Did you know Tim Burton had plans to do a sequel to Beetlejuice called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian? I know, it sounds like a joke your stoned roommate came up with after overdosing on pineapple, but I assure you it’s the truth. After the success of Beetlejuice, which was, let’s face it, SHEER UNADULTERATED GENIUS, studio execs asked Read more...

Class, today we examine the North American birder. An elusive lot, they can mostly be found in their natural habitat of marshy wetlands, stalking through the cattails in their khaki ensembles like watchful cats. Note the two-pound binoculars around their necks, the guidebooks peeking out of their trouser pockets, and their comically-large sunhats.

Released 2 weeks ago in theaters, on March 9th, 2012, Silent House stars Elizabeth Olsen as Sarah, a young woman trapped in her home. While Sarah is helping her father move, a group  of cold-hearted perpetrators invade their summer house. While these menacing criminals have taken her father hostage, Sarah runs throughout the house, desperately Read more...

Hold onto your space helmets, kids. We’ve got exactly 50 years until 2062, when the world will morph into an animated scenescape of space-age aesthetics and conveniences. 100 years will have passed since the debut of the animated show, The Jetson’s—Hanna Barbera’s futuristic yin to The Flintstone’s yang—and life as we know it will be Read more...

There are a lot of theories about The Smurfs – that they’re all in some elaborate polyamorous relationship, that they’re cult members, that they’re scripted to brainwash children into conformity. But the most prevailing idea is they’re a bunch of Communists.

Ben Berg from Montesano, Washington has been getting a lot of media attention lately for his eBay auction of particular pop culture significance involving Pacific Northwest seminal sludge-metal act the Melvins and Kurt Cobain of Nirvana fame – The Melvan. “What is the Melvan?” What makes this beast worth $90,000 and counting? The Melvan just Read more...

Back in the olden days of the 80’s and 90’s, we had to make fart noises ourselves and let me tell you, it was HARD WORK. Blowing into our hands, our cheeks puffed up like chipmunks with gland problems, we let those raspberries rip all in the name of art. For what would an aspiring Read more...

“And who am I? That’s a secret I’ll never tell, you know you love me, xoxo Gossip Girl.” We know who you are! You’re Kristen Bell! The one who cries when she sees sloths! Oh Gossip Girl. My guiltiest pleasure. What is it about that show that makes otherwise rational grownups silence their cell phones Read more...

So it’s all done. The glitz, the glamour, the countless tears of publicists and assistants working themselves into a frenzy for the chance to make an impression on the world’s most famous red carpet, it’s all over. What’s left is the same feeling we seem to experience more and more with the Oscars: irritation, regret, Read more...