Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has been a Christmas classic for decades. Everyone knows the story by heart, but still, we always want to see the latest version when it comes to the movie theater or television. Since it’s such a beloved tale, here are the top 10 reasons why “A Christmas Carol” is one of the greatest parts of the Christmas season. 1. The many Scrooges: Each version of “A Christmas Carol” has a a great actor to headline the film as Ebenezer Scrooge. Patrick Stewart, Bill Murray (“Scrooged”), James Earl Jones (“Bah, Humbug”), Lionel Barrymore, Basil Rathbone, and more. Even women have played Scrooge in different tellings of…

One of my favorite things about being a film blogger is looking back on the past year and formulating a “best of” list. This has been a good year in movies and I think it’s better than what most will have you believe. Sure there were some horrible movies, that’s every year, but in spite of that there have been some amazing movies released by amazing filmmakers. 2011 brought us a strong spring season with release of “Jane Eyre,” “Hanna” and “Paul,” a strong box office with “Battle: Los Angeles” and spectacular failure in “Sucker Punch.” The summer season has been kind with the release of two movies from Marvel…

It’s that time of year again; time to look back on the year passed and recognize the best of the best. It seems every year we complain the crop of movies isn’t up to par, but then the time to compile a list of the best of the year arrives and it’s increasingly difficult. This year gave me a particularly tough time thanks to my latest endeavor: film school. Over the summer, I decided to take my passion for film one step further and enroll in Columbia University’s Film MFA program. It didn’t take long for the education to collide with my work. As I learned more about the filmmaking…

Halloween was fun, there’s nothing like a good scary movie, but my favorite time of the year for movies is Christmas. There’s nothing like sitting in front of the TV with a hot cup of cocoa, wrapped in blankets and your favorite Christmas movie in the player. Here’s my top 10 Christmas movies list that don’t suck. Some of the favorites include Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, Bad Santa, Gremlins and the timeless classics A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Story and Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer. 1. Nightmare Before Christmas Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One…

Since ancient Rome, the circus dazzled audiences with trained animals, jugglers and acrobats. More modern circus’s feature acrobats, clowns, fire eaters, trapeze acts and unicyclists. Here’s our list of top 10 circus and sideshow films including “The Elephant Man” from director David Lynch, “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, and the Tod Browning classics “Freaks”, “The Unholy Three” and “The Unknown” starring Lon Chaney. Also a few popular upcoming releases such as “Water for Elephants” starring Robert Pattinson (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1) and “Carnies” starring Doug Jones (Hellboy, Frankenstein), Chris Staviski and Reggie Bannister. 1. Freaks, starring Wallace Ford Directed by Tod Browning Synopsis: A circus’ beautiful…

Film fanatics everywhere are anxiously awaiting “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” or “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” later this year. But what about the lesser-known genre? Yes, I am talking about Period films. “Jonah Hex”, “Water for Elephants”, ‘True Grit” or the independent film “Carnies”. This is our list of our most anticipated Period films coming soon to theaters and DVD. 10. The Hobbit Ok, The Hobbit is not coming out this year, but originally it was scheduled for part 1 to come out this coming December. Financial problems with MGM and the departure of Director Guillermo Del Toro has pushed this film back to, well no one…

While other film sites tend to put together top 10 movie review lists, we find it much more interesting to put together a top 10 list of most buzzed about films of 2009 based on our user popularity and comments. This list contains both old, new and upcoming films. #10 – The Last Airbender, by director M. Night Shyamalan #9 – Avatar, by director James Cameron #8 – Tekken, by director Dwight H. Little #7 – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by director David Yates #6 – Twilight, by director Catherine Hardwicke #5 – Alice in Wonderland, by director Tim Burton #4 – Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, by…

Watch the top 10 viral videos of 2009 courtesy of Youtube.com. The entries include MysteryGuitarMan – Guitar Impossible, Bizkit The Sleepwalking Dog, Fred: One Million Subscribers, The Mighty Boxxy Meme, The Guild’s Alluring Avatar, The Serious Side of Shane, United Breaks Guitars, Wii Fail is a Big Win, Miley’s Twitter Moment and Keyboard Cat Remembered. Which one is your favorite?

Entertainment Weekly just posted Stephen King’s picks for best movies of 2008. Here ya go! #1 The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale (Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins), Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain) and Michael Caine. #2 Slumdog Millionaire, starring Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor and Saurabh Shukla. #3 WALL-E, starring Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Fred Willard and Sigourney Weaver. #4 Tropic Thunder, starring Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise, Tobey Maguire and Ben Stiller. #5 Funny Games, starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth. #6 The Bank Job, starring Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows. #7 Lakeview Terrace, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Regine Nehy, Jay…

For you gorehounds looking for a scare this holiday season, here are a few horror flicks that are coming to DVD just in time for you to slash off the paper: December 9th – Resident Evil 1-3 Synopses: A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident. – Slither [Blu-ray] Synposis: A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters. December 16th – Silent Night, Gory Night [Christmas Season Massacre, Satan Claus, Psycho Santa] – A Nightmare on Elm Street [Blu-ray] Synopsis: In the dreams…