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No doubt you’ve heard the tragic news of the events that unfolded at Fort Hood yesterday, a place so remote and different from our daily lives that we struggled to picture what the largest military base in the U.S. might actually look and feel like. As we always do, we turned to cinema for some [...]

Among the many things that the United Nations Security Council worked on yesterday during their dealings in New York was the decision to move forward on measures to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We applaud the move (and urge the French president to stop being a wuss and show his support), and hope that [...]

It’s usually fairly impressive when an actor portrays several roles within the same film, and in light of Sam Rockwell’s impressive turn in the recent existentialist space story Moon, Vulture has created a listicle of the 10 Greatest Multiple-Role Performances in Movie History. Obviously, Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove was a shoe-in for number one, [...]

In a recent synergistic extravaganza, the folks at Slate and one of their related publications Foreign Policy held an exhaustive list-making drill on international relations in film. It started with Stephen M. Walt’s list of 10 (including Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove and – gasp – Independence Day), followed by Daniel W. Drezner’s top 8 rebuttal (which [...]

As you likely know by now, today is Submarine Day. You didn’t know? Are you drunk? I knew it, you’ve been up since 6am drinking green beer on Submarine Day. How could you do this to me? I prepared you this incredible listicle of the Top 9 Submarine Movies and all you’ve got to say [...]

If we’re looking at movies that might influence today’s new U.S. President Barack Obama, it’s rather worrisome to note that his favorite movie is The Godfather. Hoping that Obama doesn’t turn out like Don Vito Corleone, those tireless film archivists at Future of Classic have parsed their DVD libraries for movie presidents whose onscreen behavior [...]