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6 inspirational design trends in modern celebrity homes These celebrity designer touches can hopefully inspire a little sparkle to smaller yet ambitious homes.
Imagine living in Bill Gates’ $125 million home with as many wildly over the top features you could think of – including rotating artwork, pressure-sensitive floors for security, and a whopping six different kitchens to design to your heart’s content. Celebrity homes have always been a subject of fascination, telling us as much about how the rich and famous enjoy their leisure time as about the latest high-tech features enhancing human home life and enjoyment. Of course, you don’t need to have a celebrity budget – or even a ridiculous amount of space – to design beautiful interiors. These are just six homes whose designer touches can easily inspire a…
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Hollywood blockbusters with glaring historical inaccuracies Hollywood has a knack for embellishing the truth, especially when the movie comes with the label "based on a true story."
“Based on a true story” can mean a variety of things, but in most cases, it translates to: “we promise a nugget of truth, somewhere.” What’s important is that it makes for a good story, right? You decide. Ridley Scott and Burt Reynolds’ Gladiator (2000) “Are you not entertained?” Clearly not if you’re a history buff. Though much of the public had no qualms over Russell Crowe’s portrayal of a tragic sword-wielding hero, there were many who noticed that the film had it’s share of inaccuracies. Don’t get us wrong — the film was great (not to mention the awesome soundtrack). But there were some scenes that didn’t quite match…
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10 biggest comic-book movie flops ever These aren’t the mini flops—these are the mammoth busts.
Take a beloved, established intellectual property from a comic book, add in some of Hollywood’s leading artists, technicians and performers, then multiply it by millions of dollars in budget and hundreds of millions of man hours and you should have something profitable, right? Well, as the superhero flops below prove, not so much. For artistic, production or marketing reasons, sometimes studios just miss the mark when they try to make a hero jump from the page to the screen. Given the flash and visibility of their subjects, those misses can become legendary. It’s important to note the definition of a “flop” or “bomb” is fluid in big-budget Hollywood. Sometimes a…
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10 worst superhero movies in history These make Batman v. Superman look like The Godfather.
According to box-office returns, there are few types of movies fans enjoy more than a dashing, explosion-filled superhero epic. And if you take a gander at Rotten Tomatoes, it seems Hollywood is actually doing a fairly good job of making them. But not every comic-book inspired adventure is a winner. Matter of fact, sometimes studios get the big-screen adaptations of these beloved characters so wrong that the badness of the resulting films become the stuff of legend. And here are those legends: 10 big-budget superhero films (no direct-to-video flicks or TV movies here) with the worst Rotten Tomatoes ratings, ranked from merely bad to spectacularly, fantastically awful. All in all,…
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Why Hollywood gets World War II so wrong Hollywood liberals see World War II as the last morally unquestionable war but so often get their facts wrong.
While only 130 movies have been made about World War I, there have been 1,300 made about the World War II. Hollywood liberals see it as the last morally unquestionable war, and so are keen to return to it again and again, replete with its feel-good factor. Two of the most extraordinary episodes from WWII are to be released as new movies, which should fill historians and movie buffs with a mixture of delight and trepidation. The first is the daring killing of SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich in May 1942 on a hairpin bend on his daily journey to Prague Castle by the heroic Czech sergeants Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik.…
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10 movie villains who were actually the good guys Villains from throughout cinematic history who, on further examination, were definitely actually the good guys.
The battle between good and evil is at the center of many of history’s great stories, but in this modern world that distinction isn’t quite as clear-cut. Heroes are often morally ambiguous, and villains are just as bad. Wait, we mean good. Hold on, let’s try this again. A well-written villain will have a motivation that goes beyond “do bad stuff.” Some of the most endearing bad guys of all time are complex, nuanced characters. Case in point: Magneto from the X-Men comics. Sure, he’s tried to commit global genocide on non-mutants a time or two, but his experiences during the Holocaust made him forever paranoid that a great purge…
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The 10 most evil fictional organizations Agglomerations of wretched villainy poised to completely destroy the civilization we hold dear.
With Spectre taking top billing in the new James Bond film, we thought it would be a good idea to assemble a sort of “atlas of evil,” as it were — a guide to the most evil fictional criminal groups in the world. We’ll be surveying movies, TV shows, games, and comics to seek out evil scientists, tyrannical terrorists, and other organized scumbags. The Syndicate Watch this video on YouTube The shadowy forces that hindered Mulder and Scully as they tried to probe for proof of extraterrestrial life. They originally started as a secret group within the State Department, but went off on their own in 1973. Their main goal was…
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Too freaky to fake? 5 legendary TV curses One might be tempted to dismiss this as the inevitable result of an industry that attracts famewhores and the mentally ill. Then again...
These legendary streaks of bad luck are so horrible we just have to believe. Otechestven Front Otechestven Front is a Bulgarian slice-of-life interview show. Presenter Martin Karbovski travels around interviewing normal-seeming folk with extraordinary tales. The most extraordinary tales, however, happen after the show airs…when the guests die. The weirdness started in 2010, when a criminal died days after appearing on the show. Rumors of black magic circulated, but probably the criminal just pissed someone off who saw him on TV and whacked him. If Otechestven Front is really just about exposing criminals without using that face-blur thing, it’s hard for us to call it a curse. Which is why…
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The finest film foxes of the fifties Let's brush up on babe history.
It might be hard to imagine that hot, gorgeous, and (dare I say it) sexy women existed before the internet, before Playboy, and even before color television. It’s easy to dismiss them at first, because all of those old movies and news reels are just reminiscent of your parents and/or grandparents. What’s hard to admit, though, is that there’s a good chance that your own grandma was a foxy babe in her time. She knocked your grandpa’s socks off by doing the Charleston or something in one of those scandalous dresses that ended just above the knee. It’s uncomfortable to imagine, we know. We have evidence, however, that though styles…
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The mystery of Larry Wachowski Could the co-creator of The Matrix real life truly be stranger than fiction?
Originally published January 12, 2006 in RollingStone (archive: archive.is/Y1xcB) and disappeared at some point since then. We can’t be sure of the reason for this disappearance (possible clue in the next link), but it will most certainly never be republished or made available again by the far-left magazine. One night in January 2001, Larry Wachowski, co-director of the blockbuster Matrix movies, walked into a dark club in West Hollywood, where the rules of identity easily blurred, just like in his films. The Dungeon served the devoted BDSM – bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism – community in Los Angeles. It was a place where power dynamics between two different types of…