Remember when I promised this list to you a while back when doing the best Tom Cruise singing scenes? Well, I wasn’t kidding. Okay, I was, but now we’ve run out of ideas for Top Fives. With The Cruiser all set to go sprinting again this summer in spy-com Knight And Day, now is as good a time as any to check out his best dashes. Continue reading
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Top Five… Tom Cruise running moments
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Minority Report, Mission: Impossible, Movies, Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Vanilla Sky on June 16, 2010 by Ross McGDesert Island (Digital Versatile) Discs
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Desert Island, Metallica, Moulin Rouge, Movies, The Goonies, The Shawshank Redemption on April 11, 2010 by rossvross
It’s collaboratin’ time. The great Fandango from the great movie blog Fandango Groovers has very kindly invited us – and a whole host of other movie bloggers – to pick the DVDs they would bring with them to a desert island. As both us Rosses already live on islands, we are ideally placed to name the perfect flicks to watch in order to while away the hours. To read Fandango’s list and those of other bloggers, click HERE. They’ve all named eight movies each. Because there’s two of us (and because we’re lazy), we’ve named four apiece. Check out our picks after the jump. Continue reading
Top Five… Worst Films To Be Nominated For The Best Picture Oscar
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Al Pacino, Best Picture, Movies, Oscar, Oscars, The Godfather on March 4, 2010 by Ross McG
Movie-goers often moan about the terrible films that won the Best Picture Oscar. But what about the even more terrible films that were a whisker away from doing it? Here they are… Continue reading
Top Five… Jack Nicholson Oscar-nominated performances
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Jack Nicholson, Movies, Oscar, Oscars on March 4, 2010 by Ross McD
Jack is the daddy of the Oscars. No man has been nominated more than him. He’s been nominated 12 times, has won three, has been criminally overlooked a few times (The Shining, Batman, The Departed) and believe it or not has even appeared in some crap (Anger Management). It was a tough job picking his five best, but someone’s gotta do it… Continue reading
Top Five… Moments The Oscars Got It Right
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Annie Hall, Fargo, Movies, Oscar, Oscars, Star Wars on March 3, 2010 by Justin Michaels
Poor old Oscar. Sometimes we’re so busy lambasting him for messing things up we forget that, from time to time, he got things absolutely spot on. Here are those moments. Continue reading
Top Five… Moments The Oscars Got It Wrong
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Al Pacino, Movies, Oscar, Oscars on March 3, 2010 by Ross McG
And the Oscar goes to… the totally wrong person! The Oscars are a bit like our parents – the reason we love ’em is because we very rarely agree with ’em. Here are the instances when the Academy voters really messed things up. Continue reading
Top Five… Peter Bradshaw one-star reviews
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Mamma Mia, Movies, Peter Bradshaw, REVIEWS, RocknRolla, The Incredible Hulk on February 25, 2010 by Ross McG
Fresh from OUR INTERVIEW with film critic Peter Bradshaw, we list The Guardian writer’s best ever reviews of the worst ever movies he’s seen. Fans of Pierce Brosnan, look away now… Continue reading
Top Five… Dogs
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags animals, Babe, dogs, Homeward Bound, I Am Legend, Lassie, Movies, Turner and Hooch on February 12, 2010 by Ross McD
Never work with children or animals – the mantra of every film director. For all kids and most animals this rings true, but when it comes to dogs, some performances have been so monumental the canines could have told the directors to woof off if they so wished. Continue reading
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