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Pan's Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno)

PAN'S LABYRINTH (El Laberinto del Fauno) is a movie from director Guillermo Del Toro, best known to American film audiences for HELLBOY and BLADE II.  This incredible story is set in 1944 and is about a young girl who uses her imagination and fa...

Bond... James Bond

Since 1962 the James Bond movies based on the fictional British spy created by Ian Fleming have drawn fans around the world. It's estimated that one out of every five people on the planet have seen at least one James Bond movie in their lifetime.

Red-Band Movie Trailers

THE FOLLOWING PREVIEW HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR RESTRICTED AUDIENCES ONLY BY THE MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC.   "Red-band" trailers are movie trailers that have been given an R-rating, versus the usual "green-band" tr...

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas

You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch. The Grinch is a storybook villain who learns the true meaning of Christmas, created by famed illustrator Dr. Seuss.  First introduced in the book How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, the Grinch first came to life in a...

actors

Johnny Depp

Johnny Depp is one of the most popular movie actors in the world.  Depp has gone from teen idol to strange supporting characters to commanding quirky leading roles in the movies NEVERLAND, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS, and the PIRATES OF THE C...

Orlando Bloom

Orlando Bloom was picked to portray the elf Legolas in the LORD OF THE RINGS movie trilogy right out of drama school.  For the first two or three years of his career, most of his fans didn't realize he wasn't blond-haired and blue-eyed. He recent...

Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford was a struggling actor who had turned to carpentry to feed his family when he got the chance to audition for the role of Bob Falfa in the George Lucas movie AMERICAN GRAFFITI.  After that he worked with Lucas on STAR WARS and a mov...

Christopher Walken

He sings and dances, has won an Oscar and is the only guest host on Saturday Night Live to have his own recurring character.  Christopher Walken has a style and vocal delivery that have not only made him distinctive in the world of acting, but o...

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Movie Lists

Orthia's Horrific Top Ten

The criteria used for ranking these top 10 horror movies were entirely personal.  I like a good dose of humor and a strong original story with my creepiness. For horror devotees, there's a quote listed with each entry.  Can you guess who sa...

The 100 Best Movie Lenses

These are the 100 Best Movie Lenses on Squidoo, as picked by Rae for the People's Picks. There are lenses on films, movie directors, actors/actresses, genres, classics and much more.  I regularly review hundreds of movies lenses to bring you 100...

Orthia's Apocalyptic Top Ten

Here are my favorite top 10 apocalyptic movies.   Some are funny, some are serious.  Life after "the big disaster" is a theme that gets revisited regularly in the movies.  War, natural disaster, biological accidents, alien in...

Orthia's Blood-Sucking Top Ten

Here are my personal favorites, my top ten best vampire movies.   Some are modern, some are older as far as films go.  Sometimes I like sophisticated and sometimes I like a bit of splatter.  You know... you want something you can reall...

directors

Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam is a film director who first came to public attention with the British comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, where he first became known for his cut-out animations.  With the expansion of the Pythons into feature films, he be...

John Waters

Starting with his breakthough film PINK FLAMINGOS in 1973, John Waters has made movies that salute bad taste, explore his personal obsessions and exude an undeniable playfulness that keep audiences coming back for more.

David Lynch

David Lynch is an American flimmaker known for his juxtapositions of the ordinary and the fantastical.  He frequently makes movies where reality merges into dream states or the stories unfold in non-linear fashion.

Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway got his art training in the medium of painting, but he is best known to the world as the director of films such as THE PILLOW BOOK, DROWNING BY NUMBERS and THE COOK THE THIEF HIS WIFE & HER LOVER. Keep an eye out for his latest rel...

tv on dvd

The Ren & Stimpy Show

REN & STIMPY are a cartoon dog-and-cat pair of best friends, created by Canadian animator John Kricfalusi.  They first appeared in animated shorts, then there was The Ren & Stimpy Show (a kids TV series on Nickelodeon), then they were ca...

UFO - the tv series

U.F.O. was a British TV series, produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.  It was filmed in 1969-70 and primarily aired in the UK in 1970-71.  Twenty-six episodes were produced.  The show documented the adventures of SHADO, the organizati...

The X-Files: The Truth Is Out There

THE X-FILES ran from 1993-2002 and was a present-day show that followed FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully as they investigated paranormal cases and attempted to uncover a vast government conspiracy to hide definitive evidence of extraterrestrial...

MillenniuM

MILLENNIUM was the second tv show created by writer-producer Chris Carter, best-known as the creator of the X-Files.   The show followed former FBI profiler Frank Black and his experiences with the Millennium Group, a secret organization working...