Fantasy and sci-fi movies aren't known for having small budgets. As series go, the film adaptations of Harry Potter were not cheap. In fact, if we include the Fantastic Beasts films, the Harry Potter film franchise has cost well over $1 billion dollars. It's also made well over $1 billion, at least 8 billion on top of the film budgets. Numbers like this are a bit overwhelming for our little brains. So when we heard Cracked took a stab at Harry Potter f or their latest $20 Movies installment, yo…

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Happy (day) Marvel fans and superhero heads! It’s that time of the week for another offering of Marvel memes. We’re currently in the preliminary hype month before two big Marvel releases, so let’s get started. First, just a little over a week away, we have the release of “Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse.” It goes without saying, but pretty much everyone is excited about this. A sequel to one of the greatest animated movies maybe ever, definitely top five superhero movies? Obviously, we’ll ha…

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Historical Fiction is a wildly popular genre. Some movies and television series that fall under the umbrella strive for complete historical accuracy, others, like Bridgerton and D ownton Abbey occupy a historical alternative universe, which allows them to take some liberties where casting and even plotlines are concerned. The increasing popularity of these alternative timelines begs the question: Exactly how faithful do these programs really need to be when it comes to history? A recent Twitter…

Happy Monday Marvel fans and superhero heads! We’re back at it again with another week of the internet’s best Marvel Cinematic Universe memes . It’s been a pretty big week for Marvel fans with the release of James Gunn’s long-awaited conclusion to the “Guardians of the Galaxy” trilogy. Praise seems pretty unanimous across the board. Personally, I thought it did wonders to revive a bit of that patented Marvel excitement following the last few MCU duds. It’s also great to see Gunn send off this b…

If you’re a Batman fan, you’ve had no shortage of content to sink your nerdy little teeth into. Comics, television shows, innumerable movie reboots, video games, pretty much any other form of media you could imagine. An inescapable media franchise? Sure, that sounds like a nightmare for most people, but I have no qualms. We live in a society, after all. Yeah, the DC Universe isn’t top dog compared to the Marvel Cinematic Univers e, but it’s impossible to name a single MCU superhero with as much…

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There seem to be very few good samaritans who will intervene in a precarious situation. There is actually a psychological explanation for this called The Bystander Effect . According to Wikipedia, the bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological theory that states that individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when there are other people present. People feel like because there are other people around, they will intervene, and they themselves don't have to do anyt…

Contrary to popular belief, most film sets are not glamorous. Even if you go back to the alleged “golden age” of Hollywood, everyone working on a film set was being worked to

You already know what it is, it's your boy Stephen with a relatively new show on Cracked where he absolutely skewers your favorite films. Last episode we discussed 1993's Illuminati masterpiece, Super Mario Bros. This week on the Skewer Stick is this year's controversial The Super Mario Bros. Movie . No Chris Pratts were hurt in the making of this video.

Wes Anderson's signature style has made him one of the most recognizable filmmakers of the last century. The color, the symmetry, the absolute twee-ness of his works are all trademarks of his thirty-year career. Most recently, Anderson released a trailer for his predictably star-studded new feature, Asteroid City. With a mix of huge names like Tom Hanks and Steve Carrell, and Wes Anderson regulars such as Jason Schwartzman and Scarlett Johansson, it's sure to be a Hollywood hit. The compelling…

The last few months have been especially crazy for Marvel Superhero fans. Sure, with all the news, movies, and Disney Plus shows that are constantly dropping, you’d think fans would be used to crazy, but recent times have been crazy, crazy. Let’s start with the new Ant-Man movie. People really don't like it. There has been a barrage of negative reception with many complaining about the lackluster, humorless plot and the CGI being akin to those found in “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl,…

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