Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to watch this brilliant sequence from the first Mission: Impossible movie. And no, it’s not the bit where Tom Cruise suspends from a ceiling and catches a bead of sweat. It’s even better than that. Continue reading
Great Scenes… Mission: Impossible
Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags Brian De Palma, Ethan Hunt, Mission: Impossible, Movies, Tom Cruise on July 27, 2009 by Justin MichaelsTop Five… worst Irish accents
Posted in TOP FIVES with tags Blown Away, Brad Pitt, Darby O'Gill, Gerard Butler, Irish accents, Movies, PS I Love You, Richard Gere, Sean Connery, The Devil's Own, The Jackal, Tommy Lee Jones on July 23, 2009 by Ross McD
Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral, too-ra-loo-ra-li… top of the mornin’ to yah, boyo. There’s nothing that captures the heart of a fiery-haired cailín quite like a thick Oirish brogue, and none have mastered it as well as these fine strapping buachailli. Continue reading
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 McG
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
Great Scenes… Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Posted in GREAT SCENES with tags Dylan Baker, John Candy, John Hughes, Movies, Planes Trains and Automobiles, scene, Steve Martin on July 13, 2009 by Justin Michaels
On paper, it’s just two guys meeting someone and putting their case on the back of a truck. On screen it is pure comedy gold. John Candy, Steve Martin and Dylan Baker – I salute you… Continue reading
Top 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
Pan’s Labyrinth v Labyrinth
Posted in BATTLES with tags David Bowie, Guillermo del Toro, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Henson, Labyrinth, Movies, Muppets, Pan's Labyrinth on July 3, 2009 by rossvross
It’s time to journey into two very different fantasy worlds. One has a child-eating monster with eyes in his hands. The other has that guy who wore the ridiculous tiger-print outfit beside Mick Jagger in the video for Dancing In The Street. You decide which is scarier… 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
Happy Trails Hans: The Last Airbender
Posted in HAPPY TRAILS HANS with tags Avatar, Hans Gruber, M Night Shyamalan, Movies, The Last Airbender, trailers on June 25, 2009 by Hans Gruber
Hans Gruber is back to take a look at the latest trailers: this week it’s another cartoon to big screen crossover… Continue reading


