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The Lord of the Rings will go down as one of the greatest movie trilogies in history, and this year Peter Jackson’s follow-up trilogy The Hobbit will be coming to a close as well. The movies are tremendously detailed and, at least with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, incredibly faithful to the books. Obviously, there are some omissions and additions, but particularly with the extended editions, the

Following extensive market research and several colorful PowerPoint presentations, it appears that the money in African Americans’ wallets is of equal value

Everyone loves a good super-villain. There's something about a madman in tights committing heinous acts of violence that everyone loves. Everyone also loves

Lawyers are some of the most educated people in the world today, spending more time in a classroom looking at big books with lots of words and no pictures than

Believe it or not, music videos are actually things that still exist, despite the fact that channels like MTV would have you believe otherwise. Celebrities popping up in a music video are never particularly surprising. If, for example, you saw LeBron James pop up in a hip hop video, it would make total sense. But now and then a celebrity will appear in a music video and you kind of have to do a do

What we see on television is ostensibly supposed to reflect real life at least a little - if it didn't, why would we even bother watching? A lot of the time

When the announcement was made that Star Wars would be making sequels, the cry came out wondering whether we would see Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie

These days, it feels like movie reboots and, more commonly, sequels are pretty much all we ever see in at the movie theater. Hollywood is so bereft of original ideas that a studio will just decide to take an idea that has proven successful and crap out additional iterations of what basically amounts to the same story over, and over, and over. Of course, some sequels are even more absurd than other

Yeah, yeah we know what you’re thinking. Yet another article complaining about the over abundance of unnecessary sequels. Some may argue that no one is

Zombies as we know them have really only been in pop culture for about fifty years now. Seems like a long time, we know, but, it's pretty much an eyeblink when