 |
 |
|
|
|
 289
John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)
Director: John Carpenter Perhaps it was Carpenter’s fusion of sci-fi and horror, or Rob Bottin’s body-shock FX, or spiky Kurt Russell, or the prediction of the AIDS epidemic in the alien virus plotline, but this remake gets in your head and never budges. Read Review › |
 |
 288
Cover Movie View Cover ›
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Director: Robert Zemeckis A technical marvel, but we just love it for putting Daffy and Donald in the same scene... Read Review › Pick up the issue for our feature on how Who Framed Roger Rabbit was created from the people who created it
|
|
 287
Secrets And Lies (1996)
Director: Mike Leigh Leigh’s adoption drama is full of native wit (“You’ve got a face like a slapped arse”), great performances (especially Brenda Blethyn), and a touching sense of the ebb and flow of real life. Read Review › |
|
 286
L’Avventura (1960)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni The ultimate arthouse flick. A couple go in search of a missing girl, but the mystery becomes an excuse to explore alienation, cracking psyches and barren landscapes in slow, striking images. Masterful. |
|
 285
Solaris (1972)
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Like Event Horizon, Solaris sees a space station crew go doolally with hallucinations. Unlike Event Horizon, it is painfully slow, beautiful, and perhaps the closet sci-fi cinema has come to the profundity of sci-fi literature. Read Review › |
|
||||||||
 284
Cover Movie View Cover ›
Scarface (1983) Director: Brian De Palma De Palma’s hymn to gangster excess (violence, swearing, white suits) is taken to even further heights by Pacino on barnstorming form. It is also the de rigueur favourite film of any premiership footballer. Read Review › |
|
 283
Ran (1985)
Director: Akira Kurosawa AK does The Bard’s King Lear (with sons rather than daughters) with some of the director’s greatest battle sequences, but also delivers a telling meditation on loyalty, revenge, power and war. Read Review › |
|
 282
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola The much-derided Corleone threequel finds its way onto the list, perhaps through residual love for the first two. Still, it’s a lot better than you remember it. Especially Andy Garcia. Read Review › |
|
 281
Interview With The Vampire (1994)
Director: Neil Jordan Anne Rice’s vampire chronicles get the A-list treatment, with Tom and Brad as bickering bloodsuckers. Sexy, gory, voluptuous and strangely hypnotic. Best thing in it: a very young Kirsten Dunst. Read Review › |
|
 280
Cover Movie View Cover ›
Mad Max 2 (1982) Director: George Miller The Road Warrior (the much cooler US title) makes the first movie look like CBeebies, boasting truly white-knuckle carmageddon. And forget about Riggs — Rockatansky is Gibbo’s finest creation. Read Review › |
|
Have Your Say › No matter how hard you try, you can't please everyone. To tell us which films we missed, visit the forum. Visit the Forum › |
|
The 100 Covers › Yes, you heard it right: the new Empire has 100 separate covers. Click to see the all the covers and pick the one you want. View 100 Covers › |
|
The 500 Quiz › To keep the brain in gear, here's a quiz with one question per film - see how you many can do in a row. Play the quiz › |
|
Subscribe Now › To make sure you don't miss a single issue of the world's greatest film magazine, why not subscribe? Subscribe today › |
Advertisement
|
|
Bauer Consumer Media. Company number 1176085 (England). Registered Office: 21 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2DY