Movies & TV
6 Insane (But Convincing) Theories on Children's Pop Culture
It turns out that many well-adjusted, serious academics really are spending their free time running around and ruining the stuff we loved as kids with their brains. Unfortunatelier, when you actually hear their arguments, you almost want to agree with them.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Real Places Plucked Straight Out of Fairy Tales
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- By Jacopo della Quercia
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The 6 Most Counterproductive PSAs of All Time
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- By Elsa Moriarty
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6 Painful Things Nobody Tells You About Fighting
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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A ROUNDUP OF INTERVIEWS, DEEP DIVES, & TRIVIA
'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' In Under 5 Minutes
DAVID FINCHER: I don't know if you guys have seen the box office, but you may want to hold on to that money if you're planning on getting me to direct the other two books.
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- By The Editing Room
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6 Absurd Movie Scenes (That Actually Happened)
It's almost as if someone saw a movie and said, 'Hey, let's do that, too.'
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- By Karl Smallwood, Mohammed Shariff, Drew Miller
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6 Fictional Places You Didn't Know Actually Existed
Part of what makes fantasy and sci-fi appealing is that it's not just a bunch of characters -- it's a whole world. One you want to live in. And while that's not possible, you can come pretty close, because it turns out a lot of these fantasy settings were based on real places.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , David Christopher Bell
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5 Badass Movie Heroes (Who Were Actually Just Really Lucky)
Even a hero who is specifically described as 'down on his luck' will routinely defeat the overwhelming odds thanks to a long list of coincidences falling his way.
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- By Steve Hanley, Jake Ferretti
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5 Ridiculous Origins of Movie Sound Effects
All of this stuff has to be created from scratch, usually by just one or two people. And usually, the high-tech sounds are created by whatever random crap they have nearby.
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- By Oliver Kealey
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6 Insane Batman Villains You Won't See in the Movies
We all know that sooner or later, the Batman movies are going to run out of interesting villains to feature and will be forced to start scraping closer to the bottom of the barrel. Whoever they end up choosing, we hope it's not any of these guys.
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- By Sean Warhurst
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6 Horrible Aftermaths Implied By Movies With Happy Endings
It's amazing how you can ruin a movie's perfectly happy ending with a little bit of analysis.
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- By Jacopo della Quercia , Chris Radomile
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8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (from the Bible)
More than just occasionally, people in the bible are killed in ways so innovative and gruesome that they could've been filmed as a scene in a slasher movie. And, as we'll show you, some have done exactly that.
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- By Matt Cramer
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5 Characters Who Totally Missed the Moral of Their Own Movie
It's so weird when, on occasion, the good guys of the film seem to let the obvious moral that they themselves helped establish whiff by them as they do EXACTLY what they just taught us to never do.
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- By David Christopher Bell
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The Only 4 Christmas Movies Ever Made (Over and Over Again)
Those holiday classics we'll all be watching today? Paint by numbers.
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- By Matt Gallagher
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