May 31, 2021

Even someone as bankable as Will Smith is bound to have a dud at some point. When After Earth premiered on May 31, 2013, its writer/star/producer had high hopes for a sci-fi franchise that would launch a whole world of new stories, tie-ins and even a NASA partnership. Find out what went wrong and why Smith dubbed it...

May 28, 2021

Put on your Power Glove because Kung Fury has everything: ninjas, David Hasselhoff, a dinosaur cop, Hitler, vikings, a killer arcade game, and did we mention David Hasselhoff? The short film premiered on May 28th, 2015, but we'll hack into the past and future of this internet phenomenon short-film to find out the...

May 27, 2021

From busker to Shakespeare, from Chaucer to... a robot? Meet Paul Bettany, born on May 27th, 1971. He caught Jon Favreau's eye who immediately thought of Bettany as the "personality-less" J.A.R.V.I.S. for the Iron Man films, and when it was time for another phase of the MCU, Bettany was the right choice to...

May 26, 2021

The fictional and factual origins of Bram Stoker's Dracula are today's subject, celebrating the 124th anniversary of the book's first publication on May 26th, 1897. Not exactly a hit at the time, find out the great lengths Stoker went to while developing the details for a character who would become a pop-culture...

May 25, 2021

Ridley Scott's "Alien" got a spectacular Hollywood premiere on May 25, 1979 at the famous Egyptian Theatre. With props and set pieces and a full-sized space jockey, audiences were treated to an immersive world of the Nostromo and her crew. One errant cigarette lighter later, and the whole thing became a lesson in why we...