Fight For Your Right (Revisited)

"You gotta fight! For your right! To paaaaaaaaaarrrrrty!"

If you were an 80's child, this chant by the Beastie Boys would have been put on blast on your radio or cassette player. To commemorate the song's impact 25 years later, member Adam Yauch aka MCA wrote and directed a short called Fight For Your Right (Revisited).

Seth Rogen, Elijah Wood and Danny McBride star as the hard-partying trio in Mike D, Ad-Rock and MCA.   Yauch enlists many of today's most talented actors and actresses to balance out the rest of the cast, especially Susan Sarandon, Ted Danson, Steve Buscemi, Rashida Jones and Rainn Wilson.

The film is based mostly on the travels that the Beastie Boys faced after the Fight For Your Right music video, including breaking into a liquor store, taking acid with groupies and getting into a hilarious breakdancing competition with their future selves (Will Farrell, John C. Reilly and Jack Black).

☆☆☆

Snatch

In 2000, Director Guy Ritchie brought a brilliant follow up to his critically acclaimed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.  With Snatch, Ritchie exposes the hip, cool and violent view of London's gangster underground.  The movie is exceptional starting with the cast of larger than life characters in Jason Statham as an unlicensed boxing promoter,  Benicio Del Toro as jewel-thief Franky Four Fingers, Vinnie Jones as the legendary street assasin and Brad Pitt as the hilarious marble-mouthed boxer. The script is well written and brings Ritchie's characteristic fast-paced, yet twisting storylines. Not only was it considered "the coolest movie of the year" by Premiere Magazine, it is also a must see.

☆☆☆☆

Epic Movie Posters

These are some of the most unique movie posters.  Each of them has a very different design to catch the viewer's attention.

#1 Best All Time Horror Film

The Shining

The instant-classic horror movie based on the book by Stephen King.  Director Stanley Kubrick brings his trademark psychological aspect to the film, but that's not all that makes it scary.  The music in the beginning captures our ear drums and let's you know that something is not right with the Torrance's as they make the long drive to the hotel.  Different camera techniques also build up the tension of the events unfolding.  Jack Nicholson's portrayal of Jack Torrance's descendent into madness is groundbreaking and not to mention rather scary. The main reason why this film is the scariest movie on this list is because of the unexpected.  There are scenes that upset our psyche and make us feel really uncomfortable.  Here's a classic scene from the movie.

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#2 Best All Time Horror Film

The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins gives the performance of his career as the cannibalistic Hannibal Lector.  Director Johnathan Deme gives us the heebie-jeebies with constant close-ups of Lector as he unblinkingly tells us about his victims.  This movie doesn't have as much gore as the rest of the films on this list, but it does have very disturbing conversation pieces.  Plus it is the only movie in the horror genre to win an Oscar.  Here's a look

Westridge 8 Theater

For all of you that are new to Washburn University and Topeka, here's a map of the Westridge 8 Theater.


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#3 Best All Time Horror Film

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock's instant classic gave audience's the creeps....and made them double lock the door before they showered.  Anthony Perkins gives a chilling performance as Norman Bates.  The scene below is a testament to the film and gave birth to the horror genre.