Pop Culture

Quick: think of one thing you've seen people/robots/mutants/aliens do in movies that you wish you could do. Perhaps you wished that you could fly, or breathe

Hollywood, it is commonly said, never has any original ideas. What people probably aren't aware of is that this has been true pretty much since the beginning of

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

A clever cameo won’t make or break a movie but it can be more than enough to get people talking. For example, Mel Gibson was originally set to have a cameo

We don’t ask a lot from our television sitcoms. Seriously, how else can you explain shows like According to Jim? One of the things we do ask for is a little

Of all the millions of species that have gone extinct since life first appeared on planet Earth, dinosaurs are the ones that tend to hold the most fascination

If you work in the media, you want everything you touch to be a hit. You want people to enjoy your work and support you financially (and did we mention our

Comic book movies are all the rage. Actually, Hollywood is so desperate to avoid original ideas they’re using pretty much any story the comic world can churn out… but even they can drag their heels from time to time…

Artists know how to express themselves better than anyone out there. You can look at a painting and know exactly what they were feeling when they created it.

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