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President Obama is planning to make a speech especially to public school students around the nation on Tuesday and, per the Times, some Republican parents don’t want their kids brainwashed by the socialist propaganda of their elected leader. All parents are notoriously evil and unjust, as we all well know, so this should come as [...]

If you watch many disaster movies, you’ll have noticed that big buildings and famous landmarks are often the first thing to go when the meteorite/earthquake/tidal wave/dinosaur/mutant/giant monkey/aliens hit. Aside from always targeting certain cities rather than others, some monuments just cannot catch a break. There’s the Eiffel Tower, for instance, which gets it in Armageddon [...]

Hey, tomorrow’s patriots’ day BBQ day Independence Day 2: The Movie day. Whatever day it is tomorrow, we know it has something to do with America, and how endearingly messed up it is. Accordingly, it’s one of the few days of the year (along with Christmas) that we at Listicles HQ really pay heed to [...]

We forgot to mention it, but June 20 was Bald Eagle Day, which is really just a pre-drinking party for Independence Day, a not-so-dry dry run. Sadly, it isn’t a big enough national event to merit its own parade, yet. In hopes of spurring the tradition, though, we’ve rounded up some of the eagles we’d [...]

Hey, it’s Memorial Day, and if you’re not cooking up a delicious slab of beef today in our nation’s great outdoors (ie. a backyard, stoop or fire escape somewhere), well, you’re un-American (and girlie). There, I said it.
Fear not, however, young hesitant and confused patriot, there’s still time to put your country where your mouth [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve seen enough blockbuster films – or, you know, been abducted by different species of aliens several times – you’ll know that extraterrestrial aircraft come in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got the retro saucers of Mars Attacks! (A3), the jellyfish from War of the Worlds (A7), the slightly crab-like saucers from Independence Day [...]

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 [...]

A man about whom there will never be enough meme’s a-swirlin’, Jeff Goldblum (whose arguably wackiest role yet comes in his current film, Paul Schrader’s Adam Resurrected), is the subject of a terrific listicle by Videogum on the actor’s best drunken videos. While slowing down old iMac ads is nice and all, let’s not forget [...]