Saturday Hot Links
Time for the 178th installment of Saturday Hot Links.
Today: The Most Insane GoPro Videos Out There Edition.
SXSW: Complete List of Winners at the 2015 Film Awards.
SXSW Wrap and Winners: Distributors, Pay Attention to These Films.
These 10 Female Acts Will Dominate SXSW.
HBO Now Finally Breaks Up the Pay-TV Bundle (Analysis).
Kurt Vonnegut’s Letter Grades For His Own Books.
Broken Projector: Episode 89.
Chicks Who Script: Episode 32.
Chuck Wendig: Rantypanties Grr-Talk About Writery Things.
George Clooney, Miley Cyrus to Play Themselves in Sofia Coppola Christmas Special.
How a Brilliant Intelligence Officer Used ‘Monopoly’ to Free WWII POWs.
Santa Monica Preps for Upscale Movie Theater Boom.
And then there was that time the U.S. Air Force dropped a nuclear bomb on South Carolina.
10 Films About Other Films.
Top Dictionary Words Searched at Colleges Across the Country.
How ‘South Park’ was born: An oral history of ‘The Spirit of Christmas’.
Ashley Judd Intends to Press Charges Against Misogynist Trolls Who Threatened Her on Twitter.
The Secrets Hidden in the Casino Royale Screenplays.
The Science of Raising Happily Productive Kids.
Alfred Hitchcock’s 50 Ways to Kill a Character.
How to Google Something You Don’t Know How to Describe.
‘Serial,’ ‘The Jinx’ and the Rush for Movies Seeking Justice.
Self-driving cars will change everything.
Brave New TV: How ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ & ‘The Last Man on Earth’ Are Setting a Standard.
A map of all the underwater cables that connect the internet.
Horror Hit ‘It Follows’ Reveals Challenges of Theatrical vs. VOD.
Will Ferrell Warns David Letterman About Snake Attacks on St. Patrick’s Day (Video).
How Studio Movie Posters are Created.
Fairfield U. Graduate May Have Solved A $1 Million Math Problem.
All About Flashbacks.
Severe Geomagnetic Storm & Flares Causing Widespread Sleep Disturbances.
John Williams No Longer Scoring Steven Spielberg’s ‘Bridge of Spies’.
The science of why stepping on Legos makes you want to die.
Franchise Fever Grips Hollywood: Who’s Banking on What.
What Causes Depression? Myths About Chemical Imbalances.
Francois Truffaut’s 15 Greatest Films.
Nail Biting: Just a Sign That You’re So Perfect.
The 25 Best Animated Films Of The 21st Century So Far.
Ashley Judd: Your Online Violence Toward Girls and Women Is What Can Kiss My Ass.
The 7 Most Wanted TV Drama Pilot Scripts.
8 of History’s Craziest Trains.
Why Do Severed Goat Heads Keep Turning Up in Brooklyn?
Watch: 70 Films That Go Inside Characters’ Minds.
8 Odd Things You Can Do With a Potato.
Jonathan Nolan Says His Original Ending To ‘Interstellar’ Was “Much More Straightforward”.
Challenge to California’s Talent Agent Licensing Law Revived by Appeals Court.
‘True Detective’ Casts Porn Stars for Season 2 Orgy Scene.
Can Google bring solar power to the masses?
Adam Sandler’s ‘Pixels’ Trailer Gets Record 34 Million Views.
Beatles’ 1962 Hamburg tapes headed to auction for $300,000.
Hollywood Can’t Beat Disney, But They Can Win If They Stop Trying To.
Groupon Inc Now Experimenting With Movie Distribution.
Making A Horror Film? These Six Steps Could Make YOU A Legend!
Little League Phenom Mo’Ne Davis Inspires Disney Channel Original Movie.
Do We Get the Movies We Deserve?
‘Death, Death, Revenge.’ The Cast of ‘Game of Thrones’ Hilariously Tries to Sum Up the Series in 30 Seconds [video].
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