When it comes to movie titles, sometimes less is more. Why, after all, title a Western The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford when Unforgiven will do? Why call a horror movie I Still Know What You Did Last Summer when Halloween is perfectly sufficient? Anyway, since I’ve been too busy to write [...]
Considering the fact that he’s one of the most famous fictional characters of all time, and undoubtedly the most famous superhero ever, there’s never been a truly great Superman movie. Superman: The Movie, the Richard Donner cut of Superman II and Superman Returns have their moments, but there’s never been one single movie that Superman [...]
So, we’ve had the top ten sci fi villains, so let’s have a quick look at the top ten heroes from science fiction. I’m complining this list based on the following factors: 1. Universe saving – how many times has this hero saved the universe or their home planet or whatever? 2 Impact on the [...]
Perhaps most associated with Star Wars, the concept of empires in science fiction had been a sci fi trope for a long time before Star Wars and will no doubt continue to be used long after George Lucas has finally finished tinkering with the original trilogy. In any case, galactic empires don’t begin and end [...]
There’s a bit of a horror theme going on in here of late. Today we’re going to head out to the laboratory on the hill and take a look at the top ten creations of Dr. Frankenstein. Brought to life by Mary Shelley in 1818 in “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus,” the Frankenstein Monster has [...]
I first heard about Cloverfield whilst sitting with my girlfriend in Pizza Hutt and when I read it described as “a Godzilla style monster movie” I damn near pissed my pants with glee. The prospect of a giant monster movie featuring a Godzilla-like monster remorselessly destroying New York was enough to make me desperate to [...]
Ewok. The very mention of the name is enough to reduce Star Wars fans to a quivering wreck. Almost universally hated, the Ewoks were introduced in Return of the Jedi and, I’m sure, sold thousands of teddy bears, but goddamed if they’re not despied now. This list was a hard one to write because looking at [...]
And so we come to the final installment of the original Star Wars trilogy: Return of the Jedi. Saying Return of the Jedi is the least of the original SW movies reminds me of that old saying about sex – even when it’s band, it’s still pretty fucking good. ROTJ (doesn’t “arr-oh-tee-jay” roll off the [...]
Ah, The Empire Strikes Back. Possibly the defining movie of my childhood and undoubtedly one of the greatest movies ever made. A New Hope, as great as is it is, feels a little flat and one dimensional today, but not so with Empire, which only seems to get better with age. Like ANH, there’s plenty [...]
A bit of a change here, because for once I’m not going to list my ten personal favorite things/moments/whatever but, instead, I’m listing the top ten things that you may or may not have noticed; things that reward you for rewatching the movie in question. And, as you’ve no doubt deduced from the title, the [...]