Weekly Top Five
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Weekly Top Five Weekly Top Five: The trouble with never having seen Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.20.13 at 12:00 PM
Thankfully, I've seen the good majority of his oeuvre—how such a major work as The Trouble With Harry has evaded me, your guess is as good as mine—so I figure why not share my top five favorite Hitchcock films. Check it out after the jump.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Things I Love Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Roman Polanski films
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.13.13 at 09:00 AM
It goes without saying that Polanski is a controversial figure. However, his prior transgressions aside, he remains one of my very favorite directors. I greatly admire his elegance as a filmmaker, the sophistication he shows even when dealing in decidedly uncomfortable and otherwise lurid subject matter. The following are my five favorite films of his, and I welcome any and all counterarguments.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Most anticipated films for 2013
Posted by Drew Hunt on 01.06.13 at 12:00 PM
It's impossible to anticipate an entire year's worth of films, so consider this list incomplete. I welcome you to share any and all oversights, so that our moviegoing radars ensure nothing is overlooked. Here's to a fruitful 2013 in film!
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Things I Love Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: An ode to "the soul of film noir," Robert Mitchum
Posted by Drew Hunt on 12.16.12 at 04:00 PM
Mitchum has been one of my favorite actors for some time now, so I thought I'd take this opportunity to share my five favorite performances of his. In a tip of the hat to my buddies at Filmspotting, I'm calling this my Harry Powell Memorial List. Check it out after the jump.
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Paranormal Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Ho-ho-ho horror films
Posted by Drew Hunt on 12.09.12 at 04:00 PM
While I don't begrudge others for partaking in holiday festivities, let's just say you won't find me at any of these Christmas movies. No, I'll be at home partaking in my own yearly ritual: revisiting some of my favorite examples of the unfairly maligned "Christmas horror" genre. I rue the day somebody programs an evening of these atypical holiday classics—but for now, you can find my five favorite after the jump.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Foreign Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Wong Kar-wai films
Posted by Drew Hunt on 12.02.12 at 02:00 PM
In the Mood for Love and Happy Together both screen this weekend—the former on Wed 12/5 at 3 PM, the latter on Mon 12/3, 8 PM. After the jump, check out my five favorite Wong films.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Reagan-era actioners
Posted by Drew Hunt on 11.25.12 at 04:00 PM
As Asher Klein notes in this blog post, Milius's text is ripe for remake in this age of supposed big government. Ailing red staters still hurting from Obama's reelection will find much to like in this version, as its avowal of rugged individualism by way of militaristic heroism seems ripped straight out of the tea party playbook. But Red Dawn isn't the only film of its kind. The 80s are brimming with jingoistic action fare—in fact, most genre fans will attest to the Ronald Reagan years as the height of action cinema. The following films are notable by their illogical sentiments toward patriotism, their gleefully irreverent narrative strategies, and value for keeping television networks like TNT or TBS in business. In other words, what Michael Bay would deem "good, clean fun."
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: films I'm most thankful for
Posted by Drew Hunt on 11.18.12 at 04:00 PM
Anyway, I figure this is the perfect opportunity to share the five films for which I'm most thankful. These movies, for various reasons, shaped my relationship to cinema in profound ways. Check them out after the jump.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Steven Spielberg films
Posted by Drew Hunt on 11.11.12 at 04:00 PM
I'm sure it's no coincidence that Spielberg and his DreamWorks Studios decided to release the film on the Friday after one of the more contentious presidential elections in recent history. As such, I figure now to be the perfect time to share my top five favorite Spielberg films.
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Weekly Top Five Film Weekly Top Five: Ozploitation
Posted by Drew Hunt on 11.04.12 at 04:00 PM
Not familiar with the term? A subcategory of the Australian New Wave, which produced such notable films as The Devil's Playground and Picnic at Hanging Rock, Ozploitation is an era of Australian cinema—generally cited as lasting from the mid-70s to the early 80s—that depicted Aussie culture at its most inane. Utilizing various forms of genre technique, it presents a wide array of films that range in style and, of course, quality. But like any brand of exploitation cinema, there are few diamonds to be found in the rough.
Those diamonds are:
