The 10 Grossest Hollywood Thumbs-Into-Eyes

(Compilation video after the jump)Blade RunnerHorror films enjoy including eye-gouging for gross-out effect. Philosophical films like Blade Runner, however, tend to use the move as a sophisticated Oedipal metaphor. Either way, we the audience get...

Your Guide to Fictional Little People

A Brief History Of Cars Crashing Through Walls On Sitcoms

One of the defining characteristics of the traditional sitcom is the presence of three walls, which means driving a car through one of those walls is one of the most exciting things that can possibly happen. Here, collected for the first time...

10 Films Not Good Enough For DVD

When "Waterworld" and "Showgirls" can claim DVDs of their own, it takes an especially bad movie to remain stuck on VHS in 2008. The following 10 films are not on DVD... and should probably remain that way.Howard the Duck (1986)Casual Star Wars...

Seven Jokes That Came True

Some jokes are funny because they're true. Here are seven jokes that were funny because they weren't true, yet. Joke: The Chris Rock Show (1997) Reality: OJ Simpson's "If I Did It, Here's How It Happened" (2006) In...

Seven Cinematic Sub-Sub-Genres

"Mr. Mom" ComediesIt's easy to see why producers are attracted to stories of souls swapping bodies. It's like two fish-out-of-water comedies for the price of one. The old guy's trying to skateboard! The woman is burping and scratching herself! The...

9 (Very) Short-Lived Celebrity Talk Shows

The Magic Hour with Magic JohnsonHow long did it last?: Eight weeks.Just because someone is good at something, doesn't mean they are good at everything. You wouldn't ask David Letterman to play point guard. Yet someone at Fox decided Magic Johnson...

Heavy Metal Superpowers

When Bob Dylan and Bono talk about the power of music, they're clearly speaking philisophically. They don't actually believe music gives them supernatural powers. Heavy Metal bands do. Here's a sampling of some famous '80s guitar gods who used the...