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The latest Quentin Tarantino film, the war-movie-that’s-actually-a-Western-about-war-movies Inglourious Basterds, comes out today, and though he doesn’t appear in it (he’s one of Hollywood’s most cameo-happy directors) his stamp is all over all 2.5 hours of the movie. Tarantino’s cameos and appearances in front of the camera (in his own films and others’) are generally as [...]

Ahead of a review over at our sister site The L Magazine, we just saw Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and, well, there’s much Nazi-killing going on in that there WWII revenge fantasy. How does it compare to some other cinematic Nazi-murdering sprees? Well, ScreenJunkies sets out to put Inglourious Basterds in context with their listicle [...]

Our ongoing obsession with short animated films takes up more of our time on a daily basis then we’ll admit here, but on balance we think it’s worth it. Not unlike the relationship between short stories and novels, short films offer a no less wide open field of possibilities on which creators have limitless possibilities [...]

If the 2008 U.S. Presidential election proved anything (aside from the unassailable fact the we live in a post-race, soon to be post-oil society), it showed that we’re still a culture who enjoy a fun good v. bad, black v. white duel. Unreality picked up on that love of the good fight with this terrific [...]

Though all the news and listicles of late has been about green transportation alternatives, high-speed trains and fuel-efficient cars, there remains something to be said for a big-budget collision between gas- or diesel-guzzling behemoths. No, we’re not talking about NASCAR, but about movie car crashes, whose alternations between realism, excess and stylizing often make for [...]

Onesie here, freelance mascot and sports writer, with the first installment of Listicles’ weekly sports column, Sporty Saturdays. Normally I’ll give my thoughts on a Top 10 highlight reel covering one or more professional sports.
However, this weekend being the feast of Thanksgiving – a typically American holiday that, for many, is little more than a [...]