As As if college weren’t an expensive enough endeavor, textbook prices tend to range from shocking to outrageous. Save on your textbooks with these five great places to buy cheap textbooks. Chegg Chegg offers a nice compromise between buying the overpriced textbooks at your local bookstore and shopping for iffy-quality used books online. At Chegg [...]

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Philip Pullman, addressing an audience at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, was asked about whether his latest book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, was offensive. Here’s his reply: “It was a shocking thing to say and I knew it was a shocking thing to say. But no one has the right to [...]

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Some cool ideas on how to express your creativity with just… paper.

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Don’t worry, I know this isn’t going to be for everyone. I Love You Phillip Morris is an independent film starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor as gay lovers. I’m saying that right now so you’re not shocked watching this trailer. It’s actually a pretty good movie and I suggest seeing it. I Love You [...]

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The DVD and Blu-Ray of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits shelves on Tuesday this week, and found on that DVD was this special early look at the next movie in the series. I’m already getting excited about this next one (even though it’s not due out for another 11 months). The first half [...]

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Going West is a beautiful short film illustrating the worlds in a book, incorporating papercraft to make something dreamlike and wonderful. It was animated by Andersen M Studio.

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An amazing pop-up book of phobias shows not only the easy ones (clowns, spiders, and…dentists!) but extremely real depictions of claustrophobia, fear of public speaking and fear of heights. There is serious ‘scarring for life’ potential here for the kiddies. Get yours here.

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Fox has quietly debuted yet another new trailer for Percy Jackson & the Olympians, making this the third trailer we’ve seen for this movie so far. Up until this point, we haven’t really known what this would be like, what would happen in it and what the story would be. But this trailer finally gives [...]

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Harrison Ford paired up with Brendan Fraser, but Hollywood made it happen. CBS Films has debuted the trailer for Extraordinary Measures today starring Ford and Fraser, as well as Keri Russell, in a heartfelt drama about a father’s quest to save the lives of his two children. It looks like a very heartwarming story.  Watch [...]

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Is this 2009′s Best Picture? Warner Brothers has debuted the official trailer for Clint Eastwood’s Invictus tonight on Apple in HD. I think with Eastwood directing you never know what to expect (especially for Gran Torino), but this looks like it promises to be quite an incredible film. Invictus stars Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela [...]

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