our new Stats for Lists feature reveals top cast and crew, most cinematic years, Oscar-winning genres and more • Journal • A Magazine • , Life in canada

While we’re exploring cast stats, have we ever established who the rom-com king of the screen is? Some might guess Hugh Grant. Others, Matthew McConaughey or Adam Sandler. But the stats on Anastasia’s romantic comedy master-list of over 1,000 films reveals that the ageless Paul Rudd officially has the inside edge. Rudd is not always the romantic lead in his fifteen included films, but you can’t fall in love without a great wingman, so he’s both our king, and our prince of hearts.

Fifteen films is chicken feed, however, compared with the 91 exploitation movies Nello Pazzafini appears in according to Andrew’s gigantic Genre: Exploitation list, making the Italian actor the official trash-lord of cinema. Digging deeper into that list’s crew stats, we find three Edgars among the top five “original writer” credits: British sensationalist novelist Edgar Wallace, American sci-fi/fantasy scribe Edgar Rice Burroughs and master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Japanese kinkmeister Oniroku Dan and Zatoichi creator Kan Shimozawa complete the quintet.