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The movie to end all movies (and the world), 2012, comes out today, and we have to admit that there’s something to the succinct title that makes it rather catchy and epic-sounding. Of course, 2012 is hardly the first such year-titled movie.
It follows a long lineage of such films, including the subcategories of future year [...]

We couldn’t agree more with the folks at mental_floss that there are few things more beautiful and weirdly exhilarating than a perfectly executed and choreographed tracking shot or long take in a movie. That’s why we’re surprised they left their list at 9 Famous Tracking Shots when they could so easily have expanded it into [...]

It’s Sunday morning, which feels a lot like a blooper reel at the end of the week, left-over time that is of no use to anyone but might get a few cheap laughs for those with nothing better to watch. Appropriately, this makes Sunday a great day for watching funny outtakes, which, happily, are increasingly [...]

Recently, as part of a series on the American dental industry, Slate looked at some of the most famous dentist characters throughout movie history. Evidently, Marathon Man and Little Shop of Horrors had to be included in the ensuing listicle of 11 Movie Dentists, but we were surprised to see some of our favorite oral [...]

As you presumably heard, last week the International Olympic Committee made the right decision for once, and awarded the duties of hosting the 2016 summer Olympic Games to Brazilian megapolis Rio de Janeiro–rather cities in recent host nations Spain, Japan and the U.S. This marks the Games’s first visit to South America, and since it’s [...]

180 years ago today, Scotland Yard opened for spy business in London. Technically called the Metropolitan Police Service, it’s essentially the headquarters for the police force that oversees Greater London (as opposed to inner city London, whose surveillance falls to the City of London Police). Of course, the force is now housed at New Scotland [...]

Few things, you’ll surely agree, are more exciting than a swash-buckling big-screen battle of sword-wielding opponents. As with actual human history, some of the greatest and most significant disputes in film history have been resolved at sword-point. The rich canon of bladed throwdowns gets a loving tribute in Gunaxin’s listicle of 10 Memorable Movie Swordfights, [...]

Ever notice how atmospheric science fiction thrillers have their heroes gazing down ominous hallways before they finally meet the true objects of their fear (be they alien, human, otherworldly or psychological)? The creepy corridor is a sci-fi staple and the meticulous artistry that goes into conveying the off-screen threat is truly something to behold, as [...]

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 [...]

Not too long ago we read an excellent graphic novel by Hannah Berry entitled Britten and Brülightly that’s like a traditional detective novel except the private investigator Britten’s partner, Brülightly, is a talking tea bag. Awesome, right? (It is.) Well until that work is adapted for the big screen, our quirkiest police pairs in film [...]