All this festive atmosphere that goes around at the time for Christmas always makes me pull out my favorite childhood movies. Which is why I was happy to see Rotten Tomatoes had come up with a list of the top 50 Disney movies of all time based on the number of reviews and release year of the movies. They also excluded movies that came from Disney affiliate companies such as Pixar.
10. Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Critics Consensus: This Disney dreamscape contains moments of grandeur, with its lush colors, magical air, one of the most menacing villains in the Disney canon.
09. Cinderella (1950)
Critics Consensus: The rich colors, sweet songs, adorable mice and endearing (if suffering) heroine make Cinderella a nostalgically lovely charmer.
08. Aladdin (1992)
Critics Consensus: A highly entertaining entry in Disney’s “second golden age,” Aladdin is beautifully drawn, with near-classic songs and a cast of scene-stealing characters.
07. The Lion King (1994)
Critics Consensus: Emotionally stirring, richly drawn, and beautifully animated, The Lion King stands tall within Disney’s pantheon of classic family films.
06. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Critics Consensus: Enchanting, sweepingly romantic, and featuring plenty of wonderful musical numbers, Beauty and the Beast is one of Disney’s most elegant animated offerings.
05. Dumbo (1941)
Critics Consensus: Dumbo packs plenty of story into its brief runtime, along with all the warm animation and wonderful music you’d expect from a Disney classic.
04. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
Critics Consensus: With plenty of pooches and a memorable villain (Cruella De Vil), this is one of Disney’s most enduring, entertaining animated films.
03. Fantasia (1940)
Critics Consensus: A landmark in animation (and a huge influence on the medium of music video), Disney’s Fantasia is a relentlessly inventive blend of the classics with phantasmagorical images.
02. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Critics Consensus: With its involving story and characters, vibrant art, and memorable songs, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs set the animation standard for decades to come.
01. Pinocchio (1940)
Critics Consensus: Ambitious, adventurous, and sometimes frightening, Pinocchio arguably represents the pinnacle of Disney’s collected works — it’s beautifully crafted and emotionally resonant.
The Lion King should be up there at number 1, what’s your favorite Disney movie of all time? To see the full list of movies head to the source.
source: Best Disney Animated Movies [Rotten Tomatoes]
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I hate Christmas because of the stress in looking for gifts and then having to smile and pretend like a gift that somebody gave to me is exactly what I wanted. Well this Christmas has just gotten a little bit better when I came across Mr.Skin’s Holiday Gift Guide of 2009.
They have come up with a list of movies that feature some of the hottest Hollywood women in nude scenes that are out now on DVD so we can buy them or pass out this list for people to buy for us!! Take a look at their choices…
10. Road Trip: Beer Pong
The Gift You’ll Give: Michelle Gordon, Kaitlyn Reid, and Simone Searcy as a mother-daughter-granddaughter strip team
Also Nude: Alicia Saint Amour, Amanda Logue, Audrey Manuel, Kayla Martin, Nikki Ryann, Gia Wright
The Skinny: Road Trip is a nudity classic with five pairs of bare breasts, but Beer Pong surpasses even that by uncovering nine sets of breasts and throwing in a bush for extra fun. The unrated DVD even offers featurettes titled “In the Buff—Filming a Mini-Concert†and “The Bodacious Babes of Ta Ta’s.â€
9. The Last House on the Left
The Gift You’ll Give: Delicious bad girl Riki Lindhome toplessly fighting off an attacker with a shower-curtain rod
Also Nude: Sara Paxton
The Skinny: This horror remake dutifully delivers all of the things that made the original great—including outrageous violence and revenge and, of course, women in distress getting undressed.
8. The Hills Run Red
The Gift You’ll Give: Aussie hottie Sophie Monk performing a fiery strip session
Also Nude: Janet Montgomery
The Skinny: Sophie Monk follows up her nude debut in Sex and Death 101 with this straight-to-DVD horror flick, and she gets straight to the nudity, giving a topless lap dance just 10 minutes in.
7. The Limits of Control
The Gift You’ll Give: Paz de la Huerta playing a character named simply Nude; and yes, she lives up to her name—spectacularly
The Skinny: Jim Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control is full of mysterious characters reciting mysterious dialog in mysterious situations, but the biggest mystery of all is what happened to Paz de la Huerta’s wardrobe, since it barely makes an appearance throughout the entire movie.
6. Friday the 13th
The Gift You’ll Give: Willa Ford’s dripping, bobbling boobs in the year’s best nude waterskiing scene
Also Nude: Julianna Guill, America Olivo
The Skinny: The original Friday the 13th is a horror classic, sure, but the remake tops it with pure toplessness. And with the extended Killer Cut you get more gore and—more importantly—extra pre-slaying lays and gloriously gratuitous nudity.
5. Watchmen
The Gift You’ll Give: Malin Akerman’s super hoots and super heinie in a superhero flick loved by critics and fans alike
Also Nude: Tara Frederick
The Skinny : Watchmen: The Ultimate Edition is a comic fan’s dream with five discs and over three hours of special features. But nothing is as special as Malin Akerman’s exposed assets in three separate scenes.
4. My Bloody Valentine 3D
The Gift You’ll Give: Betsy Rue jumping off the screen in 3D—completely nude!
The Skinny: Not just for kids anymore, 3D grows up with the vivid violence and in-your-face nudity of My Bloody Valentine. The 2-disc special edition packs oodles of extras along with both 2D and 3D versions of the film. You’ll even get four pairs of 3D glasses to ensure Betsy Rue’s 3B’s look like they’re running right through your living room.
3. The Informers
The Gift You’ll Give: Pineapple Express babe Amber Heard showing a heap of boobs and a helping of butt in five scenes
Also Nude: Valentina Garcia
The Skinny: The Bret Easton Ellis adaptation The Informers packs an all-star cast that includes heavyweights like Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Billy Bob Thornton, and Winona Ryder. But little-known blonde Amber Heard steals the show with the not-so-heavy weights hanging off of her almost-never-clothed chest.
2. Powder Blue
The Gift You’ll Give: Jessica Biel’s long-awaited nude debut as a stripper who actually strips
Also Nude: Danvy Pham, Kasey Poteet
The Skinny: She went from a sweet teen on 7th Heaven to Justin Timberlake’s sweetheart, but we were beginning to think she’d never go nude. That is until Powder Blue went straight to DVD last May and Jessica Biel artfully writhed around a stripper stage pouring candle wax all over her gloriously bare boobs.
1. Spread
The Gift You’ll Give: Rachel Blanchard’s right breast and butt as Ashton Kutcher shaves her cootcher
Also Nude: Anne Heche, Jenae Altschwager, Margarita Levieva, Sonia Rockwell
The Skinny: Ashton Kutcher’s L.A. gigolo beds a dizzying array of nude women in Spread, making this DVD the perfect way to spread true holiday cheer, no eggnog required.
I’m totally gonna hand this list out to all my friends and tell them to buy these. Mr.Skin also came up with 10 of the hottese rereleases that we should consider buying which you can see at their website. What do you think? Do you agree or is it there some movies they may have forgotten?
source: 20 Most Skintastic Releases (& Re-Releases) of 2009 [Mr.Skin]
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Top 10 Classic Holiday Films
What comes to mind when we think of the holidays? Chestnuts roasting on an open fire? Maybe a few visions of sugarplums dancing in our heads?
Certainly. But some of us, without fail, equate the holidays with a Red Ryder BB Gun.
If you just caught our above reference to “A Christmas Story,” you’ll know we’re talking movies (though some of us really would like a Red Ryder BB Gun this year) — those holiday movies that for generations have made us laugh, reminisce, become spirited and of course bawl to almost worrisome, clinical degrees.
So in the spirit of the season, combined with our evergreen love for movies, we’re celebrating the 10 greatest classic holiday films.
Animated pictures, comedies and timeless four-star, four-hankie weepies mingle in this brew, making it a lot less than you’d think — this is not granny’s ubiquitous fruitcake.
'Holiday Inn' (1942)
Though “White Christmas” is the more popularly known film, we prefer its predecessor of sorts, “Holiday Inn,” where we first hear Bing Crosby sing the famous Irving Berlin tune. Bing plays a retired singer who leaves show biz to manage an inn in Connecticut (is that the greatest state for Christmas, or what?), which is open only during holidays. When Crosby’s ex-partner, played by the legendary Fred Astaire, visits the inn, a complicated romantic triangle ensues over Bing’s main squeeze (Marjorie Reynolds).
It’s not a terribly complex picture, but to see Crosby and Astaire share screen time makes for some fantastic entertainment, especially when Astaire does his solo Fourth of July “Firecracker” number. And really, Irving Berlin songs mixed with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire make anything festive.
'Christmas in Connecticut' (1945)
This quaint screwball comedy stars the supreme Barbara Stanwyck who, not surprisingly, manages to appear in two of the movies topping our list. Babs makes for good cheer. Here she plays a Martha Stewart-like personality — “America’s Best Cook” — which is really just a big sham. The woman can scarcely make toast. This leads to innumerable problems when the truth threatens to be revealed. It’s romantic, winsome and adorable without being syrupy, and we can’t find anything wrong with spending Christmas in Connecticut — preferably, with Ms. Stanwyck.
See the rest after the jump!!
'The Bishop's Wife' (1947)
It’s pretty tough to dislike a movie boasting the dual debonair power of David Niven and Cary Grant. And Grant as an angel no less! Niven plays a bishop who prays for guidance while raising money for a new cathedral. In comes angel Dudley (Grant) whom everyone, naturally, falls for, including one bishop’s wife (played memorably by the lovely Loretta Young). Can we say complications ensue? “Delightful” can be such an over-used word, but in the case of The Bishop’s Wife, it’s most appropriate. And, during the stress of the holidays, we need a little delight, don’t we? God bless us, everyone? God bless Cary Grant.
'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' (1989)
Not every family is crying their eyes out over Jimmy Stewart howling “Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!” as he runs almost spasmodically down the street to the safe haven of hearth and home. Instead, they’re nestled around the TV watching that other, uh, American icon, Chevy Chase (his name is classic Americana — Chevy?) tumbling spasmodically down the side of the house while attempting to hang Christmas lights.
Considered by some the best of the Griswold family adventures, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” has famed patriarch Chase setting up a holiday gathering that was supposed to run smoothly until, well, it just doesn’t. When one of our favorite hillbillies, Cousin Eddy (the terrific Randy Quaid), shows up with his out-of-control brood, the usual Christmas mayhem begins. Though it’s hyper-slapstick, there are a lot of families who can relate to the chaos of the Griswold clan — even when Chase is sent shooting down a snow slope on a sled greased with cooking oil. It could happen.
'Miracle on 34th Street' (1947)
Santa on his way to being institutionalized and labeled insane? Divorced mothers toiling in department stores? A courtroom battle? What kind of movie is this? Well, it’s an incredibly sweet, wonderfully old-fashioned yuletide classic. Starring an impressive and so-cute-you-could-eat-her-up Natalie Wood as the little girl who encounters the real Kris Kringle (or is he?) working at Macy’s, “Miracle on 34th Street” plays its power-of-imagination mojo to surprisingly poignant degrees. And we absolutely love Edmund Gwenn as Santa. We believe!
'Remember the Night' (1940)
An overlooked classic, “Remember the Night” (scripted by Preston Sturges) is witty and urbane, sentimental without being sappy and as sharp and funny as only that madcap cynic Sturges could write. Barbara Stanwyck stars as an acerbic shoplifter who’s busted and sentenced to the clink during Christmastime. Fred MacMurray plays the prosecuting attorney with a conscience — the image of Barbara hauled off during the holidays is too much for him and he posts her bail. But what to do with her? Hmmm … maybe fall in love? Romantic, sexy and poignant, “Remember the Night” should become another holiday staple.
'A Christmas Carol' (1951)
We had a tough time picking our favorite among the various versions of “A Christmas Carol.” And we’re not talking just the two famous British films of the same name — we’re talking the 1951 “Christmas Carol” vs. “The Muppet Christmas Carol” (Michael Caine playing it oh-so-wonderfully straight! And with Muppets!) and Bill Murray in “Scrooged.” But because we’re discussing classics, we settled on the 1951 version in which Alastair Sim plays a perfect baddie Ebenezer Scrooge. It’s heartwarming, always scarier than we anticipate (who needs “Silent Night, Deadly Night”?) and most importantly, a flat-out brilliant adaptation of Charles Dickens. “A Christmas Carol” is as essential as the star atop the tree.
'How the Grinch Stole Christmas' (1966)
Forget Ron Howard’s obnoxious, odious “The Grinch” ever happened. How could anyone even think to attempt to top Chuck Jones’ masterful adaptation of one of our most beloved Christmas stories? And Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is right up there with the best of them. Using the dulcet tones of one Boris Karloff (aka Frankenstein’s Monster) to narrate the creepy but, finally, genuinely touching tale was the first beautiful touch — ditto for the theme song, one of the coolest in all of Christmas cinema. And the animation is lovingly Seuss. It’s as if we opened up our book and it came to life. The poetic story, a fable really, is gorgeously rendered with the green creepy, callous Grinch taking out his plan to loot the presents from the innocents of Whoville. Famously, when he realizes that presents (aka, materialism, commercialism, Hallmark sentiment and all that kind of malarkey) aren’t the true spirit of Christmas, he has a major change of heart. Three times major. We get teary just thinking about it, especially when he cuts the “Roast Beast.”
'A Christmas Story' (1983)
Subversive and sweet before family subversion was readily accepted on television and movies, “A Christmas Story” made such an indelible impression on viewers that it has maintained a cult following as devoted as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” But why? Well, for one, the trials, tribulations and obsessions (chiefly a Red Ryder BB Gun) of blond, bespectacled little Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) were something many of us could relate to. And for two, the “average” Indiana family of the late ’40s made us question just what “average” is — certainly not the Parkers and, in turn, certainly not our families. The humor is much supplied in both Ralphie’s adult narration and by a lovably cantankerous Darren McGavin as Mr. Parker (“No, I promise, Daddy is not going to kill Ralphie!” says Mother).
Holiday hopes, dreams and hell are captured so wonderfully, you can’t help but get choked up when anything nice happens to the characters. And that epic line to the mall Santa — thank goodness one movie (before “Bad Santa”) understood all the human tragedy and trauma that goes into the wait. Perfect.
'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946)
To all those fashionable contrarians who consider Frank Capra’s classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” maudlin tripe, we say, humbug! How many times do we have to remind you people that what has been too frequently labeled “Capra Corn” is really a very dark, complex and thought-provoking movie? James Stewart plays George Bailey, a guy who’s so down in the dumps that he’s about to commit suicide via jumping into the icy waters of the Bedford Falls River. Never mind his cute brood of kids (whom he yells at) and his patient, loving wife (an incredibly comely Donna Reed) at home. But when Guardian Angel Clarence (a terrific Henry Travers) shows up, he gets quite the eye-opener. Just what would life be like without you, George Bailey? As George learns what that means, Clarence says, movingly, “Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t around he leaves an awful hole, doesn’t he?” Call us saps, but Stewart’s performance, in which desperation turns to heart-swelling, borderline hysterical happiness (you gotta wonder if George is bipolar) is handled with such tender aplomb that, sniff, it gets us every time. If you haven’t cried enough this holiday, here’s your chance.
source: [msn entertainment]
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