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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 [...]

Film trilogies, and the various fluctuations of the franchise as it expands, are hotly debated topics that virtually everybody has their piece to speak about. Thankfully, Dan Meth has put all the squabbling to rest with this helpful infographic rating each installment of 21 Movie Trilogies.

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The ubiquitous audio clip of Christian Bale’s now-notorious freak-out over Terminator Salvation DP Shane Hurlbut’s “light tweaking” has been the talk of the tubes for the past few days. Considering the brevity of its existence, the amount of viral material Bale’s on-set meltdown has produced is staggering, even by Internet standards. We’ve seen everything from [...]

Yesterday a bill proposed by Virginia’s Democratic Governor Tim Kaine to require background checks for the sale of guns at gun shows in the traditionally Republican state was rejected. The day before another of Kaine’s laws was repealed, this one seeking to prohibit individuals carrying concealed firearms into establishments selling alcohol. Needless to say, we’re [...]

Thankfully, this listicle from Unreality doesn’t make any claims to being the be-all, end-all statement on movie robots, because otherwise they’d have to answer for these (and many more) cybernetic beings’ exclusion:

That said, aside from a typically absent sense of humor about movie-bot lore, we tend to agree with most of Unreality’s picks for 10 [...]

The good people at Neatorama pointed us to a competition at Worth1000.com what taps directly into our ongoing love of muppets. Though the theme of the design competition was to insert puppets into existing images as incongruously as possible, we found the trope of muppet-ized movie posters especially awesome. So while you may want to [...]

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 [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

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, [...]

With the past looking increasingly nice as compared to today’s recession-times, and tense holidays making us wish we could just accelerate into 2009 and beyond, the good-natured movie addicts at Unreality bring us this list: The 10 Best Movies Based On Time Travel. A classic trope of action and sci-fi film plots, the pool of [...]