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As you’ve surely heard by now, Patrick Swayze, the 80s superstar responsible for the enduring popularity of the mullet and, conversely, making it okay for men to wear leggings, passed away yesterday after a bout with pancreatic cancer at the age of 57. Lest we forget, though, he did a great deal to make it [...]

Remember that totally delirious Warner Bros. cartoon Animaniacs, in which the old Warner cartoon trio escaped from the studio water tower where they’d been imprisoned an wreaked havoc on just about everything? Well, one of the favorite targets of their wacky, scatter shot sense of humor was history, which they recounted fairly regularly. mental_floss offers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]