Fictional

How many times have you been watching a movie or a TV show that featured a fictional band thinking, “I’d love to go to that show!” We have as well. for example, imagine a music festival with nothing but the best fictional bands from TV and movies. It would be epic. There are a few examples of bands you won’t find on this list. Bands like The Blues Brothers, the Monkees, and Spinal Tap may have started as fictional, but both evolved into something much more than the movies they came from. That said, here’s our list of the…

Image: PeacockIf we’re being honest, put Natasha Lyonne in anything and she’s likely to win us over. Her dry humor, raspy voice, and impeccable confidence almost always create a memorable character. But in the hands of murder mystery guru Rian Johnson on Poker Face, Charlie becomes something more. She’s on the run, so she’s always cautious and looking over her shoulder. And yet, because she has the power to tell if a person is lying or not, she finds that she has to do good. Has to get to the bottom of the case. Has to…

Image: Warner Bros.If you’re of a certain age, Michael Keaton’s Batman was one of the most formative characters in your nerd life. It’s a character we thought we’d never see again but, 30-plus years later, he finally returned in this year’s The Flash. And no matter what you think of the movie as a whole, if you loved Keaton’s Batman, it’s hard to deny how exciting it was to see that character again, hear his music, and feel that nostalgia. Unfortunately, Keaton’s return as Batman was short-lived, but he went out in style,…

Recent research indicates that loneliness can blur the distinction between real and fictional characters in the brain, suggesting that lonely individuals may seek emotional connections with favorite fictional characters similarly to real-life friends.New research sheds light on how friends, story characters are represented in the brain.A recent study discovered that for individuals who often feel lonely, the distinction between actual friends and beloved fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain that is…

By all accounts, Napoleon Bonaparte liked Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie very much. Not enough to let her keep her name instead of changing it to Josephine, but hey. Love looks different to different people. Marie, who served as the broad-strokes inspiration for the character Josephine played by Vanessa Kirby in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, was born June 23, 1763, to the owners of a sugar plantation. The family business changed her life in a number of ways – for one, the market for sugar in the late 1700s was a lot…

We might only be in the earliest stages of writers and actors striking together for the first time in decades, but Disney is already emerging at the front of the queue when it comes to being named as the studio handling the situation in the worst possible fashion. CEO Bob Iger has infuriated everyone from the stars of canceled Marvel shows to countless former on-camera talents for both blaming the cinematic universe’s expansion for its downturn in quality and claiming that the demands being made on the picket lines were…

screenshot by Lance Whitney/ZDNETEver wanted to chat with your favorite people from history and literature? Short of traveling back in time or jumping into the pages of a book, you can now get as close as possible thanks to the power of AI. Designed for iOS/iPadOS, a new app named Superchat presents bots as well-known historical and fictional characters with whom you can chat. Thanks to TechCrunch for bringing attention to this innovative app.What is Superchat?The basic flavor of Snapchat is free but limits the…

The most hyped faux band ever, Daisy Jones & the Six, just topped the charts on iTunes, becoming the first fictional band to hit No. 1.Daisy Jones & the Six is the fictional band at the center of the highly anticipated Amazon Prime Video series of the same name. The series is an adaption of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s New York Times bestselling novel that broke #BookTok and caught the attention of series co-producer Reese Witherspoon. The series uses an oral history format to create a “rockumentary”-style depiction of a…

Cave Johnson is almost ready to start a new study in his secret underground facility. The founder of the Michigan-based technology company Aperture Science, he’s invented a portal gun that allows people to teleport to various locations. Now, he and his colleagues want to see whether they can make portals appear on previously unfit surfaces with a new “conversion gel” containing moon dust. “It may be toxic. We are unsure,” he wrote in a recent research proposal.…

Nope (2022) - The Star Lasso Experience Scene | MovieclipsJordan Peele’s third theatrical film, Nope, opens on a random act of violence, a nightmare scenario in which a child watches his longtime friend and acting partner suddenly go berserk and viciously attack his TV parents, then becomes further traumatized when said friend is shot dead in front of him. That darkness haunts Jupe throughout the rest of his life, whether it’s through Saturday Night Live sketches or when you finally see the facade break as he recounts how…