I grew up on VHS and I actually still have a decent collection, so it was a real treat seeing folks tweet out the tapes they watched when they were young.
I can tell you what my VHS tapes were (are) that I played out over and over. I had Road House and Point Break taped onto a single VHS, and I brought that tape to every single sleepover I ever went to. Two classics, if I do say so myself.
My grandparents gave me a bootleg tape of this for my 10th birthday in ‘85. Still to this day, one of my most meaningful gifts ever. pic.twitter.com/mjCsO2FhOB
Celebrities are constantly on our radar. We pay attention to what they wear, what they say, and what they do. Because they get so much of our attention, we think we really know them – then suddenly we discover weird truths about them that throw us off.
Cause you can never really know someone whom you’ve never spoken to or even seen in person.
Here are some facts about some of your favorite celebrities.
The artist had to dye his hair black frequently so he could keep his signature look. His stylist later confessed to dutifully helping the star keep his hair healthy, including using jojoba oil, shampooing his hair, and assisting with his hairstyles.
And the dying, that too.
9. Kesha got her big break by breaking into Prince’s house.
The now-star was struggling to make it in the music industry, so she trespassed into the legend’s home to plant her demo tape. Prince got the tape, liked what her heard, and the rest is history.
8. David Bowie’s eyes were only sort of two colors.
Okay, not exactly. Bowie had two perfectly blue eyes. He merely looked like he had one black and one blue eye because he got into a fight as a teenager that resulted in one of his eyes becoming permanently dilated. This gave the appearance of having one black eye, and one blue one.
7. Beyoncé has a perfume allergy.
The star has her own perfume, but she can’t actually use it. It’s an open secret that she’s allergic to perfume.
6. Taylor Swift once modeled for Abercrombie and Fitch.
The star appeared in the brand’s catalog in 2003, well before she got famous. Other stars that modeled for the clothing brand before they hit it big: Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, Penn Badgley, and Emma Roberts.
5. Adele isn’t allowed to tweet.
The star tweeted while under the influence a few times (drunk twitter, never a good idea), so her management put a stop her tweeting. Adele has to get approval from two people before using her account.
4. Enya was the original choice to compose for Titanic.
Director James Cameron originally wanted Enya to compose music for Titanic. Later, the star revealed that she didn’t accept the gig because she prefers to work on her own, and she would have had to work with others to make the score.
3. The Beatles’ “Yesterday” was originally about eggs.
Paul McCartney said the song appeared in his dreams. He didn’t want to forget the melody, so he improvised some lyrics about scrambled eggs to keep it fresh in his mind.
2. Jon Bon Jovi has an inspirational restaurant.
Soul Kitchen in New Jersey features delicious meals, but the rockstar makes sure everyone can enjoy the food. If you don’t have enough money for the menu price, you can volunteer in the kitchen or pay what you can.
1. Martin Luther King Jr. has more Grammys than Katy Perry.
And so does former President Barack Obama. The Perry has gotten 13 Grammy nominations but hasn’t won one yet.
What did you think? Which of these celebrity facts surprised you the most? We want to know.
It seems that pretty much everyone across the board thinks that the new Cats movie is a major disaster.
The movie is currently sitting at a 19% favorability rating among critics on Rotten Tomatoes, so you know there’s probably something bad going on here.
Let’s see what people on Twitter think about this new flick…
Glad to report that Cats is everything you’d hoped for and more: a mesmerisingly ugly fiasco that makes you feel like your brain is being eaten by a parasite. A viewing experience so stressful that it honestly brought on a migraine.
Me watching #CATSmovie: WHY human faces and human hands? Why so small? What is Judi Dench’s fur coat made of? How do they poop? How did I get here? Why so boring? Who is responsible for this? What hath cat-manity wrought pic.twitter.com/z4b0ysQ800
I don't really know what to say about CATS at this early stage, since a perfectly credible reaction like "it's one of the worst pieces of art I've ever witnessed" can only sound like empty hyperbole. Maybe I should just wait a few months.
I love bizzaro, crazy, break into song & dance stuff & #CATSMovie was easily the most boring thing I've ever seen. Dancing was good & Jennifer Hudson's "Memory" was stunning but I coulda easily napped & been fine. I spent a lot of time wondering what drugs Hooper was on.
And yes, all the CATS are horny AF but neutered and there's a prostitute cat, which my friend wonders why a cat needs to prostitute themselves for money? milk? What is the CATS currency?
everyone’s laughing at all the negative reviews of cats but this being the only positive one is actually what has broken me today pic.twitter.com/pJUnike7mm
#CatsMovie is terrible. A descent into madness, while at the same time showing you what the gates of hell might look like. This is the best way to torture someone. This comes from someone who can appreciate musicals. I did burst out laughing when the first cat jumped out singing pic.twitter.com/hT1ukdlp8B
15. I wish I could’ve been at that critic screening.
THE CATS EMBARGO IS LIFTED
where do I even start? Okay so, I was sitting on either side of two professional film critics, and all three of us spent at least 90% of the movie making this expression
I love holiday movies! Some of my favorites are Beautiful Girls, Die Hard (it is a Christmas movie, okay?), and of course, the classic A Christmas Story.
Let’s enjoy some funny tweets about holidays flicks in all their glory!
1. Heard that.
You're not an adult until you watch Elf and fully relate to the Gimbel manager's frustration over Buddy's incompetence.
The Grinch’s heart is “two sizes too small” but then it “grew three sizes that day.” He now has a dangerously oversized heart and should see a physician.
Trying to think of a more abominable character devoid of redeeming features than Alan Rickman’s sexy coworker in LOVE ACTUALLY. She exists purely to create havoc. A pure legend.
Are you ready to play a different kind of superhero in the next video game you become obsessed with? Well, this one might surprise you just a bit…
I’ve often wondered why there’s never been a video game based on the Bible. I mean, it would probably be interesting (especially if you’re religious or a history buff) – plus, there’s all sorts of awesome stuff that happens in there. And I’m sure it would be extremely popular, right?
A new video game (release date TBA) on Steam called I Am Jesus Christ is filling that niche; like the name says, it will allow players to play as the man himself. The description for the game reads as follows:
“Become Jesus Christ, the famous man on Earth—in this highly realistic simulation game. Pray like Him for getting superpower, perform famous miracles like Him from Bible like casting demons, healing and feeding people, resurrection and more in “I am Jesus Christ.”… Game is covering the period from Baptizing of Jesus Christ and to Resurrection. Have you ever wondered to be like Him—one of the most privileged and powerful people in the world?”
It seems like the description was not written by someone with native English fluency, so I’m guessing the design team is overseas.
Here is the official trailer for the game.
From the looks of the trailer, Jesus can perform all kinds of miracles: he walks on water, makes fish appear, the whole shebang.
Twitter users were all over the release of the trailer with various thoughts and observations (and jokes, of course)…
Does this have a character creator? I like my historical accuracy in games and Jesus sure wasn't white. https://t.co/QB1Vclbxkg
When I was 8-years-old, I stayed home sick from school and was all alone in the house. My older brother had rented a movie the night before, so I decided to spend my sick day watching The Evil Dead…
Oh boy.
It totally traumatized me but also gave me a love for horror movies that continues to this day.
People shared what scary flicks traumatized them and left a lasting impression. These responses come to us from the Buzzfeed Community.
Let’s see yours in the comments!
1. Burnt Offerings (1976)
“It’s this movie from the late ’70s that no one’s ever heard of for some reason. It’s basically about a family rents a large estate one summer and a whole lot of weirdness goes down. It will mess you up for life.”
2. Evil Dead (2013)
“This remake was so terrifying that I couldn’t finish watching it the first time. It took me a whole year to gather up the courage to try watching it again.”
3. The Hitcher (1986)
“It’s been way too long since I’ve seen this, but it still terrifies the crap out of me!”
4. Night of the Living Dead (1968)
“My grandmother had 80 acres in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin. I saw this movie when I was 5 or 6 years old and was terrified to sleep in that house at night because it seemed like the perfect setting for those zombies. It still creeps me out.”
5. Tusk (2014)
“I thought it sounded like a funny premise, but it kept me up the whole night and bothered me for weeks. I’ve watched a lot of horror movies. I don’t know what it is about this one, but it absolutely haunted me.”
6. Child’s Play (1988)
“I was nine and Chucky somehow reminded me of my American girl doll. I had to put her away in my closet every night so that she wouldn’t stare at me with her huge eyes and buck teeth trying to plot my death while I slept.”
7. Arachnophobia (1990)
“I watched this when I was a kid and I haven’t had a worry-free shower in 16 years.”
8. The Descent (2006)
“This is the most disturbing, gory, hopeless movie ever made. I legitimately wish I could erase it from my brain.”
9. Phantasm (1979)
“I saw it when I was about eight and — although I had already seen other horror movies because my parents were huge horror fans — this movie was the only one to give me nightmares. To this very day I get apprehensive around undertakers, especially if they are tall and wearing a dark suit.”
10. Hereditary (2018)
“I went and saw a late night showing of this with a friend, knowing absolutely nothing about the film. Then, when the trailers for new movies started playing and they were all scary movie trailers, I knew that we were in for a ride. We were terrified!”
11. The Witch (2013)
“I watched this one night randomly at 3 AM because I couldn’t sleep and I love witch movies. It scared the heck out of me! It reminded me of the movie The Village, but scarier. It seemed so real. I will never watch it again!”
12. I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
“I can deal with a ton of violence and gore, but Lord, the sadism in that movie was off the charts.”
13. The Entity (1982)
“If you haven’t seen it, be thankful. I saw this when I was 10 and it is no less disturbing to me in my 40’s. Most horror movies nowadays don’t bother me, but maybe it’s because this one desensitized me.”
14. Funny Games (1997)
“You can’t make a list about movies that mess you up without mentioning this one. My friend and I watched the original German version. I thought I was going to throw up and made my friends turn it off.”
15. The Strangers (2008)
“This should definitely be on this list. I watched it back when it first came out and — to this day — I won’t answer the door if I’m home alone (unless I’ve ordered food, of course).”
You’ve probably seen the holiday Peloton ad – the one that definitely didn’t go the way the company wanted. It features a wife and mother who receives an exercise bike, then goes on to document her fitness journey online.
The problem is that it sort of plays like a horror movie in which the woman is forced to act like a happy wife and mother who loves working out, but is in fact being held against her will.
Monica Ruiz, the actress, blames her eyebrows, but it turns out the odd commercial might be great for her career – because Ryan Reynolds already hired her to make a commercial for Aviation American Gin.
In it, the Peloton-gifted wife is drinking gin at a bar with her friends after (maybe?) separating from her kidnapper/spouse. Or at least recovering from her traumatic year with the Peloton.
Most people think it’s hilarious…except Sean Hunter, who played the husband in the original ad. He isn’t as amused by the situation as everyone else.
“Five seconds of air time has created an array of malicious feedback that is all associated with my face. As it continues to be screenshot online, I wonder what repercussions will come back to me. I pride myself on being a great teacher and developing actor and I can only hope this affects neither.”
Anyone else feel bad for the poor guy that played the husband? I bet he's getting shit for being the "villain" in the ad. Please give that actor a commercial too.
And you know, I do feel a little bad for both actors, who likely never expected that booking an innocuous Christmas ad for an exercise bike would blow up online, for better or worse. But this is who we are as a society now.
“we gotta get the Peloton girl.” – whoever said that first needs like a 50% raise
A genuinely scary book is hard to find. A lot of the ones that are marketed as being “truly terrifying” turn out to be anything but that…and that’s always a big disappointment.
But I think these books might surprise you.
People shared the creepiest books they’ve ever read – the ones that truly scared them – and I think I need to add these to my list.
Let’s take a look…and don’t forget to share the books that traumatized you most in the comments, please!
“A girl is taking a trip with her boyfriend to meet his parents and is thinking about ending their relationship. You’re terrified the whole time you’re reading it. You’re not even sure why you are so uneasy. Everything is NOT as it seems, and the end hits you HARD. I always recommend this book with a strong warning — you have to like thrillers/horror — but I can never say much more about it because it’s so easy to spoil.”
2. The Trial by Franz Kafka
“It’s upsetting in the sense that it could very much happen to you, or so it made me think. The despair of one individual against a senseless administrative crushing machine is overwhelming.”
“The movie is good, but doesn’t capture the experience of reading the book. It’s far more impactful as a novel. It’s about a kid who commits a mass school shooting, told after the fact as a series of letters from the kid’s mom to his dad, recounting raising the kid. The narrator is unreliable and you take a journey alongside her trying to examine if her memories are the full story or not. It’s brutal, shocking, terrifying, and heart wrenching. It was sob out loud painful for me to read and I don’t even have children.”
4. The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
“It’s loosely based on a real story. Two teenage girls are left in the care of their aunt, who is an alcoholic single mother with three sons of her own. She gets her sons and all the neighborhood kids to torture one of them to death over several months, and none of them told their parents or the police — including the girl — because the woman threatened to kill her little sister if she did.”
“It’s about a WWI solider who goes off to war, only to be caught in a canon blast. He wakes up in a hospital unable to speak OR hear. His mouth was completely blown off as well as his ears, eyes, arms, and legs…but his mind functions perfectly. He has no way to tell the nurse that he is awake and no way to communicate that he wants to die. He can only hit his head on his bed in Morse code. It’s truly horrifying, especially since it’s told from his perspective. I only read it once when I was 15…I’m 27 now, and it still sticks with me.”
6. The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
“It’s a series of short stories that refer to a fictional play called The King in Yellow that makes its readers go insane. It’s extremely creepy and frightening in an usual way. You learn almost nothing about the play, but what you do learn is extremely scary. I think it’s also so scary because it was written in 1895.”
“It’s pretty fucked up. You think it’s going to be like a normal book with a climax and eventual happy-ish ending. NOPE. It just gets more and more depressing as it continues, and ends on an incredibly depressing note. I felt like shit for a week after finishing it.”
8. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
“To tell you what’s disturbing would give away the entire book. Suffice to say, it wrecked me, and I’ve never read anything so messed up in my life.”
9. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
“It’s not a book, but a short story within a larger collection. It’s excellent, yet disturbing. I can’t really explain it, but you can find a decent summary on the Wikipedia page. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
10. Lolita by Vladamir Nabokov
“This one for sure made me feel pretty messed up, less because of the content (which, for the most part, isn’t terribly explicit), but because of the way Nabokov uses Humbert Humbert as an unreliable narrator. It seems like he’s is recusing himself throughout the book, to the point that you find yourself feeling subconsciously sorry for him at points before realizing, “Wait, hold up, I need to stop sympathizing with a child rapist…”
“It’s about a psychotic, depressed, misogynistic teenager who lives with his alcoholic father in a relatively unpopulated island. He spends his time with his makeshift weapons, killing local animals, while awaiting his even-more-disturbed brother’s return home. The title alludes to a machine built by the main character. It’s a large clock contraption that kills the wasps he places inside with different traps depending on which direction they crawl. He believes that it can predict the future. The entire book is disturbing from start to finish.”
12. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
“It is truly horrifying. If you’ve seen the movie…you literally don’t know the half of it. The gore and brutality is so minutely and exquisitely detailed, I actually had to put the book down at times to fathom what I had just read.”
“The gist of it is that it’s a story about four women who work the graveyard shift at a boxed lunch factory. They all have incredibly hard lives, and one of them snaps and murders her husband. She then, somehow, convinces the others to be complicit in helping her cover it up, which leads to a lot of law enforcement involvement, infighting, and blackmail.”
14. Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates
“It’s fiction, but it’s based on Jeffrey Dahmer. I didn’t realize that when I chose it off a list for a high school psychology project. I just chose it based on the title because I was big into the zombie craze at the time. it ended up getting a bit more than I bargained for, and it took me a while to shake it.”
“I had never heard of the author before, and I had never heard anything about this book. I am ashamed to admit I got it because the book cover glowed in the dark, and 16-year-old me thought that was amazing! It’s a nightmare of a book. The main story still leaves me uncomfortable, as did the free verse poems tying then all together. It’s just…a very uncomfortable read.”
January 2020 looks pretty darn promising as far as Netflix movie titles go, which means you’re gonna want to read over this entire list. There are some real gems on here, we promise – so get ready to update your Netflix queue!
Here is every movie that is coming to Netflix in January.
Jan. 1
Ghost Stories — NETFLIX FILM
Messiah — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Nisman: Death of a Prosecutor — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Spinning Out — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Circle — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Good Girls, Season 2
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A Cinderella Story
American Beauty
Catch Me If You Can
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chasing Amy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Chloe
City of God
Dinner for Schmucks
Dragonheart
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer
Dragonheart: A New Beginning
Drugs, Inc., Season 6
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Free Willy
Ghost Rider
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
Hitch
Inception
Instructions Not Included
Julie & Julia
Kate & Leopold
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Kingpin
Kiss the Girls
Monster-in-Law
New York Minute
Pan’s Labyrinth
Patriot Games
Saint Seiya, Season 4-5
Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden
Shrek Forever After
Strictly Ballroom
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Original Kings of Comedy
The Ring
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tremors
True Grit
Up in the Air
What Lies Beneath
Wild Wild West
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Wyatt Earp
Yes Man
Jan. 2
Sex, Explained: Limited Series — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Thieves of the Wood — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 3
Anne with an E: The Final Season — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
All the Freckles in the World — NETFLIX FILM
Jan. 4
Go! Go! Cory Carson — NETFLIX FAMILY
Jan. 8
Cheer — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Jan. 10
AJ and the Queen — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Giri / Haji — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Harvey Girls Forever!, Season 4 — NETFLIX FAMILY
The Inbestigators, Season 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Medical Police — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Scissor Seven — NETFLIX ANIME
Until Dawn — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Zumbo’s Just Desserts, Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Evil Dead
Jan. 12
Betty White: First Lady of Television
Jan. 13
The Healing Powers of Dude — NETFLIX FAMILY
Jan. 14
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts — NETFLIX FAMILY
The Master
Jan. 15
Big Fat Liar
Quien a hierro mata — NETFLIX FILM
Grace and Frankie, Season 6 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 16
NiNoKuni — NETFLIX ANIME
Steve Jobs
Jan. 17
Ares — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Hip-Hop Evolution, Season 4 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Sex Education, Season 2 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Tiny House Nation: Volume 2
Tyler Perry’s A Fall from Grace — NETFLIX FILM
Vivir dos veces — NETFLIX FILM
Wer kann, der kann! — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 18
The Bling Ring
Jan. 20
Family Reunion: Part 2 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Jan. 21
Fortune Feimster: Sweet & Salty — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Word Party, Season 4 — NETFLIX FAMILY
Jan. 22
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Playing with Fire, Season 1
Jan. 23
The Ghost Bride — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
October Faction — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Queen
SAINT SEIYA: Knights of the Zodiac, Season 1 / Part 2 — NETFLIX ANIME
Jan. 24
A Sun — NETFLIX FILM
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: Part 3 — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
The Ranch: The Final Season — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Rise of Empires: Ottoman — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 26
Vir Das: For India — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 27
Country Strong
We Are Your Friends
Jan. 28
Alex Fernández: El mejor comediante del mundo — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 29
Frères Ennemis — NETFLIX FILM
Next In Fashion — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Night on Earth — NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY
Omniscient — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
Jan. 30
Ainori Love Wagon: African Journey — NETFLIX ORIGINAL
We know that if your kids are of a certain age, you’ve already taken them to see Frozen 2…at least once. There’s no escape, and you know it.
Just remember, you’ll be hearing your kids sing the songs from this movie for the next couple years, so get used to it and go with the flow.
Just let it go.
Let us begin…
1. Look what you started.
I let 3 bring her Anna and Elsa dolls into Frozen 2 and didn’t know I’d be waging a glare war with another mom who didn’t let her daughter bring her dolls in.
My 6yo moaned and groaned at the movie theatre during the trailers, because “We came here to see Frozen 2, not all of this.” I obviously told her a tale of how my generation had to sit patiently through the travesty of “commercials,” and walk uphill to and from school.
— Goldfish and Chicken Nuggets (@gfishandnuggets) December 3, 2019
5. Booyah!
This is my JAM!
– me in my car listening to the Frozen 2 soundtrack
1. Anna and Christoph lead a boring life in the castle. She texts him to pick up milk on his way home. He says ok and then subsequently forgets. #rejectedFrozen2plotlines
I have 2 sons and zero daughters and my boys don’t want to go see Frozen 2 like I secretly do, they only want to hit each other with plastic lightsabers and talk about baby Yoda
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