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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 [...]

Playing with the porous border between fiction and documentary has become commonplace in today’s cinema (see Bruno, Cloverfield, Diary of the Dead), but how long has the trend been developing. Browsing The Onion A.V. Club’s listicle of 18 Documentaries That Blur the Line Between Truth and Fiction, they reach all the way back to Nanook [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]