Pop Culture

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

We are truly approaching a golden age. Not because of things like cancer treatments or drought resistant crops, but because soon we may be able to possess Star Wars stuff that extends beyond bedsheets and toys…

Despite what Charles Barkley wants you to believe, athletes really are role models. They might not want to be, but they really are. These are the people we

Artists have a reputation for being weird. Maybe it’s the price they pay for being so incredibly talented, although that doesn’t explain all those art

Franchises have incredible power in pop culture. They carry TV shows, book series, movies, and make the creator a lot of money. But even the biggest franchise

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

The problem with the level of worship people show for celebrities is that when they inevitably reveal that they are just regular people by, say, dying… some of their fans just can’t handle it.

The most interesting heroes in films are often relatively flawed and make their fair share of mistakes. Much like in real life (where lightsabres and AT-AT’s

“Behind every great fortune there is a great crime” – attributed to Honoré de Balzac America has long been a storied place of opportunity, where the

Being a child star is not easy. You’re almost never afforded a real, legitimate childhood, and in far too many cases it’s later discovered you’ve been forced into a job you hate by overbearing parents who just want to make as much money off of you as possible. Just ask Macauley Culkin about that one. And then, as soon as you start to grow up and you’re no longer cute, people just toss you aside an