Today’s “stuff we like” edition is caught on film.
What guys can learn from Matthew McConaughey in rom-coms. A lot apparently. Like “Don’t be afraid to leave your wife for the hired help” and “Date high school girls”. The Independent’s Tim Walker watches the movies — and draws pithy love advice — so we don’t have to.
6 Famous Characters You Didn’t Know Were Shameless Rip Offs. There’s nothing new under the sun. Cracked reveals: “It’s hard not to feel betrayed when you find out that some of the stories around which your entire childhood revolved were, for the most part, copied and pasted in with a cavalier attitude of, ‘the little bastards will never know the difference!’” We’re looking at you X-Men. And more.
Architecture on film. Flavorwire wraps the 8 best films for building design, starting with the classic “architecture in the movies” movie: Blade Runner.
The best trailers. Maybe it’s all the talk of Swine Flu flooding the airwaves that has me in a pandemic frame of mind, writes Jessica Barnes on Cinematical, “but when Erik asked us to think about some of our favorite summer movie trailers, my mind wandered from the obvious blockbusters and instead, I came up with Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later.”
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