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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 [...]

Remember dinosaurs? Not actual dinosaurs, obvs, but the dinosaur toys of your youth. Whatever happened to those? Did they go extinct or something or just evolve into chickens? We sure hope they’re still around, or that a wealthy bearded scientist with a flair for entertainment can reverse-engineer some in a movie by a wealthy bearded [...]

Life, as they say, imitates art, and if there’s one art form that seems uncannily skilled at predicting future technologies it’s probably literature (sorry film fans, but Steven Spielberg couldn’t have existed without Philip K. Dick). As things accelerate (and books become re-shapped by new technologies like the Kindle), it’s helpful to keep turning to [...]

During British PM Gordon Brown’s visit to D.C. today he took a moment to dish out an honorary knighthood to Ted Kennedy. We’re picturing something between a Secret Santa and a pizza delivery, with Brown’s speech going like so:  “And for our favorite senator, Ted Kennedy, we brought… a knighthood with honorary toppings!” Of course, [...]

As we fine-tune our holiday Netflix cues and scour local movie rental offerings for their most yuletide films, why not take the advice of a guy wearing a funny hat? No, we’re not talking about Steven Spielberg.
The late Pope John Paul II, pressed by nobody in particular save the slowly-approaching hand of death, imparted the [...]

In one of those strange moments where real world headlines suddenly read like bad blockbuster scripts, the news lately (when not about Barack Obama or capitalism’s flailing death throes) has been all about pirates. From an entire New York Times topic page on the subject to a nearly investigative long-form survey of the issue by [...]

The New York Times’s A.O. Scott makes the good point, during the following video commentary on Babette’s Feast, that although the pickins for Best Thanksgiving Movie are pretty meager (and inescapably American, obvs), most movies revolving around a big meal or feast could be adapted by even the least flexible families as their Turkey Day [...]

With today’s news that Madonna and Guy Ritchie settled their divorce, the list community is suddenly all about worst celebrity divorce lists. Always one degree removed from the frightful swirl of celebrity gossip, Listicles presents an original list of celebrity divorce lists.

News of the World’s “Top 10 mucciest divorces” features an eclectic and Brit-heavy selection, [...]