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We’re all familiar with that brand of blog (like Overheard in New York and Robots with Stuff) whose operating premise makes it an ever-elongating list. Fortunately, these types of blogs are constantly increasing in number (remember our recent mention of Tenenbaum FAIL?), so there will always be new listy blogs to keep up to date [...]

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 [...]

As the world descends into greater poverty, companies go bankrupt, people scam billions under charitable pretenses and the art market freezes, we’ll be seeing much more of one kind of visual art: courtroom sketches.
Hence Comedy.com’s latest list: 20 Greatest Celebrity Courtroom Sketches. Say, even just last week we saw sketches of embattled Illinois Governor Rod [...]

Alongside news that the abstinence-preaching vampire romance novel adaptation Twilight took the top spot at this week-end’s box office, New York Times super-critic Manohla Dargis narrates a historical survey of vampire movies that, like their main characters, haven’t really aged. Before exploring the cultural graveyard for undead treats, Dargis covers the vampire canon (vamnon?):

Nosferatu (F.W. [...]