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Coconut Head from Ned's Declassified is played by Rob Pinkston, who has since moved on to a career in graphics production at Riot Games. The trio from the show has started a podcast discussing past episodes, following the trend of actors creating podcasts based on their shows. Pinkston's unique appearance as Coconut Head made him easily recognizable on screen, but now he looks very different in his grown-up life.

Coconut Head is a memorable schoolmate of Ned's (Devon Werkheiser) on the Nickelodeon sitcom Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and the actor, Rob Pinkston, has gone on to an interesting post-Nick career. A classic of 2000s Nickelodeon programming, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide premiered in 2004 and lasted for three seasons. Following the trio of Ned, Moze (Lindsey Shaw), and Cookie (Daniel Curtis Lee), the series depicts the daily life of middle school students, each episode based around one of Ned's tips...

Happy Halloween, readers! Our favorite holiday is finally upon us, and while I know most of us are planning spending our day (and night) enjoying tons of movies, I’ve put together this collection of recently released horror short films that are perfect to enjoy today when you’re looking for some micro-doses of thrills and chills.

We hope you enjoy these five fright-filled shorts!

Dear Guest (Directed by Megan Freels Johnston)

Starring: Ashley Bell and Noureen DeWulf

Synopsis: A couple checks into a vacation rental only to find that the anonymous host likes to play games on its guests.

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Face Mask (Directed by Dan Allen and Adam Huber)

Starring: Bill Parmentier and Zachary Allen Farmer

Synopsis: Don’t forget to wear your mask in public.

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A Doll Distorted (Directed by Niall Shukla)

Starring: Nicci Brighten and Cory Stuckey

Synopsis: Jane suffers from haphephobia (the pathological fear of...

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NEW YORK -- The ads for The Sasquatch Gang promise that it comes "from the guys who brought you 'Napoleon Dynamite, ' " but similar mainstream success is likely to elude this teen-oriented comedy. A slapstick enterprise centering on the discovery of a presumed Sasquatch turd, this movie is all too redolent of its subject matter.

Written and directed by Tim Skousen, who served as assistant director on Napoleon, the film deals with the discovery by the supremely nerdy Gavin (Jeremy Sumpter) and his friends of some mysterious tracks and droppings in the woods, the size of which indicates that they might stem from the mythical Bigfoot.

Unbeknown to the group -- which also includes the plus-sized Hobie (Hubbel Palmer), the minus-sized Maynard (Rob Pinkston) and the sweet-natured Sophie Addie Land) -- their discovery actually is the creation of slacker Zack (a very amusing Justin Long) and his constantly shirtless friend, Shirts (Joey Kern), as part of a moneymaking scheme to erase Zack's credit card debts.

Predictable wackiness ensues, including the appearance of the high-toned Dr. Artimus Snodgrass (Carl Weathers, no doubt nostalgic for the glories of the Rocky films), a self-proclaimed Sasquatch expert who has arrived to determine the turd's authenticity.

The filmmaker attempts to bring stylization to the sophomoric proceedings via such methods as comic book-style interstitials and a time-fractured narrative that seems far too elaborate for the simple story line.

Very much reminiscent of Napoleon in numerous ways only minus the wit, the film is made somewhat palatable by its inherent sweetness and its treatment of typical adolescent angst. With such touches as Sophie's decision to wire her teeth shut in order to lose weight and Zack's sheepishness upon producing a pair of reading glasses, The Sasquatch Gang demonstrates an admirable sensitivity to its target audience's insecurities.