False (re)start: 24 failed attempts to reboot a movie franchise
A couple weeks ago, Hollywood took a second shot at making a hit franchise out of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series,…
Matt Damon is here to make friends: 11 movies where the actor finds a buddy (or 10)
Matt Damon has a lot of friends. From his auspicious beginnings charming ’90s Hollywood to his A-list blockbuster…
Age of apocalypses: 10 momentous character events in ’90s comics
The 1990s were a period of boom and bust for the comic book industry. Many of the highest-selling single issues of all…
Ghosts can do it: 8 pop cultural instances of human-on-ghost love
Earlier this year, a 45-year-old Irish woman named Amanda Teague came forward to share a joyful announcement with the…
Walker, Slipnutz, and baseball: 11 essential Late Night With Conan O’Brien clips
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the debut of Late Night With Conan O’Brien. NBC rolled the dice on the veteran Simps…
Seinfeld ends, TRL begins, Titanic goes on and on: 17 pop culture windows into 1998
To those who would call its political satire toothless, Saturday Night Live’s March 14, 1998 episode presented an…
Not ready for prime time: 18 animated series that didn’t make it a full season
For the majority of prime-time network television’s history, animated series rarely made an appearance. With the…
Heel turns: 23 movie stars cast against type as villains
Villains can be much more fun to play than heroes. Just ask Gary Oldman or Christoph Waltz or any actor who’s built a…
Amusing ourselves to death: 12 theme parks where the danger is real
Summer is close to its halfway point, which if you’re responsible in any way for a school-aged child, means you’ve…
GLOW is just the start: 16 unusual athletic events deserving TV dramatization
Much of the fun in watching Netflix’s hit comedy GLOW lies in peeking behind the curtain of a left-field televised…
Self-realization before sunrise: 18 movies about coming of age in under 24 hours
“Yesterday’s history. Tomorrow’s the future. Tonight’s the party.” Can’t Hardly Wait premiered in theaters 20 years ago…
Fuck off, Adolf: 15 creative ways to kill Hitler
So, you’re still somewhat ambivalent on the morality of punching Nazis in the face, even though they voluntarily…
Han Severals: 16-plus characters who smuggled inspiration from Han Solo
Han Solo is based on a familiar archetype: Star Wars’ lovable scoundrel can trace his roots back to our earliest myths,…
Solo, a canceled story: 19 TV spin-offs for breakout characters that no one wanted
For all its reputation as the crassly opportunistic refuge of the creatively bankrupt, the spin-off actually holds an…
Sticking their noses in other people’s business: 16 TV Cyranos
You know Cyrano de Bergerac even if you don’t know Cyrano De Bergerac. The protagonist of Edmond Rostand’s century-old…
What’s so funny?: 25 singers cracking up at their own songs
Singers laugh for various reasons, not all of them sincere. Take, for instance, the laugh that closes out Joni…
The shitty Avengers: 15 movie superheroes not ready for franchising
Minting a successful superhero franchise out of a preexisting comic book is easy (despite what Green Lantern might…
Houston, we have problems: A cinematic guide to what can go wrong in space
The study of space dates back millennia, long before the same ancient humans pondering the sun could fathom just how…
Ha-ha-hostages!: 17 comedies that make abduction fun
A hostage situation is among the most traumatic experiences anyone can suffer through: your life in the hands of a…
Halfway-decent proposals: 7 TV episodes that reference the 1993 blockbuster
For a multiple Razzie winner, it’s hard to believe that Indecent Proposal was such a huge hit when it was released 25…