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Today is Farmers Day (also known as Old Farmers Day), an annual occasion for the celebration of the United States’ rich history as a nation of agricultural producers. Now, as the country’s relationship to that agrarian past continues to evolve–with urban and organic farming renewing interest in an industry dominated by multinational corporations–we can take [...]

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 [...]

Often an afterthought on the long checklist of post-production duties, movie title sequences are too frequently totally half-assed last minute affairs. Every so often, though, the person in charge of this seemingly menial task really goes all-out to create something truly engaging, original and somehow complementary to the story about to begin. Creative Review’s Adam [...]

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 [...]

Wondering how to waste your time this Sunday? Well, it just so happens that Unreality recently posted a listicle for just such an occasion. In the wild world of advertising, making viewers notice you is often a matter of shocking them, and the creators of these 10 Nonsensical Commercials do just that by unleashing completely [...]

In preparation for this week’s edition of our psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, we’ve been reading up on this fascinating new research whereby doctors and scientists have been able to track the brain chemistry of coupling mammals. After all, what could be more Freudian than libido-liberating animal sex? More interestingly though, the research could eventually lead to [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]

Those all-seeing pop culture humorists over at NextRound.net draw our attention to an underused accessory in the canon of screen fashion: the eye patch. Though their listicle includes some vital entries (Angelina Jolie in Sky Captain, Kurt Russell in Escape From New York, Rob Lowe in Austin Powers 2, among others), some golden celebrity eye [...]

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, [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]