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Four seasons of Game of Thrones summarized in a beautiful animation

This lovely animation, directed by BlackMeal and Baptiste Pagani, tries to sum up all the major happenings from the first four seasons of Game of Thrones in under a minute. Obviously, there are spoilers for the TV show. The animation get a lot of it but also miss some key plot development and character deaths…

Why Selfie‘s Worth Watching Despite Its Name

Selfie is a new romantic comedy series premiering tonight on ABC. Once you get past the terrible name, you’re left with My Fair Lady for internet age, and you should definitely watch. Selfie is the story of nerd-turned-hot-but-shallow-social-media-obsessive Eliza Dooley (played by Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan) making good. Note the name for the overt nod…

1960s version of Game of Thrones’ opening credits is perfectly retro

Milan Vuckovic mashed up two things most humans love by re-imagining Game of Thrones’ opening credits in the style of Saul Bass, the master of the title sequence. It’s like if Game of Thrones existed in the 60s. Pretty soon, we’ll have a recreation of Game of Thrones for every era. SPLOID is a new…

The First High School Show That Showed Us It Was Okay to Be Different

Long before her Emmy-winning turn as a bipolar CIA officer on Homeland, Claire Danes played typical teenager Angela Chase. In doing so, she showed an entire generation, including me, that high school was not a perfect place, and that was totally fine. My So-Called Life debuted 20 years ago this week. Especially when you contrast…

Video replaces the sounds in Game of Thrones with old video game sounds

If you think there’s too much violence and sex and awful human behavior in Game of Thrones, you’ll enjoy this light hearted remix where all the sounds of the show are replaced with old school video game noises. If you like Game of Thrones already, you’ll like the video because it’s more Game of Thrones.…

This video shows how pretty much everything in Game of Thrones is fake

By now, we know that Game of Thrones uses a heavy VFX hand when it comes to building the world of Westeros but it’s still amazing how real their visual effects can make it look. That’s because pretty much everything is fake. Seriously. Anything far off in the distance or people standing around or flags…

These Posters Immortalize the Cars From Your Favorite Films

To those of us who pay attention to these things, a movie character’s car can tell us more about that person than nearly anything else. Sometimes, those cars even become characters—without the DeLorean, Back to the Future would be a 1980s Waiting for Godot. Designer Jesús Prudencio’s poster series Cars and Films pays tribute to…

Blending movie scenes with real life

Francois Dourlen is a photographer who also has a clever running gag for the Internet to enjoy: he splices in movie and TV shows from his iPhone to make them look as if they’re happening in real life. It’s not always as obvious as Pam Anderson running on the beach either, sometimes it’s as ridiculous…

Tribute video for Breaking Bad makes me want to watch it all again

After seeing this excellent tribute video by Alexandre Gasulla of Walter White, one of the greatest characters ever created, his character’s transformation, one of the greatest stories ever created, and Breaking Bad, one of the greatest TV shows ever created, I want to watch the entire series over again. That might be one of the…

HBO has renewed Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley comedy series for a second season. If you aren’t already watching this show, you definitely should be.

Here’s each of the 5,179 on-screen deaths in Game of Thrones

The best way to catch up with Game of Thrones before Season 4 starts? By watching this amazing supercut of every single on-screen death in the series so far. Made by Digg Video, it’s a bloody gore-y mix of swords, spears, arrows, bare hands, etc. ripping apart flesh and ending human life. There’s a total…

Which superhero had the coolest and best secret headquarters?

Being a superhero is the best job in the world. Not only do you save the world and get the girl and receive the world’s adulation, you’re also somehow rich enough (even though you’re above the idea of money) to have a sick secret headquarters that every kid dreams about. And though your hero headquarters…

Super cute baby dressed up and posed as famous TV show characters

Say hello to Olivia. Or is that Daenerys Targaryen. Or Hannah Horvath. Maybe Walter White. Sometimes Michonne. And Frank Underwood. Olivia has been all of those famous TV characters before because she’s awesome. Photographer Karen Abad played dress up with her friend Cristina’s baby Olivia and cooked up this adorable photo series showing the toddler…

How many of these famous movie and TV cars can you recognize?

Famous cars in movies and TV shows are just as much a character to the story as the actors and actresses. If Batman drove a Volvo or Marty McFly time traveled in a Toyota, it just wouldn’t be the same. They’re iconic. So how many of these cars do you recognize? Scott Park has a…

Get ready for Game of Thrones season 4 with this awesome HBO preview

HBO aired a special 15 minute preview for Game of Thrones Season 4 last night and it’s now up on YouTube to whet your appetite for dragons, swords, thrones, fantastic looking people, armor, dresses, politics, lengthy diatribes and general awesomeness. But as fun as it is to see a little bit of Game of Thrones…

Which famous villain had the biggest and baddest secret headquarters?

It sucks to be a villain. Not just because you’re destined to lose to the hero but because when you do lose, you lose everything, including your stupid awesome villain hideout slash lair slash headquarters. Why couldn’t you just lose a little bit and get to keep rolling around in the Death Star? Why can’t…

Breaking Bad Creator Admits Illegal Downloads Helped the TV Show

Breaking Bad, a TV show permanently sculpted onto television’s Mount Rushmore, whipped itself from a critically acclaimed yet not exactly ratings dominant TV show into THE bizz-bizz-buzzy pop culture phenomenon of the year as the series raced to its end. How did it happen? According to Breaking Bad’s creator Vince Gilligan, illegal downloads help. Gilligan…

A Power Outage Made South Park Miss an Episode for the First Time

South Park was unable to meet its deadline for the first time in its 240+ episode history because of a power outage. That’s 17 straight seasons of somehow making things work on a short deadline until now. What a bummer! Comedy Central said: “On Tuesday night, South Park Studios lost power. From animation to rendering…

This Lego Goonies Set Will Make You Do the Truffle Shuffle

As far as iconic ’80s kids movies go, it doesn’t get much better than The Goonies. In just 2 years, this pop-cultural phenomenon will turn 30! So, let’s honor Chunk, Sloth, Mikey, Data and Mouth with the ultimate tribute…an official Lego Goonies set. This film had everything! Mobsters, pirates, buried treasure, ORVs with bullet holes!…

What Movies Think Aliens Look Like

Here’s a fun little music video about aliens cut from movies and TV shows by our friends Eclectic Method. Aside from the song hypnotically inducing you to nod your head, the video also reveals what Hollywood thinks aliens will look like: green, large brained and funny looking. How many of these movies have you seen?…