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Weirdly, cinema is especially great at cannibalizing its greatest failures and turning them into films about how hard it is to make films. Such meta-cinematic exercises figure among our favorite movies ever, as you’ll no doubt agree while flipping through The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 27 Movies About the Difficulty of Making Movies. While [...]

Part homage, part aesthetic piggy-backing, “in the style of” ads are pretty popular in the era of viral copy-cat trends. Two recent such commercials hit it big over the last few days, generating buzz by borrowing a well-known style and applying it to something new, funny and (often) inappropriate. To illustrate how multinational corporations and [...]

Welcome to the continuation of this epic year-end edition of our listicle-of-lists Weekly Wednesdays. Earlier we looked at financial crooks, corrupt politicians and pop culture blunders (among others), now we look at some equally heavy, and significantly lighter subjects in the second half of Listicles’ Top 25 Year-End Lists of 2008.

Top 10 Spec Ads of [...]