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As you’ve presumably heard by now, purveyor of many things lowest-common-denominator Disney recently bought out comic book empire Marvel to the tune of $4 billion. Regardless of whether you think this will make the mousy company’s products better or the wolfy-spidey-hulky company’s work suffer, you can probably take a great deal of pleasure from the [...]

We can’t decide if the fact that co-stars in a summer blockbuster don’t even need to meet to film their scenes together nowadays is awesome of depressing. Despite your stance on how impoverished acting has become in the current era of spectacular visual effects, you’ve got to admit that our movies look more stunningly beautiful [...]

As American military engagements in the MIddle East plod along with little or no progress, the New York Times tried to drum up some hopefulness with their epic feature on women in the military this weekend. In movies, of course, female soldiers are nothing new. In fact, some of our best cinematic soldiers have been [...]

The first time we ever saw a pop-up book was when we were sleeping over at Louis’ house. He had all the coolest toys, board games and video games, and this new kind of book was just the icing on the cake. Clearly, Louis was ahead of the curve and this three-dimensional book thing would [...]

Really, we’ll stop posting graphic design projects by Dan Meth as soon as he stops coming up with brilliant ideas like his “Emomelon Days” music video or his 21 Movie Trilogies, but for now we bring you another graphisticle from the mind of Meth. The latest attempts to chart the confusing journeys through time of [...]

Today is Eat Your Vegetables Day, and though we usually do our best to abide by such dietary dictates, there are some vegetables we simply will not eat no matter what you say. No! We won’t eat them and that’s final! You claim they’re healthy for us, but we’re telling you, they’re much too cute, [...]

Funny how we can invent all kinds of alien species, evil supervillains, mysterious dark forces and such, but when it comes to great sci-fi baddies nothing’s much more effective than an evil corporation. io9 rounds up some 15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction – including, of course, Blade Runner’s Tyrell Corporation, Weyland-Yutani of Alien franchise [...]

Film trilogies, and the various fluctuations of the franchise as it expands, are hotly debated topics that virtually everybody has their piece to speak about. Thankfully, Dan Meth has put all the squabbling to rest with this helpful infographic rating each installment of 21 Movie Trilogies.

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Thankfully, this listicle from Unreality doesn’t make any claims to being the be-all, end-all statement on movie robots, because otherwise they’d have to answer for these (and many more) cybernetic beings’ exclusion:

That said, aside from a typically absent sense of humor about movie-bot lore, we tend to agree with most of Unreality’s picks for 10 [...]

It’s true, we’re rather skeptical about knee-jerk revisions, sequels, prequels, reunion tours, side-projects, spin-offs, franchises and disastrous re-vamps, but the film world is where we’ve found the greatest number of exceptions to this informal rule. Arguing that newer and bigger can be better, Unreality’s David Madison offers proof with a listicle of equal or superior [...]