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In the recent Snow White and the Huntsman, regular-sized actors played the ‘dwarves’, with the assistance of movie magic. The same approach was also used in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as the upcoming The Hobbit (and its upcoming sequel). However, there is a lot to be said for using actual [...]

Kids love to play with action figures. Adults do, too- they just call themselves collectors. Some action figures are awesome; but, let’s just say that some come out …wrong. Wrong in ways that leave you scratching your head decades later. A set of criteria was used to develop this list. First, no women. It just [...]

Not too long ago I was thinking about the watches we used to have as children and how much fun they were. As the watch seems to be losing the child market in the present day due to smart phones, MP3 players and all the other gadgets us older people never had growing up, I [...]

Some songs are just plain cool, invoking images of aggression, testosterone, passion, sex, or just a general eff-you attitude toward the world.  But ion the wrong hands, the song can become a parody of itself.  Those hands are usually found on the bodies of people that make movies and the trailers that hype them.  If [...]

Overall, scientists in movies have been given a bad rap and they are invariably depicted as insane and power hungry. The audience has often laughed at the science used in the plots but some of these ideas predicted future scientific developments. Truth is always stranger than fiction. Many films tap into our fears and our [...]