Entries Tagged as 'ftw'

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

Short Film Shot Entirely on a Phone Chronicles ‘The Life & Death of an iPhone’

Our phones are an integral part of most of our lives these days, so much so that we probably don’t ever take a step back and think about how we use them. Well filmmaker Paul Trillo has done that for us in a short film shot on his iPhone using the Cameo app. In the [...]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2015

The 100 Most Iconic Movie Lines of All Time

Cinema has had such an impact on popular culture that many of the phrases from some of Hollywood’s finest films have entered the common lexicon. Either that or you spend so much time quoting them among your friends that you develop a shorthand language where you can speak to each other just using quotes from [...]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

‘Pope Francis: The Encyclical’—The Pope Turns Badass to Fight Climate Change

Pope Francis recently used his encyclical, a letter sent to his minions to lay out the issues that the Catholic church should be sticking their holy nose in, to highlight environmental concerns. He used it to shout out about climate change and the need for governments to do more than they are to stem it. [...]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015

‘Mad Max: Out of Gas’ is the Fury Road Spoof Sequel the World Needs

With the recent and very well received Mad Max reboot the next thing on everyone’s minds (well Hollywood producer’s anyway) is, what about the sequels? Well don’t worry Hollywood because The Warp Zone have got it covered with their spoof ‘Mad Max: Out of Gas’. The premise of the video is that, after using [...]

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

Hairdryers Become Kinetic Sculptures in Installation by French Magician

French magician and juggler Antoine Terrieux created a series of artworks using hairdryers arranged in various configurations so they’d blow various objects in intriguing ways. He positions them in certain places so they give flight to a paper airplane or keep a ball floating in midair, or motor along in a pool of water and [...]

Monday, June 22nd, 2015

The Honest Trailer For Toy Story Reveals a Very Dark Film Indeed

When we all watched Toy Story back in the 90s we must have been so wowed by the digital animation that we passed over certain elements of the plot. Elements like the fact Woody is an egomaniac a-hole and the fact that, what passes itself off as a kid’s film about toys coming to life [...]

Sunday, June 21st, 2015

A Message for All Humanity

It’s the weekend, a time for quiet reflection upon the human condition. That and guzzling beer until it comes out of your eyeballs. So in between all those tequila shots off naked bodies and all the laughing and joking, why not take some time to ponder this speech from Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator”. [...]

Friday, June 19th, 2015

‘Subterranean Facebook Blues’—Bob Dylan’s Classic Sung Through Facebook Profiles

Bob Dylan’s iconic track “Subterranean Homesick Blues” has been covered and parodied many times over the years since it’s release back in 1965. But this is the first time it’s been covered using people’s names as presented on their Facebook profiles. Each line becomes a pun on a name, some work better than other, but [...]

Friday, June 19th, 2015

The Evolution of the Word Dude from 1880s to the Present

Dude! Prior to Bill and Ted the word dude wasn’t always associated with surfers and excellent adventures, in fact the etymology of it shows that way back when in the 1880s the word was used to describe what we now refer to as hipsters. It was used to describe a person who was a shallow, [...]

Thursday, June 18th, 2015

How Much Would it Cost to Build Jurassic Park?

Jurassic Park is obviously a work of fiction, but it’s an idea that captures our imaginations because, let’s face it, if there was a theme park that featured real dinos, no matter that it would be the most dangerous place to visit, lots of people would still queue up to go.

Wednesday, June 17th, 2015

Seth MacFarlane Sings Cyndi Lauper’s Greatest Hits As Stewie and Peter Griffin

Seth MacFarlane could pretty much sing or say absolutely anything in the voices of Stewie and Peter from Family Guy and it would be hilarious and fascinating to listen to—but it’s even funnier singing Cyndi Lauper’s classic pop songs, while sitting next to her on the couch when both appeared on Graham Norton’ British talkshow.