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The Avatar movies are among the most popular of all time. So why does the franchise feel so culturally invisible compared to other box office champions?

CBS canceling Stephen Colbert to curry favor with a president eager to use his power to punish enemies and reward foes is horrifying, but it’s part of an even bigger, even more disturbing trend.

I should have gotten off toxic Twitter for Bluesky long ago but I’ve got my reasons, mainly rooted in dysfunctional cycles and neurodivergence.

We never should have even thought about writing this article.

Whether you’re a small child or a punk hitting your bottom on heroin and cocaine in the late 1970s, Yo Gabba Gabba! is full of life lessons.

We hope you're hungry for some meaty arguments! 

Not all celebrities remain rich and famous forever. Here are five who went from wealth and fame to being homeless street trash.

We were going to share some neat trivia about actress Mena Suvari but since you don’t even know who she is we’re not even going to bother.

You’ve seen all the memes! Now see them all again, this time with punishingly literal commentary!

The notoriously awful Sex and the City sequel ended with a notoriously godawful insult of a finale that proves that Kim Cattrall was right about everything.

In 1990 Nicolas Cage made Firebirds, the first of several thousand forgettable action vehicles unworthy of his talent or originality.

In the early oughts Robert Evans briefly had his own raunchy animated vehicle? Was it a flop? You bet your sweet ass it is was!

It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!

The Beach Boys least successful album sold less than one thousand copies and had zero contributions from Brian Wilson. It was, however, perversely drum machine heavy and featured Mike Love rapping.

Yes, rapping.

It is not good.

I finally got around to seeing 2019’s Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker and it’s so bad that it’s making me re-think my decision to devote my life to Star Wars fandom.

Great meme, terrible movie.

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

In 1990 Nicolas Cage made Firebirds, the first of several thousand forgettable action vehicles unworthy of his talent or originality.

It’s Psycho Versus Psychlo in the cinematic war of the millennium!

John Travolta has big fun with a very big performance as a colorful lawman/law-breaker in the appealingly vulgar exploitation movie To Paris With Love.

Hey, you know what movie is great? Get Shorty. That movie is SO good.

Shortly before the release of Battflefield Earth John Travolta contributed a voice to 1999’s Our Friend, Martin, an insane special with the balls to ask, “Why don’t 12 year olds from the present travel back in time to save Martin Luther King’s life?”

Nicolas Cage has got Laura Dern hotter than Georgia asphalt in David Lynch’s gleefully bonkers Southern-fried, Palme D’Or-winning Neo-Noir.

Our deep dive into the complete discography of Nicolas Cage continues with a look back at the muddled 1993 inter-racial buddy comedy Amos & Andrew, a maddening heap of missed opportunities and muddled satire.

A perfectly cast Nicolas Cage and Sean Connery are a mismatched buddy team for the ages in Michael Bay’s uncharacteristically enjoyable 1996 action adventure The Rock.

One of you kind souls paid me to experience a fascinatingly awkward 1999 NBC special where Garth Brooks does a terrible job of promoting his ill-fated alter-ego, Australia-born pouty rocker/blue eyed soulman Chris Gaines.

1985’s Rambo: First Blood Part II desecrates everything that made First Blood so powerful. That’s probably why it was a massive blockbuster.

One of you kind souls paid me to suffer through the painful Sylvester Stallone-goes-country musical comedy Rhinestone, a flop that continues to suck.

Bret Ratner brought Donald Trump’s favorite cannibal to the big screen—again—in Red Dragon, a woeful adaptation of the novel that introduced Hannibal Lecter and inspired the infinitely better 1986 cult classic Manhunter

If you thought “Hulk” Hogan’s sex tape was embarrassing, wait until you hear his 1995 rap album Hulk Rules!

One of y’all kind sadists paid me one hundred dollars to see and talk about a 1989 Hungarian-American Felix the Cat movie that, honestly, is pretty fucked up.

Before Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars and made a fortune, Michael Mann brought Donald Trump’s favorite cannibalistic serial to the big screen with the mesmerizing 1986 cult classic Manhunter.

John Carpenter’s ultra-violent, hyper-profane 1998 vampire western Vampires promised to be badass. Instead it’s merely bad.