Conservatives still don’t understand what “freedom of religion” is

In the US Constitution it says the government cannot make any law “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms simply says that a person has the “freedom of conscience and religion”. What this means is that you have the right to believe anything you want…

A Huge Collection of Grindhouse Trailers in one Video (NSFW)

Via Frank Dracman and io9, 100 minutes of Grindhouse trailers featuring all kinds of NSFW things. For most of these movies, the trailer is all you’ll ever need (unless you are an uber B-Movie fanatic) but you’re bound to find a few that you’ll need to track down. The best part is that if you want…

“The Story” – A short film by Homer Groening starring Maggie, Lisa and Matt

This is one of those things that is so cool that there is really no reason why I should need to explain the coolness of it. For anyone who is reading this though and doesn’t quite understand, “the Story” is a short film made by Homer Groening, father of Simpsons creator Matt Groening. It stars…

Now that Sochi is Over, Pussy Riot re-arrested along with 100 other activists

Before the Olympic medals could even find their way into trophy cases, Russian President Vladamir Putin has begun rounding up his critics again. Right before the Olympics began Putin attempted to improve his government’s international image by granting amnesty to thousands of political prisoners, including members of Pussy Riot and Greenpeace activists. Now that the…

“It Doesn’t Get Better” – A message from the kids who were popular in high school

A counterpoint to the “It Gets Better Project“. Regardless of why you weren’t popular in high school, remember that for most of the kids that were, it was their moment in the sun. They got to be really important for a few years as teenagers and then, other things happened … It Doesn’t Get Better…

New Game of Thrones Clips and Teasers

We’re just over a month from Season 4 of Game of Thrones now so the publicity machine has started ramping up. That’s good for us, though not as good as say … just giving us the new season or maybe giving us the next book? Anyway, I’ll take what I can get. Here is a…

Finally an ‘Honest University Commercial’

For a very long time the path to some level of success went high school – university – job. If you completed those steps you were more or less guaranteed, at least, a middle class lifestyle. In 2014 the only thing a university education guarantees is a massive amount of debt. We’ve all seen the…

Harold Ramis offers advice to young filmmakers in 2002 interview

As most (hopefully all) of you know by now Harold Ramis passed away yesterday. The star of SCTV, writer of Animal House, Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters, Director of Caddyshack, National Lampoon’s Vacation and Groundhog day leaves a void in comedy. But maybe, just maybe, someone out there has what it takes to be “the next…

New ‘Farscape’ movie is in the works

Eat your heart out Star Wars VII! Sure Farscape may have never moved audiences on a Star Wars level, but it never disappointed on a Jar Jar Binks level either and JJ Abrams isn’t touching this one. Blastr is reporting that a new Farscape movie, centered on John and Aeryn’s 19-year-old son, is in the…