Thursday 8 May 2014

William Friedkin's "lost" masterpiece Sorcerer finally gets its chance to shine


Have you ever heard of Sorcerer, a movie by The French Connection and The Exorcist director William Friedkin?
Now you'll get a chance to see it as the film is released on region FREE blu-ray. Find out more about Sorcerer here.
Source: Top 10 Films

Thursday 1 May 2014

RoboCop 2014 is not one of the better reboots


What did you think of the new RoboCop remake?

RoboCop fails to live up to the qualities of the original film says Top 10 Films critic Daniel Stephens - read the full review here.

Does the Jose Padilha's RoboCop remake work with its watered down, videogame violence? Is this sort of violence actually worse than Paul Verhoeven's graphically bloody original because of how desensitized we become to it...?


On remakes and reboots: Ultimately, the American film industry is playing it as safe as possible in an economic climate of uncertainty and under the strain of a market coming to terms with quickly developing technology. Unlike the era of Jaws and Star Wars where the public had to get in a car and travel to a theatre to see a movie, today we are as likely to watch the latest release digitally streamed onto the three-inch screen of a mobile phone, watching our selected feature in bite-size chunks while riding on the train. [Read more]


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Wednesday 9 April 2014

Is Jaws: The Revenge the worst sequel of all time..?


Is Jaws: The Revenge (sometimes known as Jaws 4) the worst sequel of all time? That's a question Daniel Stephens asks in his review at Top 10 Films.

Saturday 8 March 2014

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Can't think of a movie to watch? Top 10 Films has the answer...

Friday 7 February 2014

Greatest use of pre-1980 music in the movies

...Admittedly this one is a tad self-indulgent as I’m a pretty big Zappa fan. Nonetheless, it was the first time I had ever heard a FZ song – aside from in his own movies (namely 1971’s 200 Motels and 1979’s Baby Snakes) – used in a film. That in itself is kind of interesting given (at least according to Captain Beefheart biographer Mike Barnes) he originally moved to Los Angeles as an 18 year-old circa 1959 to establish himself as “a writer of film soundtracks” and did in fact churn out two of them (1962’s The World’s Greatest Sinner and 1965’s Run Home Slow … plus he and his band, The Mothers of Invention, appeared in the documentary Mondo Hollywood, which was also made in 1965). His stuff later appeared in some of the early episodes of the mid-1990s animated US TV cartoon Duckman.... [read full article at Top 10 Films]

Saturday 1 February 2014

Female beauty on show in Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers

Read why Spring Breakers is about dark male fantasies, the god complex and an obsession with female beauty...