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Nothing is worse than defending your favorite franchise, trying to convince someone about the philosophical underpinnings and subtlety that make it great… only to have a ridiculous aspect, or entire race, thrown right in your face.

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

The life of a rock star is idolized, romanticized and, due to its unattainable nature for many of us tone-deaf ugly common folks, ripe for embellishment and

We love sports. We love sports so much, we make movies about sports. We love sports so much, we’ve used up all the good plots for sports movies. These are the rest.

Sometimes, when you hear a cover version of an iconic song, you have to shout, What on Earth were they thinking? It’s all a matter of taste of course, but few

Broadway continues to be the last refuge of the musical. Once a driving force in entertainment, musicals have lately been all but extinguished in the cinema. On

The movie sequel is a fickle business. Studios love them because they honor the time tested tradition of doing successful thing over and over again regardless

With summer coming up, we’re about to see an influx of superhero movies, as the likes of Captain America and Spider-Man have become the biggest box office draws among summer blockbusters these days. Of course, that wasn’t always the case. In fact it wasn’t all that long ago when comic book movies were box office poison, with a rare exception like Tim Burton’s Batman back in 1989. But just because

Just like a novel or a story, every film sends a powerful message to the public. The message is often quite clear, although there are times when you need to brood upon the movie for a while in order to get it completely. However, as films include an incredible number of details, there is so much more to them than just the plot and message. Namely, some theorists observe every single detail, trying

“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness”. Who according to you is the ugliest musician/band ever to walk the planet and why? We conducted a