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• Worst Words of 2014

  Another year has passed, a year that brought us such spectacular highs as fried chicken corsages, movies about zombie beavers, and the Norwegian curling team’s Olympic Games uniforms. And as you are no doubt aware, as mandated by international law, it is illegal to have a blog and not do some sort of ‘best of’ […]

• Harry Potter and the Chinese Knockoffs

  Can you believe that it’s been seven years since the final book in the Harry Potter series was released?  That fact not only makes me feel old, but also a little bit nostalgic for some more stories on the adventures of Harry and the gang.  If only there were some more Harry Potter novels out […]

• Ten of the Weirdest, Most Distracting, and Accidentally Funny Movie Extras

  The other day I caught a bit of The Dark Knight Rises on TV, trying to understand Bale’s weird voice, and wondering when Batman would lose his.  Then I spotted something in the background: an extra doing something accidentally hilarious and stealing the scene. I YouTubed it later to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, […]

• The 30 Best Movie Songs of the Last 40 Years – Part III

  The 30 Best Movie Songs of the Last 40 Years – The Meryl Streep Tier (10 – 1) Oh boy, we’ve made it to the ten best songs made for movies in the last 40 years. The anticipation is almost too much. It makes me want to express myself through song. Who will take the crown? […]

• The 30 Best Movie Songs of the Last 40 Years – Part II

  Best Songs Made For Movies in the Last Forty Years – The Jack Nicholson Tier – 20 – 11 In Part One of this epic list, we saw a lot of great songs, heavily dominated by the 1980s. Will the ‘80s continue its dominance in the top twenty? Will any artists make the list twice? […]