Jealous of the shopping options of fictional characters? We can relate. After all, if we could shop Amazon for the magical items that turn normal people into heroes, we wouldn’t need to watch movies, would we? But...

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” said the Whedon brothers and sister-and-law/wife when they were planning Marvel Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.  It seems that the crew of the Serenity has an awful lot in common with the...

Film and video game makers are always trying to make their visuals bigger, better, and more spectacular. However, very few seem to realize the truth at hand: graphics reached their peak with 8-bit. But then 8-bit became...

Yeah, we made a fuss about seeing The Little Mermaid when we were kids because it seemed like such a girly movie… but we sang a different tune during that scene when she got her legs and swam...

Everyone familiar with Spider-Man and his lovable, angst-ridden whining, knows crime doesn’t pay. But guess what? Crime-fighting doesn’t pay the bills either. Peter Parker was a photographer. Clark Kent was a journalist. Even Bruce Wayne was a...

Us gamers have our own language, full of acronyms (“GG”), insults (“N00b”), and poetry (“wankfest”). Which is why holiday cards that say things like “Wishing You and Yours a Merry Christmas” don’t make us excited for the...

Ever since Wolfenstein made it okay to want to shoot things (you were just shooting Nazis in that game, it’s not like you were hurting people), our society has grown to not only accept its bloodlust, but...

Everybody knows gnomes are real. How else do plants grow so tall – photosynthesizing sunlight into energy using chlorophyll? What kind of magic mumbo-jumbo is that? You might as well say they hocus-pocus energy out of abracadabra!...

You’re a man… a manly man, even… and you don’t need to prove that to anyone, especially not Bobo your stuffed bear. (What would he know about being a man, anyway – he’s all soft on the...

When we were kids, we loved Terminator 2… but the movie lost a little of its appeal when it started happening for real. When manufacturing robots came out, everyone was like, “oh, great, this giant metal arm...

When we’re considering the most iconic images of the 20th century, the one that catches our eye most isn’t some sailor returning from the war and getting action in the street, nor is it that Marilyn Monroe...

You hear all the time about these billionaires who donate ridiculous sums of money to charity, and it’s like, “ohmigod, you’re wasting it!” You may be good at business or acting or being related to someone with...