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Cracked Movie Club: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
John Hughes month continues on Cracked Movie Club!
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- By Alex Schmidt, Tom Reimann
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10 Revolutionary TV Shows That Almost Happened
Remember the LOST pilot?
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- By Carmen Angelica, Brett Rader, Alex Schmidt
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How Your Germs Control Your Politics (with David Wong)
Stop me if you've heard this one before: a charismatic populist leader rises to power by warning of immigrants who are are filthy and bring disease.
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- By Jason Pargin, Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut Book Club: Fates Worse Than Death
Following 1981's Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut wrote his last major stretch of novels.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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3 Scientific Reasons People Think They See Ghosts
Whether it's ghosts or the afterlife or god, most humans tend to lean towards thinking something funky and unknowable is out there, even if they can't pinpoint what it is or prove that it exists.
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- By Alex Schmidt
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Cracked Movie Club: Halloween
John Carpenter month continues on Cracked Movie Club!
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- By Alex Schmidt, Tom Reimann, Jason Pargin
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15 Myths & Urban Legends That Deserve Modern Horror Movies
Aside from a couple original standouts, horror movies seem to trot out the same 5 or 6 monsters/killers/haunted board games each year.
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- By Alex Schmidt, David Christopher Bell, Brett Rader
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17 Classic Movies That Were Saved By Studio Interference
In an alternate 1985, American movie audiences saw a movie called Spaceman From Pluto, wherein Eric Stoltz's time-traveling DeLorean is sent back to the 80s by driving straight into a nuclear explosion -- nuke the fridge style.
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- By Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut Book Club: Hocus Pocus
By 1990, Kurt Vonnegut had a pretty good grasp of what he was doing.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim
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Which City Is The Number 1 Movie Setting Of All-Time?
New York. Paris. Tokyo. Miami.
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- By Michael Swaim, Cher Martinetti, Brett Rader, Alex Schmidt, Daniel Dockery
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5 Ways Donald Trump's Lies Are Trying To Break Your Brain
Congratulations: you’ve survived several months of a Donald Trump presidency.
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- By Seanbaby, Alex Schmidt, Cody Johnston
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The Terrifying Truth About Why We Love Apocalypse Stories
From Mad Max to The Road to the illustrious career of Roland Emmerich, it's clear that the modern pop-culture consumer loves apocalypses.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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Vonnegut Book Club: Bluebeard
Have you ever been to a modern art museum and seen a piece that's just a couple splatters of paint on a blank canvas
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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15 Real Science Stories That Would Make Great Sci-Fi Movies
If you're a movie fan in 2017, you're hard pressed to find many original sci-fi films.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt, Brett Rader
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11 Graphic Novels That Should Be Turned Into Movies
Another summer in the books, another summer of somewhat pleasing comic book movies.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Michael Swaim, Randall Maynard
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The Astoundingly Complex Logistics Of How Food Gets Made
If car commercials, beer commercials and presidential stump speeches were the only entertainment you consumed, you'd probably be pretty bored.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Carmen Angelica
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I'm Not Telling You To Stop Watching NFL (But You Will)
Every society sets its own tolerance for sports brutality. And America might be nearing it for football.
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- By Alex Schmidt
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Galapagos: Vonnegut's Study Of Evolution And The Afterlife
Kurt Vonnegut's 1985 novel Galapagos is a day after tomorrow story of the world ending, but also not ending, told from one million years in the future.
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- By Michael Swaim, Alex Schmidt
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How Our Favorite Twitter Alien Is Handling This Bizarre Year
Jonny Sun is Twitter-famous.
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- By Alex Schmidt, Daniel O'Brien
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Cracked Movie Club: Interstellar
Christopher Nolan month continues on Cracked Movie Club!
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- By Alex Schmidt, Tom Reimann, Abe Epperson
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