Read more at D.J. Bigalke’s blog It appears that we’re predisposed to be engaged by certain movies over others. This doesn’t mean that we like or enjoy them more, just that they can hold our attention. An article over at National Geographic breaks down the findings. According to James Cutting, a cognitive psychologist at Cornell [...]

Why is it that Planck has his own constant named after him when someone as great as Archimedes has a constant that’s more commonly known as Pi? Pi is so important and Archimedes was the first to determine that 223/71 < Ï€ < 22/7. You know how he did that? He inscribed circles in polygons [...]

This can only end badly…for the customers. First Fox wanted to put a hold of 30 days on their dvds before you could rent them from Redbox  So Redbox decided to sue Then WB decided that this all sounded like fun and upped the ante with a dick move to Netflix Basically, the studios think [...]

The original Saw seems to have ushered in a new era for horror films. Acting and story has been cast aside for gore and grisly deaths. These kinds of films are certainly not new on the scene, but until recently have had more of a cult following. As a result the budgets were even cheaper, [...]

Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause seems like a reaction to the 50’s sitcom and family television mentality. Those days it seemed as if every show had a kid who would do something morally wrong, yet not illegal, and would end up getting advice from his father about his problem. The father was always the [...]

While watching films, we are constantly trying to figure out how they will end. We set up a layout for how the movie will proceed, and even how each scene will play out while they are going on. We aren’t aware that we’re even doing it until the layout in our mind becomes totally screwed [...]