#199: Actors We Wouldn't Cast
adam
1. Brad Pitt
2. Cuba Gooding Jr.
3. Hayden Christensen
4. Scarlett Johansson
5. Natalie Portman
matty
1. Julia Stiles
2. Drew Barrymore
3. Jake Gyllenhaal
4. Donal Logue
5. Anna Paquin
#198: Love Scenes
adam
1. Don’t Look Now
2. Out of Sight
3. Team America: World Police
4. Mulholland Dr.
5. A History of Violence
matty
1. Body Heat
2. Risky Business
3. Sex and Lucia
4. Lust, Caution
5. Team America: World Police
Keith Phillips (A.V. Club)
1. Don’t Look Now
2. Betty Blue
3. The Name of the Rose
4. Wild at Heart
5. Felicity
#197: London Movies
adam
1. A Clockwork Orange
2. Repulsion/Frenzy
3. 28 Days Later/28 Weeks Later
4. My Beautiful Laundrette/High Hopes
5. Housing Problems (1935)
matty
1. Croupier
2. The Elephant Man
3. An American Werewolf in London
4. 84 Charing Cross Road
5. 10 Rillington Place
#196: Coming of Age Movies
adam
1. The 400 Blows
2. Atonement/Juno
3. The Last Picture Show
4. Y tu mamá tambien
5. Heavenly Creatures/The Dreamers
matty
1. Y tu mamá tambien/My Life as a Dog
2. Outside Providence
3. The Flamingo Kid
4. Next Stop, Greenwich Village
5. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
#195: '08 Sundance Entries
adam
1. American Son
2. Stranded
3. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
4. An American Soldier
5. Choke/Transsiberian
matty
1. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
2. The Order of Myths
3. An American Soldier
4. Slingshot Hip Hop
#194: Most Anticipated Sundance Entries
adam
1. Roman Polanski/Gonzo
2. Funny Games US
3. Derek/Edward II
4. What Just Happened?
5. Transsiberian
matty
1. Diminished Capacity
2. Slingshot Hip Hop
3. The Visitor
4. The Wackness
5. The King of Ping Pong
#193: Most Anticipated of 2008
adam
1. Burn After Reading/Zach and Miri Make a Porno
2. The Dark Knight/Iron Man/The Incredible Hulk
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button/The Brothers Bloom
4. My Blueberry Knights/The International
5. Star Trek/Bond 22
matty
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Valkyrie
3. Burn After Reading
4. Hellboy II
5. The Day the Earth Stood Still
#192: Top 5 2007 Blowout
Worst of the year
matty
#5: Transformers
#4: Fracture
#3: Goya’s Ghosts
#2: Across the Universe
#1: Smokin’ Aces
ADAM
#4: Transformers
#3: Year of the Dog
#2: Pirates of the Caribbean 3
#1: Hounddog
Overrated
MATTY
#3: Black Snake Moan
#2: The Host
#1: Savages
ADAM
#5: Sweeney Todd
#4: Ratatouille
#3: Michael Clayton
#2: The Host
#1: The Savages
Underrated
MATTY
#4: Color Me Kubrick
#3: The Hoax
#2: Breach
#1: The Italian
ADAM
#5: Shoot ‘Em Up
#4: The Mist
#3: Youth Without Youth
#2: Sunshine
#1: Black Snake Moan
discoveries/Surprises
MATTY
Sarah Polley, AWAY FROM HER
Michael Moore, SICKO
Susanne Bier, AFTER THE WEDDING
Diablo Cody, JUNO
Shane Meadows, THIS IS ENGLAND
ADAM
Marie-Josée Croze, THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
Amy Ryan, GONE BABY GONE
J.C. Fresnadillo, 28 WEEKS LATER
Andrew Wagner, STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
Cristian Mungiu, 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
Shane Meadows, THIS IS ENGLAND
Irrfan Khan, THE NAMESAKE
Gordon Pinset, AWAY FROM HER
Disappointments
MATTY
#4: Music and Lyrics
#3: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
#2: Bee Movie
#1: The Darjeeling Limited
ADAM
#5: American Gangster
#4: Redacted
#3: Fracture
#2: Across the Universe
#1: Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
BEst documentaries
MATTY
#5: In the Shadow of the Moon
#4: An Unreasonable Man
#3: Air Guitar Nation
#2: Lake of Fire
#1: The King of Kong
ADAM
#5: My Kid Could Paint That
#4: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
#3: Sicko/No End in Sight
#2: Lake of Fire
#1: The King of Kong
most annoying performances
MATTY
#4: Jonah Hill, WALK HARD
#3: Topher Grace, SPIDER-MAN 3
#2: John Travolta, HAIRSPRAY
#1: The entire cast of SOUTHLAND TALES
ADAM
#5: Roger Bart, AMERICAN GANGSTER
Jordan Ladd, DEATH PROOF
#4: Jake Gyllenhaal/Reese Witherspoon, RENDITION
#3: Laura Linney, THE SAVAGES
#2: Ethan Hawke, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
#1: Joaquin Phoenix, WE OWN THE NIGHT
best date movies
MATTY
#5: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
#4: Starter for 10
#3: Jane Austen Book Club
#2: Once
#1: Dan in Real Life
ADAM
#5: Stardust
#4: Waitress
#3: Juno
#2: Atonement
#1: Once
worst date movies
MATTY
#5: Margot at the Wedding
#4: Crazy Love
#3: 2 Days in Paris
#2: After the Wedding
#1: 300
ADAM
#5: 300
#4: Rescue Dawn
#3: Lust, Caution
#2: Margot at the Wedding
#1: I Shoot ‘Em Up
best male frontal nudity
JOINT PICKS
#4: Some guy — WALK HARD
#3: Jean-Louis Coullo’ch — LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER
#2: Viggo Mortensen — EASTERN PROMISES
#1: Bart Simpson — THE SIMPSONS MOVIE