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John Noble agrees with us - or we agree with Noble. We do think that the second season of Sleepy Hollow was such a mess. It was hard to understand what was going on.

It was such a struggle to watch it. We loved the first season, so we had such high hopes for the second season.  The plot was confusing and convoluted.  When asked at the MCM London Comic Con, Noble said, “Sleepy Hollow definitely struggled in the second season. I thought the first season was fantastic, but with the second season, I really wondered what was going on. I used to spend a long time sitting around not doing anything.”

He was a part of season two and played the character of Henry Parrish. He did say that there is a new show runner. Furthermore, he revealed that the show will go back to its roots.

Thank God.

So, Sleep Hollow, you’ve been given another chance with Season 3. Please don’t mess it up! Otherwise, you’d lose fans - and your fans can create such incredible artworks like these ones below.

Gotham Academy isn’t your typical Batman comic.  It’s definitely something else, and Olive Silverlock is not the typical protagonist.

The plot goes like this:

After an accident over the summer, Olive Silverlock returns to school with amnesia.  She also has adopted a strange attitude that swings back and forth from apathy to hostility.  She has also adopted an extreme fear of bats.

Olive was assigned to mentor Mia Mizoguchi, a new student, and then things start to get interesting. Then there’s the ghost that roams the halls of Gotham Academy. Is the ghost real?

We can definitely see this comic turned into a TV series and a live-action movie, don’t you?

It has lots of fans already. Just check out these awesome fan artworks below.

Are you excited for the release of the new animated TV series, Dragon Ball Super?

We are!

We loved Dragon Ball, and we can’t wait to see what they’ll do with the new series.  Apparently, it will pick up a few years after Goku defeated Majin Buu.  The trailer shows how life was for Goku and Chi-chi.

The promo art for the new series includes Beerus and Whis.

The series will debut in Japan on July 5.

Have you seen the final installment of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2?

If you’ve read the book, then you probably know what is in store for all the characters.  But if you haven’t cracked a single page of Suzanne Collins’ series, the trailer has actually revealed a few spoilers:

Finnick and Annnie got married.

Effie has once again helped Katniss donned rebel-like outfits as the Mockingjay prepares herself for the grand showdown.

There were scenes that we can’t remember from the book though. We’re still pretty excited to see how everything will unravel. We know what to expect after all. We bet we’re not the only one.

This happened to us all. We hit our adolescent years and we turn into moody, irrational creatures who grunts or screams when spoken to.  Why does that happen to us?

This is the premise of the movie Inside Out.  The story happens in the mind of Riley Anderson.  She’s a young girl piloted by her emotions: Anger, Disgust, Fear, Sadness and Joy.  They control her day-to-day operation, manage her memories and create pleasant ones.

This movie is a masterpiece.  It is one of the best films of this century.  It wil leave you emotional.  It will leave you brilliantly examining the nuances of the film.  Watching this film is a creative experience. It is storytelling in its finest form.

People will watch it years from now, and they’d still be amazed.

Did you know that?

This is actually an open secret.  DC Comics fans have probably figured this out a long time ago.  Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are definitely in-love with each other.

Nope, they’re not definitely monogamous. After all, we all know Harley Quinn is also dating Joker. Also, there has never been proof that the female villains are actually dating.  But we’ve seen all the innuendos.  We’ve seen all the revealing body language.

Finally, the creators of the on-going series have finally confirmed it.  Harley is definitely into women as well as into men. She’s dating men and Ivy too!

At E3, Square Enix announced that it will remake Final Fantasy VII from the ground up to celebrate the game’s 20th anniversary.

The game is one of the most beloved franchise.  But there are things that we’d definitely like to see in the remake:

Awesome Voice Cast

We’re finally going to hear everyone speak. Awesome, right? So, we’re hoping they’d cast a top-notch voice cast.  We hope Mena Suvari will reprise her role as Aeris.

Side quests!

The game lacked side quests.  This is one of the failings of the VII. It has mini games, but we’re hoping we’d get more side quests.

New Battle System

They won’t be keeping the traditional battle system, but it is also doubtful if they’d use a full MMORPG system.  We can’t imagine what we could expect, but we’re hoping we’d get a more intense and epic battle system.

More Yuffie and Vincent

We’d like to see Vincent and Yuffie as full characters.

You probably know who User is.  He is a multi-million platinum record selling singer.  He is also a brilliant songwriter.  What else do we know about him? Nada.

So, we thought we’ll compile some Usher fun facts to get to know this singer who has lots and lots of fans. You should see his fan artworks online. They’re awesome!

His local town named a road after him.

His favorite flowers are orchids.

He actually lived with Sean “P. Diddy” Combs when he was a teen while they worked on Usher’s first album.

His album, My Way, is his tribute to the legendary Frank Sinatra.

He eats his M&Ms by color!

He was a part of a quintet called NuBeginnings when he was 11 years old.

He made his acting debut on Moesha, but he also appeared in The Faculty, She’s All That, Light It Up and Texas Rangers.

He was in the The Bold and The Beautiful.

He won his first Grammy for Best Male R&B Performance in 2002.

He dated Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas  of TLC for 2 years.

He started and signed Justin Bieber.

He is part owner of Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team.

He has lots of fan artworks online.

So, here’s the plot summary from Goodreads:

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth.  To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself--and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

Let’s make this clear before we proceed with our review: we like the series.

This doesn’t mean, however, that we like everything about it.

America, for one, was irritating. She was whiny and often ungrateful. We couldn’t figure out why she couldn’t figure whom to choose between Aspen and the Prince. Seriously!

The Selection, however, which is the first book in the series set us up for the second book, The Elite, which we hate. Let’s leave it at that.

It was dark and irritating. Aspen was even more annoying in this one.

Still, we waited for The One, the third book which we loved. We couldn’t just get enough of it. We couldn’t put it down.

Prince has been around for a long time, but kids these days hardly know him.  He is, however, a legend to his fans. Here are some of the things that you may not know about Prince.

1. He wrote his first song “Funk Machine” when he was only 7.

2. He danced with James Brown when he was 10. He would later danced with Michael Jackson.

3. He was so poor when he was starting out that he’d often go to McDonald’s just to smell the food.

4. He rejected a deal with CBS because he didn’t want his first three albums to be produced by Earth, Wind and Fire.

5. He assembled The Time album and he played everything in that album. Despite the fact that he had the band go through rigorous rehearsals, he ended up recording every instrument. The only member that can be heard is Morris Day who was forced to mimic Prince’s delivery.

6. He wanted Vanity to go by the sage name Vagina.

7. He refused a duet with Michael Jackson because he wasn’t comfortable with the lyrics of “Bad”.

8. He gave “Kiss” to a band called Mazarati, but changed his mind after hearing what the band did to the song.

9. He was so deeply in-love with Susannah Melvoin whom he started pursuing when she was 16. She inspired many of his songs including “The Beautiful Ones,” “Nothing Compares 2 U,” and “Forever In My Life.” 

10. He wanted to release an entire album as a woman. He developed an alter ego known as Camille.

Paper Towns is an interesting novel.  With the film coming out, we thought we’d read the book first.  The book wouldn’t win a Pulitzer award anytime soon, but it was vastly entertaining.

The protagonist is Quentin 'Q' Jacobsen who lives a pretty normal and boring life.  This boring life was turned upside down when a stunning girl, Margo Roth Spiegelman, moves in next door.  To Margo, life is a huge adventure.  They became fast friends and Margo became a huge influence in Q’s life.  It was fun and games until they came across a dead body.

Years later, the characters are in high school and are no longer friends. They hardly speak until Margo invites Q to join him in a mission of revenge. The night was a great adventure for them until the next morning, Q wakes up and Margo was gone.

The story follows Q and his friends as they try to find Margo and uncover the cryptic clues she left behind.

Needless to say, the plot is quite clever. The clues drive the book, and they make you want to continue reading.  It infused comedy and mystery into the book and we’d be very happy if we the same thing in the film.

We’re fans of the book, and we hope we’d be fans of the film too.

By now, you’ve probably seen the horrible season finale of Game of Thrones. Seriously, the writers and George Martin need some counseling. There were five apparent deaths in that episode alone: Ser Meryn Trant, Myrcella Baratheon, Stannis and Selyse Baratheon and Jon Snow.

Jon Snow!

The show is really living up to its motto: All Men Must Die.

Kit Harrington, the actor who plays Jon Snow, said that he won’t be back next season. He said that he’s dead. Really, really, really dead. But if you are in denial - like us - try to piece together some possibilities for Jon Snow.

Here are some of the best theories:

Jon will warged into his direwolf Ghost.  In the books, Melisandre has a vision that hits about this possibility: "Now he was a man, now a wolf, now a man again". So, we’d likely see Jon Snow as Ghost for a while.

Jon will turn into a wildling. Ugh. We’re not really fans of this theory - and we don’t see this happening really. It would serve no purpose at all.

Melisandre will resurrect Jon. Oh, resurrections are fairly common in a land where dragons fly and breath fire. Arya has met Dondarrion who told her he been killed multiple times and have been resurrected each time by Thoros of Myr, a red priest who worships the Lord of Light.

Our bets are on this one.We don’t really care if he becomes a wolf for a while or if he is resurrected, we just want him back!

If you are a fan of the 1981 film, Evil Dead, you’ve probably heard about the upcoming TV series, Ash Vs. Evil Dead.

Starz is petty coy about the details, but they’ve released a chainsaw-heavy video which gives fans a pretty good idea what to expect from the series.

Here is a brief clip:

The show is about Ashley “Ash” Williams who with his girlfriends and pals hike into the woods for some little fun.  There they found an old book, the Necronomicon with text that could awaken the dead.

The group inadvertently released the evil dead, and they must fight for their lives before they, themselves, turn into one.

Sounds pretty exciting, right?

The show will be likely swamped with gruesome images.

Oooh, we can’t wait!

We can finally call it as it is - Chris Pratt has become an A-list movie star.  The once schlumpy guy has become a huge star.  It’s actually funny.  He once said in an interview that he’d stand right next to his wife, the gorgeous Anna Farris, and men would hit on her like as if he wasn’t there!

People can no longer just ignore him. He’s huge.  Jurassic World has earned an unbelievable $208.8 million at the domestic box office.  His Guardians of the Galaxy was a box office hit as well.

What else can he do?

Apparently, he is soon going to team up with Jennifer Lawrence in an epic space romance, Passengers.  This epic drama will take place in outer space.

Here’s IMDB’s synopsis of the upcoming film:

“A spacecraft is transporting thousands of people to a distant colony planet that has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, a single passenger is awakened 90 years before anyone else. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger.”

This sounds amazing, right?  Two of American’s favorite stars to appear in the same film? Whoa.

Chris Pratt is truly a movie star now.

So, Game of Thrones has rocked and angered fans with season’s 5 finale. Jon Snow, dead?! No!

Apparently, Jon Snow is not coming back next season, but another Stark is coming back - Bran Stark, who apparently will come back as a strong wizard.

We left the young Stark at the feet of the Three-eyed raven who turned out to be a tree wizard, properly referred to as the last greenseer.  He will be training Bran and will be turning him into a powerful wizard.

Season 6 will reveal Bran to possess the ability to skinchange and to greensee.  He will become one of the most powerful - if not the most powerful - wizards in the planet.  He will be able to shape events and deliver information to his allies.

It’s going to be exciting!  And we deserve some happy Stark stories, for god’s sake!

Netflix is definitely making noise.  It has recently invested in Brad Pitt’s film, War Machine.  This is also Netflix biggest investment in a feature film to date.

Netflix has recently scooped up Brad Pitt’s upcoming film War Machine.  The studio doesn’t really share its budget, but The Hollywood Reporter reported that the company was willing to pay $60 million for the movie.

Other studios wanted to lower the proposed budget, so the team behind the film looked elsewhere.  Netflix was willing to meet the demands, so it landed the edgy comedy film.

Brad Pitt will play McChrystal, a former U.S. commander who resigned from his post after making derogatory comments about Joe Biden and other White House officials.  His story was published in a Rolling Stone article by Hastings.  The story was once again published in a book, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan.

This is definitely something Brad Pitt’s fans can look forward to. More of His Gorgeousness in the big screen.

Just when you thought you know everything about J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, you will discover that there are still a lot more to learn.  Here are some interesting facts about the book:

1. It was first translated in Swedish, and Tolkien wasn’t too happy with the results. The translator actually altered the name of Hobbits to Hompen. Hompen, seriously? Tolkien apparently hates it when translators changed his words. Thankfully, recent translations use “hobbit” in their titles.

2. In a posthumously published story, Gandalf revealed that Smaug the dragon would have difficulty identifying the aroma of Shire folks like Bilbo. Thus, Gandalf chose Bilbo to join the expedition. Smaug, however, was a great connoisseur of dwarves!

3. In the first version of “The Hobbit”, Golum was actually sweet.  He even willingly offered the ring to Bilbo.

4. When he was a child, Aragorn’s mother took him to Rivendell. So, when Bilbo actually came to the Last Homely House East of the Sea, Aragorn was there!

5. Gandalf and Thorin actually met by chance on the road near Bree.  The wizard was then on his way to the Shire for some pipe-smoking vacation.

6. Tolkin actually sold the screen rights to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, so his family could pay the huge estate taxes after his death without needing to sell the publication rights.

7. When Tolkien gave the manuscript to his publisher, Stanley Unwin, Unwin in turn gave it to his son to read. The boy loved it and wrote, "...it is good and should appeal to all children between the ages of 5 and 9." Rayner was 10 at that time.

8. The name of Bilbo’s ancestral home, Bag End, is a really clever pun. In France, dead end streets were named after the butt end of sacks. Since Bag End sat the end of the Hobbiton Road, Tolkien named the house “Bag End”.

9. Bilbo didn’t keep the troll booty after Gandalf convinced him to bring it home. Frodo told his friends that Bilbo gave it away. He didn’t want to keep wealth that was ill-gotten.

So, how many of these facts do you know?