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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 – [...]

Slightly less time-sensitive than other year-end lists, compilations of hilarious and/or excruciatingly painful falls are nonetheless an especially apt metaphor for the year 2008. Our friends over at NextRound.net, it just so happens, have come across the following video-listicle (”vidsticle”?), which we now pass along to you, dear readers, to satisfy all your immediate nostalgia [...]