“Based on a true story” is a great tagline, and a lot of movies milk their real-life origins to the extreme. But then there are those movies nobody would guess have some truth to them. Not that anyone could blame you for not knowing that. Some of these films are so out there that you’d …
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What you see in TV shows is rarely real. But the people watching them unfortunately are, and they might not always be able to tell fact from fiction. Now, we’re not saying every single show should come with a “don’t try this at home” disclaimer. But we’re absolutely thinking it. Here are 11 cases where …
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They say that nobody likes clichés. Then why do we see the same eyerollingly boring tropes crammed into the latest blockbusters over and over again? Sure, some of the common movie tropes might’ve been amazing and innovative when they were first used 70 years ago. But after a million repetitions, no amount of whipping can …
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There are few things more exciting than seeing your favorite movie and TV stars in the flesh. The best cartoon fans can usually hope for, though, is some guy in a Mickey Mouse suit at Disneyland. But for the friends of a certain yellow sponge, we have good news. Science has just proven that SpongeBob …
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There have been a lot of weird characters in kids’ cartoons over the years. We have a sponge living in an undersea pineapple, that yellow shapeshifting dog thing from Adventure time, basically everything from Courage the Cowardly Dog… The list goes on. But now they’re joined by someone who’s unlike pretty much anything we’ve seen …
If you’re of a certain age, you can remember a time before reality TV. When writers, not producers, determined the course of events in a program. But when the Writers Guild of America went on strike, first in 1988 and again in 2007, networks discovered they didn’t even need writers to create content viewers would …
Netflix, in their infinite wisdom, is resurrecting Unsolved Mysteries with the producers of Stranger Things at the helm. The original ran for 23 years and over 500 episodes, ending in 2010. Each episode used re-enactments and first-person interviews to tell stories of unsolved crimes, paranormal events, and UFO sightings and encounters. The host, Robert Stack, …
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If 2020 is the year you thought it would be, you’re the only one. But honestly, if you’re staying safe at home still, no matter the reason, here are a whole bunch of shows that you can binge watch, and they are good ones. Dead To Me Anyone who watched the first season of this …
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Look, we all have our own weird ways of dealing with our anxieties. I, avid consumer of true-crime media, fear an untimely end by a serial killer, for example. While others dealing with the same stress might avoid podcasts about a man breaking into someone’s home, living in their attic, and then attacking them with …
The streaming-service app launched on April 6th, amid a nation-wide lockdown encouraging self-isolation to stem the onslaught of the coronavirus. Quibi’s mobile-only premise caters to a world on-the-go, where everyone wants to consume their entertainment in apéritif sized chunks. Episodes are all 10 minutes or fewer. Perfect for commuters, or people trying to check-out for …