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BBC Reveals That the 13th Iteration of Doctor Who Will Be Played by a Woman for the Very First Time
As promised, after the 2017 Wimbledon Tournament, the BBC made the highly anticipated announcement exactly who would be succeeding the great Peter Capaldi and playing…
‘Narcos’ Returns for a Third Season With the Rise of the Cali Cartel After the Fall of Escobar
Many fans familiar with Columbian history might have thought that the excellent Netflix series Narcos ended with the death of Pablo Escobar at the end…
An Idiot’s Guide to Game of Thrones Season 6
The Screen Junkies Show host Hal Rudnick is joined by a panel featuring Michele Boyd, Spencer Gilbert and Roth Cornet, the hosts of Screen Junkies’…
How Game of Thrones Employs Basic Storytelling Techniques in a Variety of Scenes to Evoke Emotion
Feeling the excitement for the seventh season premiere on July 16, 2017, filmmaker Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay analyzed analyzed a number of…
A Handy Recap of Game of Thrones Seasons One Through Six Ahead of the Season Seven Premiere
With the seventh season premiere of Game of Thrones taking place on Sunday, July 16, 2017, the folks at HBO very graciously provided a five…
Bastille Day Military Band Plays an Amazing Medley of Daft Punk Songs for Macron and Trump
The 2017 Bastille Day Military Band (La Fanfare Interarmées) practiced their amazing instrumental medley of Daft Punk songs that they would shortly be playing for…
A Determined Dog Swims Through Her Flooded Illinois Backyard to Retrieve Her Favorite Toy
A determined dog named Lily would not let the remains of a severe summer storm intimidate her when she saw her favorite toy.
How to Make a Tater Tot Scrambled Egg Sandwich
San Francisco digital media producer Ryan Shelley (a.k.a. “barnapkins“) released a new video, while his wife was away, where he makes and consumes a tasty…
French Bulldog Does an Impression of a Race Car
While fervently asking his human Abby Russell for something, an adorable French bulldog named Chibs inadvertently did his best impression of a race car changing…
A Modified Racing Roomba Takes On an Obstacle Course at UC Berkeley’s Student Vehicle Challenge
Roland Saekow of Make Cool Stuff turned his 10-year-old Roomba Discovery 4210 vacuuming robot into a racing bot that took on an obstacle course at…