Movies/TV
Double Viking's Guide to the Oscars 2016
The Oscars are this Sunday night and if you're the type to watch the Oscars every year, it's kind of a big deal. My tradition, as friends have become scattered across the country, has been to post my random thoughts to Facebook all night and my friends and I interact, and it's a fun way to watch the Oscars with your friends. Here are some things to watch for, drinking game options, and other general survival tips for the longest awards show in the galaxy.
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Backflip skills of prehistoric proportions!
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Movies/TV
Next Year's Best Picture Oscar Winner Set to Be Released on October 7, 2016
Man, oh man is the Academy just about shitting their pants over The Birth of a Nation. No, not that one, you racist. The one that just swept its way to awards glory at Sundance. The film that African American Nate Parker co-wrote, directed and stars in and looks like manna from the heavens to an institution that's now fielded forty straight white acting Oscar nominees and is under fire for claims of Whitewashing.
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Movies/TV
Spielberg Has His Lead for 'Ready Player One'
In his relatively young career—his first role was in Terrence Malick's 2011 film The Tree of Life—Tye Sheridan hasn't made a bad movie. Sure, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse was a dumb movie, but it was fun and certainly wasn't as terrible as its reputation and box office performance suggest. Now the star of Mud and Joe is going to star as the hero of Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's terrific Ready Player One.
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Lists
The Vikies: Nominees for Best Movie
Since this is our inaugural year for The Vikies, we're taking a more in-depth look at each category and nominee to help give you some context for the awards. This is by far the most cut and dry category in the entire ceremony, so let's get to talkin' about these five terrific films...
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Five Second Break: Morgan Freeman Brings Your Route Closer to God
Adjust your Waze settings to heavenly.
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Movies/TV
'Pacific Rim 2' Lives to Play Another Day, Now With a New Director
One of my favorite films of the last few years was Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim, a tremendously fun movie about giant robots fighting aliens. I'm totally sincere in my belief that it couldn't have been a more perfectly executed mega-budget genre flick, but a sequel has been a dicey proposition since the film underperformed at the box office. Well, that sequel which was shitcanned late last year now looks as if it might be going forward, this time with a new director at the helm.
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Movies/TV
'Last Week Tonight' Takes on Hollywood Whitewashing
"For the second year in a row, the nominees are whiter than a yeti in a snowstorm fighting Tilda Swinton"
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Music
Using These Crazy Headphones Might Be Better Than Getting High
And it's all thanks to dopamine.
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Videos
A Brilliant Video Essay About the Film that Deserves to Win the Best Picture Oscar
I don't know which film I want to win the Best Picture Oscar this year. Sure I loved Mad Max: Fury Road, but is it really Best Picture material? That's the question I keep coming back to this entire Oscar season, and now this new video essay from Fandor nicely illustrates their reason for backing one film in particular, and it's probably not the one you're thinking of...
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'A Million to Juan' Star Throws Shade at Non-Scientologist Will Smith
A Million to Juan star Paul Rodriguez figured out the perfect way to grab some headlines today: By taking a shit all over one of the biggest stars in the world. During a radio interview in San Diego, Rodriguez said that while filming Ali with Will Smith, he found the actor to be "an asshole" to work with and also casually mentioned that the actor may have been juicing to get big for the role.
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Five Second Break: I Believe This 'X-Files' coloring Book Didn't Take Long to Make
This official X-Files coloring book costs $12, which—from the looks of it—is also how much money it took to produce.
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'Incredibles 2' and 'Cars 3' Have Directors
Let's get the great news out of the way, right away. Brad Bird has made it official that he'll be back at the helm of Incredibles 2, which is obviously a fantastic call and one that has removed all doubt I had in the project. As for Cars 3, it looks like it's going to be directed by Dan Scanlon, the guy who made Monsters University. So... yay?
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Five Second Break: Everyday is Amazing With an Edible Spoon Maker
Think about all the Nutella you're gonna scarf down with these.
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Original Articles
Guys, I Think They Broke Zack Snyder
You know how they say that being the President ages you abnormally fast? Well, it looks like the burden that DC has been placing on Zack Snyder to get their Shared Cinematic Universe off the ground has aged him something fierce.
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