Entries Tagged as 'cool'

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

Watch Documentary ‘The Making of Predator’ and Learn How They Made this Action Classic

This 1987 documentary goes behind the scenes of the famous 80s action sci-fi movie, which looks at the on-location shooting, the practical effects they used, and the special FX artists who created the highly detailed predator design. It’s a fascinating insight into the movie and any fan of the film should stop what they’re doing [...]

Tuesday, March 24th, 2015

iNotRacist, a New App To Show Your Friends How Unracist You Are

There’s probably a hundred things a week you do that show how unracist you are, but does anyone see? Or do you ever get any credit for those actions? No, well now a new social media app hopes to change all that—iNotRacist lets you earn points for all the everyday not-racist things you do. You [...]

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

Short Film Explores The Lies People Tell On Their Facebook Status Updates

Everyone on social media feels pressure to make themselves sound like they’re doing cool stuff all the time, but mostly people are just sat at a desk reading other people’s Facebook statuses. This short film from Shaun Higton looks at the how people tend to exaggerate their real life activities for the benefit of looking [...]

Sunday, March 22nd, 2015

Luke’s Change: an Inside Job

Conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere (even in a galaxy far, far away). If the destruction of the Death Star at the end of A New Hope has always sat a bit fishy in your mind, something about it not quite right, then let this video stir the pot and stoke the flames of conspiracy so that you [...]

Saturday, March 21st, 2015

This Is What H.R. Giger’s Home Life Was Like

The artist who gave us the alien creature from the Alien franchise and much more died recently, so as an absurd homage to the great man why not watch this hilarious animation that imagines what the artist’s home life may’ve been like. But turn away now if you’re easily offended, because this really doesn’t hold [...]

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Watch the Awesome Pilot For Fan Made ‘Dragon Ball Z: Light of Hope’

As CGI software and camera equipment gets more and more affordable without affecting the quality, fan made short films no longer need to look like they were filmed on your dad’s camcorder down at your local park (even if it was). As you’ll see from this pilot for the live-action web series Dragon Ball Z: [...]

Friday, March 20th, 2015

Guys Pick Up Girls Using Pornhub Comments, Cue Much Hilarity

In a bold, pretty stupid, but undeniably funny move the pranksters from Smooth Pranks take to the streets of Las Vegas to see what reactions they get when trying to pick up girls using comments made on Pornhub. Yep, it’s one way NOT to make friends and you have to wonder about the people who [...]

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Guy Prank Calls C-SPAN Pretending to be Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

This is probably the most interesting that C-SPAN has ever been, as a guy called up the Washington Journal program aired on the cable TV station pretending he wanted to talk about Congress and the Iran negotiations, but what he really wanted to do was much more fun and entertaining.

Tuesday, March 17th, 2015

Once Upon a Time in the West Opening: The Sound as a Storyteller

In this video essay Pablo Valverde takes a look at the beginning of Once Upon a Time in the West and how it’s a brilliant example of using sound to convey the narrative and set up the story, showing the dynamics between the characters while placing the tale in a specific place and time.

Monday, March 16th, 2015

Eclectic Method Delivers an Epic Terminator Remix

For his new remix, sample doyenne Eclectic Method takes sound bites from the Terminator movies, and mashes them all together for an awesome track full of the sounds of weapons firing and robots from the future saying cool quotes.

Tuesday, March 10th, 2015

Dan Bull vs VI Seconds in ‘Super Smash Bros’ Rap Battle

Rapper laureate of the internet, Dan Bull, teams up with VI Second for a rap battle about fighting game Super Smash Bros., as they take turns to declare who is the supreme master of the game and also school each other on the correct gaming etiquette when playing a versus battle.