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(JDHancock/flickr) If Ariel had normal-sized eyes, we might be less endeared to her—forced to focus more immediately on her disconcerting scaly tail. If Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg were a Disney Princess, as one artist recently rendered her, she’d have no wrinkles, a smirk on her face, and some décolletage. Buzzfeed And…
11 Disney Princesses Whose Eyes Are Literally Bigger Than Their Stomachs Hungry, gals? You must be, because these animated Disney kweens’ eyes are literally bigger than their stomachs. I can’t wait to buy my daughter a waist trainer for her Jasmine Halloween costume!! Tiana Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Rapunzel Pocahontas Meg…
The omnipresent practice of denying girls action figures has somehow hit a new low. Remember how in the Jurassic World movie, most of the dinosaurs—especially Chris Pratt’s Raptor squad—were constantly referred to as girls? Well, as Jurassic World action figures, they’ve all been genderswapped into boys. Yes, the packaging for every single Raptor action figure—as…
Why don’t the dinosaurs have feathers?? Tweet us! http://bit.ly/pbsideachanneltwitter Idea Channel Facebook! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelfacebook Talk about this episode on reddit! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelreddit Idea Channel IRC! http://bit.ly/pbsideachannelirc Email us! pbsideachannel [at] gmail [dot] com Neil DeGrasse Tyson has made a small game out of decrying the factual inaccuracies of popular movies, but do these noted inaccuracies actually…matter? On…
We finally have our new, Marvel-Cinematic-Universe-approved Spider-Man. But aside from the obvious benefits of having Marvel’s most popular (and most lucrative) hero join their cinematic fold, there’s a far more crucial aspect of Spider-Man that the MCU needs right now: his ability to tie this ever-expanding universe together. The Age of SHIELD is Over While…
Do you know what Minions are? I’m serious. I keep thinking that I know what Minions are, and then I’ll lose three hours on poorly maintained Facebook pages and Pinterest tags and emerge from my trance sweaty, short of breath, and somehow more baffled than I was before. It probably doesn’t help that there’s a…
Dave M. Benett/Getty Images Start Article Post Content Marvel and Sony have found their Peter Parker.“The Impossible” actor Tom Holland is set to play the web-slinging superhero in the next “Spider-Man” franchise. Jon Watts will direct the film. The actor is first expected to make an appearance in “Captain America: Civil War” in order to…
Later this week, some of the now-fully grown adults from KIDS will reunite at BAM in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the controversial ’90s film. On hand will be Larry Clark, Harmony Korine, Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, and Rosario Dawson, who were all young, and very new to the industry at the time. This…
Jurassic World is now on track to beat the box office records of both Avengers films, and it has a shot at beating Avatar. This is terrible, awful news for anybody who loves movies. Not because Jurassic World is a horrible movie—it’s actually pretty fun. But because this means a lot more pandering sequels. I’m…
Batman Begins, arguably the first truly great Batman movie since 1989, turns 10 today. When it was released in the summer of 2005, it wasn’t the only superhero movie on the block, but it was by far the best, and the impact it had continues to reverberate to this very day. We wouldn’t have Christian…