-In Theaters Are Never Coming Back
Drive-in theaters seem cool. But what went wrong with the whole automotive theater experience?
- By Evan V. Symon
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- August 27, 2016
6 Ways 'Sausage Party' Got Away With Screwing Its Artists
Whether they made a masterpiece or a turd, apparently 'Sausage Party' was done by treating the animators like trash.
- By Christina H
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- August 25, 2016
8 Inspirational Quotes (From History's Biggest Monsters)
Sometimes, history's most awful people say things that, taken alone and completely out of context, are super inspiring.
- By Adam Tod Brown
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- August 25, 2016
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