"Dynamite, pole vaulting, laughing gas, choppers--can you see how incredible this is going to be? Hang gliding, come on!"

Happy July 4th...for a closer look (which we know you want), head over to Scanners

A wonderful retrospective on Die Hard and its long train/boat/bus of rip-offs, from the IMDb hitlist

Resident Evil gets an afterlife

Star Wars (hopefully) re-de-animates itself

A particularly inspired Cracked piece on '80s montages

A little off-topic--a surprisingly great piece by the AV Club on Woody Allen, who I'm big fan of (though I'm not one of AV)

And finally, if you don't know already, Burbanked is most unfortunately on its way out. I didn't report this before because it was a little too disheartening. To celebrate such a great blog, check out the classic Action Figure Mood Indicator feature, especially the Kevin Costner, Kirstie Alley, and Edward Furlong figures!