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Today is Cinco de Mayo, which, though often construed by Americans as some lumpen Mexifest of tequilla, sombreros and other tokenistic trinkets, is acually a celebration of the Mexican victory in the Battle of Puebla over infinitely better trained and equipped, and more numerous French forces. To celebrate the holiday, Listicles looks at moments when [...]

Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy-Steve Martin comedy Bowfinger? No? Well, it wasn’t an Oscar bait film (in fact it was pretty grossly under-rated), but at one point Murphy’s action movie star character Kit Ramsey points out that black men only get nominated for Oscars if they play slaves, and even then it’s the [...]

The annual movie media blitz session came and went with surprisingly few surprises. (Do we say that every year?) With this last little rush for our Weekly Wednesdays list-of-lists we’re officially putting the Oscars to bed for the next ten months.
Sleep well exhausted golden man, know that even though you gave it up to some [...]

The Oscars are on Sunday, and though we’re doing our best to avoid giving you a predictions listicle, we’re happy to engage in more peripheral Oscar listing. After all, the Academy Awards aren’t really about art, they’re about money: movies with statues make better bank, and actors with Oscars get more lucritive contracts. Usually. Sometimes [...]

It’s been about a week since the year’s most venerated, vehemently debated and viscerally detested movie listicle was released, and, not surprisingly, the Interweb’s been abuzz with 2009 Academy Award discussions. Personally we find the whole affair sickening and are completely underwhelmed by the slate of films the Academy has decided to fawn over this [...]

1. It has begun: Sarah Palin launches presidential campaign. Her mission statement claims that sheadmires America’s “fight for freedom,” except if it’s for, you know, gay people. At least she’s, uh, “tolerant.”
2. Why are PETA and Durex throwing their money away on commercials that are too risque to broadcast anywhere other than the internet? Of [...]

Those movie-going environmentalists over at TreeHugger have compiled a helpful listicle that could just as easily read “Top 5 Food Movies of 2008.” For the year that saw the new localism go global (”glocalism”?) and widespread awareness of what’s at stake in the shifting debates over how we produce and distribute our food, it makes [...]

As we all know by now, gay is the new retard, meaning that the once controversial portrayal of gay characters in mainstream cinema is now a surefire way to earn some sort of award – as playing a mentallly handicapped character was 10 years ago. With that in mind, perhaps gay characters are the true [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]