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2009-09-07T01:33:00.000-07:00

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Christmas wish list 2008

2008-11-05T15:01:00.000-08:00

10 - Rock Band 2
9 - Any of the following graphic novels (League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Doomsday, Kingdom Come, Animal Man, 100 Bullets or House of M)
8- Le Chateau gift certificate to buy work clothes
7- Money
6- DVD shelf unit from IKEA
5- vodka or any other alcohol
4- Dark Knight DVD
3- I pod
2- dream house
1- Back to The Future Nike sneakers

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

2008-10-01T12:40:00.001-07:00

Firmly established yet never less revolutionary, the Festival du nouveau cinéma continues the quality work it has pioneered since 1971

Here are our quick reviews of this year's films!

Man On Wire (dir. James Marsh)

* * * 1/2

Through an artful blend of staged reenactments and archival footage, James Marsh has assembled a compelling look at Philippe Petit, a mischievous high-wire artist who performed a series of breathtaking wire walks, culminating in his walk between the two towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. Much of the film is focused on the mechanics of pulling off the stunt - an act compared to an elaborate bank heist, complete with a motley crew of like-minded conspirators. The film gets a lot of deserving traction out of the idea that it is necessary to circumvent society to create true moments of beauty. Petit's work is indeed beautiful - only a hardened cynic could look upon his midair grace and not be moved - but Marsh doesn't idealize his subject, refusing to gloss over a key moment of betrayal that is at once tragically in-character and completely callous. As it turns out, however, Petit's art is far larger than his hubris, and we can only delight in witnessing his accomplishments.

She's a Boy I Knew (dir. Gwen Haworth)

* * *

After a shaky start, She's a Boy I Knew emerges as a keenly felt doc on the consequences of replacing one person with another. Director Haworth charts her progress from her life as a handsome young man named Steve to her new life as Gwen by interviewing those closest to her at length. The first twenty minutes are messy, with Haworth's narration feeling overly present, suffocating the opinions of her external subjects. Over time, however, her grip loosens, and the film explores tricky emotional ground, particularly when we spend time with Malgosia, Gwen's beguiling ex-wife, who admits both her initial anger towards Gwen (then Stephen) for her decision, and later confesses her diminishing sexual interest, finding herself unable to convince herself of the "superficiality" of Gwen's changing body in the face of the still-present "essence" of the person she loves. There's also a lingering sense of heartbreak in scenes with Gwen's tight-lipped Mountie father, who looks for clues in his parentage as to how his son may have gone "astray" - yet simultaneously recognizes something in Gwen that he himself withheld in his youth. Through it all, Haworth exhibits a sense of inclusiveness, fleshing out their histories as well as her own, always seeking to empathize even when there is a lack of mutual understanding. I could have done without the animated segments, but they're brief, and are made up for with the inclusion of some surprisingly frank images of Gwen's post-op transformations - an important inclusion, reminding us that the ignominy that may come with her emerged gender awareness is hardly the only trial she faces.

Top 5 Werewolf films

2008-08-28T12:31:00.001-07:00

Top 5 Werewolf films

Cat People (1982)

Directed by Paul Schrader this version is obviously more feline than lupine. This sexually charged remake of Val Lewton's 1942 classic stars Nastassja Kinski and, Malcolm McDowell. With its brief descent into graphic horror, the threat of bestiality, and shamelessly indulgent eroticism, Cat People was one of the 1980s' most controversial major films. Ludicrous or not, Cat People is gorgeous to look at due mostly to cinematographer John Bailey and his marvelous detailed rendering of New Orleans in autumn. Giorgio Moroder's also presents a moody score with help from David Bowie.

Hound of Baskervilles (1959)

Peter Cushing delivers a sterling performance as always. Here he shares the energy, arrogance, and mannerisms of the Holmes you picture reading. The cinematography is stylish and gaudy with that distinctive Hammer look. Jack Asher, the cinematographer, did an excellent job of providing the proper atmosphere and the subtle lighting tones to bring the picture to life. One of the best remakes and better hammer films to date.

Wolfen (1981)

Director by Michael Wadleigh and based on a novel by Whitley Strieber, this urban horror is inspired by the legends of American Indian shape-shifters. Albert Finney turns in one of his best performances as the New York cop investigating strange murders and discovering the killer is entirely inhuman. Certainly one of the most intelligent and imaginative of all werewolf movies.

An American Werewolf

One of the all-time great horror movies, a pitch-perfect mix of comedy and genuine scares. Directed by the stroke of genius of John Landis and made before the advent of CGI, yet all of the effects including the werewolf transformations are more realistic than recent horror films. Landis wrote a clever script that starts with the same hackneyed werewolf legend we've all heard and seen before and gives it a few new, mostly comic twists. Complete with thrills, atmosphere, romance, sex, nudity, a great soundtrack, and some memorable visual effects.

The Howling

The Howling deserves respect simply for being the innovative modern werewolf flick, that is the first to actually show the lycanthrope transformation process in slow, painstaking detail through a combination of clever edits and animatronics. Werewolves are the least-regarded of all the classic monsters. Unlike vampire films and Mummy films werewolves have never had much luck at the box office. 1981 changed all that with not one but two movies baring these hairy beasts: John Landis’s An American Werewolf in London and Joe Dante’s The Howling. Both films are equal in terms of its story and humor but The Howling delivers more action, gore and true scares letting the wolves bite in and howl more often than not.

Top Six Vietnam War Films

2008-08-27T18:04:00.000-07:00

Top Six Vietnam War Films

Hamburger Hill

The most remarkable traits of this realistically detailed chronicle of a crucial, bloody Vietnam War combat is that it steers clear of Stallone's right-wing machismo in Rambo and of Oliver Stone's metaphorical meanings (good versus evil) in Platoon.

"Emanuel Levy"

Sgt. Frantz: All right, listen up. You people will not die on me in combat. You fucking new guys will do everything you can to prove me wrong. You'll walk on trails, kick cans, sleep on guard, smoke dope and diddely-bop through the bush like you were back on the block. Or on guard at night you'll write letters, play with your organ, and think of your girl back home. Forget her. Right now, some hair head has her on her back and is telling her to fuck for peace. This is Han. Those of you who are foolish will think of him as 'gook,' 'slope,' 'slant' or 'dink.' He is your enemy. He came over on the Chieu Hoi programme, and after he fattens himself on C-rations he will be hunting your young asses in the Ashau Valley. Now forget about this Viet Cong shit. What you'll encounter out there is hard core NVA, North Vietnamese. Highly motivated, highly trained and well equipped. If you meet Han or his cousins, you will give him respect and refer to those little bastards as 'Nathanial Victor.' Meet him twice, and survive, and you will refer to him as 'MISTER Nathanial Victor.' Now people, I am sick and tired of filling body bags with your dumb fucking mistakes.

Deer Hunter

It is a heartbreakingly effective fictional machine that evokes the agony of the Vietnam time.

Roger Ebert

Michael: You have to think about one shot. One shot is what it's all about. A deer's gotta be taken with one shot.

Born on The Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July is...the most ambitious nondocumentary film yet made about the entire Vietnam experience.

Vincent Canby

Ron Kovic:Sometimes I wish, I wish I'd - The first time I got hit, I was shot in the foot. I could have laid down, I mean - who gives a fuck now if I was a hero or not? I was paralyzed, castrated that day; why? It was all so - stupid! I'd have my dick and my balls now, and some days, Timmy - some days I think I'd give everything I believe in - everything I got, all my values, just to have my body back again, just to be whole again. But I'm not whole; I never will be, and that's - that's the way it is, isn't it?

Platoon

..it's still the standard against which all other movies about the Vietnam War are judged.

Michael Wilmington

Chris Taylor: [voiceover] I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days. As I'm sure Elias will be, fighting with Barnes for what Rhah called "possession of my soul." There are times since, I've felt like a child, born of those two fathers. But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.

Apocalypse Now

The film has one of the most haunting endings in cinema, a poetic evocation of what Kurtz has discovered, and what we hope not to discover for ourselves.

Roger Ebert

Kurtz: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.

Full Metal Jacket

Kubrick seems to be directing his vision beyond the reality of the Vietnam War to issues far more universal and timeless.

Felix Gonzalez Jr.

Recruits: [chanting] This is my rifle. There are many like it but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy, who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will. Before God I swear this creed: my rifle and myself are defenders of my country, we are the masters of our enemy, we are the saviors of my life. So be it, until there is no enemy, but peace. Amen.

MY MORNING JACKET (Concert review)

2008-08-13T08:07:00.000-07:00

@ Le National
Montreal, Qc
Date Attended: June 17th, 2008

The difference between the fifth studio album from the Louisville, Kentucky quintet and all previous work is the influence of producers James and Joe Chiccarelli (The Shins, U2), who stray away from the synths on some of My Morning Jacket’s past work and instead, try to emulate their full, live sound. This just might be the reason why this time around, the band outdid themselves once again on their 2008 North American tour.

With over two hours of back-to-back songs from their newest album, Evil Urges, the band left me wondering once again: why aren’t they playing for larger crowds? Opening with the title track from their latest release, the band's sound was tight and focused from the get-go and it never let up; the concert was a non-stop ride, giving us catchy tunes such as "I'm Amazed" and "Thank You Too."

Although My Morning Jacket first emerged in 1998 and have been compared to followers of Neil Young, the band has since embraced everything from neo-psychedelia and Americana to funk, prog, and reggae. Bringing these influences and styles together live made for one of the best concerts of the year. Jim James amazing performance confirmed that he still has one of the best male vocals in the business (giving nods to artists such as Prince and the Godfather of Soul). There’s also something to be said about a band that easily shifts from alt-country / indie rock to delivering an eight-minute long, sexy and tripped out electro-funk track reminiscent of 80’s new wave. Maybe this is why I love them so much.

With a twenty song setlist, the band was sure to deliver enough tracks from previous albums to keep fans happy. The list included “Laylow,” “Lowdown,” “Gideon,” “Highly Suspicious,” two encores, and finally “One Big Holiday” before the band sent us home more than satisfied.

Radiohead concert review

2008-08-13T08:02:00.000-07:00

Radiohead
Montreal August 6th, 2008
Some are calling it the concert of the summer. Radiohead somehow managed to cram a good 35 000 fans at Park Jean Drapeau last Wednesday night (that’s more seats that you can fit in the Bell Center). Even Coldplay whose latest album brought them to the top of the charts for the very first time managed to only sell 19 000 tickets the week prior. Anyone who has ever been to a Radiohead show knows they are in for something great.
Perhaps the only complaint one could make was that of the rain that just wouldn’t stop pouring down on the crowd on a very grey and dim day. And yet Tom Yorke took the liberty of taking a time out and apologizing saying “We’re sorry about the rain. It follows us around.”
They kicked off the set with 15 Step, the first song on the new album and followed it up with There There. Johnny Greenwood’s guitar sounds soared through the crowd with a hypnotic feel while Tom Yorke took center stage in front of the world’s biggest band touring today.
The first set was slow, maybe too slow with songs like All I Need and Iron Lung. The band was just teasing its audience slowly picking up the pace. After came Nude their first top 40 hit since Creep back in 1995. But things haven’t changed much for the band when on stage. This was my third Radiohead concert and it became clear that the band was still loyal to its fans, as I sat and watched what was to become a 25 song set list.
They played My Iron Lung and coming in at number ten was Fake Plastic Trees, off the Bends. It was at this point that I no longer paid any attention to the rain and cold and reminisced back to my high school days when The Bends became a life changing discovery that opened me up to a whole new world of music.
As usual the visuals of the show were eye popping. Each member was given his own big screen which made up the backdrop. This accompanied by the Wednesday night fireworks at Laronde made for some great eye candy. To top it off, we were treated with not one but two encores. The first set including Bangers and Mash and Karma Poilce, while the second set gave us three mores songs finally ending with Everything In It’s Right Place.
Radiohead's seventh album In Rainbows released as a digital download for which customers chose their own price outsold all their previous albums combined. The band continues to push boundaries and take the audience to unexpected places. Always changing their sounds and experimenting in new ways, whether you love them or hate them, you have to respect them.

12 Great American Comic Book Covers

2008-08-11T21:58:00.003-07:00


THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS #1 (1986)
 FRANK MILLER

WATCHMEN #1 (1986)
 DAVE GIBBONS

WEIRD TALES OF THE FUTURE #3 (1952)
 BASIL WOLVERTON

FOXHOLE #1 (1954)
 JACK KIRBY

TRUE CRIME COMICS #3 (1947)
 JACK COLE

ACTION COMICS #1 (1938)
 JOE SHUSTER

MASTER COMICS #32 (1942)
 MAC RABOY

NATIONAL COMICS #26 (1942)
 REED CRANDALL

THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN #1 (2006)

NIEL GAIMAN

SIN CITY - A DAME TO KILL FOR (1994)

FRANK MILLER

BATMAN - THE KILLING JOKE (1988)

BRIAN BOLLAND

CRISIS ON INFINATE EARTHS #8 (1985)

GEORGE PEREZ

Top 5 films adapted from the work of Clive Barker

2008-08-11T21:58:00.001-07:00

5 -Hellraiser

96 - INT. TORTURE ROOM - NIGHT

JULIA : What's that?
FRANK : A puzzle. A conjuring box. I bought it in Singapore after I left here. It cost me a small fortune -
JULIA : Why?
FRANK : The man I bought it from told me it was a way to invoke powers. Forces from another level of creation -
JULIA : The Cenobites?
FRANK : The Cenobites.
He holds the box up. Pale, barely recognizable forms move in the shiny lacquer of its surfaces.
FRANK : I wanted pleasure, you see. I wanted access to experiences only they could offer -
We can see the faces of the Cenobites moving in the lacquer; but they are tantalizingly blurred and distorted. Julia looks nevertheless, trying to work out what she's seeing.
FRANK : - the highest reaches of sensuality. Fantasy made flesh -
Oiled bodies move in the box now. Again, they tantalize. What are we seeing? Some elaborate coupling, maybe? Or terrible torture? Impossible to be sure.
JULIA : But they cheated you.
FRANK : Oh no. They gave me experiences I would never forget -
The images in the lacquer are becoming clearer, and they are appalling. Wounds and scalpels; flesh torn open, revealing pulsing organs. And flowing between these atrocities, the Cenobites' faces, and that of Frank, screaming and screaming -
FRANK : But their pleasure was my pain. The heights they took me to...
His voice trembles with remembering. He can't go on. But the images in the box continue to play; one horror after another.
When Frank speaks again his voice is heavy with suppressed feeling.
FRANK : I gave my body to them. But they left my spirit here, in the boards. In the walls. Watching the world, but never able to touch it. God, it's been a long twelve months. Waiting for something to happen. Someone to come.
JULIA : And Rory's blood let you out.
FRANK : There are ways to resurrection. Blood's one of them...

4 - Nightbreed

189 - INT. CAB OF EIGERMAN'S TRUCK - DAY

Eigerman cleans his silver-plate Magnum .45, Decker sits beside him holding his briefcase, across from Ashberry, who's frantically paging through an ancient Bible.
EIGERMAN : Ever done an exorcism, Father?
ASHBERRY : No.
EIGERMAN : Ever seen one?
ASHBERRY : No.
EIGERMAN : Well I'd start rehearsin' if I was you. (hands a gun towards Decker) Why don't you hang on to that, Doc?
DECKER : (a little prim) Oh no, I wouldn't know how to use it...
ASHBERRY : (finds something in the book) Listen! "So Moses spoke to the people, saying 'Arm yourselves for war and let them go and take vengeance for the Lord on Midian...' and so they burned with fire all the cities where they dwelt and killed the kings of Midian, both man and beast!"
EIGERMAN : (with a wink) Hey, how 'bout that, Doc? Sounds like we're on a crusade against the Devil himself.
ASHBERRY : (not terribly convincing) I don't believe in the Devil.
DECKER : Oh... you will.
Ashberry looks at Decker; no trace of irony in his expression. Ashberry sorts through the canteens, finds the one that doesn't have a white cross on it, opens it and knocks back two fingers of bourbon.

3 - Midnight Meat Train

2 - Lord of Illusions

98 - INT. MAGIC CASTLE - REPOSITORY - NIGHT

Harry takes a sheaf of papers, and hands them to Billy.
HARRY : You go through these. Go on!
Reluctantly, Billy does so. Harry picks up a faded photograph of the doorway to Nix's house (with the sigil painted on it) and Butterfield the child standing in the sun. There are other cultists standing around. And in the doorway -- a barely visible figure (and all the more intimidating for that) -- is Nix.
HARRY : Wait a minute...
He stares at the boy's face. The eyes are clearly different colours.
HARRY : That's Butterfield...
BILLY : (points to man in doorway) And who's that?
On Harry, staring at the ambiguous presence.
On the photograph of the shadowy figure.
HARRY : At a guess? The Puritan. Nix.
Billy picks up an etching, water-stained and dirty. It shows a horror we recognize: a man's hand pressed into the flesh of another man's head.
BILLY : Take a look at this.
HARRY : (looking at it) A Nix speciality?
Billy is getting subtly spooked now. He puts the etching down and starts to go through others in the series. We glimpse them as he does so. In one, a man regurgitates a serpentine form made of flame. In another, a man stares at his own hand which is stripped of flesh. There is no bone beneath. Only a form of solid blackness. In a third, we see a head with a slit in the middle of the brow, emanating darkness.
BILLY : I don't know any of these tricks...
Harry studies the etchings.
HARRY : (a slow burn) Maybe they're not tricks.
BILLY : (mystified) I mean there's no instructions -- (realizes what Harry said) What do you mean they're not tricks?
HARRY : What did Vinovich say? Something about walking a path between --
BILLY : Trickery and divinity. Yeah, he says that all the time.
HARRY : That's because he knew. He'd seen these files and he knew.

1 - Candyman

INT. PARKING STRUCTURE - DAY

Helen leaves the elevator and walks towards her car. She vaguely notices the Man, a tall dark silhouette, standing as if waiting for something, but she pays him little attention.
Helen arrives at her car and searches in her bag for her keys.
A dark shape crosses the foreground.
MAN : Helen...
She turns at the sound of her name. The Man stands a short distance away, silhouetted against a pool of light in the gloomy parking structure. His voice is rich and sonorous.
HELEN : (friendly) Yes?
MAN : I came for you.
There is a buzzing sound, the sound of a sleepy afternoon far from here.
HELEN : (still friendly) Do I know you?
MAN : No. But you doubted me.
Helen opens the car door and is about to get in.
HELEN : I'm sorry. I have to go.
He speaks, murmuring so softly that seduction might be in the air.
MAN : No need to leave yet.
HELEN : (wary) I'm late...
He moves towards her and light falls on his face. Helen freezes. The fine cheekbones, the sparkling eyes. She has seen this face before.
MAN : You were not content with the stories, so I was obliged to come...
He is finely dressed, his dark suit an antique cut. His right hand hidden in his coat pocket.
He pulls his hand out of his pocket. The hand has been crudely sawn off. A butcher's hook rammed into the bloody stump.
CANDYMAN : Be my victim...

Top 10 Christian Bale Roles

2008-08-11T21:57:00.002-07:00

Bale is known for his mastery of accents and harsh regimens of shedding and gaining weight. The primary examples of this would be seen in such films as The Machinist, Batman Begins and, most recently, Rescue Dawn.

He first caught the public eye when he was cast in the starring role of Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun at the age of 13. Since then, he has portrayed a wide range of characters including his dynamic performance as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

Top 10 Christian Bale Roles

1. Bruce Wayne / Batman - The Dark Knight

2. Patrick Bateman - American Psycho

3. Trevor Reznik - The Machinist

4. Dan Evans - 3:10 To Yuma

5. Dieter - Rescue Dawn

6. Bruce Wayne / Batman - Batman Begins

7. Alfred Dorden - The Prestige

8. Arthur Stuart - Velvet Goldmine

9. Pastor Jack John - I'm Not There

10. Thomas Berger - Swing Kids

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie Films

2008-08-11T21:57:00.001-07:00

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie films

25- Tim Blake Nelson - Mr. Theopolis (Fido)

24 - Asia Argento - Slack ( Land of the Dead )

23 - Carla Green -Solitaire (Shadow - Dead Riot)

22 - Davis Warbeck - Dr. Mccabe (The Beyond)

21 - Mary Shelton - Dakota (Planet Terror)

20 - Ving Rhames - Kenneth (Dawn of the Dead ‘2004)

19 - Drum Wolf (Wild Zero)

18- Bass Wolf (Wild Zero)

17- Guitar Wolf (Wild Zero)

16- Naome Harris - Selena (28 Days Later)

15- Tia Farrow - Anna Bowles (Zombie 2)

14 - Timothy Balme - Lionel Cosgrove

13- Dirk Hunter - Harrington (Undead)

12 - Tom Savini - Deputy Tolo (Planet Terror)

11-Milla Javovich- Alice (Resident Evil)

10- Freddy Rodriguez - Wray (Planet Terror)

9- Tony Todd - Ben (Night of the Livig Dead ‘1990)

10- Tom Savini - Blades (Dawn of The Dead ‘1978)

7- Nick Frost - Ed (Shaun of the Dead)

6- Simon Pegg - Shaun (Shaun of The Dead)

5 - Duane Jones - Ben (Night of the Living Dead ‘1968)

4- Bruce Abbott - Dan Cain (Re-Animator)

3- Jeffrey Combs - Dr. Hebert West (Re-Animator)

2 - Rose Mcgowan - Cherry (Planet Terror)

1- Bruce Campbell - ASh (Evil Dead)

Top 6 Spanish Thrillers

2008-08-11T21:56:00.004-07:00

Top 5 Spanish Thrillers

#6 - The Abandoned - directed by Nacho Cerda
#5 - Thesis
#4 - Day Of The Beast - (Edla De La Beasta)
#3 - Pan`s Labyrinth - directed by Guillermo Del Torro
#2 - The Orphanage
#1 - Devil's Backbone

Top 5 scenes in a film where the Statue of Liberty gets mangled

2008-08-11T21:56:00.003-07:00

1-Deep Impact – (Thanks to a comet that strikes the Atlantic, a mega tsunami rocks New York City, taking Her Liberty–ness (and her again-severed head) with it.)

2-planet of the apes (Charlton Heston escapes his primate captors only to discover Lady Liberty as proof that he’s been on Earth all along. Evidently, all the undocumented foreigners awaiting processing failed to tip him off.)

3-Ghostbusters 2 (Threat to Liberty: Crowning, brain damage Though Dr. Venkman and co. actually make “Libby” a hero, having your headspace invaded by four proton-packed parapsychologists covered in ghost jizz can’t be good for mental health. Then again, adding Bill Murray to the voices in our head could be pretty awesome.)
4- X-men (Final battle scene between the X-men and Magneto’s crew)

5- Cloverfield ( Liberty`s head gets a hail mary pass from the unknown monster deep down the city blocks)

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

2008-08-11T21:56:00.001-07:00

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

1- The Shining

2- Evil Dead 2

3- Re-Animator

4- Halloween (1978)

5- 28 Days Later

6- Planet Terror

7- High Tension

8- The Thing

9- Dawn of The Dead (1978)

10- Audition

11- Dead Alive

12- The Host

13- Slither

14- From Dusk Till Dawn

15- The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

16- Alien

17- House of 1000 Corpses

18- Bride Of Re-Animator

19-  Cemetary Man

20- The Birthday

21- Frightners

22- Tale of Two Sisters

23- The Vanishing

24- The Beyond

25- Dawn of The DEad (2005)

26- Saw

27- A Nightmare on Elm Street

28- The Howling

29- Candyman

30- The Devil`s Backbone

31- The Others

Top 1o moments in an M Night Shyamalan film.

2008-08-11T21:55:00.005-07:00

Top 10 moments in an M. Night Shyamalan film

10- The Happening – Bodies falling from the sky.

9- The Village – Dallas Bryce Howard almost falling in the pit.

8- Signs – Rev. Graham Hess tells us about the two different types of people in the world.

7- Unbreakable – The end.

6- Signs – The news report from the birthday party in Brazil.

5- The Sixth Sense - Stuck in traffic.

4- Signs – Boarding shut the house

3- Unbreakable – After the train wreck with the medical team.

2- Signs – Lights go out in the cellar.

1- The Sixth Sense – The end.

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

2008-08-11T21:55:00.003-07:00

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

10 – The sequence cutting back n forth between Burt Reynolds & Heather Graham in the limo and Mark Wahlberg getting beat up.

9- The first Dirk Diggler sex scene being filmed. The camera runs out of film but Jack Horner won’t call cut.

8- The car crash at the opening of Punch Drunk Love.

7- The opening tracking shot in Boogie Nights.

6- Samuel L. Jackson holding Phillip Baker Hall hostage in Hard Eight.

5- The opening prologue in Magnolia.

4- The final scene in There Will Be Blood

3- Its raining frogs in Magnolia.

2- The opening prologue in There Will Be Blood.

1- The oil rig explosion in There Will Be Blood

Top 10 soundtracks of 2007

2008-08-11T21:55:00.001-07:00

Top 10 soundtracks of 2007

#10- This is England

This is another great soundtrack from a little unknown gem of a film. Clayhill, Toots & The Maytals, Soft cell, The Specials, Strawberry Switchblade and many more.

#9 - Southland Tales

Following up on an amazing soundtrack from his first feature film Donnie Darco; director Richard Kelly once again impresses us with the soundtrack to his new film. Alternative rock giants like Jane's Addiction and the Pixies, country legend Waylon Jennings, Northern Soul crooner Bertha Tillman, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and more. Unfortunately not all the tracks featured on the film make the soundtrack. A little too much Moby and even Britney Spears. If I could choose, I would have taken her x-Justin (who actually stars in this movie) over her. In any case the music works well with the film as a soundtrack should.

#8 - Talk To Me

Although I have not seen an official soundtrack in stores yet, the film features an all star cast of musical geniuses including James Brown, Otis Redding, Clarence Carter, and more. How could a radio DJ not include this on the list given the film is a biopic of one of the greatest radio personalities of all time,

#7- Black Snake Moan

The film is dedicated to the memory of R.L. Burnside. His digital ghost performs "Old Black Mattie" here, and his tune "Just Like a Bird Without a Feather," is covered by Jackson with Burnside's adopted son and sideman Kenny Brown. There are also cuts here by the Black Keys, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Scott Bomar the soundtrack's producer, John Doe, Outrageous Cherry (covering Junior Kimbrough no less), Bobby Rush, Precious Bryant and the North Mississippi All-stars

#6 - Juno

#5 - Darjeeling Limited

A touch of the Kinks, Indian art music, from celebrated director/composer Satyajit Ray to violinist/singer/composer Shankar. Toss in a little Debussy and Beethoven, a dash of gospel and The Rolling Stones. Enough said. This is all over the map.

#4 - Once

Songs from the key scenes are on this album, including the twangy "Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy" and Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's music store duet "Falling Slowly." Aficionados of Hansard's band The Frames will recognize tracks already in their collections; new fans will swoon all over again.

#3 - Hot Fuzz

The soundtrack touches on the film's police theme without being heavy-handed (no songs by the Police, for example)

Featuring Supergrass' "Caught by the Fuzz" and XTC's "Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me)" Also Jon Spencer and the Elegant Too's heavy, funky "Here Come the Fuzz" feels equally inspired by Jimi Hendrix and the themes to '70s cop shows. You will also hear the Kinks, The Eels and of course how could you leave out the track ``The Hot Fuzz Suite`

#2 - Death Proof

Tarantino soundtracks are often as exciting as the films themselves and Death Proof is no exception to the rule. With the likes of April March, T-Rex, Eddie Floyd, The Coasters, Dave Dee, Dozy, Bich & Tich and the great Ennio Morricone.

The pleasure of this soundtrack is precisely how all the little-known songs create their own fantastical spin on the late '60s and '70s, just like how Tarantino does it within the film itself.

#1 - I'm Not There

A double disk with 32 tracks. I'm Not There gels as an album, partially because a good portion of the soundtrack is recorded with one of two different house bands: the dusty, cinematic Arizona outfit Calexico and the Million Dollar Bashers, a super group assembled for this gig featuring guitarist Lee Renaldo and drummer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, Tom Verlaine, Dylan's regular bassist Tony Garnier, Wilco guitarist Nels Cline, guitarist Smokey Hormel, and organist John Medeski.

Have you heard the cover of `Going to Acapulco` by Calexico and (lead singer of My Morning Jacket), Jim James. If not than it mean two things. You have not listened to The Naked Lunch radio show and more importantly you have not seen the film yet.

Special mention

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

I may be cheating here, seeing as I did not want to mention documentaries but I couldn't resist. This documentary gets bogged down with its celebrity eulogies of Strummer, but the soundtrack picks up the slack. There's still chatter, yet rather than limit itself to cherry picking songs from the former Clash front man's illustrious past, the album includes songs Strummer aired on his BBC radio show - from Elvis Presley to Nina Simone. For purists, there's also a strong selection of Strummer's own output such as "Trash City," which debuted nearly 20 years ago on the soundtrack to the Keanu Reeves flick "Permanent Record."

Top 5 Roy Scheider charaters

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Top 5 Roy Scheider charaters

5- Naked Lunch (1991) …. Doctor Benway

4- The Seven-Ups (1973) …. Buddy - Seven-Up

3- Romeo Is Bleeding (1993) …. Don Falcone

2- The French Connection (1971) …. Det. Buddy Russo

1- Jaws (1975) …. Police Chief Martin Brody

Our top 5 heath ledger characters

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Our top 5 heath ledger characters

Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 "Best Actor" award from the Australian Film Institute and was nominated for the 2005 Oscar for "Best Actor in a Leading Role"^[1][2][3] and the 2006 "Best Actor" award from the BAFTA, as well as won an MTV Movie Award with Jake Gyllenhaal, for their "best kiss" in the film.

#5 –Sonny Grotoskwy in Monster’s Ball (son of Billy Bob)

#4 – Ned Kelly – Ned Kelly

#3 – Robbie Clark – I’m Not There

#2 – Ennis Del Mar – Brokeback Mountain

#1 – The Joker – Dark Night

Top 20 films about writers

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Top 20 films about writers

films about writers

20- Infamous
19- Throw Mama From The Train
18- Deathtrap
17- Deconstructing Harry
16- Morvern Callar
15- Where The Buffallo Roam
14- Misery
13- In The Mouth Of Madness
12 - Wonderboys
11- American Splendor
10 - The Hours
9- Adaptation
8- My Left Foot
7- Before Night Falls
6- Diving Bell & The Butterfly
5- Mishima
4- Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas
3- The Naked Lunch
2- Blood Simple
1- The Shining

Top 10 Bruce Willis characters in film

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With Bruce Willis rumored to be in the new A- Team movie as Col. Hannibal Smith, we were inspired to come up with a top 10 list of characters he has played in the past.

10- Four Rooms - LEo

9- Death Becomes Her - Dr. Ernest Menville

8- Planet Terror - Lt. Muldoon

7- Unbreakable - David Dunn

6- Sixth Sense - Dr. Malcolm Crowe

5- Fifth Element - Korben Dallas

4- Pulp Fiction - Butch Coolidge

3- 12 Monkey - James Cole

2- Die Hard - Officer John McClane

1- Sin City - Hardigan

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Here are our quick reviews of this year's films!

Man On Wire (dir. James Marsh)

She's a Boy I Knew (dir. Gwen Haworth)

Top 5 Werewolf films

Top Six Vietnam War Films

Top Six Vietnam War Films

Hamburger Hill

Deer Hunter

Born on The Fourth of July

Platoon

Apocalypse Now

Full Metal Jacket

MY MORNING JACKET (Concert review)

Radiohead concert review

12 Great American Comic Book Covers

Top 5 films adapted from the work of Clive Barker

5 -Hellraiser

4 - Nightbreed

3 - Midnight Meat Train

2 - Lord of Illusions

1 - Candyman

Top 10 Christian Bale Roles

Top 10 Christian Bale Roles

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie Films

Top 25 Heroes in Zombie films

Top 6 Spanish Thrillers

Top 5 Spanish Thrillers

Top 5 scenes in a film where the Statue of Liberty gets mangled

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

Top 31 Horror films of the past 31 years! (2007)

Top 1o moments in an M Night Shyamalan film.

Top 10 moments in an M. Night Shyamalan film

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

Top 10 moments in a Paul Thomas Anderson film

Top 10 soundtracks of 2007

Top 5 Roy Scheider charaters

Our top 5 heath ledger characters

Top 5 Hip Hop Documentaries

Top 20 films about writers

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Top 10 Bruce Willis characters in film