Pop Culture

Most female oriented movies or “chick flicks” are like a slow acting toxin to men. However, over the course of a marriage or perhaps an excessively long couples weekend, you’re going to have to watch one. These are your best options.

For the horror movie buffs out there, the bloodier the movie is the better. Some people can’t handle too much blood, so they prefer a little less blood and

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

Thanks to computers, Hollywood effects are making giant leaps forward in terms of fooling audiences. The problem with being on the cutting edge is that a couple of months and a few million dollars can be the difference between your effect blowing minds or just blowing.

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

Gotta love cameos. Any film that’s willing to overpay a big name just to get a little bit of recognition from the audience is okay in our book. And here are some of the best.

The newspaper industry is a dying model. And nothing shows quite how dated ol’ “ink-and-paper” can be than the old strips that adorn the comics page. Now

Sure they’re probably your favorite character, but when you actually stop and think about it most of the fictional people you think of as “awesome” are probably just assholes.

Every so often, even us macho writers at WeirdWorm have to acknowledge that there’s more to life than terrifying drug side-effects, racist robots and boobs.

Sometimes a movie or television character is able to transcend the screen and become a part of pop culture history, thanks in part to the part being well written but also, more importantly, by casting directors knocking it out of the park and finding the perfect actor to bring the character to life. Of course when a film or show is being cast, there are many actors considered for the parts, and we