Monday Medley

What we read while forgiving Gilbert Arenas’ gambling debts…

• Roger Ebert lists and explains the best films of the decade. A  Charlie Kaufman film comes out on top, but not for the film you’d expect. Despite not making any of our lists, NPI endorses the underrated Me and You and Everyone We Know (which Ebert includes in his list).

• Roger Ebert and John S were not the only ones to give their lists of Best Movies of the Decade, but Slate has figured out how to turn all these lists into one definitive answer. Meanwhile, other people weren’t so boxed in. David Wain, for example, decided to list his Middle 10 movies of the decade. Jim Emerson, Ebert’s colleague at the Chicago Sun-Times, wrote about his worst film of the decade, which happened to win an Oscar for Best Picture; we advise looking through some of the comments for an interesting debate. Ricky Gervais (who you may remember made a couple of NPI lists) gave his lists of movies, TV, music, and comedy. Others decided to just rank the years.

• Serious Eats chronicles the top eight pizzas of 2009. And their favorite beers. John S isn’t devastated that PBR didn’t make the cut.

• The Chicago Tribune complains about the proliferation of all these lists.

• John S lamented the demise of TV credit sequences. Well, he is not the only one peeved by this.

• It’s been too long since our last fiction link: Here’s “39 Minutes” from former NBA player and one-time NPI commenter Paul Shirley over at Flip Collective. And don’t worry, it is not tied to the Al Pacino movie.