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The cast of the original Star Wars trilogy, prequels, and even the maligned holiday special sing a version of the 1977 Disco hit “Stayin’ Alive” by The Bee Gees thanks to some creative editing by The Tonight Show. For comparison, here is the original version of “Stayin’ Alive.”

SpaceX has successfully landed the first stage of their Falcon 9 rocket after sending it to space on December 21, 2015. The primary purpose of the mission was to deploy ORBCOMM satellites, with the landing attempt serving as a secondary goal. SpaceX did a webcast of the launch and landing of this historic event. 11 […]

In a really candid skit for Funny or Die, performers Casey Wilson and Scott Aukerman act out the disquietingly predatory lyrics to the classic Christmas song “Baby It’s Cold Outside“. The song, written in 1944, is performed a duet in which (usually) a man persistently persuades a (usually) a woman to stay, despite her concerns […]

Gag reels have been released for both phase one and phase two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Both gag reels are featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase Two Box Set, which is currently available to purchase from Amazon. The next film in Marvel‘s ongoing series, Captain America: Civil War, is currently scheduled to release […]

Movie critic Peter K. Rosenthal of The Onion’s Film Standard reviews J.J. Abram‘s new film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction created a supercut of Santa Claus appearing in movies.

Filmmaker Vincent Peone has created a beautiful short film that utilizes stop-motion and an underwater soundtrack to bring his vision to life. Positing that the blue color of the ocean comes from tears that fish shed when a little girl is rescued from the bottom of the sea, the film acts as a strong metaphor […]

Film from a 1946 experiment conducted by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (a predecessor to NASA) shows how a human subject reacts to a series wind blasts building up to 457 MPH. The experiment took place in the wind tunnel of the Langley Research Center, and the film was restored and shared by Jeff […]

The newly formed Galactic Empire band recently played an out of this world heavy metal cover of John Williams‘ classic Star Wars theme song. Their dark side band consists of Boba Fett (Grant McFarland) on drums, a Stormtrooper (Carson Slovak) on bass, Darth Vader (Chris Kelly) on lead guitar, a Shadow Trooper (CJ Masciantonio) on […]

Adam Conover explains why modern funerals are a total ripoff in a clip from the season finale of his show Adam Ruins Everything. The clip focuses on the high price of caskets and the process of embalming, which Conover argues is completely unnecessary. The episode will air on Tru TV on December 22, 2015.

In a hilarious clip from the classic television show All in the Family, the ever-grousing Archie Bunker insists upon offering his often beleaguered son-in-law Michael Stivic unsolicited advice about the proper way to put on one’s socks and shoes. Don’t you know that the whole world puts on a sock and a sock and a […]

Brian Kelly, known as The Points Guy, gave an in-flight review of the decadent Etihad Airways residence suite on a flight that cost $32,058 from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Abu Dhabi International Airport, United Arab Emirates. The suite is a three-room apartment on an Airbus A380 jet complete with a […]

re+belief by Raymond McCarthy Bergeron is a gorgeously rendered animation that employs 3D printed zoetropes to tell the story of how damaging cycles formed from childhood memories can be broken. Much of this film is a personal story that recalls nine very specific instances of my life. These are memories that have repeatedly haunted me […]

Video editor Hadaya Turner of The Verge explains how the brain interprets music, why the bass line is so pleasing and what happens when the beat is off in a short animation that she wrote, directed and drew. Bass. The lowest part of a harmony in a musical composition. For centuries, we’ve all shared a […]

Japanese sculptor Y Nakajima has created a post-apocalyptic Thomas the Tank Engine hexapod robot complete with a working laser canon capable of popping a balloon or lighting a match head, as demonstrated in a video. images via Y Nakajima via Spoon & Tamago

Speed Motion has put together a silly but well produced slow motion video, shot with a a href=”http://www.highspeedcameras.com/Products/Phantom-Camera-Products”>$60,000 Phantom Miro camera from Vision Research, that shows in perfect detail how well a drone running at full speed can effectively act as an ad hoc food processor, decimating any and everything thrown at it. The film […]

After raising funds through a successful Kickstarter campaign, photographer Geanna Barnes traveled across the United States to capture beautiful images of Ghost Bikes – white painted bicycles that have become a haunting symbol of bicycle deaths throughout the country. The resulting photos, both snapshots and montages, have been turned into a beautiful book called “Don’t […]

BabyLit is a wonderful company that has taken such classic works of literature as “Pride and Prejudice“, “Wuthering Heights“, “Don Quixote“, “Sense and Sensibility“, “A Christmas Carol“, “Jane Eyre” among many others, and turned them into clever learning primers for children. The primers help to teach children concepts such as counting, numbers, sounds, feelings while […]

CineFix has released a new episode of 8-Bit Cinema that retells the original Star Wars trilogy as an old-school 8-bit animated video game. This animated episode was created by David Dutton of Dutton Films with music by Henry Dutton.

As part of their historical video series, the film production company Yestervid has compiled some of the oldest known recognizable footage of Paris from 1877-1900, neighborhood by neighborhood. They’ve also added in helpful maps to show the exact location of each clip. It features a stunning collection of the oldest footage of various places around […]

A photo posted on reddit shows a woman shopping at a store who put together a Starfleet uniform from the Star Trek universe seemingly by accident. The pattern of the sweater matches the basic design of a Starfleet uniform, but it’s her choice and placement of a Christmas tree brooch that resembles a standard issue Starfleet combadge that really ties […]

A border collie helped himself to a second serving of treats when he cleverly moved to the front of the line of his look-alike litter mates. Luckily, neither his humans nor his siblings seemed to mind.

“Darth Santa” is the latest special effects video by Corridor Digital that follows a festive Darth Vader who amuses himself by destroying Christmas presents, decorations, homes, and a young Padawan‘s heart. The holidays have never known the power of the dark side… until now. Corridor Digital also shared behind-the-scenes footage showing how the holiday special […]

Puddles Pity Party performs a sad clown style rendition of “Christmas Time Is Here” to promote his new holiday album White Elephant Holiday. The song was originally written for A Charlie Brown Christmas by Lee Mendelson and Vince Guaraldi. Here is the song as it appears in the holiday special.

In the spirit of the holiday season, Simon Tofield has put together an amusing compilation of all of the holiday episodes of Simon’s Cat, the ever-hungry feline who gets into all sorts of trouble both in and out of the snow. The Simon’s Cat team wish you all a Meowy Christmas and a Happy New […]

Comedian Brian Posehn performs the Christmas classic “Carol of Bells” in four-part harmony with a touch of metal in a video for Nerdist.

As a in-depth follow-up to his brilliant video, “Star Wars Minus Star Wars – Between the Lines,” New York City writer Kyle Kallgren released an annotated breakdown of the Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope film being retold using only clips from other movies and television shows.

Star Wars characters can’t figure out where the song “Last Christmas” by Wham! is coming from in a musicless parody by DIGITALOFEN. The song plays in the background across the galaxy as characters try to find its source. Luckily, we have the source of the original music video for “Last Christmas.”

In a parody hoverboard commercial that aired over the weekend on Saturday Night Live, they demonstrate why the “self-balancing two-wheeled board” is literally one of the hottest Christmas gifts this year. Even with numerous reports of the boards spontaneously combusting, they are still flying off the shelves. If you hate walking and love fire, the […]

Surfer Kelly Slater has introduced what he is calling the longest rideable human-made wave, a project by the Kelly Slater Wave Company. The company has produced a video that shows Slater riding the impressive and seemingly interminable wave. Now that the world title has been decided and events for the year have finished, I’m excited […]

Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys captured slow motion footage of the daring Steve-O doing a fire-breathing backflip off of a table and popping a big balloon filled with water. Gavin filmed the entire process, funny mishaps and all, at 1,000 FPS with a Phantom Flex4K high-speed camera. It’s not every day that Steve-O […]

“Weak my truck is feeling, gas it must have.” Ed Bassmaster hilariously channels Yoda to ask a BP gas station attendent to fill up his truck.

Mr. Sunday Movies points out some of the easter eggs, secret cameos and hidden references in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. All the Easter Eggs, references and cameo’s from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We’re talking Easter Eggs and nods to the original Star Wars Trilogy, the prequel trilogy, JJ Abrams tropes and some cameo’s […]

Two bartenders hilariously poke fun at the recent trend of fussy cocktails with an exaggerated demonstration of two different recipes for a gin and tonic – one as it was made in 2005 and the other crafted in a more “modern” fashion. via reddit

Musician Carlos Aguilera played a beautiful measure of the jazz classic “Misty” while undergoing a complicated 12-hour surgery to remove a tumor from his brain at the Regional Hospital of Málaga in Spain. Because patients need to stay awake during the surgery, other musicians have taken advatage of the time to perform. A Brazilian musician […]

Tina Fey stars as real life war correspondent Kim Barker on her first assignment covering Afghanistan and Pakistan in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. The film shows Fey as Barker along with costars Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, and Billy Bob Thornton. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is based on Barker’s book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan and will be […]

Actor Michael Horse (Deputy Hawk Hill), sagely muses about how certain locations become characters unto themselves in the very first teaser trailer for the highly-anticipated reboot of the classic television series Twin Peaks which is set to premiere on Showtime in 2017.

Great Big Story traveled to the unusual town of Coober Pedy, Australia, where, due to the constant blazing heat outdoors, all of the homes and shops are built underground. Homeowner Andy Shells spoke about the nature of the unique desert town. We’re right out in the middle of nowhere. It takes a day to drive […]

On the latest episode of Man at Arms: Reforged, the highly skilled team of blacksmiths and craftsman at Baltimore Knife and Sword built a real-life version of Thorin Oakenshield‘s Orcist sword from The Hobbit films. They tested out their beautiful replica of the Elven sword by slicing through pumpkins, blood-filled zombie heads, and more.

Los Angeles-based baker Rosanna Pansino celebrated the theatrical release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in style, on a recent episode of Nerdy Nummies, by demonstrating how to make a Death Star cake. All of the products needed to make Rosanna’s cake are available to purchase on the Wilton Cake Decorating website. images via Rosanna […]

Los Angeles-based animator Leigh Lahav has created “BB-8: Behind the Circuits,” a funny Behind the Music and E! True Hollywood Story style look at the ups and downs of the little astromech droid‘s life and acting career. Leigh’s mockumentary, which “combines both animation and still photographs,” is narrated by the great Patrick Stewart. images via […]

Dave Hax shows how to make five different Christmas tree ornaments using items from around house.

A hungry little Asian small-clawed otter is more than happy to eat his meal of rice while lying supine atop a blanket with bright orange stripes. On occasion, however, the little otter has been known to use a table when eating with a friend. via Tastefully Offensive

They Might Be Giants has released the music video for “Long White Beard”, a song from their new kids album “Why?”. The video was created for week 50 of their year-long Dial-A-Song Direct series and features stop-motion animation by Kelli Anderson and Daniel Dunnam. Anderson describes how the video came together on her blog.

Yestervid, the video service that researches and sources historical footage to “spice them up for a new generation” has put together a fascination compilation of the oldest known recognizable footage of New York City with the addition of helpful maps to show the exact location. The oldest and most incredible footage of New York City […]

GradeA UnderA goes on a hilarious rant about why the English alphabet is stupid.

Japanese artist Shinrashinge has created a fascinating animated comic, based on the One-Punch Man anime webcomic and TV series adaptation, using three white paper cups with cutout sections. Shinrashinge stacks all three cups inside of each other and, when each cup is individually rotated, a new panel of the comic appears. images via Shinrashinge via […]

In 2013, after a Jumper und Preuß concert in Straubing, Bavaria, German musician Roland Eichler performed a resounding tune on his alpine horn in the garage next to the Paul Theater, using the incredible acoustics to his greatest advantage. The reverberant awesome acoustics demanded simply for an encore :-) Spontaneous Session of performers after the […]

In this set of photos from an unknown source, a helpful little dachshund wearing a adorable zippered tool vest, acts as his human’s assistant as they do some work in the garage on the their van. While a dachshund’s back can be fairly delicate, the tools appear to be light and do not rest directly […]

Venture capital firm First Round Capital presents “This Time It’s Different”, their annual holiday video featuring their portfolio companies performing industry specific parodies of popular songs from the last year, such as “Uptown Funk” and “Hotline Bling.” In 2014 their startups sang “All About Burn Rate“. The holidays are here, and our community is ready […]