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Hundreds of movies are released every year, and inevitably, some great ones slip through the cracks. Whether it’s from poor distribution, poor marketing, poor timing, or just bad luck, we’re constantly finding hidden gems in the detritus of history. The list below, while certainly not inclusive, has something for everybody. With rip-roaring comedies, terrifying horror, gritty mysteries, strange steampunk, and character-driven dramas, you’re sure to find something great to watch in our list of 14 Great Movies You Probably Didn’t See....

When it comes to animated movies, people love to tout Pixar movies as the cream of the crop. However, while Pixar has released some tremendous films and deserves all the credit they receive, they are still not the best of the best. That is reserved for the animated output from Hayao Miyazaki. The legendary Japanese animator and storyteller started as a television director back in 1971. He then transitioned into one of the best-animated filmmakers in the world over the next three decades....

Although it was disappointing to hear that Guillermo del Toro exited his planned Hobbit movies, the prospect of Peter Jackson returning to Middle-earth 9 years after the completion of his wonderful Lord of The Rings trilogy was still something to be excited about. Cut to 2018 and Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy is considered, well… something of a disappointment. The Hobbit trilogy is simultaneously too much– and not enough– like butter scraped over too much bread....

There’s quite a bit of suspension of disbelief required when following any sort of fictional franchise, especially one as sprawling and complicated as Marvel’s myriad multiverses. Hawkeye— love him or hate him— isn’t impervious to these little inconsistencies. From how he can possibly keep up with super-powered heroes to the weird timing of his retirement decisions, Hawkeye sure has garnered attention for some inconsistent characterizations. Sure, entertainment giants like Marvel have a ton of employees trying to keep everything in line, but continuity errors and logical fallacies still fall through the cracks, and before you know it, there are a million memes poking (hopefully) good-natured fun at the way featured extra number three completely botches the pronunciation of a futuristic space element on which hinges the fate of the universe....

The transition between looking at concept art and making the real thing can often be a tough process for filmmakers. It is one thing to draw something that looks really cool on a piece of paper, and another thing to actually bring that drawing to life. While large budget projects typically have few issues accomplishing this task, TV shows, which almost always have smaller budgets than movies, will sometimes struggle....

More than any other creative universe on television right now, the world of Shondaland is renowned for its twisty, complicated, addictive romantic relationships. Fans are passionate about their favorites and least favorites in equal measure, engaging in heated social media battles with hashtags and branded content provided by social media accounts at the ready. Maybe you’re a tried and true resident of Shondaland who has seen the relationships known to fans as MerDer, Burktina, and Dizzie come and go....

Mosyle is the only Apple Unified Platform, meaning that it is the only solution that fully integrates Device Management, Endpoint Security, Internet Privacy & Security, Device Single Sign-On and Application Management on a single and automated Apple-only platform. With Mosyle, businesses and schools can fully automate the deployment, management and protection of their Apple devices while ensuring it’s all done following the best and most modern technologies available for Apple devices....

Over seven seasons, True Blood featured many relationships and characters getting together – and not just Sookie. As tends to be the case with television shows, not all of them were a good idea. This was true even for those that advanced the plot or meant a happily ever after for a character. Something that fans wanted to know throughout the series, especially as it neared the end, was who Sookie would end up with....

A hilarious, tongue-in-cheek animated show about the future, Futurama almost always makes us laugh. From Zoidberg’s lack of understanding of medicine to the Professor’s increasingly nutty/useless inventions, and from Fry’s general ineptitude to Bender’s latest crime, this series from Matt Groening makes us all want to freeze ourselves to see the year 3000. But everything isn’t always laughter and zooming through space for this crew. The show’s entire premise is pretty dark: a young man gets trapped, is thrust a thousand years into the future, and never sees his family again....

Retelling and rebooting beloved fairy tales has always been a go-to strategy for studios when they’re looking to make easy money from families and adults alike. But, as the various versions of these all-too-familiar stories have started to stack up, producers have gone looking to put a new and fresh spin on tired and well-trod yarns. Maleficentwas a perfect way to create a star vehicle for Angelina Jolie while revitalizing Sleeping Beauty for a modern audience — and the box office proved that the model works....

Summer is officially here, which unfortunately means that all your favorite shows are now on hiatus (or are about to be). And while viewers love the explosive plots of season finales, they don’t really love waiting until the fall for new episodes. Fans of DC shows in the Arrowverse — Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and the recent addition Supergirl — are particularly desperate, as most of the series ended on superhero-sized cliffhangers....

Jello Biafra may like short songs, but we love short games. Length is something creators always must take into consideration when crafting a title. Games can be too long for their own good, even if everything about them works fine. Go behind the scenes of any development and one is bound to hear stories of cut content that was either boring or worked, but did not fit in with the rest of the game....

It’s virtually a given that famous Hollywood actors tend to be pretty darn attractive since their jobs require them to be in front of a camera, and there’s nothing that the camera loves more than a pretty face. However, while pretty much any famous actor can be envied for their looks, there are a few instances where this was not always the case. Actors are, after all, still just people, and thus they too can be subject to a badly taken photo, a bad hair day, or any of the numerous other superficial problems that we mere mortals who don’t have ready access to a hair stylist or a makeup artist must contend with....

Whether you adore it for its endless commitment to the cheesy comfort of a romantic comedy or dislike it for its saccharine stories and characters, there’s no denying that Love Actually has become one of the most important films in the Christmas movie canon in the last 15 years since its release in November of 2003. The film follows the lives of a large number of seemingly disparate people who live in England, and through stories of love, all of the characters come to be entwined with one another and prove that, yes, love actually is all around....

In many ways, we are living in the age of Thanos. Ever since the events of Avengers: Infinity War, the Mad Titan has become the single most feared villain in the entire Marvel Universe. Think about it: in Avengers: Age of Ultron, it was only the human race that faced an end to its existence. In Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, it was merely the entire planet Earth that faced the end of its days....

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In the last teardown video of Apple’s Far Out event announcements, iFixit has now dissembled the brand-new AirPods Pro 2. Three years after the first AirPods Pro was announced, was Apple able to make this second generation a little bit more repairable? Er… no. iFixit’s video shows how much you should take care of your AirPods Pro 2. They aren’t fixable at all. Once you open one of the earbuds, forget it....

Netflix’s adaptation of Locke & Key has fans enamored. The show is a beautiful take on the lengthy comic book series that takes its audience on an other-worldly trip into a bizarre world. When Rendel Locke suddenly passes away his children and widow move into the sprawling New England mansion he grew up in. While the kids adapt to their new life they discover that their family home holds more secrets than they could imagine....

Everyone in the film community and beyond knows about the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, plus all the other important film award ceremonies intent on honoring the best of the best in Hollywood every year. But what about the award show for the worst of Hollywood? The Golden Raspberry Awards have been around for about as long as the Oscars have and some people value them just as much....

When The Avengers was announced, no one in their right mind could’ve dreamed what it would go on to achieve. This wasn’t just any other blockbuster– it was the culmination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s (MCU) first phase, bringing in a gargantuan $1.519 billion. Proving that lightning does indeed strike twice, its sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, raked in another $1.405 billion. At the head of the movies’ success was writer/director Joss Whedon – the man known for creating Buffy the Vampire Slayer....