We all know by now that Hollywood has too few ideas of their own -which is one of many reasons why they make so many movies based on books. The good thing is that most books are better than the movie remake anyway, so if you don't want to wait for the next Hollywood release, you can just read the story ahead of time and probably find something more enjoyable anyway. So want to get a jump on the 2017 movie releases? Then check out this list of all the books they are based on and then head to your local bookstore (or Amazon).
The 80s introduced us to console gaming, which created generations of lifelong gamers , but most of the games from the 80s would be seen as retro oddities and pure nostalgia by the 21st century.
However, many of the games that came out in the 90s are still revered and eagerly played by gamers to this day, and 1997 in particular was a great year to be a gamer.
97 is the year Final Fantasy VII, Fallout and GoldenEye 007 came out, three games that had such a massive impact on gaming they're still being talked about and worshipped by gamers to this day.
But let's not forget about a little game called Parappa The Rapper that came out in 97 too, as well as the incredibly captivating PC game The Curse Of Monkey Island, which is still inspiring makers of point-and-click adventure games to this day.
So many funny folks made it big after appearing on The Daily Show that it's now seen as a great place to launch comedy careers, and thanks to The Daily ShowJohn Oliver, Samantha Bee and Stephen Colbert now have their own shows.
These former correspondents reunited on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for a flashback skit about Stephen's last day at The Daily Show back in 2005, with John Oliver as The Steve.
Personally, I never got the obsessed Hello Kitty fans. She's cute and everything, but I just can't understand wanting to own every single piece of her merchandise. But if you happen to be that kind of a HK fan, then you won't want to miss this list of places across the globe that every Hello Kitty fan should visit. From cafes across the world to Sanrio Puroland in Japan and even a beauty spa in the Middle East, you won't believe how widespread the love of Hello Kitty is.
This is a spectacularly clever costume mashup: X-Men's Beast and Jubilee as Disney's Beauty and the Beast! They were spotted at Ottawa Comic Con this past weekend. This is Ottawa's sixth year hosting a Comic Con, and our friends from Geeks Are Sexy took photographer Patrick-Michel Dagenais to the con to capture the best of the best cosplayers.The first gallery featuring dozens of cosplayers is up now for your viewing pleasure. Check back for more in the next couple of days.
Hawaii seems like the last place goths would like to hang out, with their pale skin and dark clothing, but it seems Hawaii has its fair share of goths just like everywhere else in the world.
But what's cool about the goths of Hawaii is they've adapted their style a bit to fit the tropical locale, sort of a "vampires on vacation" look.
Broadly's Jessica Machado spoke with a few of the goths who call Hawaii home about the slowly dying scene and their hopes for the future:
"If this was a different place, like Germany, then goths would be all you'd see at a goth night," said Nocturna. "But here, you just don't have a very big crowd. It's kinda fading; they're not interested. I mean, people are, but they're really young and I don't know how to get them out."
"For me, this is not a phase," said Nocturna. "I've been doing this forever. I still have my collection of records, and the thing that keeps me going is that I get to play it on the radio."
But some goths refuse to accept the dwindling state of the scene and are hell-bent on reviving it. Nephilim Halls, a small collective of millennials who were bummed when goth-friendly clubs like Pink Cadillac and 1739 shut down in the mid-aughts, put together a website in 2011. For the past four years, it's served as a sort of ongoing goth newsletter to keep communication thriving and the community apprised of what events are left. And when Nocturna started focusing on bigger--and more infrequent--stuff two years ago, they decided to throw events themselves, including Kore and Vortex.
The Simpsons have presented some incredibly strange and stupid ideas over the years that we laughed at while watching and joked about with friends after the episode was over.
But the internet made it entertaining and lucrative to recreate ideas presented on The Simpsons in real life, thus theories like this one involving Bart linking ten megaphones together are now seen as a challenge:
Kevin Kohler, aka The Backyard Scientist, decided to test Bart's theory of the linked megaphones to see if he could break every window in his neighborhood with the force of his voice. So he linked up 10 megaphones and screamed through the one on the end, just to see if the writers were onto something with this theory.
Did Kevin's chain of megaphones have the same destructive power as Bart's did in season 8, episode 25 of The Simpsons? Tune in and find out!
When a cultist heads out to join a Satanic order but ends up hailing some guy names Stan you know some really stupid stuff is about to happen, like ridiculous rituals and some goofy plan involving a goat.
But nobody ever said cultists were bright, 'cause if they were they wouldn't be praying to dark and dangerous gods who want to devour them or torture them for eternity! Heed this visual warning by Gunshow Comics and leave the cult life alone!
Most actors have a woeful tale to tell about a role they turned down that wound up being a major career boost for another actor, and these role refusal regret stories have one thing in common- the role was in a great movie or TV show.
Tamzin Merchant and Gillian Anderson have a role refusal regret story in common involving a little show called Game Of Thrones, in which Tamzin played Daenerys Targaryen for the unaired pilot.
But how were they to know Game Of Thrones would become one of the biggest TV shows of all time?
This video by Looper reveals some of the A-list stars who refused work in Westeros, and even though Gillian Anderson's career wasn't affected by the pass many of the others on the list could've used the boost!
Stan Lee has appeared in nearly every Marvel movie and TV show ever made, and many people assumed these appearances were just a fun and clever way to pay homage to the great comic creator.
But some fans have proposed a different theory since Stan first appeared in the current batch of Marvel movies, theorizing he's actually "some sort of greater cosmic good" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
“Stan Lee clearly exists, you know, above and apart from the reality of all the films. [Lee’s cameo] wasn’t in for a long time and we put it back in towards the end of the process where he references that time he was a Federal Express agent — we thought it would be fun to put that in there because that really says, so wait a minute, he’s this same character who’s popped up in all these films.”
So does that mean they're going to make a Stan Lee movie? Because that would be amazing!
Superman is super strong, super fast, super resilient, super smart and super concerned with dispensing justice, so it only makes sense that he would have super powerful itches as well.
And as this Dragonarte comic shows these super severe itches are the main reason he doesn't turn on Batman and the Justice League- because he needs the team around to itch his back!
When the Cromulons decide to host a talent competition that doesn't just require singing, I think The Domino King might be Earth's only salvation when they start asking us to "show me what you got." Need proof? Just look at this epic 18,365 piece domino layout he created for Rick and Morty. It not only has amazing pictures from the series but reveals secret hidden messages from the show as it goes. Wubba lubba dub dub indeed!
David Bowie was surprisingly fond of appearing on late night TV shows, and Iggy Pop seems to dig the talk show scene too, although talk shows in general weren't too fond of Iggy's behavior back in the day.
But neither one of these edgy rock superstars seem like the type of musicians daytime TV shows would have wanted to book back in the 1970s, especially considering Iggy's junkie FTW attitude.
However, Dinah Shore wasn't afraid to host Iggy's first proper appearance on a TV show- she spoke with Iggy and a much more put together David Bowie on The Dinah! Show back in 1977:
April 15, 1977: Iggy Pop and David Bowie were guests on Dinah’s Place. Promoting Lust for Life, Iggy and David, along with Tony Sales on bass and Hunt Sales on drums, performed “Sister Midnight” and “Fun Time.” During the interview segment, Bowie was shown in tears from trying to stifle his laughter when Dinah Shore asked Iggy what it felt like to crawl around on broken glass.
The dream of becoming a fantasy creature like an elf, dwarf or dragon is now and will always be an impossibility, but if you dream of merely resembling a fantasy creature you're in luck.
Because plastic surgery has advanced to the point where your face can be made over to resemble a cat-man, a lizard or, in this case, an elf.
He has spent more than £25,000 on surgery including liposuction on his jaw, a nose job, full body hair removal and operations to change his eye colour. ...He is planning surgery to make his ears pointed, hair implants for a heart-shaped hairline and a limb lengthening operation to make him 6ft 5in tall.
Mr. Padron fell in love with the fantasy genre during his early teenage years, while struggling with bullies who mocked him because he dyed his hair and had different dress sense.
But by the end of high school, he claimed his quirkiness led to him being admired, which further fuelled his desire to be different.
He added: 'I was bullied as a child and as an escape I would submerge myself in fantasy movies like Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story, as well as other fantasy tales.
I guess cosplay is no longer enough for some people, but it's still a hell of a lot cheaper!
He has almost spent more than £25,000 on surgery including liposuction on his jaw, a nose job, full body hair removal and operations to change his eye colour. ... He is planning surgery to make his ears pointed, hair implants for a heart-shaped hairline and a limb lengthening operation to make him 6ft 5in tall.
Mr Padron fell in love with the fantasy genre during his early teenage years, while struggling with bullies who mocked him because he dyed his hair and had different dress sense.
But by the end of high school, he claimed his quirkiness led to him being admired, which further fuelled his desire to be different.
He added: 'I was bullied as a child and as an escape I would submerge myself in fantasy movies like Labyrinth and The NeverEnding Story, as well as other fantasy tales.
'Over time things changed, older teens liked me because I was unique and that's what encouraged me to start turning what I felt on the inside into a reality.
Unless you're an old school gamer who has been playing video games since characters were so pixelated it was hard to tell what they were you may not know how far game resolution has come.
Or you may have seen game graphics improve over the years but never had the difference visually spelled out for you.
Well, you can't get much clearer than this- here's a screenshot from Wolfenstein 3D (1992) and one from the more recent game Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014).
In Wolfenstein 3D you couldn't even see the look on the Nazis' faces when you blew their heads off!
The difference in game resolutions should be obvious when the games being compared were made 20+ years apart, but the difference between Wrestlemania (1989) and WWE 2K15 (2014) put me down for the count!
