Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel Go to Couples Therapy

Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel are long time frenemies, they had a falling out and they’ve never been able to quite work it out. But they’re trying, and so dedicated are they to resolution that they’re even willing to try couples therapy. You can see exactly how that went in this video.

Friday, October 2nd, 2015

Carl’s Jr.’s Tex Mex Burger Commercial Has Some Fun with the ‘Borderwall’

Sexism is alive and well in Carl’s Jr. commercials, which amongst the women in bikinis and slow-mo ass-slapping also happen to have a couple of burgers in there—although you’d be forgiven if you somehow missed them. As well as sexism, they’ve also made their ad chime with topical issues. Namely, immigration.

Thursday, October 1st, 2015

This CGI Moshpit is Much More Insane than the Real Thing

Dutch band De Staat’s song “Witch Doctor” is one of the more intense and bizarre music videos you’re going to see—shot on a low budget with green screens and using motion capture, it features lead singer Torre Florim goading and controlling a legion of CGI moshers.

Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

John Oliver Mocks News Coverage of the Refugee Crisis on Last Week Tonight

There are millions of migrants seeking asylum in Europe but after fleeing horror at home they face hostility, racism, and red tape when they get there. And the public’s perception of them isn’t helped by the news coverage which stokes the flames by painting them in an unflattering light.

Tuesday, September 29th, 2015

Jimmy Kimmel Made Celebrities Read Mean Tweets to a Live Audience

For an entire week of shows Jimmy Kimmel invited celebrities to read terrible and nasty things people tweet about them, and they did it all in front of a live studio audience too. In this edition of #MeanTweets celebrities like Jeff Bridges, Kristen Bell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Liam Neeson, Emily Blunt, Halle [...]

Sunday, September 27th, 2015

Awesome Short Film Combines Aspects of Zombie, Sci-Fi & Superhero Flicks

Director Mitch Cohen mashes up the nerd-dream of zombie, superhero, and sci-fi movies into short film “Super Zero: Badass Journey Into Zombie Awesomeness” which takes place in the near future where a discovery of life on Mars leads to the zombie apocalypse back on Earth.

Friday, September 25th, 2015

Why Do Action Scenes Suck? Two Guys Explain

YouTubers Sam and Niko reveal what it is about some action scenes in movies that make them, well, not very good. Firstly they show what a bad action scene looks like and then they look at movies that do action scenes brilliantly. Usually they involve characters we care about, actually show the action and the [...]

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015

Watch Pixar’s Short LAVA About Two Volcanoes in Love

If you see a Pixar movie at the cinema, you also get to see a Pixar short that precedes the movie—this short LAVA preceded Inside Out and it’s a charming love story about two…volcanoes? Yep, leave it to Pixar to imbue a rocky lava-spewing mass with warmth and wit.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

‘Paper,’ A Stop-Motion Animation by PES for Honda

In this minor masterpiece from Oscar-nominated stop-motion animator PES, dozens of animators and illustrators worked on thousands of original drawings over four months of work. The result is that everything you see is done by hand and shot in camera.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

‘Uptown Funk’ Mashup Sees 100 Movies Dance Scenes Boogie to Mark Ronson’s Hit

YouTube channel What’s the Mashup ? perfectly sync dance scenes from 100 movies so it looks like the characters are getting down to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ hit “Uptown Funk”—The movies featured in the mashup ranged from Grease, Flashdance and Dirty Dancing to Magic Mike, 13 Going on 30, 500 Days of Summer, and [...]

Monday, September 21st, 2015

Watch the Remastered Version of Everything is a Remix as One Single Video

Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix came at a time when remix culture, mashups and supercuts, were first taking off on the web—and copyright was, and still is, a big issue. What Ferguson’s series of films did, now available to watch as a single 40 minute long doc, is reiterated that, actually, remix culture had [...]