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

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?

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The Worst Blunders People Make in Inventing Fictional Alien Worlds

The Worst Blunders People Make in Inventing Fictional Alien Worlds

We love stories that take us to alien planets and let us explore whole new environments. But not every alien planet is totally realistic, especially given how much we’ve learned about exoplanets lately. So we asked six experts to tell us the biggest mistakes they see in fictional habitable worlds — and here’s what they told us.

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This Homemade Cozy Coupe Ecto1 Is Unofficially Awesome

This Homemade Cozy Coupe Ecto1 Is Unofficially Awesome

It’s nice to see Ghostbusters getting a lot of love in the toy world these days. First, Lego revealed it’s making an official Ghostbusters building set, and now some awesome modder has turned his nephew’s Little Tikes Cozy Coupe into an adorably miniature version of Ecto1.

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Pixar artist turns R-rated movies into awesome kids book illustrations

Pixar artist turns R-rated movies into awesome kids book illustrations

Josh Cooley has a good sense of humor which is probably what led him to start drawing R-rated scenes from famous movies in the style of a children’s book. Alien, Fight Club, The Godfather, Jaws—they’re all there. And they’re for sale.

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First full-length Guardians of the Galaxy trailer is full-awesome too

First full-length Guardians of the Galaxy trailer is full-awesome too

We were teased with visual eye candy earlier today but here’s the whole shabang. It’s everything you’d want in a space and sci-fi flick only way more funny. Chris Pratt, John C. Reilly and Peter Serafinowicz get most of the laughing bits in the trailer while the rest of the cast of wacky monsters and creatures get the action sequences.

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Can you recognize all the movies in this cute animation about film?

Here’s an adorably clever animation about famous movie characters called Cinematics by Pier Paolo. How many of these classic movies and characters do you recognize? It’s fun to see famous films animated like this, you’re staring at Charlie Chaplin and eventually it becomes Freddy Kreuger and you’re wondering just how the hell did you get here.

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Michael Keaton in for Beetlejuice 2 if Tim Burton is

One of those iconic movies of the 1980’s came from director Tim Burton and actor Michael Keaton in the form of the spooky comedy Beetlejuice. Keaton played the title character … Continue reading

Hands-On: the official Lego Ghostbusters is awesome and spot on

Hands-On: the official Lego Ghostbusters is awesome and spot on

A few weeks ago Lego officially revealed that the next fan-designed Cuusoo set to go into production would be Brent Waller’s incredibly-detailed Ghostbusters set. And while the brickmasters at Lego made a few tweaks to Waller’s design, the results are still definitely worth adding to any Lego collection.

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Star Wars Rebels: video and LEGO sets spill the beans

This week the first look we’ve had up close and personal with the creators and the artwork behind Star Wars Rebels is close at hand. What we’re seeing here is … Continue reading

How Criterion Collection Brings Movies Back From the Dead

There are few names that represent a commitment to the distribution of classic films like the Criterion Collection. Since the 1980s, they have remastered and released hundreds of movies on Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-Ray. We recently visited the Criterion headquarters in New York to get a first-hand look at the meticulous restoration process that brings cinematic gems back to life.

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