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Best spaghetti Westerns

Using data from IMDb, Stacker compiled a list of the best spaghetti Westerns of all time, from “Ace High” to “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

‘In the Heights’ is the rare Latino blockbuster. Here’s why that matters

So how does “In the Heights” meet this moment in Hollywood? Los Angeles Times culture writers — a Mexican, a Chilean Peruvian and a Cuban Belizean — gathered for a virtual screening and discussed.

Best and worst roles of the 'Friends' cast

After using IMDb to look at the filmographies of the six principal cast members of “Friends,” Stacker identified their best and worst feature films. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 14, 2021

Who has the Song of the Summer? Lorde, Eilish, Mayer shoot their shot

It’s the definitive song of the summer airwaves, the one that you hear blasting out of passing cars, on street corners, and this summer, from collective gatherings, which are returning after the pandemic put a damper on 2020′s summer parties.

A history of LGBTQ+ representation in film

Due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 14, 2021

Why ‘In the Heights’ made these 5 major changes to the story

Here are five of the major changes to “In the Heights” in its translation from stage to screen:

50 best movies directed by a person of color

Using data compiled from Metacritic, Stacker created a list of the top 50 films created by people of color over the course of film history. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 11, 2021

Sinkhole at Mexico farm swallows more land, traps 2 dogs

A large sinkhole that appeared in late May at a farm in central Mexico has grown larger than a football field, begun swallowing a house and trapped two dogs in its depths. The government of the central state of Puebla said late Thursday it had managed to pull the two dogs out of the sinkhole, after emotional requests from animal lovers to rescue them. They had been trapped for about four days on a ledge on the sheer sides of the hole dropping 50 feet (15 meters) to water.

With ‘Cruella’ in theaters, a look at the 7 best Disney classics

My favorites among Disney’s many classics tend not to tell stories about princesses who end up marrying boring princes because they kissed them or put a shoe on them or whatever.

For love of birds: Backyard sleuths boost scientists' work

This spring and summer, Georgetown University ecologist Emily Williams ' research project tracking the annual migration of American robins has gotten a boost from the enthusiasm of homeowners in the greater Washington area, who’ve let her and a research assistant set up makeshift research stations in their backyards before dawn — and sometimes contributed their own notes and observations.

What Americans can learn from food habits around the world

If you’re looking to shake up your routine, consider incorporating some of these healthy eating habits from other cultures around the world.

25 best mythological movies

Using IMDb and Metacritic scores, Stacker counts down from 25 the best mythological movies that cinema has to offer. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 10, 2021

Best martial arts movies

We all can name one or two classics, but how well do you really know your martial arts cinema? Stacker uses data fromI MDb to bring you the best martial arts movies. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 09, 2021

Best sports movies

Boxing heroes, Olympic figure skaters and baseball outsiders duke it out for the title of best sports movies from Stacker. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 08, 2021

China’s wandering elephants becoming international stars

Major global media are chronicling the herd’s more than yearlong, 500-kilometer (300-mile) trek from their home in a wildlife reserve in mountainous southwest Yunnan province to the outskirts of the provincial capital of Kunming.

China's wandering elephants becoming international stars

BEIJING (AP) — Already famous at home, China’s wandering elephants are now becoming international stars. Major global media are chronicling the herd's more than yearlong, 500-kilometer (300-mile) trek from their home in a wildlife reserve in mountainous southwest Yunnan province to the outskirts of the provincial capital of Kunming.

Best whodunit movies of all time

Stacker compiled data on the top whodunit movies and ranked them by IMDb user ratings, with any ties being broken by votes. To qualify, the plot of the film had to revolve around a detective or a mystery. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 07, 2021

Rejected movie titles for 25 popular films

For this list, Stacker dug into film history to find 25 popular movies that originally had different titles. Here is a look at the creative process behind why some of our favorite films were almost named something entirely different. For more galleries, visit Stacker.

June 04, 2021

10 car-buying trends during COVID-19

CoPilot analyzed its data from more than 30 million car sales via the car-buying app in 2020 to identify 10 car-buying trends during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Why are ’90 Day Fiance’ and its spinoffs so popular?

TLC has turned one of its reality shows into a spinoff factory: “90 Day Fiance.”

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