Wake up… time to cry. There is nothing better than a movie which spurs you into a good eye-soaking. Here are five scenes (and there are many, many more) that have left me sobbing like a big baby. Continue reading
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Top Five… Tearjerker Moments
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags baseball, Disney, Dumbo, Little Women, Movies, Philadelphia, Robert Redford, Tearjerkers, The Natural, Watership Down, Winona Ryder on July 14, 2009 by Ross McGTop Five… movie adverts
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Adverts, Batman, Commercials, Halloween, Lee Majors, Magnolia, Movies, Paul Thomas Anderson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch-Drunk Love, Scrooged, Tom Cruise on July 8, 2009 by Ross McG
Commercials are normally the drivel that stand between you and the film you have paid good money to see at the cinema. But sometimes they can light up the main feature itself. Here are five of the best fictional advertisements. Continue reading
Top Five… Michael Jackson Movie Tributes
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags 13 Going On 30, Back to the Future, Beat It, Billie Jean, Charlie's Angels, Jacko, King of Pop, Michael Jackson, Moonwalk, Moonwalker, Movies, Thriller, Zoolander on June 30, 2009 by Ross McG
This is it! This is it! What is it? Why, it’s the best moments in film inspired by the King of Pop, of course. Don’t stop ’til you get enough… Continue reading
Top Five… Movie Bands
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Bands, Bedazzled, Dudley Moore, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Movies, Music, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Peter Cook, Spinal Tap, The Muppets, The Rutles on June 10, 2009 by AidanRad
Are you ready to rock?! Are you ready to roll?! Okay, are you at least ready to sway gently? No? Well then, just read about the best fictional music combos in cinematic history instead… Continue reading
Top Five… Dream Sequences
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Carrie, Dream sequence, Dumb And Dumber, Jim Carrey, Movies, The Wizard Of Oz, Tom Cruise, Top Secret!, Val Kilmer, Vanilla Sky, Wicked Witch on June 3, 2009 by Ross McG
We all daydream from time to time. Whether it involves stroking Matt Damon’s hair or selling your fledgling movie website to a rich businessman, it’s good to fantasise. So we love it when movie characters do it as well. Here are five of my favourites. Continue reading
Top Five… fairgrounds
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Big, Hitchcock, Joel Schumacher, Kiefer Sutherland, Movies, Orson Welles, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Strangers On A Train, The Lost Boys, The Third Man, Tom Hanks on May 21, 2009 by Ross McG
It’s got to beeeeee… perfect. So sang late 80s chart-toppers Fairground Attraction. They obviously hadn’t been on some of these scary rides. Here are five memorable cinematic funfair escapades. Continue reading
Top Five… exaggerations
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Darth Vader, Dirty Harry, exaggerations, LA Confidential, Leonardo DiCaprio, Movies, Napoleon Dynamite, Russell Crowe, Star Wars, The Quick and the Dead, Uncle Rico on May 19, 2009 by Ross McD
Embellishments are everywhere in movies. Just check the taglines, they usually boast of The Ultimate this, The Final that, The Only him and The Greatest her. And just under that it will usually say ‘Directed by Michael Bay’. But it’s not just those behind the camera who are partial to the odd game of Hyper-Bowl, as these characters will attest… Continue reading
Top Five… terrible nightclubs
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Blade, Casablanca, Collateral, Movies, Nightclub, Saturday Night Fever, Top Five, Wayne's World 2 on May 13, 2009 by Ross McG
Have you ever been to a nightclub where the volume was at just the right level so you could hear everything the person next to you was saying? Didn’t think so. Here are five places you don’t want to go boogying on a Saturday night. Continue reading
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