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Top 10 Richest Hollywood Actors

Top10Films — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:23:05 +0000

Who are the top 10 richest actors in Hollywood? Can you guess the number one, or even any of those featured in the list? The most recent list of richest Hollywood actors was published on buzzle.com, which saw the Fresh Prince Will Smith coming in at number one. Joining the “Independence Day” and “Seven Pounds” [...]

Top10Films: Dustin Hoffman

Top10Films — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:20:15 +0000

Ratso’s hang-ups, Sumner’s ordeal, Braddock’s sexual desire: The Life and Characters of Dustin Hoffman

Everyone who interviews Dustin Hoffman leaves with the same thoughts on the man: warm, intelligent, and accommodating. His small physical stature – there’s only 5ft 6in of the man – is dismissed by a presence that fills the room. He is a [...]

Top 10 Sequels of the 1980s

Top10Films — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:06:15 +0000

In the eighties, the high-concept movie was in vogue, its number increasing. Thanks largely to blockbusters “Jaws” and “Star Wars”, the eighties saw what was tried and trusted in the decade before it and simply repackaged the thrills for an audience wanting exactly the same entertainment.

The industry was drastically changing from the top down. Huge, [...]

Top 10 Modern Vampire Films

Top10Films — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:37:40 +0000

The vampire: that harbinger of everlasting life and eternal damnation. From the cloaked gothic majesty of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” to the down and dirty night-crawlers of Kathryn Bigelow’s “Near Dark”, vampire’s have formed the basis for more literary and cinematic horror than any other fictional creature.

Early cinematic incarnations of the blood-sucking sun-haters were based [...]

Mike Leigh chooses his Top 10 Films

Top10Films — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:18:15 +0000

Acclaimed British filmmaker Mike Leigh compiles his Top 10 films and includes some lesser-known titles than many of his contemporaries.

His favourite film of all time is the Ermanno Olmi-directed “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” (L’Albero degli zoccoli). Like Leigh’s films, which are often controversial and provocative, “The Tree of Wooden Clogs” concerns itself with [...]

Edgar Wright chooses his Top 10 Films

Top10Films — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:02:11 +0000

Edgar Wright, co-creator of TV’s “Spaced” and director of “Shaun of the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”, compiled his top 10 films for Empire magazine’s poll of the greatest 500 movies.

Film Director and writer Edgar Wright’s Top 10 Films:

1. Raising Arizona 2. An American Werewolf In London 3. Carrie 4. Raidars Of The Lost Ark 5. Boogie Nights 6. Dirty [...]

Jonathan Lynn chooses his Top 10 Films

Top10Films — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:51:12 +0000

Jonathan Lynn is a director who likes to fly under the radar. He’s made some of my favourite comedies, many of which you may not have realised Lynn directed. He’s a director who likes to allow the actors, and consequently, the characters to take centre stage. His camera is restrained, his visual style conservative. The [...]

Top 10 Julia Roberts Films

Top10Films — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:52:12 +0000

Caroline (‘Caz’) Ames, over at Lets Go To The Movies, has been busy thinking about one of her favourite actresses lately. Julia Roberts, Hollywood’s biggest female star, who Caz lovingly refers to as ‘Jules’, has consistently put out hit after hit in a career spanning over twenty years since her debut in 1987.

Caz says, ‘I [...]

Mark Kermode’s Top10Films

Top10Films — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:49:13 +0000

Outspoken and controversial English film critic Mark Kermode compiled his top 10 films list for Sight and Sound in 2002. Unsurprisingly, “The Exorcist” fanatic lists the William Friedkin, head-spinning-vomit-projecting-child-possession movie as his favourite film of all time. He says, ‘The only thing I’m certain about is that “The Exorcist” is both my own favourite film [...]

John Waters chooses his Top 10 Films

Top10Films — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:58:45 +0000

John Waters has never shied away from controversy and his favourite films list makes for interesting reading. The man who said ‘I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty,’ lists the art-house Andy Warhol film “Chelsea Girls”, which has no formal narrative in its depiction of the real life residents [...]