Pop Culture

We established in a previous article that comic book movies were: A) All the rage, B) Totally badass and C) Hiding a shameful, shameful past. And we’re not

It’s unlikely; barring living in a bubble, severe child abuse, or being locked in a prehistoric time capsule, that you aren’t familiar with the idea of

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

There's something about the music industry that makes every story seem plausible. Sadly, a vast majority of the stories were told about popular musicians simply

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.

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Pop culture is full of principals who serve as villains, from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to the Breakfast Club, but every once in a while you come across a totally awesome headmaster.

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

One of the most popular genres on television these days is reality TV. Reality shows are everywhere, and have been huge starting with The Real World and especially since Survivor and American Idol first hit the airwaves. Of course not much of what happens on reality TV, believe it or not, is actually, you know, real.

If you find yourself coming out of a movie theatre, mind reeling, you’ve either just tried to understand the appeal of the Twilight franchise… or experienced one hell of a twist ending.