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Double Toasted
Double Toasted is an entertainment website based in Austin, Texas. The site hosts weekly podcasts covering current events, pop culture, movie reviews and video games. History After the closure of Spill.com in 2013, Korey Coleman was encouraged by friends and fans to create a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new home for his content. Coleman and co-host Martin Thomas's friend and fellow Austin resident Brian Brushwood played an important role in the site's creation. Shortly after Spill's closure, he approached them and urged them not to abandon the audience they had built through the website and assisted them with launching the Kickstarter campaign for Double Toasted. The original goal was set at $30,000. During the campaign, Coleman and Martin Thomas continued to podcast and update fans on the growing total. On the last night, they held a 24-hour live stream with guests and fans stopping by for support. At the end of the stream, the final amount given was $133,860. As a result, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korey Coleman
Korey Coleman (born September 9, 1971) is an American film critic, animator, podcaster, filmmaker, voice actor, and comedian. He is best known for his now defunct film review site, Spill.com, and its current spiritual successor, Double Toasted. Biography Born to Willie and Irma Coleman and the youngest of three, Korey Coleman grew up loving animation and eventually got into University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas hoping to major in film making, but eventually dropped out. While there, however, he met fellow artist and future co-host, Martin Thomas who took an interest in his comic strip ''Eddie the Albino Squirrel''. One of his classmates was future ''Chowder (TV series), Chowder'' creator C. H. Greenblatt, where they both worked on the school’s newspaper. Coleman also attended school with Russell Neal of the R&B group Hi-Five. Coleman was also an assistant animator during the production and making of ''Space Jam''. Warner Bros. needed help finishing the project ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jhonen Vasquez
Jhonen C. Vasquez (; born September 1, 1974) is an American cartoonist, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for creating the '' Johnny the Homicidal Maniac'' comic book series (alongside its spin-offs '' Squee!'', '' I Feel Sick'', and ''Fillerbunny'') and the Nickelodeon animated series ''Invader Zim''. Early life Jhonen C. Vasquez was born in San Jose, California, on September 1, 1974. He is of Mexican and Venezuelan descent. He grew up in East San Jose and attended Mt. Pleasant High School, where he spent much of his class time drawing in notebooks. Vasquez was a fan of Disney animated features growing up, and found himself even more fascinated by alternative animation by filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi. Vasquez cited '' The Plague Dogs'' and '' Flight of Dragons'' as two of the most personally influential animated films he saw in childhood, while at the same time in live action, he found himself most influenced by Ridley Scott's '' Alien''. Vasquez also read his o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courage Under Fire
''Courage Under Fire'' is a 1996 American war drama film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. It is the second collaboration between Washington and director Zwick. The film was released in the United States on July 12, 1996, to positive reviews and grossed $100 million worldwide. Plot While serving in the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling fires on and destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle, killing his friend, Lieutenant Tom Boylar. The United States Army covers up the friendly fire incident, awards Serling a medal for bravery, and transfers him to a desk job. Later, Serling is assigned to determine if, posthumously, Captain Karen Walden should be the first woman to receive the Medal of Honor. She was the commander of a Medevac Huey helicopter sent to rescue the crew of a shot-down Black Hawk helicopter. When Walden encountered an enemy T-54 tank, her crew destroyed it by dropping a fuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Jam
''Space Jam'' is a 1996 American live-action animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod. The first film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation, it stars basketball player Michael Jordan as himself; the live-action cast also includes Wayne Knight and Theresa Randle while Billy West and Danny DeVito headline the voice cast. The film follows Jordan as he is brought out of retirement by the ''Looney Tunes'' characters to help them win a basketball match against invading aliens intent on enslaving them as amusement park attractions. ''Space Jam'' premiered in Los Angeles on November 10, 1996, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 15, by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment label. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who were divided over its premise of combining Jordan and his profession with the ''Looney Tunes'' characters, while the technic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mia Khalifa
Mia Khalifa (; ; born 1993) is a Lebanese-American media personality and former pornographic film actress. Rising to prominence in late 2014, she became one of the most searched performers on Pornhub after a controversial scene featuring a hijab sparked global attention drawing both widespread popularity and backlash. Despite her brief three-month career in adult films, Khalifa was voted the "Number 1 Porn Star" on Pornhub in 2015. In January 2017, xHamster reported that she was the most-searched-for adult actress of 2016. In 2018, she became the most-searched-for actress on Pornhub. After leaving the adult industry, Khalifa has worked as a webcam model, OnlyFans creator, and sports commentator. She launched her own line of jewelry in 2023. Khalifa has also advocated for sex workers' rights and criticized U.S. military aid to Israel in the context of Israeli apartheid, which has led to backlash from commentators and former employers. Early life Khalifa was born in Bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skype
Skype () was a proprietary telecommunications application operated by Skype Technologies, a division of Microsoft, best known for IP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls. It also had instant messaging, file transfer, debit-based calls to landline and mobile telephones (over traditional telephone networks), and other features. It was available on various desktop, mobile, and video game console platforms. Skype was created by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis, and four Estonian developers, and first released in August 2003. In September 2005, eBay acquired it for $2.6 billion. In September 2009, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board bought 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion from eBay, valuing the business at $2.92 billion. In May 2011, Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion and used it to replace its own Windows Live Messenger. As of 2011, most of the development team and 44% of all the div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rolfe
James D. Rolfe (born July 10, 1980) is an American YouTuber, filmmaker and actor. He is best known for creating and starring in the comedic retrogaming web series, ''Angry Video Game Nerd'' (2004–present). His spin-off projects include reviews of retro films, television series, and board games. He is considered a pioneer of internet gaming videos, and is noted for his widespread influence on YouTube content after the series premiered on the site in 2006. Rolfe began creating homemade video productions in the late 1980s, having filmed more than 270 video productions by 2004. Among these were the first ''Angry Video Game Nerd'' episodes (originally known as ''Bad NES Games'', and later ''Angry Nintendo Nerd''), which were released on his Cinemassacre website in 2004. Two years later, he gained mainstream attention when the series went viral after being published to YouTube. Following its success, Rolfe released a feature-length film based on the series in 2014, which received m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Walker (comedian)
Douglas Darien Walker (born November 17, 1981) is an American comedian, film critic, actor and YouTuber. He is best known for creating and starring in the satirical film review web series ''Nostalgia Critic'', wherein the titular character reviews Nostalgia, nostalgic media in an exaggeratedly angry manner. After an initial run on YouTube, Walker co-created the website That Guy with the Glasses (later merged into Channel Awesome) in 2008, where he and the series gained wider popularity. The site also presented other media critics who created similar content, including Lindsay Ellis and Angry Joe. Walker and his series returned to YouTube in 2012. As of 2025, Walker still creates the show but with less of an angry or profane approach. Early life and education Walker is the son of Barney Walker (b. 1946), a United States Navy, naval officer and musician, and Sandra Ruth (née Polkow) Walker (1947–2016), a therapist. Both parents, as well as Walker's older brother Rob (b. 1979), w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Stuckmann
Christopher Michael Stuckmann (born April 15, 1988) is an American YouTuber, filmmaker, author, and film critic. As one of the most popular film critics on YouTube, Stuckmann has over 2 million subscribers and over 779 million views on the platform as of May 2025. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, he is an approved critic and a member of the Critics Choice Association. In mid-2021, it was announced that Stuckmann had signed to write and direct his full feature debut '' Shelby Oaks'' with Paper Street Pictures and producer Aaron B. Koontz. Early life Stuckmann was born in Boston Heights, Ohio, growing up with two older sisters. Stuckmann is partly of German descent. He took an interest in film criticism from a young age, writing brief reviews of films as early as age fourteen. His primary inspiration among professional film critics was Roger Ebert, particularly the television-program ''Siskel & Ebert & the Movies'' which Ebert co-hosted with Gene Siskel. He writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce W
The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a Scottish surname since medieval times; it is now a common male given name. The variant ''Lebrix'' and ''Le Brix'' are French language, French variations of the surname. Note: A few people are notable in more than one field, and therefore appear in more than one section. Arts and entertainment Film and television * Bruce Altman (born 1955), American actor * Bruce Baillie (1931–2020), American filmmaker * Bruce Bennett (1906–2007), American actor and athlete * Bruce Berman (born 1952), American film producer * Bruce Boa (1930–2004), Canadian actor * Bruce Boxleitner (born 1950), American actor * Bruce Campbell (born 1958), American actor, director, writer, producer and author * Bruce Conner (1933–2008), American artist and filmma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Paulsen
Robert Frederick Paulsen III (born March 11, 1956) is an American voice actor and voice director, known for his roles in numerous animated television series and films. He received a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program and three Annie Awards for his role as both Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, Yakko and Pinky in the ''Animaniacs'' franchise. His other voice roles include: Hadji in ''The New Adventures of Jonny Quest'' (1986–1987) and ''The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest'' (1996–1997); Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Raphael in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series), ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (1987–1996); P.J. Pete in ''Goof Troop'' (1992), ''A Goofy Movie'' (1995), and ''An Extremely Goofy Movie'' (2000); List of Disney's Cinderella characters#Jaq and Gus, Jaq in ''Cinderella II: Dreams Come True'' (2002) and ''Cinderella III: A Twist in Time'' (2007); and Goofy Gophers, Mac in ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (2011–2013) and ''Looney T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Minor
Jerome Charles Minor Jr. is an American actor, comedian and writer known for his comedic roles in numerous television programs such as '' Mr. Show'', ''Saturday Night Live'', '' Trigger Happy TV'', '' Delocated'', ''Brickleberry'', '' Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'', '' Crossballs'', '' The Hotwives of Orlando'', '' Carpoolers'', ''Community'', '' Lucky Louie'', and '' Dr. Ken''. Life and career Minor was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and grew up in Flint, Michigan. Minor was raised as a Jehovah's Witness during most of his youth. Later in life, after rejecting his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, Minor was shunned by some members of his family. He began doing stand-up comedy and writing/performing with sketch comedy groups in Detroit before eventually joining the Second City Detroit's mainstage improv troupe. After writing and performing in three revues, he joined the Second City Chicago for two shows and then one revue at the Second City Toronto. At the time he was the only performer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
