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Mob movies are often only as good as the hits they portray – the recent Michael Mann Dillinger film Public Enemies, for instance, features some incredible mob-on-mob shootouts – as evidenced by Future of Classic’s listicle of the Top 10 Movie Mafia Hits. Even then, though, a good movie can suffer when it takes a [...]

With today’s news that Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich was essentially auctioning off President-elect Barack Obama’s vacant senate seat to whomever could promise him and his wife the best career boosts, the Windy City’s historical tendency towards corruption has come full circle (how fitting that such news should break on International Anti-Corruption Day).
With that history [...]

The year-end list onslaught continues, this morning with Entertainment Weekly’s retrospective list of the 15 Most (and Least) Stylish Movie Characters of 2008. Important detail: the characters have to display fashion sense, but the movies they inhabit can be (and some were) completely awful. Culled from the list of 15, here are EW’s top 3 [...]

A delightfully multidisciplinary article in yesterday’s New York Times looks at the milk-based cocktail the White Russian through the lens of its re-popularization by fans of the Coen Brothers film The Big Lebowski. Part film article, part cocktail profile, part sociological investigation, Steven Kurutz covers the drink’s movements in and out of fashion, wetting readers’ [...]