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The United Nations declared December 2 the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, which is the kind of global event we can all get behind nowadays, but in the past it might have been a pretty contentious occasion. Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t point out that in the distant future (or [...]

There’s a great deal of perverse pleasure to be taken from ruining the endings of movies. That pleasure is heightened when the film in question takes great pains to provide a twist ending, like, say, Fight Club, Planet of the Apes, Citizen Kane, Soylent Green, Psycho, or the office favorite The Usual Suspects. All these [...]

Today is the bicentennial of Honest Abe’s birth. Had he been a land tortoise (one not shot in a theater box, as so many are), he might even be around to celebrate with us. Sadly, our one and only Lincoln was taken from us, and so we’ll have to make do with more-or-less pale imitations. [...]

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, [...]