Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

Why do formerly great directors decline into shit? The answers are probably a lot more simple than we think.

• By Daniel Dockery
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• January 08, 2015

The people making trailers actually have really good reasons for making everything so painfully repetitive.

• By J.F. Sargent
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• January 06, 2015

Next time you're traveling overseas, you might be compared to the people in these movies.

• By C. Coville
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• January 03, 2015

There are matters of psychology and shit at work.

• By Felix Clay
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• January 03, 2015

Sequels fail nearly as often as they're greenlit, which explains why I was surprised to find that some of TVs most iconic shows were given sequels that should never have been made.

• By Luis Prada
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• December 30, 2014

Get ready for the saddest part of your day, whole Internet.

• By Daniel Dockery
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• December 28, 2014

I realized that the very movies I religiously watch every year during the holidays are actually kind of messed up.

• By Cher Martinetti
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• December 24, 2014

You know the drill -- spoiler alert and all that.

• By Gladstone
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• December 21, 2014

Christmas is here, and that means it's time to watch some terrible movies!

• By Adam Tod Brown
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• December 19, 2014

Translating titles isn't as easy as it looks, and sometimes the results are hilariously amazing.

• By Micky McMichaelson
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• December 19, 2014

The following are rare examples of series that would eventually turn great but that started off as pathetic experiments.

• By Daniel Dockery
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• December 18, 2014

Allowing for some imaginary commercial breaks where my brain hawked products I don't use, I sat in front of my screen for 24 hours, because that couldn't possibly be a terrible idea.

• By Jason Iannone
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• December 18, 2014

Not everything Hollywood shows you is a lie.

• By Blair Dodge, Carolyn Burke, Jordan Rudow
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• December 17, 2014

You might call it irony, but I prefer to think of it as 'secret method acting.'

• By Daniel Dockery
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• December 13, 2014

Here are my synopses of Marvel's movies up to the year 2019 ... because that's when the Large Hadron Collider kills ev- I've said too much. Ignore that. Let's get started, True Believer!

• By Maxwell Yezpitelok
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• December 11, 2014