Sunday Top Ten: Awesome movie deaths

I almost found it a little disturbing how much fun I had putting together this particular list, but if there's any time and place where one can take morbid delight in overly elaborate and exotic deaths, it's the movies! I had lots of bizarre bucket-kickings to choose from, more than this list could include, but if I had to choose only ten that would make me say, “Now that's the way to go!”, these would be them:

(Needless to day, here be a few spoilers.)

Sunday Top Ten: John Williams scores

I've always been a sucker for the music John Williams. There's something about his melodies and orchestrations that just stick with me. I'm not alone, apparently. He was an Academy favourite for decades, amassing 45 nominations in 38 years. Granted, he hasn't been nominated since 2006, a long layoff by his standards, but he could be back with one or two Best Original Score nominations this year courtesy of Spielberg's Tin Tin and War Horse.

After hearing Michael Giacchino's apt impersonation of the composer in Super 8 two weeks ago, I felt compelled to revisit the his works and dedicate this week's top ten list to his finest film scores.