Pop Culture

Everyone loves a good old fashioned scandal. Add in a little bit of sex just to spice things up, and it’s ratings heaven for journalists, and can also help boost the public profiles of the people involved. Sometimes those involved are submitted to public shame, while others use their new notoriety to slingshot themselves into the spotlight and gain fame and fortune. For better or worse, the public

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.

As far back as our written history goes, there have been tales of evil creatures set on our destruction. But they frighten us more because of the internal evil

Fame is something that is awfully hard to earn. Not only do you have to be born with natural talent, but you have to work hard to cultivate that talent and

In our previous article we discussed everyone’s favorite burn victim, Freddy Krueger. For this entry in our series we’ll be talking about a significantly

Every movie, no matter how tiny the budget or unknown the star, needs to create characters that viewers will care about enough to last the length of the movie.

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…

Through all mediums of entertainment - music, movies, books, and so forth - we get attached to the truly great, fleshed out characters who just jump off the page or screen and stick with us for one reason or another. We love characters like Han Solo or Spider-Man, but obviously we realize that people like that could never exist in the real world. But there are some famous, beloved fictional charac

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,

What’s that? You can’t possibly create another internet article about Star Wars you say? Well just wait until your grandchildren hear about this!