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Veggie Tales
September 11, 2014

Computer animation in the 90s was so bad, the creators of Veggie Tales opted for vegetables because they were easier to draw than people. The primitive animation also smoothed over all the slavery in the Old Testament.We sat down with Angela Webber, one h

NCIS
September 03, 2014

If there's a crime in Baltimore, The Wire will solve it. If there's a crime ripped from the headlines, Law & Order will solve it. If there's a crime involving Germanic animals, Grimm will solve it. But if there's a crime involving a Marine's body falling

Vibrations A.K.A. Cyberstorm
August 28, 2014

If a group of hillbillies steal your hands, don't despair. If you put your mind to it, you won't just make waves, you'll make... Vibrations!That's what happens to TJ, an up and coming musician. But his new raver friends make him new friends and he's bette

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
August 20, 2014

The best way to protest the new, terrible Ninja Turtles movie is to watch the old terrific (but only because we were kids) Ninja Turtles movie. So that's what we did.And what joy it brought to us. Remember how much they loved pizza and making sassy early-

Step Up: All In
August 13, 2014

Chris and Tanya LOVE the Step Up movies. Alex and Stephen do not really care for the Step Up movies. There's only one way to solve this: dance battle!Step Up: All In is the fifth (!) movie in the dance battle series. Loosely plotted around some young adul

Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
August 08, 2014

Do you like magic? How about realism? How about combining them into a 32+ hour slog for no apparent reason? That's Mark Helprin's novel Winter's Tale.It's the turn of the century (both of them) in New York (but not really) and a burglar/time traveler has

BONUS! Fifty Shades Of Grey Trailer
August 04, 2014

When a highly anticipated trailer for a highly anticipated movie that we know we're going to hate comes out, we like to record ourselves watching it. This is the case with the new trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey.Since we knew we'd hate that, we also watc

The Rising by Brian Keene
July 30, 2014

This is a book about zombies. Sounds fun, right? But check this out: what if a book about zombies... wasn't fun at all? That's The Rising.Brian Keene's debut novel follows three people dealing with the demon zombie hellscape caused by an accident at a par

Labyrinth
July 23, 2014

Jim Henson didn't just make the cute Muppets on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. He also applied the same foam techniques to stranger projects like the incomprehensible but delightful Labyrinth starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, and The Bulge In D

Ophelia by Lisa Klein
July 17, 2014

If you ever watched Hamlet and thought "this has too much excitement" then Lisa Klein's book Ophelia is for you.Ophelia imagines a world where the insane woman in Hamlet is only pretending to be insane and instead of being dead she just pretends to be dea