Top 5 Marvel Movies
It is a mere 10 days until Marvel Madness (a disease known to cause fits of hysteria, cosplay, and long lines for midnight showings) to grip America and theaters around the world. Two Marvel movies made a combined $593 million…
Fizz’s Top 5 Most Quotable Movies
I have to start this out with some honesty. This list won’t be everyone’s list. I tried to do a true “Top 5 Most Quotable,” but found that I could not find any agreement between various websites, friends, or, even…
Top 5 Movies Featuring Artificial Intelligence
Opening this week in wide release is the new Sci-Fi movie Ex Machina starring Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, and Alicia Vikander as the sentient A.I. female, Ava. This is the directorial debut of Alex Garland, the writer of 28 Days Later… and one…
Top 5 Highest Grossing Movies Opening on Easter Weekend
Having put Palm Sunday in the rearview mirror, we are now planted firmly in Holy Week, honestly, one of the best weeks of the year. The week leading up to Easter is a chance to reflect on the story of…
Top 5 Will Ferrell Movies
Sure to be one of the most opinionated of all the Top 5’s we have ever done, we’re looking at the filmography of Will Ferrell in anticipation of his new movie with Kevin Hart, Get Hard. Ferrell has been one of…
Top 5 YA Novel Adaptations
While everyone is sure to still be out in force this week to see Cinderella, the first of a batch of YA Novel adaptations (unless you count Jupiter Ascending as a YA movie) comes out this week Friday with the second part of the…
Top 5 Cartoon to Live-Action Movies
Sure to be the first big money maker in 2015, Disney’s live-action adaptation of Cinderella hits theaters later this week. Following in the footsteps of Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland, and many of Disney’s older live-action movies, Cinderella is taking one of their…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Friendly Yet Deadly Movie Robots
I’ve been really looking forward to Chappie, the new movie from Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium, new Aliens movie) that comes out in theaters this Friday. Starring the vocal and motion capture work of Sharlto Copley (District 9, Maleficent, Elysium), Hugh Jackman (Wolverine),…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Oscar Winners
You’re not going to find any griping here. Neil Patrick Harris reminded us during the opening song of the 87th Academy Awards that, “movies may not show real life, but they’ll show you what life really means.” Apart from the opinions,…
Top 5 Tuesday – Top 5 Actor Performances
Our four-week Top 5 of the best performances of 2014 winds down with the hardest of the categories. Naturally, many of the actors we highlight in our Top 5 have movies that are up for awards at the Oscars this…