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Thomas Middleditch Does Improv While Eating Spicy Wings With Sean Evans on ‘Hot Ones’
On a spicy episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, Silicon Valley star Thomas Middleditch did hilarious improv and ate increasingly spicy hot…
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, A Prequel to Jim Henson’s Visionary Film Coming to Netflix
When speaking about his visionary 1982 film The Dark Crystal, the legendary Jim Henson stated that although it was the hardest thing he’d ever worked…
How the Word ‘Goth’ Evolved Throughout the Ages
In a Ted-Ed Lesson animated by Miguel Otálora and Jorge Jaramillo, educator Dan Adams explains the history of the word "goth".
Kevin Costner Talks About What He’ll Miss When He’s Dead in an Animated Interview From 2012
In a rather frank episode of the animated series “What I Learned” by Quoted Studios, actor and musician Kevin Costner opened up to Esquire writer-at-large…
Gordon Ramsay Hilariously Teaches New Students How to Curse at the Academy of Kitchen Outrage
In advance of his brand new show entitled The F Word, the wonderfully cantankerous chef Gordon Ramsay hilariously taught students new to the Academy of…
Netflix Releases Trailer for OKJA, An New Series About a Girl’s Quest to Save Her Unusual Friend
In February, we wrote about OKJA, an upcoming series about a brave girl who goes up against a big corporation to protect her unusual friend.…
Brian May Shares How He and His Father Built the Famous ‘Red Special’ Guitar That He Still Plays
In a 1991 clip from the BBC Two series Guitar Legends, the incredible Brian May of Queen shared the really wonderful story of how he…
Stunning See-Through Look at a Full Model Rocket Engine Burning in Ultra Slow Motion
Warped Perception filmed an stunning see-through look at a full model rocket engine burning “in 4k slow motion and ultra slow motion so we can…
Adam Savage Takes A Behind the Scenes Tour of the Alien: Covenant Set
Adam Savage of Tested visited the gigantic man-made sets of Alien: Covenant and go behind the scenes and talk with British special effects supervisor Neil…
Talented Bass Player Performs an Impressive Solo Using Only His Pinkie Finger
In April, Davide Biale aka Davie504 conducted a poll on Twitter to determine which finger he would use for his one finger bass solo after…