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If you happened to have been a teen in the 90’s (the Beavis & Butthead age) it was certainly a “dope” time to be coming of age. If you were one of

One of the hardest things about writing fiction is coming up with interesting, fully developed side characters. After all, you can’t spend too much time on them because you don’t want to take the focus off of your primary protagonists and antagonists. Yet sometimes writers come up with supporting characters that are so rich and intriguing that, no matter how good the main characters are, we can’t

Popular music is primarily about showmanship, which in turn is partially about making a tremendous ass out of yourself. Whether they go with a bizarre costume

Bad-asses in movies can take many different shapes and forms. Comic book movies offer villains such as Magneto, Loki and Zod (to kneel before). Horror movies on the other hand generally feature invincible killers, creepy ghost children and brain eating zombies. But then there are movies that disregard all the supernatural crap and simply pit scared shitless people against Mother Nature’s nastiest

These days people probably don’t really even remember what a music album actually is, considering everything is done through MP3’s and downloaded online. But for the young kids out there, there used to be these things called CD’s and, even before that, cassette tapes and vinyl records. If you’re a young person and striving to be a hipster, chances are you’re familiar with vinyl even though you’re

In his study of the unconscious Freud found that the ego distorts our view of ourselves and the world around us. People project their anxieties or shameful

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

Kids shows tend to be annoying to everyone over the age of 10, usually because they’re all about teaching valuable life lessons you already knew. Also,

Back in the day, companies would sponsor things. Television and radio programs, athletes, pretty much anything to get their message across. But for some reason, when video games came along, they thought they could just cut out the middle man and do everything themselves.

Bigger budgets allow directors more freedom to explore their vision and bring stories to life. Alternatively, necessity breeds creativity. Here’s 6 directors who should have focused on the latter.