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Today is Multiple Personalities Day, which, it seems to us, should really be celebrated over the course of multiple days, but nobody asked us. For now, the best we can do is to take this opportunity to look at the various ways that people (mostly fictional) with multiple personalities have affected our lives. Here, then, [...]

President Obama is planning to make a speech especially to public school students around the nation on Tuesday and, per the Times, some Republican parents don’t want their kids brainwashed by the socialist propaganda of their elected leader. All parents are notoriously evil and unjust, as we all well know, so this should come as [...]

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 [...]

Hey, today is Mother’s Day, and because we’re in a giving mood we’ve assembled a veritable listicle of listicles for this most special of Hallmark holidays. Let’s kick things off on a positive note with SciFi Scanner’s listicle of 10 Movie Moms Too Fantastic To Be True, our favorite of which is, and always has [...]

It’s Friday the 13th again, and it’s Freudian Fridays again, so time for some subconscious slasher movie psychoanalysticle synergy. As Sigmund (or Siggy as we now call him) would tell you if he were still around and an avid consumer of splatterfest films (which he totally would be), killers in such movies are often motivated [...]

Looking over this year’s Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, one legendary female character archetype – the phallic mother – looms large in The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (is Harvey Milk a proxy phallic mother to the gay rights movement in Milk? discuss). We’ll therefore be taking this edition of our [...]

In this weekly series we, the hard-working list-sniffers of Listicles, fess up to the fact that the Internet produces infinitely more lists than we could possibly cover and critique. In Weekly Wednesdays, we present five great lists from the last week that we weren’t able to do full justice to.

Top 6 Gay Movie Heroes: The [...]