Cracked Archive - Movies & TV

It turns out that some artists are just putting forth a certain sound with the instrument they have been given without any mastery or understanding of how it got there.

• By Gladstone
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• November 20, 2012

If there's one thing Hollywood loves more than a happy ending, it's a happy ending that accidentally screws over the hero.

• By Douglas A. McDonnell, Alex Race
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• November 19, 2012

It turns out that Batman has not just murdered several dudes over the years, but done so in gruesome ways that probably made his victims wish that he'd just shot them.

• By CRACKED Staff, Lucas White
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• November 17, 2012

With the final installment of the Twilight series out now, it seemed as good a time as any to get everyone up to speed on the franchise while doing the least amount of work possible.

• By Daniel O'Brien
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• November 16, 2012

Just like a broken watch, even the Internet is right every once in a while

• By M. Asher Cantrell, M.W.
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• November 13, 2012

Movie robots can think and love and perform amazing feats, and every kid wants one. Yet if they were built and sold by a real company, they'd be yanked from the market within minutes due to their glaring design oversights.

• By David Christopher Bell
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• November 09, 2012

Like in any job, accidents tend to happen when they're shooting a movie ... and sometimes those accidents turn out to be far better than what the director originally had in mind and are left in the film.

• By Sean Warhurst, Dennis Fulton
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• November 08, 2012

We may like to think of celebrities as a bunch of shallow dumbasses, but in a surprising number of cases (assuming that you find the number six surprising), some of our stupidest celebrities are like daytime TV versions of Verbal Kint.

• By Jack O'Brien
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• November 07, 2012

While studios continue to crank out one multiplex-filling cash grab after another, the rest of the world has been putting its own spin on them, quietly dipping those tired old cliches in pure liquid insanity.

• By Isaac Minarik
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• November 02, 2012

FYI: I tried my best to rank the universes' presentations of black characters from least to most favorable -- even if the ranking is more favorable to super duper favorable.

• By Gladstone
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• November 01, 2012

I've been doing this for a while now, long enough that I've noticed the few pop culture arguments that come up over and over and over again. And I'm getting pretty tired of them.

• By Daniel O'Brien
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• October 26, 2012

Even classic horror movies, the serious ones that actually have the power to frighten, tend to feature at least one or two unintentionally hilarious moments. Here are some of our favorites.

• By RiffTrax
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• October 23, 2012

TV is widely reviled as the dumbest medium. I can't argue with that. Here are 10 moments from the last few weeks or so that stand out as pillars of dumbness in a dumb wasteland.

• By Christina H
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• October 18, 2012

It turns out there are subtle ways that Hollywood has been enforcing wrongheaded ideas right under our noses, and sometimes in our favorite films.

• By J.F. Sargent
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• October 15, 2012

The decision to start a family can be one of the scariest, but also one of the most rewarding choices you will ever make. And for those of you who had no choice at all because you were inseminated by an alien mist while you were unconscious at the local fair a month ago, you'll be giving birth no matter what, so try to make the most of it.

• By Soren Bowie
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• October 10, 2012