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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.

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

When push comes to shove you need someone you can trust at your back, even if that person is a fictional television character.

It’s astonishing what we consider to be art these days. It seems that anybody with a chainsaw, a children’s paint set or a garden shed can make a great work

A kiss can be many things: polite, teasing, sexy, comforting… but sometimes, when they show up on the big screen, they’re just plain creepy.

Think Marilyn Manson is weird? Then you have clearly been missing out on the goldmine of real musical weirdness that is available all over the globe. Here are

I love the horror movie genre. It is one of my favorite types of movies to watch, but the only way to properly watch a good horror movie is alone, or with

Broadway continues to be the last refuge of the musical. Once a driving force in entertainment, musicals have lately been all but extinguished in the cinema. On

The life of a rock star is idolized, romanticized and, due to its unattainable nature for many of us tone-deaf ugly common folks, ripe for embellishment and

At long live last, Leonard DiCaprio has won an Oscar. And now that the hardest working actor in Hollywood has gotten his due, it's time to look back on the internet's best responses to Leo's many, many, many losses.