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TV themes in the 2000’s mostly consist of instrumentals. The 90’s had lighthearted pop or short jingles. But back in the day, TV execs funneled all the horror and pain they weren’t allowed to make characters endure right into those opening credits…

Every once in awhile an athlete or so-called “celebrity” will try to capitalize on his or her fame by appearing in a movie. Now and then the results are

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.

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

The Oscars rarely go off without a hitch, but these ten moments go well beyond the too-long acceptance speech or flubbed line. These ten moments are among the worst in the award ceremony's history.

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

One of the hardest things about writing fiction is coming up with interesting, fully developed side characters. After all, you can’t spend too much time on them because you don’t want to take the focus off of your primary protagonists and antagonists. Yet sometimes writers come up with supporting characters that are so rich and intriguing that, no matter how good the main characters are, we can’t

As a lifelong fantasy fans, we have devoured dozens of fantasy novels in our time and even written a few as well. Most of them are quite enjoyable, but that

As far back as our written history goes, there have been tales of evil creatures set on our destruction. But they frighten us more because of the internal evil

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