Pop Culture

Anyone who has ever attended a major university with an art program knows that those wacky art students can be a strange bunch. While the rest of us are

TV comedies have always dared to go where other TV shows fear to tread. They challenge convention in the search for bigger laughs and in doing so can make a

Take a trip to the underbelly of Eternia as we review the most twisted ancillary characters from everyone’s favorite 80’s cartoon.

Sometimes a movie or television character is able to transcend the screen and become a part of pop culture history, thanks in part to the part being well written but also, more importantly, by casting directors knocking it out of the park and finding the perfect actor to bring the character to life. Of course when a film or show is being cast, there are many actors considered for the parts, and we

You may have heard that there’s some little, small-budget film called The Force Awakens coming out soon. The highly anticipated follow up to the original Star Wars trilogy has people buzzing all over the internet, as they look for any clues and hints about what the newest installment has to offer, while crossing their fingers it won’t be nearly the letdown The Phantom Menace was.

Lazy writers (we’re looking at you, Law and Order franchise) have been using true crimes that were “ripped from the headlines” as entertainment fodder for years. Sometimes, however, the process goes the other way…

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

We get a certain pleasure from the basic movie formula, where our main character meets adversity or intrigue, struggles against it, and eventually overcomes that problem, hopefully a little wiser. But that enjoyment can be shortlived when you realize there never should have been a problem in the first place…

Thanks to computers, Hollywood effects are making giant leaps forward in terms of fooling audiences. The problem with being on the cutting edge is that a couple of months and a few million dollars can be the difference between your effect blowing minds or just blowing.

Ever since the radio star lost a tense standoff with video, we’ve been forced to endure countless crummy music videos revolving around a couple of tired