Not to diminish George Lucas's influence on modern cinema, but I truly believe that without the people around him, we would have lived in a totally different world—one where “ Star Wars ” was just a forgotten, cheesy, and pretty bad B-movie. If it wasn't for Marcia Lucas stepping in at the last second to re-edit the entire movie, without John Williams elevating every moment to crazy heights, and without the charisma and talent of Harrison, Mark, and Carrie , this movie would have never gotten o…

These Ads Wouldn't Fly Today

They probably sell them all at Florish and Blotts.

Have you ever played “ The Last of Us ”? Such an amazing game! it is often praised for its brilliant writing and acting (less so about it's gameplay loop, even though if you play the ‘remake’, it's improved immensely). Anyway, one of the main reasons this game is so good is because of its atmosphere. There is something so beautiful in walking the the ruins of a civilization after it has been reclaimed by nature . It is eerie and sad but strangely hopeful at the same time. By the way the “ICO” T…

I wonder how many signs I see on an average day. They are everywhere! From giant billboards telling me what I should buy to tiny leaflets asking me if I want guitar lessons to just plain, boring signs telling me to slow down or where the exit is located. We don't really think about it, but I bet we read the equivalent of an average book chapter just while walking down the street. But every now and then, we come across a sign that just makes us stop in our tracks. A sign so baffling, all we can…

Greetings, archetypes. For those of you that have stumbled upon these niche memes by accident, consider this a meaningful coincidence, or as Carl Jung put it, a synchronicity. Carl Jung was an extremely influential psychologist and psychotherapist who founded the school of analytical psychology, which is still very much a thing to this day. According to Jung, our minds are made up of the ego, the persona, and the shadow. In really simple terms, the ego is like your Instagram profile. You've bee…

Mark Twain once said, "There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope." I must say I agree with him; no artist starts from scratch . Every great piece of art is inspired by all the art that came before it. You stare at a blank canvas or a blank page and think of all the art that has inspired you in the past—and you go from there, trying to invoke the same feeling you yourself got from a different piece of…

Not to throw shade on any painter that lived during the middle ages but I don't think any of them ever seen a cat in real life. It's either that or this was all an elaborate inside joke that only medieval people got. One day all painters got together and said “Wouldn't it be hisssterical if all of us insert weird looking cats into our paintings? like, keep the rest of the painting looking good, but draw just the cat as if you're a ten year old with his first box of crayons”. Well, all the cats…

Is your life in shambles? Buy a plant! Are you on the brink of an emotional breakdown? Time for a new potted plant! Is your social life as barren as the Namib Desert? Time for a new succulent! Will they solve all your problems? No! Will it suddenly transform you into a valued, well-adjusted member of society? Of course not! But will you feel an inexplicable rush of dopamine while you buy said potted plants ? You betcha! Why? Beats me! But it works! If your house is overflowing with greenery and…

No one will ever experience watching " The Matrix " the same way my friends and I (and everyone else) did back in 1999. It was a complete revelation then, and I'm not just talking about the plot twists or special effects. I mean the very concept of the Matrix—the idea of people living in a simulated reality, the notion that the world around us might not be real. These concepts weren't part of the conversation yet. Today, people use expressions like “ escaping the Matrix ” or “taking the red pil…

When @katrinkanova posted some photos of the Freeport McDonald's, which, according to her, looks like a funeral home from the outside and a retirement home from the inside, She couldn't expect the slew of replies she received from people all over the world, Sharing the strange and unique McDonalds they encountered while traveling or just while walking down the street from where they live. At Taupo, New Zealand, for example, there is a McDonald's inside of an old plane while in Cambridgeshire in…

How well do you know your Marvel superheroes ? Do you know their real names, their powers and their weaknesses? That's cute. Do you know every character's backstory and the names of their parents? That's nice. Do you know their alternate reality version and can tell us in what comic book they made their first appearance? Pretty impressive! But what about their anatomy? Huh? Do you know Namor the Submariner on a cellular level? Have you ever seen Groot's vocal chords or Howard the Duck's skull?…

God bless Robert Zemeckis! The man is responsible for some of the best movies of all time —films like Forrest Gump, Castaway, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and of course, the Back to the Future trilogy, probably one of the best trilogies ever made. It's amazing to think about how vastly different each movie in the trilogy is, yet how they all come together in such a coherent way. The first movie is a small story about a 1985 teen who goes back in time and meets his parents when they were his age. Th…

A mysterious monster at Hogwarts? Surely it's not the big snake featured on the cover.

Caution: Humor Ahead

They just don't make movies like this anymore . It's such a simple premise for an action movie: a bus has a bomb that is rigged to explode if it goes below 50 mph—and… go! You really don't need much more than that to ensure your movie will be an adrenaline-pumping thrill ride. Yet, we get so much more. We get Keanu Reeves at his peak, paired with Sandra Bullock at her peak cuteness. Their chemistry was off the charts! (Years later, we found out they both had huge crushes on each other but were…