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We got a little distracted on Saturday with Independence Day activities, but we’d be remiss not to mention another important July 4th celebration: the building of the first bus. We can’t really pin down in what year this feat of engineering first occurred (some say 1662, others the 1820s, an some 1895), but at any [...]

Over the weekend, a terrifyingly entertaining news story about American shipmen, Somali pirates, hostage situations, daring escapes and ransom negotiations came to a fittingly thrilling conclusion in a shocking split second sniper riffle blaze. Amid all the hubbub over our first international pirate problem in recent memory, there’s a fascinating story of tireless concentration, exacting [...]

In our effort to not become too distressed by Paul Blart: Mall Cop’s extremely wide release (3,144 theaters nationwide!) and huge box office returns ($33.8 million from Friday to Sunday), we kept ourselves busy over the weekend with Vulture’s mall movie listicle. Though we never think of malls as the setting for high art – [...]

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, [...]