2016 Centennials

I had a lot of fun in 2014 watching each of the 36 films that Charlie Chaplin made in 1914 (well, the 35 that still exist, at least). What made it most fun was watching them a hundred years to the day from their original release, so seeing them at the rate that the audiences of the time did.

A neat side effect was that I kept on task and so inherently had a book ready to proof and edit by the end of the year, so I conjured up a similar project. This one wouldn't involve the centennials of films but of people, working to the same sort of structure.

So, here's 2016 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim was to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I collated these reviews into a book, A Hundred in 2016, which won the Alan Black Cirque du Livre Book of the Festival in 2017.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (19 Dec 2016)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde	1971	5	5	Roy Ward Baker	IMDb

All 2018 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
10 Rillington Place	1971	7	6	Richard Fleischer	IMDb
23 Paces to Baker Street	1956	5	5	Henry Hathaway	IMDb
Angel Baby	1961	5	5	Paul Wendkos	IMDb
Babies for Sale	1940	5	5	Charles Barton	IMDb
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend	1949	4	4	Preston Sturges	IMDb
Behold a Pale Horse	1964	4	4	Fred Zinnemann	IMDb
The Brute Man	1946	4	4	Jean Yarbrough	IMDb
Bwana Devil	1952	3	3	Arch Oboler	IMDb
Carry On... Up the Khyber	1968	6	5	Gerald Thomas	IMDb
Curse of the Queerwolf	1988	5	4	Mark Pirro	IMDb
The Curse of the Werewolf	1961	5	5	Terence Fisher	IMDb
Dance of the Vampires	1967	5	4	Roman Polanski	IMDb
The Dark Eyes of London	1939	5	5	Walter Summers	IMDb
Death Car on the Freeway	1979	4	4	Hal Needham	IMDb
Deathtrap	1982	6	6	Sidney Lumet	IMDb
Doctor Syn	1937	5	5	Roy William Neill	IMDb
Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine	1965	4	4	Norman Taurog	IMDb
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde	1971	5	5	Roy Ward Baker	IMDb
The Ghost Breakers	1940	5	5	George Marshall	IMDb
Hellzapoppin'	1941	6	5	H. C. Potter	IMDb
Horrors of the Black Museum	1959	5	5	Arthur Crabtree	IMDb
The Inheritance	1962	6	6	Masaki Kobayashi	IMDb
The Iroquois Trail	1950	4	4	Phil Karlson	IMDb
Johnny O'Clock	1947	4	4	Robert Rossen	IMDb
Lady in a Cage	1964	5	6	Walter Grauman	IMDb
The Lost World	1960	3	3	Irwin Allen	IMDb
The Night of the Grizzly	1966	5	4	Joseph Pevney	IMDb
Postal Inspector	1936	4	4	Otto Brower	IMDb
Psychout for Murder	1969	5	5	Edward Ross	IMDb
The Shiralee	1957	5	5	Leslie Norman	IMDb
Skidoo	1968	2	2	Otto Preminger	IMDb
The Spiral Staircase	1945	6	6	Robert Siodmak	IMDb
The Tattered Dress	1957	6	5	Jack Arnold	IMDb
Terror in a Texas Town	1958	6	5	Joseph H. Lewis	IMDb
The Villain	1979	3	4	Hal Needham	IMDb

2017 Centennials

I had so much fun last year celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, that I knew I had to continue in 2017.

So, here's my Centennials 2017 project.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2017, to be released at the beginning of 2018.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (22 Dec 2017)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	1970	5	5	Freddie Francis	IMDb

All 2017 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
5 Fingers	1952	6	5	Joseph L. Mankiewicz	IMDb
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T.	1953	5	6	Roy Rowland	IMDb
Behind Locked Doors	1948	4	4	Budd Boetticher	IMDb
Blanche Fury	1948	5	5	Marc Allégret	IMDb
Blood on the Moon	1948	5	5	Robert Wise	IMDb
The Blue Veil	1951	5	5	Curtis Bernhardt	IMDb
Chicken Every Sunday	1949	5	5	George Seaton	IMDb
Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?	1968	2	2	Don Weis	IMDb
Emperor of the North Pole	1973	5	5	Robert Aldrich	IMDb
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery	1966	4	4	Frank Launder & Sidney Gilliat	IMDb
Helter Skelter	1949	4	4	Ralph Thomas	IMDb
Hotel Berlin	1945	6	6	Peter Godfrey	IMDb
It Always Rains on Sunday	1947	6	6	Robert Hamer	IMDb
The Leopard Man	1943	6	6	Jacques Tourneur	IMDb
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly	1970	5	5	Freddie Francis	IMDb
The Naked Kiss	1964	6	6	Samuel Fuller	IMDb
The Night Walker	1964	5	5	William Castle	IMDb
O, My Darling Clementine	1943	4	4	Frank McDonald	IMDb
Pool of London	1951	6	5	Basil Dearden	IMDb
The Ringer	1952	5	5	Guy Hamilton	IMDb
Santo vs. The Vampire Women	1962	5	5	Alfonso Corona Blake	IMDb
Stay Hungry	1976	5	4	Bob Rafelson	IMDb
That Obscure Object of Desire	1977	6	5	Luis Buñuel	IMDb
The Time Travelers	1964	5	5	Ib Melchior	IMDb

2018 Centennials

I enjoyed celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, so much that I knew I had to continue in 2017. Here I am for the 2018 edition, year three for me on this project.

So, here's 2018 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2018, to be released at the beginning of 2019.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Golden Boy	1939	4	4	Rouben Mamoulian	IMDb

All 2018 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
All Through the Night	1942	5	5	Vincent Sherman	IMDb
The Baby	1973	5	5	Ted Post	IMDb
The Bigamist	1953	6	6	Ida Lupino	IMDb
The Girl Hunters	1963	5	5	Roy Rowland	IMDb
The Glass Web	1953	5	5	Jack Arnold	IMDb
Golden Boy	1939	4	4	Rouben Mamoulian	IMDb
Home of the Brave	1949	6	5	Mark Robson	IMDb
The Last Page	1952	5	5	Terence Fisher	IMDb
The Lineup	1958	6	6	Don Siegel	IMDb
The Magnetic Monster	1953	5	5	Curt Siodmak	IMDb

2019 Centennials

I enjoyed celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, so much that I knew I had to continue in 2017. I'm enjoying this series, so I'm back for the 2019 edition, year four for me.

So, here's 2019 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2019, to be released at the beginning of 2020.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (18 Feb 2019)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
I Died a Thousand Times	1955	4	4	Stuart Heisler	IMDb

All 2019 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Abominable Snowman	1957	5	4	Val Guest	IMDb
The Big Circus	1959	4	4	Joseph M. Newman	IMDb
House of Bamboo	1955	5	5	Samuel Fuller	IMDb
I Died a Thousand Times	1955	4	4	Stuart Heisler	IMDb
I’ve Lived Before	1956	4	4	Richard Bartlett	IMDb
Night Train to Mundo Fine	1966	1	1	Coleman Francis	IMDb
Noose	1948	5	5	Edmond T. Gréville	IMDb
Our Man in Havana	1959	6	6	Carol Reed	IMDb

2020 Centennials

I enjoyed celebrating the centennials of important people to film, a project that led to my award-winning fifth book, A Hundred in 2016, so much that I knew I had to continue in 2017. I'm enjoying this series, so I'm back for the 2020 edition, year five for me. Let's see if I can write more than last year.

So, here's 2020 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2020, to be released at the beginning of 2021. Hopefully.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (16 May 2020)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Hell is Empty	1967	4	4	John Ainsworth	IMDb

All 2020 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery	1975	4	3	Dean Hargrove	IMDb
Vicki	1953	6	5	Harry Horner	IMDb
Buck Rogers	1939	3	3	Ford Beebe & Saul A. Goodkind	IMDb
Gunfight at Comanche Creek	1963	5	5	Frank McDonald	IMDb
Nights of Cabiria	1957	7	7	Federico Fellini	IMDb
Sorcerer	1977	6	6	William Friedkin	IMDb
Hell is Empty	1967	4	4	John Ainsworth	IMDb

2021 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, and four years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way. I'm still enjoying this series, so I'm back for year six, the 2021 edition. Fingers crossed that I can write more than last year.

So, here's 2021 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2021, to be released at the beginning of 2022. Hopefully.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (19 Feb 2021)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Klondike Kate	1943	4	4	William Castle	IMDb

All 2021 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Clash by Night	1963	5	5	Montgomery Tully	IMDb
Fort Massacre	1958	4	4	Joseph M. Newman	IMDb
Gang War	1958	4	4	Gene Fowler Jr.	IMDb
Happy Go Lovely	1951	5	5	H. Bruce Humberstone	IMDb
Klondike Kate	1943	4	4	William Castle	IMDb
The Mole People	1956	4	4	Virgil Vogel	IMDb
Scandal Sheet	1952	5	5	Phillip Karlson	IMDb

2022 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, and five years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way. I'm still enjoying this series, so I'm back for year seven, the 2022 edition. Fingers crossed that I can write more than last year.

So, here's 2022 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2022, to be released at the beginning of 2023. Hopefully.

Rating System

1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (21 Jan 2022)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Train	1964	6	5	John Frankenheimer	IMDb

All 2022 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Lisa and the Devil	1973	6	5	Mario Bava	IMDb
Reprisal!	1956	4	4	George Sherman	IMDb
The Train	1964	6	5	John Frankenheimer	IMDb

2023 Centennials

So far, my centennials project has spawned one award-winning book, A Hundred in 2016, and six years where I didn't review anywhere near as much I planned because life got in the way. I'm still enjoying this series, so I'm back for year eight, the 2023 edition, on a serious year to get the film side of Apocalypse Later in balance with the book and music reviews I'm doing well with.

So, here's 2023 Centennials.

Each review here was posted on what would have been (or in some instances actually was) the one hundredth birthday of someone important to the film industry. The aim is to remember them with an interesting film from their career that, in the process, allows me to explore another aspect of history, whether to cinema, something wider or both.

Some of these people are famous, household names that we grew up watching. Some aren't. And some used to be, but a hundred years is a long time and things change. All, however, are important.

These carefully curated films vary by era, genre and nationality and, together, help to enrich my knowledge and maybe yours too. I'll collate these reviews into a new book, A Hundred in 2023, to be released at the beginning of 2024. At least that's the plan.

Rating System

1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (28 Feb 2023)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
When a Stranger Calls	1979	6	5	Fred Walton	IMDb

All 2023 Centennial Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Guilty	1947	5	5	John Reinhardt	IMDb
Middle of the Night	1959	6	6	Delbert Mann	IMDb
The Night We Got the Bird	1961	4	4	Darcy Conyers	IMDb
The One-Armed Swordsman	1967	5	5	Cheh Chang	IMDb
Storm Over Tibet	1952	5	5	Andrew Marton	IMDb
When a Stranger Calls	1979	6	5	Fred Walton	IMDb

Cinematic Hell

Not all movies are created equal. Welcome to Cinematic Hell.

During 2010 I'm working through the greatest movies of all time, two hundred and fifty of them. Each week of the year I'll be posting reviews of five movies from the IMDb Top 250 List, but that creates something of an imbalance on a blog where I review the good, the bad and the ugly.

If the IMDb Top 250 movies are the good and there's plenty on here already to count as the bad, that leaves the ugly. That's what this page is for.

Each week I'll also be writing a review of one of the worst movies of all time for the awesome folks at Cinema Head Cheese and then indexing them here too as premiere examples of Cinematic Hell. I'm grateful to Kevin, Jeff and David for the privilege. Please check out their site and the many, many other wonderful things they do. Go buy a copy of Blown for starters.

Here are my reviews, along with ratings from my wife and I and links to each film's page at IMDb. Read these reviews at your peril! You have been warned!

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

This Week's Review (Week 43: 3 Nov 2010)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy	1958	2	2	Rafael Portillo	IMDb

All Cinematic Hell Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Beast of Yucca Flats	1961	1	1	Coleman Francis	IMDb
Blood Feast	1963	2	2	Herschell Gordon Lewis	IMDb
Blood Freak	1972	1	1	Steve Hawkes & Brad Grinter	IMDb
The Brainiac	1962	2	2	Chano Urueta	IMDb
The Brain from Planet Arous	1957	3	3	Nathan Hertz	IMDb
The Brain That Wouldn't Die	1962	3	3	Joseph Green	IMDb
Chained for Life	1951	2	2	Harry L. Fraser	IMDb
Child Bride	1938	2	2	Harry J. Revier	IMDb
The Corpse Grinders	1971	3	2	Ted V. Mikels	IMDb
The Creeping Terror	1964	1	1	A. J. Nelson	IMDb
Criminally Insane	1975	2	2	Nick Philips	IMDb
The Crippled Masters	1979	3	3	Kei Law	IMDb
Devil Monster	1946	1	1	S. Edwin Graham	IMDb
Double Agent 73	1974	1	1	Doris Wishman	IMDb
Eegah	1962	1	1	Nicholas Meriwether	IMDb
Fist of Fear, Touch of Death	1980	1	1	Matthew Mallinson	IMDb
The Giant Gila Monster	1959	3	3	Ray Kellogg	IMDb
Hercules Against the Moon Men	1964	2	2	Giacomo Gentilomo	IMDb
The Horrors of Spider Island	1960	1	1	Jaime Nolan	IMDb
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter	1966	3	3	William Beaudine	IMDb
King Kong vs Godzilla	1962	2	2	Inishiro Honda	IMDb
Life Returns	1935	1	1	Eugen Frenke	IMDb
Maniac	1934	2	1	Dwain Esper	IMDb
Manos: The Hands of Fate	1966	1	1	Harold P. Warren	IMDb
Mesa of Lost Women	1953	2	2	Herbert Tevos & Ron Ormond	IMDb
The Monster of Camp Sunshine	1964	3	3	Ferenc Leroget	IMDb
Monstrosity	1964	2	3	Joseph Mascelli	IMDb
Plan 9 from Outer Space	1959	1	1	Edward D. Wood Jr.	IMDb
Rat Pfink a Boo Boo	1966	1	1	Ray Dennis Steckler	IMDb
Reefer Madness	1936	3	3	Louis J. Gasnier	IMDb
Robot Monster	1953	2	2	Phil Tucker	IMDb
The Robot vs The Aztec Mummy	1958	2	2	Rafael Portillo	IMDb
Santa Claus	1959	1	1	René Cardona	IMDb
Tentacles	1977	2	2	Oliver Hellman	IMDb
The Terror of Tiny Town	1938	3	3	Sam Newfield	IMDb
Test Tube Babies	1948	1	2	W. Merle Connell	IMDb
They Saved Hitler's Brain	1976	1	1	David Bradley	IMDb
Track of the Moon Beast	1976	2	3	Dick Ashe	IMDb
White Pongo	1945	3	3	Sam Newfield	IMDb
The Wild Women of Wongo	1958	2	2	James L. Wolcott	IMDb
The Wild World of Batwoman	1966	1	1	Jerry Warren	IMDb
Zaat	1975	1	1	Don Barton	IMDb
Zontar: The Thing from Venus	1966	1	1	Larry Buchanan	IMDb

Dry Heat Obscurities

Everyone knows that they've been making westerns in Arizona since time began, but we've been shooting other genre flicks here for a long time too and many of those seem to have been unjustly forgotten.

So here's my Dry Heat Obscurities project, in which I take a look back at genre features which were shot entirely or, at least, predominantly in Arizona.

I'm covering the films themselves, of course, and the people who made them (who are surprisingly often people that you've heard of), but I'm also taking a good look at the locations they used. Hopefully, when I hit a particular point in the project, I'll be able to travel around the state to get some photos of what they look like today, decades on.

I'm going to review a new dry heat obscurity every other week, starting in 2017, to alternate with my Weird Wednesdays project.

Note: my reviews of Violent Saturday and Kingdom of the Spiders predate this project, so I'll revisit them at some point.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
C. C. & Company	1970	4	4	Seymour Robbie	IMDb

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Angel Unchained	1970	5	4	Lee Madden	IMDb
Captain Newman, M.D.	1963	5	5	David Miller	IMDb
C. C. & Company	1970	4	4	Seymour Robbie	IMDb
Devil's Angels	1967	4	4	Daniel Haller	IMDb
Edge of Eternity	1959	4	5	Donald Siegel	IMDb
Kingdom of the Spiders	1977	5	5	John 'Bud' Cardos	IMDb
Shotgun Wedding	1963	3	2	Boris Petroff	IMDb
Violent Saturday	1955	5	5	Richard Fleischer	IMDb

The First Thirty

Each third issue of the Apocalypse Later Zine will be dedicated to film and most of those will be called The First Thirty. The concept here is to look at how major actors started out their careers by reviewing each of their first thirty films, in order. I'll post the reviews here but they'll be available in print in a quarterly zine, each dedicated to a single actor.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Nicolas Cage

Latest Review (19 Mar 2023)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Kiss of Death	1995	5	5	Barbet Schroeder	IMDb

Latest Review (17 Apr 2018)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Best of Times	1981	3	3	Don Mischer	IMDb
Fast Times at Ridgemont High	1982	6	5	Amy Heckerling	IMDb
Valley Girl	1983	5	5	Martha Coolidge	IMDb
Rumble Fish	1983	5	5	Francis Coppola	IMDb
Racing with the Moon	1984	5	5	Richard Benjamin	IMDb
The Cotton Club	1984	6	6	Francis Coppola	IMDb
Birdy	1984	5	5	Alan Parker	IMDb
The Boy in Blue	1986	3	4	Charles Jarrott	IMDb
Peggy Sue Got Married	1986	5	5	Francis Ford Coppola	IMDb
Raising Arizona	1987	6	6	Joel Coen	IMDb
Moonstruck	1987	6	6	Norman Jewison	IMDb
Vampire’s Kiss	1988	5	5	Robert Bierman	IMDb
Never on Tuesday	1988	4	4	Adam Rifkin	IMDb
Time to Kill	1989	5	5	Giuliano Montaldo	IMDb
Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted	1990	4	4	David Lynch	IMDb
Wild at Heart	1990	5	5	David Lynch	IMDb
Fire Birds	1990	4	4	David Green	IMDb
Zandalee	1991	2	3	Sam Pillsbury	IMDb
Honeymoon in Vegas	1992	5	5	Andrew Bergman	IMDb
Amos & Andrew	1993	4	4	E. Max Frye	IMDb
Red Rock West	1993	6	5	John Dahl	IMDb
Deadfall	1993	2	3	Christopher Coppola	IMDb
Guarding Tess	1994	5	5	Hugh Wilson	IMDb
It Could Happen to You	1994	6	6	Andrew Bergman	IMDb
Trapped in Paradise	1994	5	5	George Gallo	IMDb
Kiss of Death	1995	5	5	Barbet Schroeder	IMDb

Horror Movie Calendar

I'm a genre fan at heart and the core of that heart is the horror genre, so I've wanted to do a year long horror project for a while.

What I came up with was the Horror Movie Calendar. So many horror movies are set on holidays (Halloween is merely the most obvious) that I wondered which holidays didn't have their own horror movie. I did some research and found some fascinating titles, not necessarily all good but all fascinating, that spread across the calendar year.

Each of the reviews below was posted on the holiday on which its film was either entirely or, at least, predominantly set. I look mostly at the film, of course, but also the holiday and see how well the two tie together.

Over the year, the list is rather varied, by era and tone and culture, not all of these being American movies. I've also tried to avoid the most obvious titles, like Halloween and April Fool's Day because you know about those already.

I hope you choose to celebrate the Horror Movie Calendar with me!

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Latest Review (1 Nov 2021)
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Hanukkah	2019	2	2	Eben McGarr	IMDb

All Horror Movie Calendar Reviews
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
4/20 Massacre	2018	5	5	Dylan Reynolds	IMDb
Black Friday	1940	5	5	Arthur Lubin	IMDb
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh	1995	5	5	Bill Condon	IMDb
Christmas Evil	1980	4	4	Lewis Jackson	IMDb
Cinco de Mayo	2013	4	4	Paul Ragsdale	IMDb
Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain	2003	3	3	Christian Viel	IMDb
Father's Day	2011	4	3	Astron-6	IMDb
Hanukkah	2019	2	2	Eben McGarr	IMDb
Home Sweet Home	1981	2	2	Nettie Peña	IMDb
Hospital Massacre	1981	5	4	Boaz Davidson	IMDb
Life Blood	2009	3	3	Ron Carlson	IMDb
Maniac Cop	1988	4	4	William Lustig	IMDb
Memorial Valley Massacre	1989	5	5	Robert C. Hughes	IMDb
Mischief Night	2013	5	5	Richard Schenkman	IMDb
Mother's Day	1980	4	4	Charles Kaufman	IMDb
P2	2007	5	5	Franck Khalfoun	IMDb
Presidents Day	2016	4	4	Chris LaMartina	IMDb
Resurrection	1999	5	5	Russell Mulcahy	IMDb
Ritual of Evil	1970	4	4	Robert Day	IMDb
Slaughter High	1986	2	2	George Dugdale, Mark Ezra & Peter Litten	IMDb
Solstice	2008	5	5	Daniel Myrick	IMDb
Terror Train	1980	5	5	Roger Spottiswoode	IMDb
Trick 'r Treat	2007	6	6	Michael Dougherty	IMDb
Uncle Sam	1996	4	4	William Lustig	IMDb
The Wicker Man	1973	7	6	Robin Hardy	IMDb

The IMDb Top 250 Project

Back in 2004 I decided to finally get on with something I've meant to do for many years: to watch and review all of the films listed in the Top 250 at the Internet Movie Database, from The Godfather at the top to Judgment at Nuremberg at the bottom.

After all, I've always thought of myself as a film fan. I've watched films for as long as I can remember, a lot of films and a wide variety of them too. I knew a lot about them and the people who made them. Even as a youth I bought film magazines, albeit generally specialist ones, and scouted for VHS bargains at flea markets and video rental stores; once DVDs came out I started buying them the way some people buy food. I've also been following the invaluable resource that is IMDb ever since I could download the entire thing from a friend's university account onto fourteen floppy disks.

So I'm a film fan. Yet I could never get past the fact that I hadn't seen three out of every five of the movies on the IMDb Top 250 list, a list that contains what are supposed to be the greatest films ever made. How could that be? Well the one and only reason was unavoidable: maybe I wasn't the expert I thought I was. Maybe I merely knew a lot about a little and there was a lot more out there about which I knew nothing at all. That was certainly backed up when I did some analysis. I had huge gaps, glaring gaps that suggested that I was really more of a cinematic novice than an experienced viewer, merely one with a few areas of expertise.

Partly that's because rather than seeing the latest Oscar winner, it's always been far more likely that I'd be watching a cult movie, an obscure movie or a really bad movie. If life was really good, it would satisfy all three of those descriptions at once. I'd delved quite a way into genres with cryptic names like kaiju, giallo or anime. I had something of a background with Hammer horrors, spaghetti westerns and Hong Kong bullet ballets; fifties sci-fi B-movies, seventies exploitation flicks and all the offbeat stuff that Alex Cox chose to air on Moviedrome on BBC2. You could say that I shared a lot of my taste with industry luminaries like Jonathan Ross or Quentin Tarantino. The big difference is that they've seen the famous stuff too.

To the best of my memory, I hadn't seen a single film by Akira Kurosawa or Ingmar Bergman, Frank Capra or Preston Sturges, D W Griffith or Sidney Lumet. While I knew who they were by sight, I'd never seen Gable or Garbo in a movie, let alone Garfield or Gilbert, Gardner or Gish. Other recognisable names I'd only seen in a single film, people like Marlene Dietrich, Gary Cooper, Jack Lemmon, Bette Davis and Woody Allen. That can't be good. I even remembered back to a trip to Universal Studios in Florida where I thoroughly enjoyed an exhibit dedicated to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, without recognising most of what was on show. When I counted up what I'd seen of his work I could only get to four and one of them was an obscurity.

So in 2004 I began working through the whole IMDb Top 250, watching the films, reading up on them and reviewing them, with vague aims of publishing the results in book form as a travelogue through the history of cinema by someone who thought he was an expert but quickly found that he wasn't. However the list could only ever be a starting point, albeit a solid one, and I had to track sideways to the actors and filmmakers I discovered, learning more about them and about cinema in general through experiencing their work. That decision led to a minor blog on my main website and then to this far more substantial blog and a couple of million words. It also led to a journey I thought might take a couple of years taking no less than seven instead. Here are the results, posted five reviews a week through 2010 and with subsequent followup to address the changes since I began.

I hope your journey is as fascinating, as enjoyable and as eye opening as mine.

This Week's Five Reviews (Week 19: 19 May 2010)
#	Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
69	Modern Times	1936	6	6	Charlie Chaplin	IMDB
95	The Seventh Seal	1957	7	7	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB
109	Run Lola Run	1998	7	6	Tom Tykwer	IMDB
191	Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror	1922	6	6	F W Murnau	IMDB
214	Rain Man	1988	6	6	Barry Levinson	IMDB

Here's the static list I've worked from as I grabbed it in late 2004, with links to my reviews, IMDb pages and ratings from my better half and I. I'll post five more every Wednesday night through the year. I'll follow up in 2011 with films that charted after I grabbed this list.

Here's a link to the current IMDb Top 250 List, which is an everchanging thing.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

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The IMDb Top 250 List (late 2004)
#	Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
1	The Godfather	1972			Francis Ford Coppola	IMDb
2	The Shawshank Redemption	1994			Frank Darabont	IMDb
3	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King	2003			Peter Jackson	IMDb
4	The Godfather: Part II	1974			Francis Ford Coppola	IMDb
5	The Seven Samurai	1954	7	7	Akira Kurosawa	IMDb
6	Schindler's List	1993			Steven Spielberg	IMDb
7	Casablanca	1942	7	7	Michael Curtiz	IMDB
8	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	2002			Peter Jackson	IMDb
9	The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	2001			Peter Jackson	IMDb
10	Star Wars	1977			George Lucas	IMDb
11	Citizen Kane	1941	7	7	Orson Welles	IMDB
12	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975			Milos Forman	IMDb
13	The Empire Strikes Back	1980			Irvin Kershner	IMDb
14	Rear Window	1954	7	7	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDB
15	Dr Strangelove	1964			Stanley Kubrick	IMDb
16	Pulp Fiction	1994			Quentin Tarantino	IMDb
17	Raiders of the Lost Ark	1981			Steven Spielberg	IMDb
18	The Usual Suspects	1995	6	6	Bryan Singer	IMDB
19	Memento	2000	7	7	Christopher Nolan	IMDb
20	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly	1966			Sergio Leone	IMDb
21	12 Angry Men	1957	7	7	Sidney Lumet	IMDB
22	North By Northwest	1959	6	6	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDb
23	City of God	2002			Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund	IMDb
24	Lawrence of Arabia	1962			David Lean	IMDb
25	Psycho	1960	7	7	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDB
26	Amélie	2001	7	7	Jean-Pierre Jeunet	IMDb
27	It's a Wonderful Life	1946			Frank Capra	IMDb
28	The Silence of the Lambs	1991			Jonathan Demme	IMDb
29	Goodfellas	1990			Martin Scorsese	IMDb
30	American Beauty	1999			Sam Mendes	IMDb
31	Sunset Boulevard	1950	7	7	Billy Wilder	IMDb
32	Once Upon a Time in the West	1968	7	7	Sergio Leone	IMDB
33	Vertigo	1958	7	7	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDb
34	The Matrix	1999			Andy & Larry Wachowski	IMDb
35	To Kill a Mockingbird	1962	7	7	Robert Mulligan	IMDB
36	Apocalypse Now	1979			Francis Ford Coppola	IMDb
37	The Pianist	2002			Roman Polanski	IMDb
38	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	2004			Michel Gondry	IMDb
39	The Third Man	1949	7	7	Carol Reed	IMDB
40	Paths of Glory	1957	7	7	Stanley Kubrick	IMDB
41	Fight Club	1999			David Fincher	IMDb
42	Taxi Driver	1976	6	6	Martin Scorsese	IMDb
43	Spirited Away	2001			Hayao Miyazaki	IMDb
44	Some Like It Hot	1959	7	7	Billy Wilder	IMDB
45	Double Indemnity	1944	7	7	Billy Wilder	IMDB
46	Das Boot	1981	7	7	Wolfgang Petersen	IMDB
47	Singin' in the Rain	1952	7	7	Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen	IMDB
48	Chinatown	1974	7	6	Roman Polanski	IMDb
49	LA Confidential	1997	7	7	Curtis Hanson	IMDB
50	M	1931	7	7	Fritz Lang	IMDB
51	Requiem for a Dream	2000	7	7	Darren Aronofsky	IMDB
52	The Bridge on the River Kwai	1957			David Lean	IMDb
53	The Maltese Falcon	1941	7	7	John Huston	IMDB
54	All About Eve	1950			Joseph L Mankiewicz	IMDb
55	Se7en	1995			David Fincher	IMDb
56	Monty Python and the Holy Grail	1975			Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones	IMDb
57	Rashomon	1950			Akira Kurosawa	IMDb
58	Saving Private Ryan	1998			Steven Spielberg	IMDb
59	Raging Bull	1980			Martin Scorsese	IMDb
60	Alien	1979			Ridley Scott	IMDb
61	American History X	1998			Tony Kaye	IMDb
62	The Wizard of Oz	1939	7	7	Victor Fleming	IMDB
63	Kill Bill: Vol 1	2003			Quentin Tarantino	IMDb
64	Léon	1994			Luc Besson	IMDb
65	The Manchurian Candidate	1962			John Frankenheimer	IMDb
66	Mr Smith Goes to Washington	1939			Frank Capra	IMDb
67	The Sting	1973	7	7	George Roy Hill	IMDB
68	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre	1948	7	7	John Huston	IMDB
69	Modern Times	1936	6	6	Charlie Chaplin	IMDB
70	Touch of Evil	1958	7	6	Orson Welles	IMDB
71	Reservoir Dogs	1992	7	7	Quentin Tarantino	IMDB
72	Life is Beautiful	1997			Roberto Benigni	IMDb
73	2001: A Space Odyssey	1968			Stanley Kubrick	IMDb
74	A Clockwork Orange	1971	7	7	Stanley Kubrick	IMDB
75	Finding Nemo	2003			Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich	IMDb
76	Ran	1985			Akira Kurosawa	IMDb
77	The Great Escape	1963			John Sturges	IMDb
78	On the Waterfront	1954			Elia Kazan	IMDb
79	Amadeus	1984			Milos Forman	IMDb
80	Annie Hall	1977	7	6	Woody Allen	IMDB
81	The Apartment	1960	7	6	Billy Wilder	IMDB
82	Jaws	1975	7	7	Steven Spielberg	IMDB
83	Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon	2000			Ang Lee	IMDb
84	High Noon	1952	7	7	Fred Zinnemann	IMDB
85	Braveheart	1995			Mel Gibson	IMDb
86	Metropolis	1927			Fritz Lang	IMDb
87	Aliens	1986			James Cameron	IMDb
88	Fargo	1996	7	7	Joel Coen	IMDB
89	The Shining	1980			Stanley Kubrick	IMDb
90	Strangers on a Train	1951	7	7	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDB
91	City Lights	1931	7	7	Charles Chaplin	IMDB
92	Donnie Darko	2001	6	6	Richard Kelly	IMDb
93	The General	1927			Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman	IMDb
94	Blade Runner	1982	7	7	Ridley Scott	IMDB
95	The Seventh Seal	1957	7	7	Ingmar Bergman	IMDB
96	The Sixth Sense	1999			M Night Shayamalan	IMDb
97	The Great Dictator	1940	7	7	Charles Chaplin	IMDB
98	Duck Soup	1933	6	5	Leo McCarey	IMDB
99	Cinema Paradiso	1988			Giuseppe Tornatore	IMDb
100	Princess Mononoke	1997			Hayao Miyazaki	IMDb
101	The Princess Bride	1987	6	7	Rob Reiner	IMDb
102	Full Metal Jacket	1987			Stanley Kubrick	IMDb
103	Notorious	1946	7	7	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDb
104	The Bicycle Thief	1948			Vittorio De Sica	IMDb
105	Rebecca	1940	7	7	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDB
106	The Best Years of Our Lives	1946	7	7	William Wyler	IMDB
107	Yojimbo	1961	7	7	Akira Kurosawa	IMDB
108	The Big Sleep	1945	7	7	Howard Hawks	IMDB
109	Run Lola Run	1998	7	6	Tom Tykwer	IMDB
110	Terminator 2: Judgment Day	1991			James Cameron	IMDb
111	Toy Story 2	1999			Ash Brannon, John Lasseter & Lee Unkrich	IMDb
112	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	1969			George Roy Hill	IMDb
113	It Happened One Night	1934	7	7	Frank Capra	IMDB
114	Patton	1970			Franklin J Schaffner	IMDb
115	Forrest Gump	1994			Robert Zemeckis	IMDb
116	The Graduate	1967			Mike Nichols	IMDb
117	The Deer Hunter	1978			Michael Cimino	IMDb
118	Kill Bill: Vol 2	2004			Quentin Tarantino	IMDb
119	Glory	1989			Ed Zwick	IMDb
120	Manhattan	1979			Woody Allen	IMDb
121	Cool Hand Luke	1967			Stuart Rosenberg	IMDb
122	Dogville	2003			Lars Von Trier	IMDb
123	The Philadelphia Story	1940	7	7	George Cukor	IMDB
124	Once Upon a Time in America	1984			Sergio Leone	IMDb
125	Mystic River	2003			Clint Eastwood	IMDb
126	The African Queen	1951			John Huston	IMDb
127	Unforgiven	1992			Clint Eastwood	IMDb
128	The Searchers	1956			John Ford	IMDb
129	Ben-Hur	1959			William Wyler	IMDb
130	The Elephant Man	1980			David Lynch	IMDb
131	Return of the Jedi	1983			Richard Marquand	IMDb
132	The Green Mile	1999			Frank Darabont	IMDb
133	Bringing Up Baby	1938	7	7	Howard Hawks	IMDB
134	Stalag 17	1953	7	7	Billy Wilder	IMDB
135	Talk to Her	2002			Pedro Almodovar	IMDb
136	The Grapes of Wrath	1940			John Ford	IMDb
137	Shrek	2001			Aron Warner	IMDb
138	Smultronstallet	1957			Ingmar Bergman	IMDb
139	Life's a Bitch	2000			Alejandro González Iñárritu	IMDb
140	Lost in Translation	2003			Sofia Coppola	IMDb
141	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	1989			Steven Spielberg	IMDb
142	The Night of the Hunter	1955	7	7	Charles Laughton	IMDB
143	Back to the Future	1985			Robert Zemeckis	IMDb
144	Arsenic and Old Lace	1944	7	7	Frank Capra	IMDb
145	The Straight Story	1999	7	7	David Lynch	IMDB
146	A Christmas Story	1983	6	6	Bob Clark	IMDB
147	Platoon	1986			Oliver Stone	IMDb
148	Gone With the Wind	1939	6	6	Victor Fleming	IMDb
149	The Wild Bunch	1969			Sam Peckinpah	IMDb
150	The Hustler	1961	7	7	Robert Rossen	IMDB
151	The Gold Rush	1925			Charles Chaplin	IMDb
152	All Quiet on the Western Front	1930	6	6	Lewis Milestone	IMDB
153	Young Frankenstein	1974			Mel Brooks	IMDb
154	The Adventures of Robin Hood	1938	7	7	Michael Curtiz & William Keighley	IMDB
155	His Girl Friday	1940			Howard Hawks	IMDb
156	Die Hard	1988			John McTiernan	IMDb
157	Battleship Potemkin	1925			Sergei Eisenstein	IMDb
158	Hero	2002	7	7	Zhang Yimou	IMDB
159	Life of Brian	1979			Terry Jones	IMDb
160	The 400 Blows	1959			Francois Truffaut	IMDb
161	Monsters, Inc	2001			Peter Docter, David Silverman & Lee Unkrich	IMDb
162	The Grand Illusion	1937			Jean Renoir	IMDb
163	Spartacus	1960			Stanley Kubrick	IMDb
164	Witness for the Prosecution	1957			Billy Wilder	IMDb
165	The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	1962	7	7	John Ford	IMDB
166	Charade	1963			Stanley Donen	IMDb
167	The Celebration	1998			Thomas Vinterberg	IMDb
168	Gladiator	2000			Ridley Scott	IMDb
169	Roman Holiday	1953	6	6	William Wyler	IMDB
170	Sling Blade	1996			Billy Bob Thornton	IMDb
171	Grave of the Fireflies	1988			Isao Takahata	IMDb
172	Magnolia	1999			Paul Thomas Anderson	IMDb
173	The Day the Earth Stood Still	1951	7	7	Robert Wise	IMDB
174	The Conversation	1974			Francis Ford Coppola	IMDb
175	Ed Wood	1994			Tim Burton	IMDb
176	A Streetcar Named Desire	1951			Elia Kazan	IMDb
177	Toy Story	1995			John Lasseter	IMDb
178	The Killing	1956	7	7	Stanley Kubrick	IMDB
179	To Be or Not to Be	1942			Ernst Lubitsch	IMDb
180	Almost Famous	2000			Cameron Crowe	IMDb
181	A Night at the Opera	1935	6	6	Sam Wood	IMDB
182	All the President's Men	1976			Alan J Pakula	IMDb
183	Brazil	1985	7	7	Terry Gilliam	IMDB
184	Three Colours: Red	1994			Krystof Krystofski	IMDb
185	The Insider	1999			Michael Mann	IMDb
186	Big Fish	2003	7	7	Tim Burton	IMDB
187	21 Grams	2003			Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu	IMDb
188	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl	2003	7	7	Gore Verbinski	IMDB
189	Shadow of a Doubt	1943	6	6	Alfred Hitchcock	IMDB
190	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	1966			Mike Nichols	IMDb
191	Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror	1922	6	6	F W Murnau	IMDB
192	Gandhi	1982			Richard Attenborough	IMDb
193	Ikiru	1952			Akira Kurosawa	IMDb
194	Harvey	1950	7	7	Henry Koster	IMDb
195	Being John Malkovich	1999			Spike Jonze	IMDb
196	Stand By Me	1986	6	7	Rob Reiner	IMDB
197	The Exorcist	1973			William Friedkin	IMDb
198	Dog Day Afternoon	1975			Sidney Lumet	IMDb
199	Twelve Monkeys	1995			Terry Gilliam	IMDb
200	Mulholland Dr	2001			David Lynch	IMDb
201	In America	2002			Jim Sheridan	IMDb
202	The Terminator	1984			James Cameron	IMDb
203	Trainspotting	1996	7	6	Danny Boyle	IMDB
204	Groundhog Day	1993			Harold Ramis	IMDb
205	The Passion of Joan of Arc	1928	7	7	Carl Theodor Dreyer	IMDb
206	The Lion in Winter	1968			Anthony Harvey	IMDb
207	Miller's Crossing	1990	4	5	Joel Coen	IMDB
208	This is Spinal Tap	1984	7	7	Rob Reiner	IMDB
209	La Strada	1954	7	7	Federico Fellini	IMDB
210	Laura	1944			Otto Preminger	IMDb
211	The Right Stuff	1983			Philip Kaufman	IMDb
212	8½	1963			Federico Fellini	IMDb
213	King Kong	1933	7	7	Merion C Cooper & Ernest B Schoedsack	IMDB
214	Rain Man	1988	6	6	Barry Levinson	IMDB
215	Whale Rider	2002			Niki Caro	IMDb
216	Adaptation	2002			Spike Jonze	IMDb
217	Network	1976	7	7	Sidney Lumet	IMDB
218	Bonnie and Clyde	1967	5	6	Arthur Penn	IMDB
219	Midnight Cowboy	1969	6	6	John Schlesinger	IMDB
220	The 39 Steps	1935			Alfred Hitchcock	IMDb
221	Snatch	2000			Guy Ritchie	IMDb
222	The Big Lebowski	1998			Joel Coen	IMDb
223	Stagecoach	1939			John Ford	IMDb
224	Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels	1998	7	7	Guy Ritchie	IMDB
225	Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans	1927			F W Murnau	IMDb
226	X2	2003			Bryan Singer	IMDb
227	The Thin Man	1934	7	7	W S Van Dyke	IMDB
228	Rio Bravo	1959			Howard Hawks	IMDb
229	In the Heat of the Night	1967	7	7	Norman Jewison	IMDB
230	The Untouchables	1987			Brian De Palma	IMDb
231	Bride of Frankenstein	1935	7	7	James Whale	IMDB
232	The Others	2001			Alejandro Amenabar	IMDb
233	The Killer	1989			John Woo	IMDb
234	Planet of the Apes	1968			Franklin J Schaffner	IMDb
235	Persona	1966			Ingmar Bergman	IMDb
236	Fanny and Alexander	1982			Ingmar La Cava	IMDb
237	Sullivan's Travels	1941	7	6	Preston Sturges	IMDB
238	Kind Hearts and Coronets	1949	7	7	Robert Hamer	IMDB
239	The Station Agent	2003			Thomas McCarthy	IMDb
240	Red River	1948	7	7	Howard Hawks	IMDB
241	Being There	1979			Hal Ashby	IMDb
242	Children of Paradise	1945			Marcel Carne	IMDb
243	Beauty and the Beast	1991			Kirk Wise & Gary Trousdale	IMDb
244	Spider-Man 2	2004	7	7	Sam Raimi	IMDB
245	Heat	1995			Michael Mann	IMDb
246	Traffic	2000			Steven Soderbergh	IMDb
247	Minority Report	2002			Steven Spielberg	IMDb
248	Good Will Hunting	1997			Gus Van Sant	IMDb
249	Sleuth	1972			Joseph L Mankiewicz	IMDb
250	Judgment at Nuremberg	1961			Stanley Kramer	IMDb