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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 [...]

As we overdose on inauguration coverage today and tomorrow, we’ll be seeing so many American flags that by Wednesday we’ll think every blank surface is covered in stars and stripes. To complement the plethora of flags in today’s news coverage, we’ve been seeing a lot of a fictional flag being waved lately. All the commercials [...]

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 – [...]

Though the real presidential inauguration doesn’t go live until Tuesday, this story of a Lego inauguration has been making the rounds for some time now. In the spirit of all things that exist both as live action events and shadow Lego events, we revisited a favorite meme cycle to bring you Listicle’s 9 Best Lego [...]

If the 2008 U.S. Presidential election proved anything (aside from the unassailable fact the we live in a post-race, soon to be post-oil society), it showed that we’re still a culture who enjoy a fun good v. bad, black v. white duel. Unreality picked up on that love of the good fight with this terrific [...]

The good people at Neatorama pointed us to a competition at Worth1000.com what taps directly into our ongoing love of muppets. Though the theme of the design competition was to insert puppets into existing images as incongruously as possible, we found the trope of muppet-ized movie posters especially awesome. So while you may want to [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]

With the Early Oscars (a.k.a. The Golden Globes) confirming our suspicions of a fairly mediocre award season ahead, and with the real Oscar nominations announcements only ten days away, we here at Listicles are taking refuge in the comforts of the past.
Perpetually disappointed by the marquee nominees and winners, we’re always most pleasantly surprised by [...]

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 [...]

Now that the madness of Christmas is over – don’t get us started on what Freud would have thought of candy canes, big red boxes, tube socks full of “gifts” and celebrating a young man’s sacrifice in the name of his father – we can get back to our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays. This week, [...]