Top 10 Car Deaths In The Movies

Starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, Ridley Scott’s acclaimed road movie celebrating female rebellion and friendship follows two women as they embark on a trip away from their suffocating lives. But their journey of liberation and self-discovery soon turns into a nightmare when – after killing a sexual attacker – they become outlaws. The film culminates with an iconic scene, as the duo find themselves trapped by the police at the edge of the Grand Canyon. Rather than accept capture and imprisonment, they decide to end it all, driving their Thunderbird convertible over the precipice

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Top 10 Johnny Depp Movies

status: he dropped out of high school to pursue his rock band ambitions, only incidentally stumbling on-screen with that part he landed on 21 Jumpstreet. That was only the result of his latent, yet intrinsic ability to ground himself and naturally become another person. But who is this man really, beneath the leather arm cuffs and fedoras and intricately-constructed layers?  We all want to be a little closer to Johnny Depp, even if the only way to do so is to watch (i.e. drool over) his movies.

Here are ten of his best:

10. The Brave (1997)

This one has to be here because it involves so much of Johnny Depp (not to mention a masterful cameo by Marlon Brando appearing fairly true-to-self as a wise, old Native American man): he directed, starred in, and co-wrote the screenplay for this film based on a novel by Gregory McDonald. It’s his vanity project, if you will, and his over-indulgence shows in how utterly and excruciatingly long this film is. It’s about a Native American man who lives in a communal junkyard and sacrifices himself, via a high-paying snuff film, for the sake of his family’s wellbeing. After two dragging hours, you truly feel the pain of this overtly Jesus-esque character.

9. Pirates of the Caribbean (2003, 2006, 2007

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Top 10 Mad Scientists in the Movies

death star’ at Washington DC. He is cryogenically frozen in 1967 and revived thirty years later.

Real Science
In an effort to offset global temperatures, some scientists in the U.S. have called for research into simulating volcanic eruptions. Artificially produced particles in the atmosphere would deflect heat from the sun and reduce the effects of climate change. The U.S. military has carried out a lot of research on laser weapons, successfully developing a laser that destroyed mortars and rockets in tests. As for cryogenic freezing, some people have paid out a lot of cash for the privilege but the technology to revive them doesn’t exist yet and most scientists are pessimistic about it.

9. Dr. Caligari

Played by Werner Krauss in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Movie Science
The plot of this silent slice of German Expressionism is told in flashback. Set in a mountain village, Dr. Caligari and his sleepwalking assistant, Cesare, are a sinister freak show in a traveling carnival. They become suspects in a series of murders. The doctor uses mind control over Cesare, commanding him to do his evil deeds, but there is a twist

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Top 10 Otherwise Promising Movies Ruined by CGI

George Lucas’s strategy to create a saga in nonconsecutive order may have been a brilliant way to build suspense, but with suspense comes anticipation and ultimately heightened expectations.  Lucas could hardly hope to meet such expectations perfectly; so, it would seem, he hardly even tried to.  Continuity issues were the first issue to be addressed in such an ass-backward approach to film-making; you can’t embark on such an epic endeavor if you can’t maintain a consistent storyline.  For the most part, that wasn’t an issue: Anakin grew up to be Vador as planned (though, in order to procreate and produce Luke and Leia with Padme, Padme had to apparently lack the ability to age during Anakin’s adolescent years), the empire became corrupt, the rebel alliance came about, etc., etc.  The one thing not accounted for? The advent of CGI.  Somehow CGI existed in the first three but only puppets and Frank Oz’s voice did in the last three (the

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Top 10 Thanksgiving Movies

Home for the Holidays (1995)

After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics. Written by Cyndi Kessler

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Top 10: Disney Movies of All Time

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One year into the new century, a little boy was born in Chicago. His name was Walter but everybody called him “Walt”. Together with his brother Roy, Walt started his own company – Walt Disney Productions in 1929 which granted him stardom and success in the movie making industry. Several amusement parks and hundreds of movies later, the time has come to make the ratings official. Here are the ten best Disney movies of all time.

As most of my lists you will probably disagree with the order and even the selection of movies below. Now worries, just point out the injustice in the comments. Just do me a favor, and keep it constructive. Thanks!

1. The Lion King

1994 was the year when a lion cub named Simba, his merkaat friend Timon and warthog Pumbaa stole the hearts of millions worldwide, subsequently also popularizing the old Swahili saying – Hakuna Matata (There are no worries). The Lion King is a classic Disney animation of the good old kind with the clear struggle between good and evil and numerous breaks in the storyline for colorful musical interludes – all taken to the Tanzanian savanna.

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Another Top 10 Film Noir Movies

that it can be difficult to decide where to begin exploring the genre.  Some films have been cemented in time as quintessential examples of the genre while others have been the subject of decades-long debates concerning their validity as film noir.  When I wrote the predecessor to this list, the Top Ten Classic Era Film Noir, I tried to compose a list containing films that best represented the popular conceptions of the genre: hard boiled detectives, morally ambiguous gangsters, and wily femme fatales.  But the universe of film noir is so much more diverse than those stereotypes would lead you to believe.  Some are bizarre character portraits, taut thrillers, police procedurals, and tales of doomed romances.  So with this list I have compiled ten more classics in chronological order that are a bit

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Top Ten Famous Scenes (And the Movies They Were Inspired By)

their favorite movies or directors.  Whether it is a replicated character type, location, editing technique, or even entire scene, modern filmmakers keep the past alive with through mimicry and recreation.  Sometimes the influences are subtle.  Other times, they are more blatant.  Here are ten great examples of famous scenes inspired by earlier works.

10.  The Scene: Jack Nicholson chopping down the door in The Shining.

Everybody knows this scene: Jack Torrance and his family take care of an inn in the Rocky Mountains for several months.  Jack comes down with cabin fever and starts to be influenced by sinister forces in the inn.  At one point, he angrily takes an axe to a locked door separating him from his family.  One of the main reasons for its popularity was the infamous line,

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