Cory Maidens’ Top Ten Movies

December 25th, 2009 Idolatry Cory Maidens

Here at The Red Circle, we are hoping you have a safe and enjoyable holiday. To celebrate on our part, we’re posting some of our contributor’s favorite films of all time. These aren’t the ones that we deem to be the best, or most important. Rather, its the movies we can watch on repeat – the movies that make us us

1. Die Hard – There isn’t a wasted second in this remarkably intelligent deconstruction of the Western mythos for the twentieth century.

2. The Princess Bride – Rob Reiner’s brilliantly cast fantasy/rom-com is universally appealing, cleverly hilarious and ultimately quite profound.

3. Goodfellas – Tautly directed and well-adapted, Goodfellas is easily the greatest true crime story ever translated to film.

4. Star Wars – Empire Strikes Back might be the better film in the trilogy, but Star Wars’ self-contained story arc lends itself to repeat viewings.

5. Rushmore – Wes Anderson’s Rushmore is the perfect storm of sharp writing, visionary direction, superb acting and handjob jokes.

6. Chung King Express – Wong Kar Wai imbues every frame of this light-hearted romance with the intoxicating influence of love.

7. Pulp Fiction – Quentin Tarantino’s love letter to film, violence and pop culture is hilarious and compelling time and time again.

8. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark - Long before their shameless cashgrab tarnished their legacies, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg collaborated on an amazing adventure story with a great sense of humor.

9. The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan didn’t just make the greatest comic book movie of all time; He reminded the world why Batman has endured for sixty years.

10. Anchorman – Anchorman is an endlessly quotable feel-good comedy that showcases some of this era’s finest comic talent at their peak.

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Cory Maidens

Cory Maidens is a proud son of the American Midwest, a man of letters and an incorrigible bastard. Since acquiring his BA in English Literature, he has proudly avoided non-comic books as an apathetic eye-roll at intellectual elitism. He thinks that arguing is highly underrated as sport and engages in it more often than might be advisable to compensate for that perceived deficiency. He believes in gay marriage, The Daily Show and Bruce Springsteen. He enjoys hearing Southern voices read Civil War-era correspondence aloud.

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