Five Of The Worst Superhero Movies Ever Made. Ever.
With the huge wave of good superhero movies this year, it is easy to overlook some of the really bad ones that have been made throughout the years. There have been so many truly awful movies made it is a wonder how the movie studios got the go-ahead to produce the higher quality ones like Iron Man, Batman Returns, and Captain America. Luckily, the execs have looked past failure and continued to make great films. Here are five superhero movies that should never have been made. Note: I am a comic book purist and this list reflects this. Read more...
Categories: Entertainment Tags: Captain America, catwoman, daredevil, elektra, hugh jackman, j.d. salinger, sharon stone, wolverine
Five Novels That Have Been Banned From The Bookshelves
If you haven't heard the news, Mark Twain has been censored. Auburn University Montgomery professor, Alan Gribben, has "sivilized" Twain. He has removed the "N word" out of one of Twain's novels (which appears a total of 219 times) and has replaced it with the word "slave". According to Gribben, it helps to make the book less "injurious" and "hurtful". Not how Twain wrote it, but more politically correct. This isn't the first time this has happened. With the recent controversy of Mark Twain's classic novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" being reprinted and censored, here is a list of other books that have been removed from Library shelves due to unsuitable words that may bother some readers. Some of them are rather ironic when it comes to the banning of books! Read more...
Categories: Entertainment, Shopping Tags: American Heritage Dictionary, Banning Books, Burning Books, Catch 22, Censors, Censorship, dictionary, Fahrenheit 451, Holden Caulfield, Huckleberry Finn, j.d. salinger, John Steinbeck, Joseph Heller, Library Shelves, Mark Twain, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, nobel prize, pornographic words, profanity, Pulitzer Prize, Samuel Clemens, the catcher in the rye, the grapes of wrath
Who Really Killed John Lennon?
Thirty years ago today, John Lennon was murdered by David Mark Chapman as Lennon and his wife walked outside of the Dakota Apartment building. Chapman, supposedly upset about a scribbled autograph that he received earlier, shot Lennon at point blank range. Thirty years later, when John Lennon would have been 70, we are still trying to Imagine a world with him in it. Their are conspiracies about the entire incident. Did Chapman act alone or was there more to the story? Here are five theories about what happened. Read more...
Superhero Movies Planned For 2011
I love superhero movies, as you might have guessed if you are a reader of this blog. The movies coming out next year are really going to be amazing. It is hard to imagine that the Superhero genre of movie has been around forever, but they just never "got it right" until the last decade. With the advance of technology in movie making Hollywood is now able to make the kind of superhero movies that are a treat to watch. Combine that with good story lines and you are in for hours of entertainment. The year 2011 appears to not disappoint. Some of the most eclectic & easily recognized superhero movies are coming out in the next year & I can't wait to see them. Here is a preview of some of these. Read more...
Categories: Entertainment Tags: anthony hopkins, black beauty, Captain America, chris evans, chris hemsworth, god of thunder, green hornet, green lantern, hal jordan, j.d. salinger, Jaimie Alexander, Kat Dennings, kato, kick ass, loki, mark strong, matt salinger, odin, ray stevenson, seth rogen, sherlock holmes, Stellan Skarsgard, thor, x-men: first class
Five Famous People Who Fought On D-Day
With this being the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy (June 6, 1944), we thought we'd bring you a group of famous people that landed on the beaches there, that morning. When we think of people fighting in a war, we imagine our family members and normal people who make up the bulk of our armed services, yet there were some famous people who stood up to do their duty on this "Longest Day". Here are there stories: Read more...
Goodbye, J.D. Salinger
American author J.D. Salinger died on Wednesday, January 26, 2010. He’s known for mainly two things: His 1951 novel, The Catcher in the Rye, and the fact that he was a hermit.
Categories: Entertainment, History Tags: catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger, salinger, salinger dead, salinger dies, the catcher in the rye
