The Book of Ryan

Brian Lynch showed us that 30 Rock is a rip-off of the Muppets, but the Tina Fey comedy is not the only show with bizarre parallels to another. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, both released the same year, are eerily similar. The parallels cannot be intentional, but let me present the evidence and you can be the judge. What follows is a comparison of several major and minor characters in both the novels and the series describing the roles they play. Could so much similarity be coincidence?

I took my fiancée to see Watchmen last night. We were unprepared. I give it ★★★★ out of five. Below sums up my thoughts. It’s violent enough that I cringed. The movie is “patently too adult for … children 17 and under” and the fact that it’s not rated NC-17 is evidence of a moronic [...]

Hoodwinked. Hornswaggled. Flamboozled. They're the only words that could describe my action to The Girl Next Door. Elisha Cuthbert (Oldschool) plays a young adult-film actress trying to get out of the industry and enjoy the rest of her teenage life. Previews showed clips of Cuthbert's agonizingly slow changing scene, porn stars as prom dates, and the most tantalizing quote I've seen on a commercial: “I'm all wet, can I come in?”