Pop Culture

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.

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

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

We’d like to believe there is a balance that exists in the world, but this belief is seriously challenged. For every million movies made, we’re lucky to have a single one that surpasses the original.

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

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

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

Ever since the radio star lost a tense standoff with video, we’ve been forced to endure countless crummy music videos revolving around a couple of tired

Conspiracy theories have surrounded famous musicians for a long time, but things got really bizarre when the Internet caught on, and many people started to invent and share their own theories. These days, the biggest stars tend to live under a microscope, and people observe their every action, hoping to find some juicy detail and turn it into an epic conspiracy theory. Here are some very unexpecte

One might think that when it comes to our various forms of entertainment, we’d have long since moved past the days of clichéd characters and racial