Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Monday, December 28th, 2015

The Best and Freakiest Japanese Commercials of 2015

If there’s one country that knows how to do insane WTF commercials it’s Japan, and this year they haven’t disappointed. In fact, they excelled themselves, showing that they’re very much still at the top of their game, as you’ll be able to tell from this best-of roundup from 2015’s selection.

Thursday, December 24th, 2015

Uncanny Valley, a Sci-Fi Short Film About VR Addiction

This sci-fi short imagines a dystopian future where vast slums are full of junkies, but these aren’t the drug-addicted junkies we know of today. These junkies are addicted to virtuality reality, getting their violent kicks in the world of online gaming in this stylish CGI-heavy short film.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2015

Eclectic Method’s ‘Trump Remix’ Turns His Ravings into a Catchy EDM Song

Donald Trump and EDM should really never go together, but experimental remixers Eclectic Method have done just that by taking snippets of Trump’s ramblings and editing them together along with a beat until you get something equating an EDM song. OK it might not be the best EDM song ever made, but it makes Trump [...]

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

Sub-Zero Stays Dizzy in a Move Far Worse Than a Fatality

“FINISH HIM!” screams the Mortal Kombat game in this amusing animation, but Scorpion refuses to end Sub Zero’s life in a brutal and bloody move. Instead he lets him live, except Sub-Zero has to live in a perpetual state of dizziness, forever spinning around and around. It’s some kind of torture.

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

‘I Hate Coke’: The Ultimate Cocaine Movie Mashup

Although it’s common knowledge that movie execs and actors like to indulge in some Peruvian marching dust, the on-screen characters also like to sniff some of the white stuff too—and to show you just how prevalent it is in the movies this videos displays the many many times it’s appeared on the silver screen.

Monday, December 21st, 2015

Here’s What Happened to Macaulay Culkin’s Character After the Home Alone Movies

Macaulay Culkin revisits his most famous role, Kevin McAllister from Home Alone, and just in time for Christmas too—but this Kevin McAllister isn’t the one you remember, instead as part of a new comedy web series by Jack Dishel, Culkin plays McAllister as a traumatised and psychotic adult, scarred by the horrors of what happened [...]

Sunday, December 20th, 2015

Learn the Art of Lightsaber Combat at LudoSport International

If you’re a kid and your mom or dad asks if you want to train in a martial art, then just say you’d like to go to LudoSport International, an Italian combat school that trains students in martial arts based on the lightsaber battles from Star Wars. Obviously you don’t get to use an actual [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2015

A Bad Lip Reading of the Original Star Wars Trilogy

Jack Black, Maya Rudolph, and Bill Hader have joined the Bad Lip Reading squad to do some hilarious Star Wars redubbing over scenes from the original trilogy. It’s the perfect viewing before episode VII comes out, hitting just the right side of silliness and absurdity that you’ll need before all the fans go nuts.

Friday, December 18th, 2015

Truck Flipper vs. Bus Puncher: Movie Execs Battle for the Best Vehicle Flip

The latest short film from filmmakers RocketJump features two rival film executives, who battle it out to have the greatest flip-inducing vehicle punch in the history of the movies. It starts simply with a car but then as their egos demand bigger and better the vehicles and action get more and more absurd.

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

The Star Trek Beyond Trailer Has Arrived and it’s Very Fast and Furious

Set to the Beastie Boys’ song “Sabotage” the trailer for the new Star Trek movie is either going to have you willing the release forward or going to teach you how to hate. The third film in the reboot franchise is directed by Fast and Furious director Justin Lin and, well, you can kind of [...]

Thursday, December 17th, 2015

‘American Radical’ Looks at Controversial American Jewish Academic Norman Finkelstein

Norman Finkelstein is an American Jewish academic whose stance on America’s foreign policy toward Israel and the Middle East is seen as very controversial. The 2009 documentary ‘American Radical’ looks at the life of this political scientist who is a son of holocaust survivors, whose criticism of Israel has seen him lampooned and hated.