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In his study of the unconscious Freud found that the ego distorts our view of ourselves and the world around us. People project their anxieties or shameful

These days, it feels like movie reboots and, more commonly, sequels are pretty much all we ever see in at the movie theater. Hollywood is so bereft of original ideas that a studio will just decide to take an idea that has proven successful and crap out additional iterations of what basically amounts to the same story over, and over, and over. Of course, some sequels are even more absurd than other

Lego is surely the most versatile, creative and ingenious toy ever created. It's incredible to think that a handful (or bucketful) of plastic bricks can give

Great television shows often raise a lot of questions as part of creating their own mythologies and plotlines, and we as an audience are rewarded with hopefully satisfying answers if we stick around long enough to find them out. Unfortunately in some cases, shows are canceled before they are given a chance to answer some of those intriguing questions, and in other cases, apparently the writers eit

As far back as our written history goes, there have been tales of evil creatures set on our destruction. But they frighten us more because of the internal evil

If you ever find yourself in the slammer in a Hollywood movie, you’d best establish whether you’re in a gritty reality piece or a prison break flick. That distinction will make the difference between toiling away for 50 years and peacing out in a 10 minute scene…

There are a lot of movies that we can fully understand might be banned for various reasons. Maybe there’s too much graphic violence, sex, gratuitous use of

The Lord of the Rings will go down as one of the greatest movie trilogies in history, and this year Peter Jackson’s follow-up trilogy The Hobbit will be coming to a close as well. The movies are tremendously detailed and, at least with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, incredibly faithful to the books. Obviously, there are some omissions and additions, but particularly with the extended editions, the

There’s nothing more beautiful than the innocence of childhood. Naturally, Hollywood is doing everything in their power to exploit the few positive memories

Spurred by the death of original thought, the comic book movie has become almost as popular as sequels and remakes in Hollywood. In recent years, through