10 Great Movie Cannibals
Cannibals The finest in cinema archetypes. This month: people who chow down on other people. Pittsburgh Flesh-eaters Night of the living dead (1968) Activated by radiation from satellite. Only stopped...
View ArticleTop 10 Scary Movies of All Time
Fright nights! It has been the year of the horror movie. With The Blair Witch Project and The Sixth Sense (both part of the Stella Artois Weekenders tour) dampening cinema seats across the country, we...
View ArticleTop 10 Greatest Movie Teachers
TEACHERS The finest in cinema archetypes. This month: pay attention at the back for these elite educators . . . Glenn Holland Mr. Holland´s Opus (1995) Failed composer. Turns useless jock into decent...
View Article10 Greatest Movie Astronauts
Astronauts. The finest cinema archetype. This month: one small step for actors, one giant leap for moviekind… Jim Lovell Apollo 13 (1995) Dreams of going to the moon. Has a “problem”. Tells Houstan....
View ArticleThe Ten Greatest De Niro Roles
Heat (1995) In Michael Mann’s clash of the titans, Pacino has the hoo-hah bluster but De Niro delivers the most consistently impressive work as cold-as-ice career criminal Neil McCauley. The...
View ArticleThe 10 Coolest Soundtracks
Natural Born Killers You don’t have to put movie dialogue between the tracks to be “cool “, but it helps. What makes the soundtrack of Oliver Stone’s wrongly-maligned 1994 serial killer satire so...
View ArticleThe Ten Greatest Brando Roles
The Men (1950) With Broadway critics waxing rhapsodic over his potent physicality. Brando showed typical perversity in selecting a wheelchair-bound war hero for his celluloid debut. Ken Wilcheck is an...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Courtroom Battles
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD (1962) AS A PROFESSION, LAWYERS ARE GENERALLY DESPISED, which makes it surprising that one was voted (by the AFI) the greatest hero in movie history. But then Atticus Finch...
View Article1001 Greatest Movie Moments
THE CROP-DUSTER Even Hitchcock knew the scene made no sense at all. After all, if you’ve lured your quarry all the way to a lonely bus stop, why not simply shoot him? But then, what fun would that be?...
View ArticleYour Best 60’s Movies
Lawrence Of Arabia (1962) Never let it be said that the Empire M readership don’t know their cinematic onions. Lean’s masterpiece has been eulogized by everyone from Stone to Scorsese and,...
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