We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Now that The Avengers have blown summer wide open like Loki’s space portal, it’s time to consider what massive flying lizard-ships of movies will be waging the biggest attacks on our excitement bones. The next four months features probably the same amount of players as [...]
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TOP 7 Films of 2011 … another opinion
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Overall, I’d give the movies of 2011 an “8/10.” The “Year of Remembering,” as Jeff Bayer hinted in his own Top Movies list, has seen some gems that we aren’t soon going to forget. This isn’t going to be a year like 2010, in which [...]
TOP 7 WTF Movie Moments in 2011
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. I see a lot of movies. My fandom has a dark side too, I’ve seen so many plots play out that I can usually guess how things are going to go. When I sound glib while reviewing a trailer, it’s because I’ve seen the story [...]
TOP 7 Worst Films of 2011
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. For every unique film that reminds us of our movie-going love, there’s always one that reminds us otherwise. For every gem like The Artist, there are parades of sucktitude like Jack and Jill. For every surprise like Monte Carlo, there’s journeys into hell like Glee: [...]
TOP 7 Films Based on Memoirs
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. When a famous person writes about her life it’s an autobiography, when a normal person does, it’s a memoir. Last weekend saw the release of Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo based on Benjamin Mee’s beautiful memoir. Here are seven other films, based on memoirs [...]
TOP 7 Films of 2011
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Or in this case, I give you 14 films. Two themes seemed to keep popping up in 2011; nostalgia and forgetting. The forgetting specifically came in the form of Alzheimer’s disease. Friends with Benefits, A Separation, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Descendants, [...]
TOP 7 Films in Real Time
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Real time – in which the plot of the film covers the same amount of time as it takes to watch – can be a blessing or a curse. When a film calls attention to it, real time can become a gimmicky distraction. On the [...]
TOP 7 Crime-Solving Movies
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Few genres have stood the test of time quite like the mystery. From the early days of literature, the concept of intrigue and the unknowable has piqued the interest of men and women alike. Even one of the most famed detectives of literature, Sherlock Holmes, [...]
TOP 7 Goofiest Things About The Twilight Saga
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. It might be awards season in my head, but it’s Twilight time everywhere else. For three weeks in a row now, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn has been standing as awkwardly stiff as Taylor Lautner in that poster over there to keep the top box [...]
TOP 7 Muppet Movie Moments
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s The Muppet TOP 7! It’s time to list the movies. It’s time to write the rights. It’s time to meet my favorites on the Muppet List tonight! I like the Muppets. I really like The Muppets, in theaters now. originally, I [...]
TOP 7 Automatons On Film
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Before there were robots, there were automatons. These self-operating machines could look human-like, though made of metal. For this Top 7 list, I decided to ignore more advanced, human looking cyborgs and androids, so no Terminator or replicants. Most of the machines on this list [...]
TOP 7 Movies I Can’t Believe Got Made
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. In honor of this week’s release, Jack & Jill, we’re doing a countdown of truly awful cinema. If you’re anything like me, you’re still reeling from the fact that this movie was made at all. So, we here at TSR, have decided to take that [...]
TOP 7 Multi-Role Acting Performances
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. One of my favorite techniques is when an actor gets to tackle more than one role in the same film. There is something about seeing an actor double, triple, or even octuple up on roles that I adore… so long as they are doing more [...]
TOP 7 Signs You’ve Got Demon Trouble
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. You move into a beautiful new house that you got for a steal. You’re so excited to start your new life. But then the walls are bleeding, the kids are speaking Latin backwards and there’s a constant fog outside. Even with the bad real estate [...]
TOP 7 Dance Sequences in a Non-Musical Movie
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Sometimes we want to move our feet and tap our toes, but we don’t realize it until the moment is upon us. Thankfully, movies are here to rescue us. Sure, there are the full-out musicals like Evita, and Singin’ in the Rain. I’m not talking [...]
TOP 7 Movie Politicians I’d Vote For
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. We live in a country where pop culture is king (or queen). More people find themselves tuned into who’s on American Idol than who’s in the Senate. But what happens when pop culture and politics collide? You’ve got your political dramas, your political thrillers, and [...]
TOP 7 Most Anticipated Fall/Winter 2011 Movies
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. This has been one of the best Septembers in recent memory, (and it will continue to be in the next two Fridays). This creates a heavy optimism for the rest of the fall/winter season. After all, if Drive is so good, and it came out [...]
TOP 7 Boxers that Pack a Punch in Movies
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Warrior (starring Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Notle) is not a boxing movie. I know it’s MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). So why on Earth am I writing a TOP 7 about boxers one week after Warrior failed to excite audiences at the box office? [...]
TOP 7 Movie Epidemics
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Getting sick sucks, getting the plague… that’s horror film territory. This week, Steven Soderbergh releases his Contagion (starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet and everyone else in Hollywood) into movie theaters. Hopefully it’ll catch on! Get it? Because you catch a disease and… OK. [...]
TOP 7 Killer Animal Films
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. With this weekend’s impending release of Shark Night 3D, we at The Scorecard Review thought it appropriate to take a look back at Hollywood’s best in the killer beast department. As a note to the reader: We’ve taken King Kong, velociraptors, and all the other fantastical [...]
TOP 7 Creepy Rooms from Horror Movies
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. For those who know me, or even know of me really, it’s no secret that I’m a horror fan. There’s something to be said about turning off all the lights, no interruptions, and watching as chaos swallows the characters onscreen. Whether it’s the pounding of [...]
TOP 7 Horror Movies I’d Kill to Remake
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. The remake of Fright Night hits the theaters this weekend, and a little bird told me it was pretty darned enjoyable – surprisingly so, for a remake. Actually, it was more along the lines of a tall, gangly bird with an air of dry snarkiness [...]
TOP 7 ‘Final Destination’ Death Scenes
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Killing teenagers on-screen is a bloody cash cow of sorts for Hollywood, however strange our desire to watch such events may be. Before the Final Destination films, the killing of meddling kids was usually up to serial killers like Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger. Starting [...]
TOP 7 Worst Films So Far in 2011
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. Eight months into 2011, and we’ve been given Beginners, Win Win, The Tree of Life, and even beautiful surprises like Crazy, Stupid, Love.. However, Hollywood’s other hand has dealt us some dark days this year, with movies like Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Zookeeper. [...]
TOP 7 Sexiest On-Screen Chemistry Couples
We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10. With Friends with Benefits opening up last week, and Crazy, Stupid, Love. opening this week, it obviously has me thinking about sex. It’s hard to deny Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are sexy. It’s hard to deny Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are sexy. But [...]
