The inspiration for this list came while watching the bonus features on my Planet of the Apes boxset. There’s a fascinating bit of footage that stars Charlton Heston in the same role he played in the movie and Edward G. Robinson as Dr. Zaius. Apparently, this short scene was shot in order to show the [...]
Sequels are a funny thing. Ocassionally a home run’ll get hit and something like The Empire Strikes Back or The Godfather Part II will come along and blow everyone’s mind, but for every Wrath of Khan there’s a King Kong Lives, a Beneath the Planet of the Apes or Rocky V. More often than not, [...]
Put Miss Moneypenny down and come in, 007. After the Moore era top ten, we’re going to be looking at the Dalton/Brosnan era. Timothy Dalton cuts Bond fandom down the middle: casual fans often call him the worst Bond, but real Bond fans (especially those who have read the books) embrace Dalton as perhaps the [...]
Ah, come in 007. After the success of your last mission, we’ve decided to send you off on something similar. After looking at the top ten moments of the Connery/Lazenby Bond era, we’re going to run down the top ten moments of the Roger Moore era. The Moore era gets a hard time, but there [...]
Good evening, Mr. Bond. I’ve been expecting you. Today we’re going to take a look at 007′s ten finest moments from Dr. No to Diamonds Are Forever. During this time Bond was played by Sean Connery for five films and George Lazenby for one, his Bond girls included such beauties as Ursula Andress, Daniela Bianchi, [...]
Bruce Springsteen: singer, guitarist, songwriter, genius. I discovered the Boss relativley late – most other Springsteen fans I speak to first heard his music when they were kids, but I only started taking notice of his work a few years ago. In that short time, however, I’ve bought every one of his albums, a bunch [...]
Note: Apologies for the somewhat bored tone of this entry. I wrote it whilst ill and when I really couldn’t be bothered writing anything. But hell, a top ten’s a top ten, right? An promised: something on comics. Unless he’s a guy like Superman, Thor or Captain Marvel, your average superhero is often limited to [...]
Hollywood makes movies, pointing its camera at everything from Tarzan swinging through the jungle to gangsters blasting each other away with Tommy guns. But every so often, Hollywood turns its camera on itself and gives us a look at the process of moviemaking. Sometimes the movies are serious in tone and other times they’re more [...]
The first movie monster I can remember being scared of is Pinhead from Hellraiser. I never saw Hellraiser back i the day, but just the image of Pinhead on the poster put the shits right up me. I was born in ’85, so I missed all of these films on their first run, but most [...]
The seventies were, in my opinion, the last truly great decade for horror. Sure the eighties had some great movies (The Thing, The Fly and the first two Evil Dead movies for exampe) but the seventies was the time that horror began to move from the Gothic Hammer style to a more realistic and brutal style. Previously, [...]