27 Holiday Tradition Origins
Mental Floss explains why we do what we do around the holidays.
Mental Floss explains why we do what we do around the holidays.
Merry Christmas! Here's the Charlie Brown and Bad Brains mashup you've been waiting for.
May we introduce you to the lastest crew of quirky characters from Wes Anderson's upcoming film.
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Long live John McClane. Consulting with a physician, Screen Junkies set out to answer the question of how many lives John McClane would really need to film Die Hard.
Chuck Norris shows Jean Claude Van Damme how a CGI martial arts master does the spilts — with added holiday flair.
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Russian visual effects company Main Road Post shows how the incredible computer-generated effects for the war drama Stalingrad were composited together with actual footage.
One of the all-time landmark films in the history of cinema, Fireplace For Your Home, has put Netflix on the map as not just a streaming video service, but as a creator of high art. Here, we get a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of the thought, vision, and agony that went into the creation of this modern masterpiece.