Brandon Routh: The New Superman

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Christopher Reeve look-alike! When Brandon Routh’s face first appeared in magazines, everyone was stunned at the resemblance. It seemed like perfect casting for Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns.

Brandon RouthDid You Know?

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Night at the Museum: Unaccountably Fun

Ben Stiller…T-Rex Skeleton…there can be only one!Proving that Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson will be movie buddies together until one of the two drops dead, Night at the Museum came out and did solidly well. Solidly? Who am I kidding? This sucker took in better than half a billion dollars. That’s billion with a “B”, as in “Boy that is a whole lot of money”.

You know, one of these days, I’m looking forward to seeing a seventy year old Stiller and Wilson doing Walter Matthau / Jack Lemmon roles. Think about that one for a second—Grumpy Old Starsky and Hutch. Yeah, I know. I got chills too.

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Nightmare Before Christmas: Stick To Your Strengths?

Tim Burton is not exactly a face you’d associate with Christmas. And neither, frankly, is Jack Skellington. To be perfectly honest, if you were ever in need of a replacement for Santa Claus, the gangly, spindly, seven-foot-tall scarecrow / zombie hybrid is not someone you’d be looking to. At least, not ordinarily. And in Nightmare Before Christmas, you can see firsthand why there are far worse choices out there…and conversely, far better.

Is this the face of a zombie / scarecrow hybrid that can take over Christmas?Proving The Critics Wrong: Jack Skellington Now, I could go into all sorts of yadda-yadda detail about the hundreds of detachable heads required to film Jack Skellington’s movements and dialogue, but by now you’ve already heard about that. Part Ed Wood horror extravaganza, part Dickensian Christmas fable-with-a-message, Nightmare Before Christmas tries to teach us the rather surprising moral that it’s generally better to stick with your strengths. Sure, most of us have been in Jack’s shoes a time or two—our greatest talents become sources of malaise and predictability. Even when we go all-out to blow the doors off our previous successes, there’s still something missing. Sometimes, all we want out of life is a little novelty.

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The Simpsons: All Good Things….

The Simpsons! Diorama-style!

Must End. There. I said it. I’m officially linked to the position now that I think The Simpsons has not only jumped the shark but made a theme park attraction out of doing so.

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Creepshow: A Series With Some Legs.

Welcome, boils and ghouls, to a fright feast the likes of which you haven’t seen since the last time you picked up an EC comic book. That’s right, if you remember the likes of your old pal the Crypt Keeper, then you’ll find plenty to love and even a little to loathe in the Creepshow series.

CreepshowCreepshow: The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup of Movies

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High School Musical: Wishing It Were Expelled.

High School Musical and High School Musical 2 are both really, really popular for reasons Merch!  Get your cheesy merch here!  Line up, kiddies, and blow mommy and daddy’s cash on cheap tchotchkies!that completely escape me. At least it’s popular mostly with high-school age kids, and that gives me some faith, because I can always cite transference as to why it’s so popular.

Begrudging Confessions

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Rocky: A Contender that Got A Glass Jaw

Gonna fly nooooooow….gonna fly nooooooow….

If you can already hear the strains of “Dun da da dun da da dun da da dun”, then you know we’re talking Rocky today, perhaps an American icon in his own right, and in every sense of the term.

Gonna fly now!Rocky: A Contender From Out of Nowhere

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Friday the 13th: A Day That Will Live in Infamy. With December 7th.

It’s not just paraskavedekatriaphobia that makes Friday the 13th a dark day. It was the day that Sean S. Cunningham decided to take a run at the horror game and Ch-ch-chhhh hah-hah-haaaah.released the movie that dethroned The Empire Strikes Back. We saw iconic master-slasher Jason Voorhees come upon us all, and it has become the day most associated with bad luck. Friday the 13th has proven unlucky for promiscuous campers and assorted high school kids ever since.

Not Just Idle Trivia on Scream

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The Wizard of Oz: Somewhere Over That Rainbow

Most of us are by now familiar with The Wizard of Oz. Blah blah tornado, blah blah witch The Wizard of Oz. Nuff said.dies, blah blah need a brain, blah blah heart, blah blah courage, blah blah off to see the wizard, blah blah man behind the curtain, what a world, yadda yadda back to Kansas.

But there’s plenty of stuff I bet you’re not familiar with, so today, brace yourself for a round of behind the scenes factoids about the great American picture, The Wizard of Oz.

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This Is Spinal Tap: How High Does That Volume Go?

It’s time to crank the volume to eleven with the funniest band that ever freaked out the entire rock industry with This Is Spinal Tap, an early mockumentary about One of It goes all the way to eleven.England’s Loudest Bands on a promotional tour through America in an attempt to rebuild its waning popularity and promote the release of its newest album “Smell the Glove”.

Surprisingly Deep

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