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By Classic Nerd | July 26, 2024
TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman reflects on 40 years of Turtle Power at SDCC, sharing origin stories, behind-the-scenes tidbits, and teasing future projects.
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By Classic Nerd | July 22, 2024
Dive into the ultimate Marvel showdown fans have debated for decades, just in time for their movie team-up. Deadpool vs Wolverine: Who wins?
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By Classic Nerd | July 13, 2024
Richard Simmons, the beloved fitness guru and advocate for healthy living, passed away on July 13, 2024, a day after his 76th birthday. Known for his vibrant personality and "Sweatin' to the Oldies" series, Simmons inspired millions to embrace fitness with joy and compassion.
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By Classic Nerd | July 9, 2024
Everybody grab your spell books because Disney has dropped a teaser trailer for "Agatha All Along." Check out the spellbinding trailer.
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By Classic Nerd | May 15, 2024
I wonder if years from now we'll look back at movies like Dune: Part Two and laugh at all the funny trends of the time that made it into the movie, or whether it's simply transcendent enough to become timeless. That's tough to predict, but with the benefit of hindsight we can say for sure that sci-fi pumped out in the 1970s typically did not transcend the era it was born from. Apparently we all fully expected that mutton chop sideburns and feathered hair would remain a distinct part of human cu
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By Classic Nerd | May 2, 2024
1984 was a hell of a year. This Is Spinal Tap came out, Apple’s first Macintosh computer went on sale, both the summer and winter Olympics were still held in the same year, and a bunch of other kind of terrible stuff that we won’t be focusing on here. And it was an even bigger year in movies, with studios pumping out classic after classic (such as the pictured and underrated Supergirl above), many of which we’re still watching (and rebooting) some four decades later. This was the era when movi
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By Classic Nerd | May 2, 2024
The list of actors who have played Mario, everyone’s favorite plumber turned Princess-rescuer, is quite small. Frankly, it should have started and ended with Captain Lou Albano, but that’s not up to us. Looking back on the live-action movie from 1993, it’s easy to wonder why anyone would have wanted to be involved in pretty much any form. But that’s the benefit of hindsight. At the time, getting a role in the movie adaptation was apparently coveted. In fact, one very successful, Oscar-winning
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By Classic Nerd | May 1, 2024
Every time I think I understand exactly what Hello Kitty actually is, I find out something new that twists my brain into a new knot. She never has a mouth but somehow talks in cartoons. She is both a fictional character and an entire brand. She’s friends with frogs AND penguins. Think about any of these things too long, and your brain will turn to goo. Created in the mid-70s, it also shocked me to learn that the character of Kitty has a robust backstory, including the place where she was born
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By Classic Nerd | May 1, 2024
When my parents first told me that Ronald Reagan had been an actor back in the day, I didn’t believe them. When Sonny Bono became a congressman, it might have been even more surprising. But I’m not sure there’s ever been a more surprising famous-person-turned politician than when Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for and won the governorship of California. For one thing, he’s from Austria. Foreign-born governors, as you might imagine, are pretty rare. In fact, Arnold was the first one in California sin
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By Classic Nerd | April 22, 2024
We don’t know who needs to hear this, but it needs to be said: It’s OK to want to play video games all of the time. There, finally someone had the audacity to just say it. In fact, even if you’re famous, it’s OK to want to play video games all the time. And it might work even better if you’re famous for being on a popular sci-fi show. It’s always disappointing when you find out that someone who plays a character you love isn’t actually cool. But finding out they’re a Tetris addict? Now we hav
Read moreBy Classic Nerd | April 21, 2024
Actors do some crazy sh** for their movies. Daniel Day-Lewis is notorious for his extreme brand of method acting. On the set of 1989’s My Left Foot, he refused to do anything that his character couldn’t do. Based on the real-life artist Christy Brown, whose cerebral palsy meant his left foot was the only part of his body he could control, that meant Day-Lewis had to be carted around by staff in a wheelchair — and even fed by hand. Tom Cruise has held on to the side of a plane and scaled the ex
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By Classic Nerd | April 19, 2024
There’s no point to national animals, flowers, or any other arbitrary symbols that never get used for anything. So why not have some fun with it? A bald eagle is cool, but what if we changed it to, say, a dragon? Who would want to mess with a country if they suspected even a tiny bit we might have a dragon? No one, that’s who. The unicorn isn’t quite as intimidating as a dragon, but at least shows some backbone. That, or this country somehow showed up late on National Animal Picking Day and s
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By Classic Nerd | April 10, 2024
It's hard to pin down exactly why the Star Wars franchise has become one of the most popular media entities ever created. And with an estimated $47 billion generated since its inception in 1977, we can safely say it has indeed been a solid success. There's the vast galaxy full of interesting creatures and societies and backstories, sure, but honestly, I think it was mostly the feathered hair. That and the laser swords. With a media franchise so ripe for entertainment, there's plenty of trivia
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By Classic Nerd | April 2, 2024
The Danish are known to be talented at many things, such as pillaging, riding bikes, and having the oldest flag in the world. But if there’s one thing the people from Denmark do better than anyone else, it’s create little plastic bricks that can be put together to build cool stuff. Founded as a company that simply built wooden toys by carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen back in 1934, it wasn’t until much later that LEGO came up with the brilliant innovation of a system of interlocking plastic brick
Read moreBy Classic Nerd | April 2, 2024
What's the best way to prove to a criminal that you're not scared of them and despite the fact you went to a private school you're still bad? That's right, get together with a group of your best buds and start dancing like hell. That's more or less the premise of the iconic music video for one of the most iconic songs of all time, "Bad" from Michael Jackson. Released in 1987, hitting number one, and ultimately going platinum (and currently streamed more than ~330 million times on Spotify), this
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