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Comic book movies are all the rage. Actually, Hollywood is so desperate to avoid original ideas they’re using pretty much any story the comic world can churn out… but even they can drag their heels from time to time…

Well, The Hunger Games franchise had a good run. The wildly successful series, which will almost certainly clock in at around $3 billion worldwide between all four movies, has come and gone and for a lot of people who love post-apocalyptic stories, they aren’t exactly sure where to look. Yeah, some people are getting their dystopian fix by playing Fallout 4 but ultra-violent video games aren’t for

If you ask the average person about Vincent van Gogh, you’d more likely to hear things about self-mutilation than his beautiful work or his staggering genius… especially since a lot of facts about him are wrong.

Some monsters in fiction are so striking, so terrifying that they become icons recognizable around the world. You wouldn't think that these monsters need any

Being a child star is not easy. You’re almost never afforded a real, legitimate childhood, and in far too many cases it’s later discovered you’ve been forced into a job you hate by overbearing parents who just want to make as much money off of you as possible. Just ask Macauley Culkin about that one. And then, as soon as you start to grow up and you’re no longer cute, people just toss you aside an

Let’s not kid ourselves; there really is a lot of pressure that comes with being in the public eye. Every move you make is watched by fans and the paparazzi,

If there’s one thing 80’s movies had greater abundance than piss poor computer graphics, it was smug assholes in need of some correction.

You remember back before being a geek was considered “cool”? Back when Star Wars fans were second only to Trekkies in terms of fanboy dorkery? This is what they’ve been up to.

There’s no accounting for taste. Check out seven book rejections that keep publishing company executives awake and crying all night.

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