Top 10 Under Appreciated Movies Of The Last 20 Years

10 Movies You Had No Idea Were Filmed In The Wrong Locations 10 The Gift (2015) When a happily married couple relocates from Chicago to Los Angeles for a new job, the future seems bright. But things take a turn when an old high school acquaintance of the husband’s walks back into their lives, and slowly becomes an overbearing presence with very specific intentions, making the couple realize that their reunion may not have been a happy coincidence....

January 11, 2023 · 9 min · 1823 words · Caroline Drane

Top 10 Underrated Crime Movies

Here are ten films that all contain some of the most despicable characters ever put to screen. All ten truly deserve your attention. That is if you have not already seen them. 10In Bruges When a job goes wrong, hitmen Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are sent to a hideaway in Bruges to lay low until things blow over. While there, Ken feels like a kid in a candy store, taking in all the facts and old history with great gusto....

January 11, 2023 · 11 min · 2209 words · Karen Lorenz

Top 10 Universally Famous Songs With Deceptively Dark Undertones

Spanning a wide array of unnerving topics and featuring references both subtle and overt, some of the best-known songs of all time may be about more than you might think at first. Whether through deceptively disturbing lyrics, emotion-evoking musical accompaniments, or a clever combination of both, these 10 well-known songs contain dark depths that you probably haven’t noticed. Top 10 Songs With Dark Back Stories 10 “In The Air Tonight” Phil Collins...

January 11, 2023 · 10 min · 1978 words · Rebecca Cloutman

Top 10 Wacky And Depraved Real Estate Agents

The following ten entries examine unscrupulous and depraved characters whose appalling antics will leave one questioning whether to hand over their keys to a “trusted” real estate agent. You might just be better off listing your home as for sale by owner. 10 Competition In a competitive and volatile housing market, brokers can become resentful, disloyal, and quite unhinged. Case in point: summer 2018 in Hong Kong, where, within a span of a few days, three violent brawls spilled out into the streets, with hordes of brokers fighting each other for customers and listings....

January 11, 2023 · 12 min · 2398 words · Julie Maher

Top 10 Wasted Oscars

Theron won her Best Actress Oscar for portraying Alieen Wournos, real-life serial killer, in this biopic. Theron owned the screen in this film, completely changing her look and demeanor to play the role of the grisled psychopath. She even put on quite a bit of weight for the character, as well. However, since her Oscar win, Theron has been in several less-than-perfect films. Among them are AEon Flux (2003) and Hancock (2008)....

January 11, 2023 · 7 min · 1410 words · Denny Jacinto

Top 10 Ways Hollywood Lies To You About Pirates

Top 10 Awesome Films Hollywood Ruined With Lies 10 Pirates were Criminals A pirate is anyone who uses the sea to commit theft. This term encompasses a whole host of sea-based activity, from the coastal raiding or the Vikings and the boat hijacking of the Somali pirates. But most people think of the Caribbean raiders that operated between 1650 and 1720, a time period known as the Golden Age of Piracy....

January 11, 2023 · 9 min · 1871 words · Regina Elmer

Top 20 Best Gangster Movies

SEE ALSO: 10 Space Myths We Believe Because Of Movies 20 Road to PerditionSam Mendes, 2002 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v/IjbSYkY5hVA Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. However after his son is witness to a killing he has done Mike Sullivan finds him self on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him....

January 11, 2023 · 15 min · 3125 words · Micah Sidwell

Top 20 Ways To Confuse Trick Or Treaters

Give away something other than candy. (Toothpicks, golf balls, bags of sand) Wait behind the door until some people come. When they get near the door, jump out, wearing a costume, and holding a bag, and yell, “Trick or Treat!” Look at them, scratch your head, and act confused. Fill a briefcase with marbles and crackers. Write on it, “Top Secret” in big letters. When trick-or-treaters come, look around suspiciously, say, “It’s about time you got here,” give them the briefcase, and quickly shut the door....

January 11, 2023 · 3 min · 550 words · Jed Wallner

Yet Another 20 Fascinating Factlets

The well-known piece of music (often played by children) called “Chopsticks” was written in 1877 by 16 year old Euphemia Allan who called it the “The Celebrated Chop Waltz”. A rendition of the full waltz can be seen in the video clip here (minus the addition of the chopstick clicking). Barbie was not the first slutty doll available for young girls (and the odd boy). It was, in fact, Bild Lilli, based on a cartoon character who had questionable morals....

January 11, 2023 · 6 min · 1273 words · Joseph Goldstein

Your View Tell Us What You Want

If you have been reading the comments on the lists recently you will have noticed a number of readers asking for some changes and improvements around the place. This post is an opportunity for you to tell us exactly what sort of content you most want to see on the front page each day and what sort of content you don’t want to see. Pull no punches—this is a chance for me to get a better understanding of what I need to do to keep the site thriving and restore the golden days of LV prior to my departure....

January 11, 2023 · 1 min · 153 words · Richard Oestreicher

10 Green Products That Are Bad For The Environment

Lately, everyone wants to be “green” as science and government groups push us all to be more environmentally conscious. However, companies have started to take advantage by marketing items as “eco-friendly” and “green” while their environmental impact is questionable. Here are several “green” products that may not be as environmentally friendly as you thought. 10 Air Dryers Those air dryers for your hands in public restrooms that market themselves as “green” and “saving trees” can be surprisingly wasteful....

January 10, 2023 · 7 min · 1442 words · Patrick Moore

10 Advertising Lies We Ve All Been Fed

Long, bitter experience has taught most of us that words like “deluxe” usually mean “anything but.” For example, take the McLean Deluxe, a McDonald’s flop that took “deluxe” to mean “full of water and seaweed”. But what about words with clear definitions, like “light” or “low fat”? Well, last year a consumer group ran a study that concluded the health difference between “light” and regular options was almost nonexistent. In one example, the study compared “light” with “normal” biscuits and found just eight calories of difference, while another measured the fat in “lighter” cheddar and concluded that it was still dangerously high....

January 10, 2023 · 7 min · 1420 words · Waylon Scott

10 Alleged Discoveries That Suggest Giants Existed

SEE ALSO: Top 10 Real-Life Giants From History Are they all hoaxes, or are there more to these stories than we might think? Here are 10 alleged “giant” discoveries. 10 Giant Bones Found At Lake DelavanWisconsin, 1912 According to a report that ran in The New York Times on May 4, 1912, 18 gigantic skeletons, buried in charcoal and baked clay, were found at Lake Delavan in Wisconsin. The discovery was made by the Phillips brothers while excavating a burial mound....

January 10, 2023 · 12 min · 2374 words · Elizabeth Duty

10 Amazing Scientific Discoveries Of 2017

Whether it’s in the fields of medicine, communication, or human development, there is always something new to be found. In 2017, some significant advancements have helped to technologically propel us one step closer to the future. Here are ten discoveries or advancements made in 2017 that will amaze, confuse, and possibly terrify you. 10 First Successful Edit Of A Human Embryo In The US Science fiction writers have been warning us for years about the potential dangers of genetic engineering, but that hasn’t stopped scientists from pushing forward to make significant progress in 2017....

January 10, 2023 · 11 min · 2169 words · Caprice Mauldin

10 Amazing Ways People Survived The Holocaust

10Kazimierz Piechowski Around 1.1 million people were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camps between 1940 and 1945. Though the Nazis were murdering hundreds of people each hour, only 144 were able to escape during the camp’s five years of operation. Among them was Kazimierz Piechowski, whose breakout with three other men reads like a Hollywood drama. Piechowski had already tried to flee from his native Poland when the Nazis arrived in 1939....

January 10, 2023 · 16 min · 3338 words · Lisa Ott

10 Amusing Ways People Have Mocked Dictators

10Mao Zedong Made Fun Of Khrushchev’s Inability To Swim This seemingly petty feud between two dictators—which began in a swimming pool, of all places—would have been funny had it not almost caused a catastrophic war in the ’60s. Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, angered by the cold treatment afforded to him by Stalin and the Soviets when he came to visit their country in 1949, saw the perfect opportunity for revenge when Stalin’s successor Nikita Khrushchev went to Beijing for a state visit in 1958....

January 10, 2023 · 8 min · 1633 words · Rhonda Spiess

10 Awesome Peaceful Uses For Weapons

10A Symphony Of Weapons Mexican artist Pedro Reyes has found a unique way to propagate peace in a country wracked with violence. Back in 2012, he fashioned 50 working musical instruments from various confiscated firearms. This year, he created a mechanized orchestra out of eight firearms. The orchestra not only works, but sounds amazing as well. Watch this video on YouTube Across the Atlantic, UK artist Hilary Champion also dreamed of making music out of weapons....

January 10, 2023 · 7 min · 1333 words · Joseph Sandler

10 Awful Canadian Violations Of Human Rights

10Eugenics Eugenics, a branch of science concerned with the genetic improvement of the human race, was very popular during the 19th and 20th centuries. In Canada, this science was put into practice in an utterly horrifying way in the province of Alberta. In 1928, the Alberta government passed the Sexual Sterilization Act, which created a eugenics board to force those soon to be released from mental hospitals to be sterilized against their will as a condition of their release....

January 10, 2023 · 14 min · 2842 words · Dennis Cram

10 Bizarre Cases Of Hospital Addiction

10The Wanderer In 2005, a 20-year-old man appeared in a New Mexico hospital with chest pain. Based on his complaints, he was given surgery to investigate his problem. MRIs and surgery—an aortic wall biopsy—showed nothing unusual. Postoperative recovery should have been fine (and tests showed that it was), but he kept making complaints, all of which turned out to be false. He had been previously admitted to many different hospitals in different states, with a similar “problem....

January 10, 2023 · 9 min · 1841 words · Brian Gordon

10 Bizarre Facts About Salvador Dali

10He Believed He Was The Reincarnation Of His Dead Brother One possible explanation for Dali’s bizarre lifestyle may lie with his peculiar childhood. Before Dali was born, his mother had given birth to another child, also called Salvador Dali. Unfortunately, the first Salvador died of a stomach infection at just 22 months old. Nine months later, the second Salvador Dali was born. Since the second Salvador heavily resembled the first and had been born exactly nine months later, his parents began to harbor a suspicion that he was actually their dead child reborn....

January 10, 2023 · 10 min · 1945 words · Mamie Owens