The top 10 movie moments of all time

By Simon Miraudo March 8, 2013 For the 100th episode of The (Pod) Casting Couch, I was asked to compile my ten favourite movie moments of all time. As someone who has devoted a lifetime to the pictures, that’s quite an ask. However, as an obsessive, list-making loser, it was also a dream come true. […]

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The top 10 film scores

The top 10 film scores. By Simon Miraudo. Beasts of the Southern Wild features one of the year’s best  – and, this is important, most hummable – musical scores, co-composed by director Benh Zeitlin and Dan Romer. Aural accompaniment can greatly enhance one’s experience of watching a film (or perhaps distract to its detriment), and […]

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Vertigo tops Citizen Kane on Sight and Sound’s ‘Greatest Films of All Time’ poll

Vertigo has been named the ‘GREATEST FILM OF ALL TIME’ (we figure the caps are necessary in this instance) on the latest Sight and Sound poll, ending Citizen Kane‘s 50-year rule. The British Film Institute collects the votes from more than 800 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors every decade to provide the most authoritative listing […]

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The top 10 doomed romances

The top 10 doomed romances. By Simon Miraudo. The doomed romance: it’s a tale as old as time itself. Boy loves girl; girl loves boy; boy has his organs harvested; girl turns boy in to the police for his killing spree; boy dies mid-coitus; girl fakes own suicide, sending boy mad with grief, only to […]

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