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It’s funny, we always thought Chris Tucker’s character Ruby Rhod (pictured) from The Fifth Element had pretty much the coolest haircut ever–a haircut that, incidentally, makes for a very challenging Halloween costume. We’re frankly shocked that Mr. Rhod ended up in Vulture’s listicle of The 12 Worst Haircuts of the Future, but we’re surprised by [...]

Movie lists are seriously a dime a dozen, but we really, really like Future of Classic’s recent listicle of the 10 Worst Movie Sunburns. It’s an interesting, season-appropriate subject, and the choices aren’t painfully obvious. To top it all off, they included nearly all the right movies. Nearly. It took us a few minutes, but [...]

In these days of over-merchandised movie franchises whose dwindling box office returns have to be supplemented by copious schwag sales, it’s no surprise that licensing deals are producing some truly atrocious tie-in items. Witness, for instance, the absurd filmic footwear featured in StreetLevel’s listicle 10 Sneakers Inspired by Movies (helpfully divided into 5 good and [...]

Though we’ve had conflicting reports, at least one source claims that today is UFO Day (others say July 8, the date of the original Roswell, New Mexico sighting, others say July 2 for no specific reason). At any rate, since everybody is so vague on the whole unidentified flying object thing (something we’ve noted before), [...]

If you’ve seen enough blockbuster films – or, you know, been abducted by different species of aliens several times – you’ll know that extraterrestrial aircraft come in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got the retro saucers of Mars Attacks! (A3), the jellyfish from War of the Worlds (A7), the slightly crab-like saucers from Independence Day [...]

As Canadian communication theorist Harold Innis taught us, some empires are time-biased and others are space-biased, depending on their preferred mass medium of control. Well, he probably never dreamed things like interplanetary space travel, teleportation, telekinetics and instant cross-universe communication would figure into the evolution of empires. But then he probably wasn’t a huge sci-fi [...]

As students of film and believers in its magical healing powers, we often turn to our favorite movie for advice about the present and predictions about the future. Every so often though, a movie tells us something that turns out to be completely wrong – like that thing about werewolves and silver bullets, totally a [...]

It’s true, we’re rather skeptical about knee-jerk revisions, sequels, prequels, reunion tours, side-projects, spin-offs, franchises and disastrous re-vamps, but the film world is where we’ve found the greatest number of exceptions to this informal rule. Arguing that newer and bigger can be better, Unreality’s David Madison offers proof with a listicle of equal or superior [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]