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We were in a gang fight once. Well, we saw one. From really far away. It may have been a rugby team practice… At any rate, we much prefer seeing gang fights in movies than in real life, where they tend to be less well coordinated and more confusing. Indeed, one of AMC Movie Blog’s [...]

Mob movies are often only as good as the hits they portray – the recent Michael Mann Dillinger film Public Enemies, for instance, features some incredible mob-on-mob shootouts – as evidenced by Future of Classic’s listicle of the Top 10 Movie Mafia Hits. Even then, though, a good movie can suffer when it takes a [...]

As you probably know, unless you’re trapped under a rock without wireless reception, the Iranian election is going, well, not so great. The country’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called for an investigation, opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi claims his defeat was fraudulent, and incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his victory within twelve hours of [...]

Is the musical really back? Was it ever actually gone? Is Chicago seriously the best “modern musical”? These are all questions state more or less implicitly by Future of Classic’s listicle of the Top 10 Modern Movie Musicals. On the one hand, what about Hustle & Flow and the South Park movie? On the other [...]

As you may have heard, Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi (at right) was sentenced to three years in jail yesterday for a little-known altercation during which he threw a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush. It’s kind of a bummer, and in a deliciously Kafka-esque way says a lot about the humorless nature of bureaucracy. [...]

As we fine-tune our holiday Netflix cues and scour local movie rental offerings for their most yuletide films, why not take the advice of a guy wearing a funny hat? No, we’re not talking about Steven Spielberg.
The late Pope John Paul II, pressed by nobody in particular save the slowly-approaching hand of death, imparted the [...]

Get ready to lose an hour of your life (don’t worry, it’s totally worth it). Those trailer fanatics over at TrailerSpy have outdone themselves with their latest list of tangled trailers: The Top 15 Trailer Mash-Ups of All-Time. For those working on their own entries into this web-genre, take note: the more disparate the source [...]

With election season over, Tina Fey has hung up her Sarah Palin impression. But the hysteria surrounding her spot-on SNL skits portraying the folksy would-be veep has earned the 38 year-old comedienne a whole new slew of fans. And those fans demand magazine profiles! Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker [...]