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LEGO Stop-Motion Animated Remake of ‘Stranger Things’ Season One
Bookshelf Productions has created a wonderful LEGO stop-motion animated remake of some of the best scenes from the first season of Stranger Things. submitted via…
Slow Motion Video of a Machine Gun Firing Bullets Between the Blades of an Airplane Propellor
Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy of The Slow Mo Guys fired a machine gun through the blades of a spinning airplane propeller with 120,000 fps…
Dysfunctional Thanksgiving Family Dinners in Movies
Filmmaker Jacob T. Swinney has created a video essay for Fandor Keyframe that explores some of the more dysfunctional thanksgiving family dinners seen in movies.
A Cinnamon Roll That Resembles a Sad E.T.
Cinnamon Roll ET looks anguished cheftlp1221 shared a photo of a cinnamon roll that very much resembles a sad E.T. face.
The Secret World of Stuff, Objects Express Their Emotions Through Anthropomorphic Animation
The Secret World of Stuff is an amusing video and photo series in which everyday objects plus random cat parts are brought to life by…
Wild Grizzly Bears Perform Sultry Pole Dances Against Trees to Scratch Some Bothersome Itches
In an amusing preview for an episode of Planet Earth II, the great Sir David Attenborough elegantly describes how grizzly bears help to shed their…
A Charming Animation That Imagines How the Light of Day Turns Into the Dark of Night
When filmmaker Ignas Meilunas was asked to quickly create a short animation for the “Nuits en Or 2016” festival without a budget, he brilliantly came…
Barry, An Upcoming Netflix Series About President Barack Obama’s College Years in New York City
Netflix has released the trailer for their upcoming biographical series Barry, which tell the story of President Barack Obama as a young man trying to…
Possible Answers to the Question ‘Where Be Aliens?’
Exurb1a gives a few possible answers to the question “Where Be Aliens?” to explain why humans have never confirmed the existence of intelligent life elsewhere…
Explanations of Some of the Most Crucial References in Rick and Morty
Wisecrack explains some of the most crucial science fiction and fantasy references from the show Rick and Morty. The references help frame the story of…