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The Essential Five | John Carpenter

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  • Day 72: Favorite Crime Drama Movie

    HEAT (1995) Widely considered the apex of Michael Mann’s filmmaking résumé, Heat is a slow-burning crime drama, peppered with fantastic action sequences, including one of the best bank heist scenes ever put on film. It also successfully combined the enormous talents… Continue reading

  • Day 71: Favorite Western Movie

    TOMBSTONE (1993) A few years back I put together a list of my favorite westerns. I even put them in order from 10 to 1. Since the creation of that list — while I believe none of them have been… Continue reading

  • Day 70: Favorite War Movie

    FULL METAL JACKET (1987) There was no denying that I had to pick at least one Stanley Kubrick film for this 90 day journey that started over two years go. And while it took a while before one of his… Continue reading

  • Day 69: Favorite Road Trip Movie

    LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006) There were sentimental favorites (Tommy Boy, Rain Man), classic favorites (Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Smokey & the Bandit), even radical favorites (Thelma & Louise). And then there was Little Miss Sunshine. A horribly dysfunctional family puts their… Continue reading

  • Day 68: Favorite Film Noir Movie

    THE MALTESE FALCON (1941) I seriously bounced back and forth between Touch of Evil and Sunset Blvd. Who can resist Charlton Heston playing a Mexican diplomat with Orson Welles behind the camera? Or Gloria Swanson playing the neurotic Norma Desmond with Billy Wilder… Continue reading

  • Day 67: Favorite Time Travel Movie

    FREQUENCY (2000) While time traveling never takes place in this movie, there is quite the involvement of timeline altering. It’s been a favorite of mine for many years now and it’s the only logical representation of how I believe your… Continue reading

  • Day 66: Favorite Sports Movie

    THE NATURAL (1984) This was also a difficult choice to make. Field of Dreams and The Natural are almost always in a dead heat for favorite sports movie. The sport was always the easy answer for me: Baseball. That was… Continue reading

  • Day 65: Favorite Holiday-Themed Movie

    LOVE ACTUALLY (2003) This entry was much more difficult that I had first imagined when I was putting this list together a couple of weeks ago. I figured that it’d be a lot easier to choose a favorite holiday-themed movie… Continue reading

  • Day 64: Favorite Actor/Actress Crush from the 1980s

    KIM CATTRALL in Mannequin It was hard pressed for me to find another actress and another film that affected me quite the way Kim Cattrall did in Mannequin. While other men near my age would pick Linda (Pheobe Cates) in… Continue reading

  • Day 63: Favorite Actor/Actress Crush from the 1970s

    ALI MacGRAW in The Getaway Even though she spoke one of the worst pieces of dialog ever said about love, all was forgiven when Ali MacGraw appeared with Steve McQueen two years later in The Getaway. I’ll be honest, her… Continue reading