When superstitious beliefs were the norm people believed bad weather meant the gods were angry at them, to which they responded by slaughtering sacrificial lambs and praying for the skies to clear.
But nowadays we're more familiar with the science behind the weather, and we know that anyone who blames Thor for the bad weather must be using their god-like charisma to cause mischief.
Tom Hiddleston channeled Loki's silly prankster side and crashed local Chicago news station Fox 32 so he could deliver the weather and dis his pretend big bro Thor.
Save it for your next Marvel movie appearance Tom Loki!
Screen Junkies already did what they called an “Honest Teaser” for The Force Awakens, because at the time, all they had to go on was the trailer. But now that everyone has seen the movie, and it hits home video today, the full Honest Trailer is here!
What’s the worst thing they can say about The Force Awakens? That it’s like the original Star Wars movie. But how is that bad? Still, there's other shenanigans to enjoy in this Honest Trailer.
Since Hollywood is constantly running out of fresh ideas and always looking for a retro franchise to reboot maybe they should keep mining the 80s for awesome shows to turn into mediocre movies.
Of course, if they really tried reboots of 80s cartoons and toy lines like the Silverhawks, Inhumanoids or those battle ready Dino-Riders could be amazing and lots of fun to watch.
Dinosaurs decked out with armor and advanced weaponry, now that has Michael Bay written all over it!
All kidding aside, how in the world can Hollywood filmmakers hungry for recycled content reboot the Ninja Turtles twice and give them four movies without making one Thundercats flick?
I'd love to see the look on my face when a time traveler tells 80s me about the Thundercatless future he has to look forward to...tragic!
Survival horror video games can be as terrifying, strange or totally bats$#t crazy as they wanna be, but they'll always have some key gameplay components in common.
The shiny item in the corner, the health item hoarding, the save point, and the windows that reveal the horror lurking around outside will be a part of pretty much every survival horror game ever made.
But don't think of these staple elements as cheesy or predictable, think of them as your guideposts in the gruesome world you're trying to help your character navigate through and your only link to the real world.
And you can think of this illustrated guide to the 10 Commandments Of Survival Horror by Julia Lepetit as a primer on how to play survival horror, or a reminder of what to look for while you're playing.
In between takes, the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens had plenty of time to fool around and do stuff that was far, far away from the galaxy they were recreating. In this home video bonus feature, Daisy Ridley (Rey) shows us how she and John Boyega (Finn) came up with a rap during filming.
But there’s more, because the impromptu song is accompanied by film clips of the Star Wars cast dancing, including Carrie Fisher and Admiral Akbar. The Force Awakens is available on home video starting today, but this feature is only on the Target edition. And now that Entertainment Weekly has uploaded it to YouTube, it shouldn't make any difference where you buy yours. -via Uproxx
Learning little factoids about your favorite movies can be fun, and there is a seemingly endless supply of listicles out there waiting to tell you stuff you may not know in easy to read bite sized bits.
After reading these listicles people learn new facts about flicks, which they can happily share with friends, family or give back to the internet's pool of knowledge via community posts.
BuzzFeed asked their Community about any obscure movie trivia they might know and they got a flood of responses; from which they plucked 4 duds and 19 corkers by my count, like this cute little number about Boo:
*Did you know young Mary Gibbs, the voice actor who played Boo in Monsters, Inc., wouldn't sit still and read her lines? The crew had to follow her around with a mic and record her basically just being Boo in real life.
Swords worthy of being named must thereby be given a suitably epic sounding name, because Camelot would have played out differently if Excalibur was called Stabby McStabStab.
The epic fantasy series Game of Thrones is full of equally epic swords, such as Oathbringer, Lightkeeper and Longclaw, the mighty Valerian sword wielded by Jon Snow.
But does the Game of Thrones cast know the names of these mighty swords of legend and, more importantly, can they tell them apart from the names of 80s heavy metal bands?
Making a realistic looking replica of a weapon featured in a video game is hard enough, but making a replica weapon that looks like it has survived a nuclear winter multiplies the difficulty by ten.
But bringing a weapon from Fallout 4 to life isn't supposed to be easy, it's a quest worth lots of XP and a legion of followers, so builders betters make it count.
The talented artisans at Show and Tell Props took a pile of plywood and some geeky dreams and brought Fallout 4's brutal The Last Minute Gauss Rifle to life, and while it may not be combat ready it sure looks like it can do some serious damage!
New seasons of the anime series Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Detective Conan have begun. To promote them, an artist in Japan created this amazing anamorphic wire sculpture. From this direction, it looks like Phoenix Wright . . .
. . . and from this angle, it looks like Conan Edogawa.
Comedians often have a hard time finding the right audience to try new jokes out on because their friends and family don't make very good sounding boards but they'd rather not go to a club with new material and bomb.
That's why comedians should have a puppet version of themselves made so the puppet can take the heckler's verbal bullets and the comedian can adjust their act accordingly.
Observe this Seinfeld inspired puppet doing observational humor so Jerry can learn what works and what doesn't from the safety of his apartment mansion.
New Material Seinfeld is a web series by director Oren Brimer starring Pete Holmes and Joe DeRosa as a puppet version of Seinfeld named "New Material"...pretty straightforward stuff here...
I'm not one for fancy soaps, but they certainly have their time and their place. When you add glitter and a unicorn into the mix though, any time is good for fancy soaps. After all, how could you say no to a Soapicorn sitting atop a rainbow cloud that smells like unicorn farts strawberries, raspberries, citrus and apples?
For those looking for something a little more masculine, it's hard to beat the Soapsquatch that is walking across turf that smells of pine needles, citrus, strawberries, cedar and vanilla. Either way, it's hard to go wrong with these magical soaps.
Receiving rejection letters is par for the course when you're trying to become a published author, but if everyone who ever received a rejection letter gave up the world would be devoid of print media.
The trick is to try and try again until a publisher is willing to take a chance on you, either that or get an agent who won't take no for an answer.
The letters are a little hard to read but the message is clear- don't give up on your novelist dreams until you've literally run out of publishers, then self publish the books and move on!
We’ve been posting a poll maybe three times a year to get your predictions on who will die next on the TV show The Walking Dead. The season six finale is tomorrow night, and this would be the time to place your bets under normal circumstances. But this finale is different, and a poll just seems pointless. Continue reading for the reasons why, which will contain spoilers for those not current on the series, and comic book spoilers, too.
I look at Game of Thrones as a tournament bracket. We started out with a ton of characters, many introduced over several year’s time. They are from several different regions, or “houses,” like the Lannisters, the Targaryens, the Starks, the Baratheons, etc. Everyone is competing to win the Iron Throne, and no one will rule from it until the last competitor is eliminated. Each season, several people in serious contention are eliminated. Does it seem that way to you?
But since there are so many characters, and they come and go somewhat randomly, it’s hard to tell who’s the real star of the show. At the beginning, we assumed Game of Thrones would be centered around Ned Stark, but they sure pulled that rug out from under us quickly. To determine the real main character, we turn to mathematics. Or rather, professor Andrew J. Beveridge of Macalester College did, along with undergraduate student Jie Shan. They crunched the numbers.
The pair started by connecting characters every time they “interacted” in the third book of the series, A Storm of Swords. Whenever two characters appeared within 15 words of one another, a link (or “edge”) was added between them. The links are weighted based on how often the two characters appeared in close proximity. Characters don’t necessarily have to be friends to be linked—which is a good thing because there are few true friendships in the series.
They also took a few other metrics into consideration to determine the main character.
Ranked first in every measure, save for one, was the same character: Tyrion, the sharp-witted, marginalized member of powerful house Lannister. In spite of his small size, Tyrion is mathematically the most important character in Game of Thrones.
What does this mean for the series? Not much, since they only analyzed one book. But the audience would be tickled to see Tyrion Lannister reach the championship round and ultimately win the Iron Throne. Read more about the research at Quartz. -via Uproxx
Every year, the Easter Bunny visits little boys and girls and gives them presents, usually chocolate candy, colorful eggs, and jelly beans. The Easter Wolverine fills in for him in rougher neighborhoods. Don't try to take his goodies away, or you'll end up with a few carrots jammed in your belly.
Ernie Estrella and Mike Avila of Blastr visited WonderCon this year and photographed the cosplayers, of whom this unknown Easter Wolverine is the funniest.
