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We gave you non-denominational listicles about holiday-appropriate movie meals and denominationally derogatory Santa horror movies, and still you need to be un-PC and go looking for Christmas movies? Well, we certainly won’t help you, but the writers at Future of Classic are more tolerant of intolerance, hence their list: 10 Classic Christmas Movies. They almost [...]

You’re really pushing it, you know? If it wasn’t for Listicles’ weekly list of lists that we didn’t get to make lists about, your partner would leave you, your kids would run away, your parents would kick you out and the cousin you find kind of hot even though you know you’re not supposed to [...]

As we helped you do over Thanksgiving, we here at Listicles are all about avoiding the awkwardness of prolonged family interfaces through the magic of film. And with most of the obvious holiday movie picks already way backed-up on Netflix queues and missing from video stores everywhere, the movie trivia masters at AMC’s blog Horror [...]

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 [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]

As we enter big award show-season, Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations are among the most anticipated (and criticized) lists of the year. Last week’s award list came from the Golden Globes, announcing the nominees for the 2009 edition of the TV and movie award show.
Not important in and of themselves, people pay attention to [...]

With the past looking increasingly nice as compared to today’s recession-times, and tense holidays making us wish we could just accelerate into 2009 and beyond, the good-natured movie addicts at Unreality bring us this list: The 10 Best Movies Based On Time Travel. A classic trope of action and sci-fi film plots, the pool of [...]

In one of those strange moments where real world headlines suddenly read like bad blockbuster scripts, the news lately (when not about Barack Obama or capitalism’s flailing death throes) has been all about pirates. From an entire New York Times topic page on the subject to a nearly investigative long-form survey of the issue by [...]

In this edition of our weekly catch-up list of lists, we take an especially close look at the holiday gift list trend that is kicking into high gear. With every publication producing at least one gift guide around this time, Listicles brings you the silliest (number 5), most budget-savvy (number 3), quickest (number 4), most [...]

The cinephiles at one of our favorite movie blogs, Future of Classic, bring us a helpful list on the occasion of the recent release of Cadillac Records (the movie about blues label Chess Records), which covers an oft-overlooked period in the early development of rock in Chicago.
Too short to be impervious to criticisms, their 5 [...]