Back in 2014, a 20-year-old woman named Crystal Espinal was the victim of a physical assault committed by a man that she was dating at the time.

Espinal, who was pregnant during the incident, testified in court that her boyfriend punched her in the face, held her in a chokehold in excess of one minute, punched her in the stomach, choked her some more, and banged her head against a wall.

Her boyfriend at the time was none other than current Kansas City Chiefs rookie wide receiver Tyreek Hill. The Chiefs’ rookie is having a nice inaugural season in the NFL, catching three touchdowns in his last four games.

But should he even be allowed to play in the league?

Does rookie wide receiver Tyreek Hill deserve the chance to play inthe NFL he was given by the Kansas City Chiefs? (Photo Source: Twitter)

Especially since his punishment for scarring Espinal for life was a measly three years of probation. The consequences of his actions certainly did not teach Hill about the severity of his decision making process on that night in 2014.

Not only is Espinal likely fearful of Hill for the remainder of her life, but this violent incident will always be in the back of her head during her future interactions with other men over her lifetime.

So while she has to deal with the infinite amount of after effects from being a victim of domestic assault, Hill gets to continue his dream of playing in the NFL. Seems fair enough, right?

Even after all of the recent domestic incidents


the league had become involved in prior to Hill entering the NFL, a team still felt that he was worth spending a draft pick in 2016. Kansas City looked past the fact that their new wide receiver had been dismissed from a major university (Oklahoma State) after potentially harming the life of his unborn child.

The Chiefs have decided to look past Hill’s abusive history in exchange for some touchdowns. (Photo Source: Twitter)

Obviously, the Chiefs did their share of extensive research on Hill before drafting him. Research that consisted of how fast he can run, how good his hands are, and how many potential touchdowns he could score.

Kansas City’s coaches and personnel can claim how they looked deeply into Hill’s personal history, but nothing can justify the team draftinga player who apparently, “thought it was OK to punch and choke,” his girlfriend.

Adam has been covering the NFL for the last five years and his work has been published by a number of sports-related websites you may or may not have heard of including USA TODAY, SB Nation, and FanSided. In addition to writing for ClickON, Adam is also the Co-Editor of The Viking Age and a writer for The Comeback. If you want to make him laugh, he's always in the mood for a good Manti Te'o joke.


The drama of the World Cup the past couple of days had been intense. Brazil, the hosts, massacred by Germany! Argentina slew the Netherlands in a second penalty shoot-out!

Just as the excitement was starting to die down, it hit. Intense throbbing, blurred vision, more throbbing. A headache unlike any Joey had felt before.

He endured it until lunchtime, the medicine cabinet having nothing to ease the pain. The chemist down the road had the usual prescriptions, though they were to little avail.

The walk home from work was unusually eventful. Two patches of footpath gained some nonartistic vomit-coloured paintwork. The nausea was agonising.

Chicken soup was the order of the night, and an early crawl into bed.couplets to convey ideas he took simple language suggested by his reading of Elizabethan and Restoration authors and modified to define his complex ideas. He contains them in six four-line stanzas, and used pairs of rhyming couplets to create a sense of rhythm and continuity. The notable exception occurs in lines 3 and 4 and 23 and 24, where "eye" is imperfectly paired, ironically enough, with "symmetry."The majority of
lines in this lyric contain exactly seven syllables, alternating between stressed and unstressed syllables; pattern has sometimes been identified as trochaic tetrameter.

The clever trick here is that he has taken this musical force of versification with the intention of defying any sense of interpretation. First the reader must be aware of the ideas behind Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs


picture of the engraver employing his poetical hand. The Tyger has long been recognized as one of Blake's finest poems and more than one scholar has attempted to explain it. Here are a few exapmples:

(It)..."happens to have been quoted often enough ... to have made its strange old Hebrew-like grandeur, its Oriental latitude yet force of eloquence, comparatively familiar"

Alexander Gilchrist, Life of William Blake (1863)

"The Tyger," frequently contrasting it with the language, images, and questions of origin presented by its "innocent" counterpart, "The Lamb." (It) satirizes the lyrics found in "The Lamb" that is not the poem's primary function. It is the combination of tones of terror with awe for a being that can create the tiger as well as the lamb, the poet "celebrates the divinity andthe opposition of innocence and experience, but to the resolution of the paradox they present." As the lamb is subjected to the travails of the world, "innocence is converted to experience. It does not rest there. Energy can be curbed but it cannot be destroyed, and when it reaches the limits of its endurance, it bursts forth in revolutionary wrath."

Mark Schorer, William Blake: The Politics of Vision .

"As with so many of Blake's lyrics, part of the poem's strategy is to resist attempts to imprint meaning upon it. The Tyger tempts us to a cognitive apprehension but in the end exhausts our efforts." As a result, the critic concludes, "the extreme diversity of opinion among critics of Blake about the meaning of particular poems and passages of poems


the video game system. The computer programs are usually stored in game cartridges to make it easy to change the game being play by simply inserting a different game cartridge into the console of the video game system.
After a period of normal use, video game systems often experience problems presenting a clear and high quality picture on the television set. The problems typically encountered include: a screen that flashes on and off, a blank picture screen, a scrambled picture screen and other display problems. Additionally, systems may have difficulty responding to joysticks or other input devices after continued use. These display and input problems often result from poor electrical connection between the game cartridge and the console of the video game system. After extended use, the contacts whichA one-day concert festival has been scheduled for May 2 in Los Angeles featuring a who’s who of 80’s new wave and post punk artists. Tickets go on sale this Friday and details can be found on the Cruelworldfest.com website.

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was born in 1947 in Den Helder, The Netherlands, a place on the seaside.

Since
my 14th I am busy with photography. My parents were enthousiast amateur
photographers and when I was young, they stimulate me by let me help them
in the darkroom. I started to photograph with my mothers Samoka. Some
years later they gave me my own Practica and after that I bought two Nikon
FE2. One for black & white and one for slides. I printed the black
& white photographs in my own darkroom.
After highschool I visit the textile department of an artschool for four
years. I often used my photographs as designs for my woven tapestry. Later,
photography was the only artform within I expressed myself.

Because of my interest in nature and flowers I followed from 1986 - 1989
an education toto photograph I found my inspiration in
structures and nature. These subjects inspired me until this day. A new
interest is to photograph the different aspects of movement.

One of the projects I am working on is the move of the sea. I named this
series 'Waves'. Depending on the time of the day, the wind and the light,
the sea is changing of colour. These photos are mostly abstract.
Most of the time I work at the end of the day when twilight is setting
in. The images are taken with a long exposure time. Sometimes I use a
greyfilter to extend the time I can work. To capture the right moment
is quite difficult because you never know where the wave is coming. That
is also the reason to work without a tripod. With a tripod


Image copyright Atlantic Leather Image caption Atlantic Leather produces fish leathers from four different species

Steinunn Gunnsteinsdóttir admits that it took her family more than a few attempts to be able to make leather from fish skins.

"The first 200 times we just made smelly fish soups," she says.

Ms Gunnsteinsdóttir is the sales manager of Icelandic company Atlantic Leather, which owns the only fish tannery in Europe.

Overlooking a fjord on Iceland's remote north coast, it has been processing the skins of salmon, perch, cod and wolffish since 1994.

The tanning process takes between three and four weeks, and 19 employees now produce 10,000 skins, or nearly a tonne, of fish leather a month.

"The fish smell disappears in the early stages, then it smells like any other leather," adds Ms Gunnsteinsdóttir, whoboost the incomes of fishing communities around the world.

"We think fish leather is a way to improve people's livelihoods in fishing communities without compromising their food security," says Jackie Alder, who is a senior fisheries industry officer at the FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Department.

Increased availability of fish leather could also reduce demand for snake and alligator skins, which may come from endangered species.

A rise in the use of fish skins may, in the longer term, also see less need for cow leather.

However, the cow leather industry is intrinsically linked to continuing demand for beef. With the current rate of the world's beef consumption, hides not turned into leather would instead become an estimated 10-million-tonne waste problem per year.

Outside of the environmental costs of land clearance and methane emissions


involved in cow leather, the industry says it has made efforts in recent years to improve production processes around the world.

Image copyright FAO/Luis Tato Image caption Workers at Victorian Foods in Kenya make leather from the skins of giant Nile perch

Since 2005, the Leather Working Group trade association - whose members include Adidas, Nike and Primark - says it has been promoting environmentally responsible practices. This includes better standards of waste water discharge.

Some 8,500km (5,280 miles) away from Iceland, another company now making fish leather is Kenya's Victorian Foods.

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With support from Jackie Alder and her team, the business uses the skins of Nile perch fished from Lake Turkana, the world's largest desert lake, in the north ofscreening test using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) may be used to identify fake tequilas from the real thing, the researchers say. The process, also known as molecular fingerprinting, takes only two minutes, they say. In general, the strategy of combining different spectroscopic and chromatographic methods is more accurate than previous identification attempts, which focused on other chemicals or the isotopic composition found in tequila, the researchers say.

The researchers also analyzed several other Mexican spirits made from Agave, including mezcal (the one with the worm in it), sotol and bacanora. With the exception of mezcal, the scientists were similarly able to identify the other spirits by their distinctive chemical profile, a finding that could also aid in quality control efforts among the other Agave spirits, they say.

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south of Jerusalem.During a speech at a graduation ceremony for new air force pilots, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu related to the naming of the two suspects, saying he now expected Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas – whom he again pointedly praised for strongly condemning the kidnappings – to dissolve his recent pact with Hamas.Kawasme, 29, was arrested in the past for Hamas-related activity. At 18 he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.After his release he was arrested another four times, and on some of those occasions placed under administrative detention. When questioned in 2010, he confessed to having been recruited to Hamas’s military wing in Hebron the year before, taking part in military training in caves in the area, and obtaining raw materials for the assembly ofbombs. He also took part in the recruitment of other Palestinian youths to Hamas.Abu Aysha, 32, was first arrested in November 2005 and placed in administrative custody until June 2006. He was rearrested for a short time in April 2007. His brother was killed in November 2005 while trying to hurl an explosive device at soldiers.Security forces, including the police’s elite YAMAM counter-terrorism unit, arrested several suspects in recent days on suspicion of being involved in the kidnapping.A senior security source told The Jerusalem Post that the Shin Bet confirmed the identity of the two suspects within 24 hours of the kidnapping.He stressed the fact that both were in administrative detention in the past. The additional suspects who have been arrested by security forces are part of the


was taken by the army to hospital.One of the suspects, arrested in Bethlehem, is a member of Hamas’s military wing and was involved in a recent drive-by shooting on an IDF position near the city, the army said, adding that he was also involved in an attempt to run over soldiers in recent days. During searches of his home, troops recovered a handgun and ammunition.Soldiers encountered some disturbances during the raids in villages such as Beit Umar, near Hebron.Security forces also conducted searches of 133 sites in the West Bank overnight, a senior security source said.Meanwhile, a Palestinian who was seriously wounded during clashes last week with the IDF in Kalandia, north of Jerusalem, has died of his wounds. A total of five Palestinians have been killed inof the Episode Two trailer is now available for download. Half-Life 2: Episode Two advances the 16-million unit selling franchise, as Valve's trilogy of episodic single player releases continue the award-winning story of Half-Life 2. Armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside riddled with an increasingly feirce Combine threat. Episode Two is coming to PC, PS3, and 360, and will also include Portal and Team Fortress 2.media223914INtense!Episode 2 TrailerA new, extended version of the Episode Two trailer is now available for download. Half-Life 2: Episode Two advances the 16-million unit selling franchise, as Valve's trilogy of episodic single player releases continue the award-winning story of Half-Life 2. Armed with new weaponry and vehicles, Dr. Gordon Freeman must race through a countryside


Status at any time relevant to this case.

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On March 7, 2002, an Immigration Judge found Atandi deportable. However, Atandi was not ordered deported at that time, and the Immigration Judge scheduled later hearings on the issue of relief from removal.

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In May 2002, Atandi was arrested for possessing various firearms and ammunition while illegally or unlawfully in the United States, and he was later charged in a single-count indictment under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(5)(A) for that offense. According to the government, Atandi had nine firearms, including an AK-47 and a Brushmaster AR-15 assault rifle. Atandi admits that he possessed ammunition and at least one firearm, but contends that he was then lawfully present in the United States. As of that time, his removal proceedings were still pending before thethe United States" is defined as an alien "not in valid immigrant, nonimmigrant or parole status." More specifically, the regulation lists as an example of an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States a nonimmigrant "whose authorized period of stay has expired or who has violated the terms of the nonimmigrant category in which he or she was admitted." Id. Atandi, who concedes that he violated the terms of his student status, was no doubt illegally or unlawfully in the United States as that term is defined by regulation.5

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This regulation was enacted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), which had been delegated authority to implement § 922(g). See 18 U.S.C. § 926(a) (authorizing "such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the


be here as a student but failed to satisfy the conditions of his student status. The fact that he had not yet been ordered removed is not relevant to the question of whether or not his presence in the United States was then authorized. Removal proceedings were the process by which the government sought to expel Atandi from the country based on his illegal presence. Those proceedings did not play the substantive role of making Atandi's presence illegal or unauthorized in the first place.9

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B. Approval of a Form I-130 Petition for Alien Relative does not Authorize an Alien to Remain in the United States

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Atandi next contends that he was authorized to remain in this country because the government had approved a Form I-130 Petition for Alien Relative thatwhile a candidate or president.

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Paul Manafort, one of Donald Trump's closest advisers, has allegedly violated his plea deal with Mueller by lying to prosecutors. It appears that Manafort has also been feeding information to Trump's attorney and presumably the president himself. Trump has responded by signaling that he may pardon Manafort -- which would be a de facto act of obstructing justice -- for violating the law in order to protect him.

On Tuesday, court filings revealed that Mueller has recommended that Michael Flynn, who briefly served as Trump's national security adviser, serve no prison time for the crimes of lying to federal investigators about his contacts with Russia, and those of other members of Trump's transition team. Flynn also lied to federal investigators about serving as an agent


lawyers using to protect him from the consequences of his actions? Will Donald Trump ever actually face consequences of any kind for his alleged and potential crimes?

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In an effort to answer these questions I recently spoke with Seth Abramson. For nine years he served as a criminal defense attorney and criminal investigator. He is the author of numerous books, including his most recent, the New York Times bestseller "Proof of Collusion: How Donald Trump Betrayed America." Abramson has also been a regular commentator for numerous major news outlets, including the BBC, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, MSNBC, CNN, PBS and ABC News.

This conversation has been edited for clarity and length. With all of the recent developments in Mueller's investigation, where are wefor people to vote in sufficient numbers against Trump, or to have prevented him from becoming president. This is the case partly because certain voters admire someone who can get away with a certain amount of malfeasance or violating the law and then somehow ends up rich.

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What strikes me as something that should have been spoken about much more during the 2016 campaign is how Trump is a bad businessman. Trump has declared bankruptcy multiple times. He was gifted $413 million by his father and all he managed to do was increase it marginally over a 30-year period -- largely through fraud. There is nothing in Trump's business record, even putting aside the corruption and the fraud, that would suggest he could run the United States properly or


his allies committed treason.

Nevertheless, what I show in my new book is that Donald Trump will be the new paradigm for treachery and traitorous conduct against the United States. This is what people really need to understand. Vladimir Putin’s goal is to collapse the Western alliance of nations.

Donald Trump colluded with Vladimir Putin in taking actions, through his phony foreign policy, that have deeply destabilized the Western alliance that won World War I, that won World War II, and keeps us safe in a world where there are still nuclear weapons in the hands of some very dangerous people.

Donald Trump's scale of treachery against the United States, and frankly all people worldwide who want us to be safe and healthy and free from additional wars, goes well beyondaccepted, Manafort bought a condo at Trump Tower. He moved into the building that Donald Trump lives in. Donald Trump is someone who has a lengthy relationship with the Russians and who has clearly been targeted by the Russians, as Craig Unger’s book ["House of Trump, House of Putin"] and many others have established.

Paul Manafort goes to Thomas Barrack in February of 2016 and says to him -- a close friend of Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump himself -- “I need to get to Trump.” This is partly because he was deeply in debt and he wanted to find a way to make money through Trump and get whole financially by communicating with the Russians while he was Trump’s campaign manager. It also suggests a much


television or radio talking about powerful people. If you go into the courts of the United States where the guy who lives down the street from you has been arrested for something, it is not very difficult to get a conviction for obstruction of justice or perjury or witness tampering. People go to prison for these things all the time.

In the case of Donald Trump, his course of obstruction of justice is seen with respect to the firing of James Comey and the attempted firing on two occasions of Robert Mueller, as well as Trump's attempt to get Jeff Sessions to un-recuse himself. The examples go on and on. They are so laughably complete as a prosecution for obstruction of justice that it is really frustrating as aConservative former judge Roy Moore easily defeated Alabama's incumbent Sen. Luther Strange on Tuesday in a Republican Senate primary runoff, marking the first time in five years that a sitting U.S. senator has lost a primary.

Moore won all but four of the state's 67 counties, getting 55 percent of the vote to 45 percent for Strange, who was backed by President Donald Trump.

Moore's victory delivered a major blow to the establishment wing of the national Republican party and to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., whose allied super PAC spent millions backing Strange's candidacy.

Trump campaigned for Strange, holding a rally in the state on Friday, as did Vice President Mike Pence. But a number of Trump's current and former aides endorsed the controversial Moore, including former White House


strategist Steve Bannon and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson.

In his victory speech, Moore pledged to help Trump fulfill his 2016 campaign slogan to "make America great again," and told the crowd multiple times how strongly he supports Trump, even though Trump did not support his campaign.

Moore, long known for his religious zeal, also pledged to "return the knowledge of God" to the Constitution, saying "the separation of church and state doesn't separate us from God."

Following news of his victory, Republicans were quick to rally around Moore, starting with Trump himself. The president tweeted congratulations to Moore shortly after the race was called, and later on the two men spoke by phone, where Trump again congratulated Moore.

Trump tweet

Trump also appears to have tried to erase evidenceof his support for the losing candidate. Late Tuesday, Trump deleted a series of tweets he had posted earlier in the day, urging voters to turn out for Strange.

Even Strange's biggest supporter in Washington, McConnell, publicly congratulated Moore, a candidate who missed few opportunities to criticize the Kentucky senator.

Moore "ran a spirited campaign centered around a dissatisfaction with the progress made in Washington," McConnell said in a statement. "Senate Republicans will be as committed to keeping Alabama's Senate seat in Republican hands with Roy Moore as we were with Luther Strange."

Moore will now face Democratic nominee Doug Jones in a Dec. 12 general election to fill the seat vacated by now Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Republicans hold every statewide elected office in Alabama and enjoy large majorities in


both chambers of the legislature.

Judge Roy Moore: Great to talk with President Trump tonight about #ALSen! I very much look forward to working with the President to win in December!

By winning the GOP primary, Moore immediately becomes the favored candidate in December's general election.

Moore's victory on Tuesday also has national political implications. A fringe conservative who promises to fight the spread of "Sharia law," and bring Christianity to Washington, Moore campaigned on an anti-McConnell platform. He portrayed Strange as a rubber stamp for the GOP Senate majority leader.

If, as expected, Moore is elected to the Senate, McConnell will lose a reliable Republican vote within his caucus, and face a Senate colleague with a mandate to work against the GOP leadership agenda.

This could make it even more difficult thanPresence of CCHQ advisers hints at party effort to quash moves to force out disgraced former minister

The future of the disgraced former minister Andrew Griffiths will be discussed by his constituency members in front of officials from the Conservative party’s central offices, a leaked email discloses.

The presence of advisers from Conservative Campaign Headquarters [CCHQ] at a special general meeting of East Staffordshire Conservative Association is unusual and will raise suspicions that the party wants to damp down internal moves to force him to stand down.

Theresa May has struggled to force through Brexit legislation over the past month and may well need the vote of a party loyalist such as Griffiths, who is MP for Burton.

Griffiths, the prime minister’s former chief of staff who resigned as a minister after


of them sexually aggressive, to two bar workers more than 20 years his junior.

The Guardian revealed last week that Griffiths was promoted to minister for small business in January despite being under investigation over allegations of inappropriate touching and bullying by Deneice Florence-Jukes, a former Tory borough councillor, who had filed a formal complaint three months earlier.

More than 5,000 people have signed a petition calling for Griffiths to step down and a demonstration is planned in his constituency next month. Many in his own party have refused to publicly back him as concerns about his past conduct have become public.

Wileman’s email also refers to Conservative party claims that an “independent” panel is considering the harassment and bullying allegations against Griffiths.

Andrew Griffiths should resign as MP, says local Torythe target of the low kick, while striking the opponent as he is on one leg. Men who have successfully done this against low kicks are few and far between, but Ramon Daniels has decent success against all but the upper echelon, and Cung Le was pretty sharp with it back in the day.

Vitali Klitschko did pretty well as an awkward, side-on kickboxer as well:

Toeing Inwards

But a truly side on stance reaps different benefits from a turned in lead toe than a slightly more forward facing one does. The toes turned inward stance has a tremendous effect on that king of counter punches, the left hook.

The British boxers of the early nineteen hundreds were not keen on two handed hitting, and the match up of British outside fighting


versus American inside fighting was the narrative which dominated boxing through the first two decades of the twentieth century. Yet Jim Driscoll and Jimmy Wilde, who frequently spoke at length about how the jab is all one needs, both advocated a back leaning left hook to catch opponents coming in after baiting them with a jab. Both Klitschkos have knocked out opponents in a similar manner; it is on of the prettiest traps in outfighting. A beautiful recent example of the same combination by Alexis Arguello.

The act of having the lead foot turned in means that any drive from the lead leg is driving the left hip towards the right side—creating the kind of turning motion required to power the hook. You will know that many of theform is performed with tremendous effort and is considered a form of Iron Shirt training—developing the body to receive blows. Sanchin is so revered in Chinese and Okinawan martial arts that there are stories of it going back all the way to Bodhidharma—the monk who took Buddhism to China. According to legend, Bodhidharma found his monks in too poor a physical condition to hold up to his meditative practices and so he began them training in what would become the basis of Shaolin's famous quan fa lineage. Every Chinese fighting system bends over backwards to trace its history back to Bodhidharma, though you have to wonder if that's what he'd want to be remembered for.

The sad eyes of a man who just wanted people to breathe.

In the fighting


fighter in different ways. Nowhere is this more obvious than in two-handed power hitter, Roy Jones Jr. Jones' basic stance was one with the lead toes turned in, ready to snap his hip and shoulder into that left hook or uppercut:

Keep an eye on the lead knee if the lead foot is a little fast.

But because Jones fought more square on than many lead-foot-in fighters, he could also fire right hands off the bat. They weren't huge, Tommy Hearns style momentum ones a lot of the time (he had to move his feet to open up his hips and do that), but they were jarring enough.

It's no secret that the art of hitting is about using the feet to drive off of the floor, and that the artthe average weekly wage at the time of the first injury. The Appellate Division held that Warren was entitled to have his benefits based on the higher average weekly wage at the time of the first injury. We agree with Liberty Mutual, the insurer at the time of the second injury, but not the first, that this method of calculating benefits was error and vacate the judgment.

FACTUAL HISTORY
Warren, an employee of Winters, sustained two compensable work injuries to his back. The first injury occurred on October 27, 1981, when Warren slipped and twisted his lower back. Warren received compensation for his total incapacity by approved agreement, which established his "average weekly wage" as being $225.10 at *584 that time.[1] Winters was then insured by Peerless Insurance Company.
Warren resumed


full-time employment with the same company on or about February 11, 1983. Warren's employment continued until May 18, 1983, when he stopped working because of excessive back pain. The Workers' Compensation Commission later found that the employee's average weekly wage at the time of this second injury was $196.21.[2]
On July 20, 1983, Warren filed with the Workers' Compensation Commission a "petition to restore benefits" based upon his injury of October 27, 1981, naming Peerless as the respondent. On December 22, 1983, Warren filed a "petition for award of compensation" with the Commission, alleging May 31, 1983, as the date of injury and naming Liberty Mutual, the insurer at the time of the second injury, as the respondent.
The Commission granted both of Warren's petitions. The hearing commissioner found thatA.2d 431 (Me. 1981). Johnson was similar to this case in all but one respect. As in this case, the employee Johnson was disabled as the result of two successive compensable injuries. He filed two petitions, one for further compensation against his employer S.D. Warren and the insurer at the time of the first injury, the second a petition for award against S.D. Warren, self-insured at the time of the second injury. The petitions were consolidated before the Commission. Like the instant case, the extent that each of the two injuries contributed to the employee's incapacity was impossible to determine and apportioned equally to each injury. However, unlike this case, the average weekly wage at the time of the second injury was higher than that at the time


of the first injury. We held that Johnson's benefits were to be calculated based on the average weekly wage earned by him at the time of the second injury. Johnson, 432 A.2d at 434.
The Appellate Division read Johnson to require that the successively injured employee be compensated on the basis of the higher of the two average weekly wages, regardless of whether the higher average weekly wage was first or second in time, and determined that the employee Warren should be compensated on the basis of the higher average weekly wage at the time of his first injury.
In Johnson, however, the average weekly wage at the time of the second injury was required to be used as the basis of computing Johnson's compensation, not because it was higher,Wadleigh v. Higgins, 358 A.2d 531, 532-33 (Me.1976).
Also, had Warren's lower wages at the time of his second injury been attributable in part to the first injury, then the average weekly wage at the time of the second injury could not be used to compute his benefits. In such a case, the second injury average weekly wage would not provide a fair and accurate basis for determining the loss of his future earning capacity due to the work-related injuries. However, where, as here, the second injury is work-related and at least equally contributing to the incapacity, and the average weekly wage at the time of the second injury is in no way affected by the first injury, its use is required by the provisions of section 2(2)(F) and


characterised in that the axes of polarisation of the polarisers of the first device are parallel to each other, in that the coloured filter of the second device includes at the front a reflective polariser whose axis of polarisation is parallel to the axes of polarisation of the two polarisers of the first device, and at the back a reflective element and in that the control unit enables a switching configuration to be defined displaying an item of information in the first colour on a background corresponding to the second colour or vice versa.
As will be shown in the detailed description, this precise arrangement of all the constituent elements of the display assembly according to the invention, enables the first and second colours to be independent with veryVisual pigment processes and prolonged pupillary responses in insect photoreceptor cells.
The visual pigment in the peripheral retinular cells of the hoverfly Syrphus balteatus was investigated by absorbance difference measurements. Different visual pigments were found in the dorsal versus the ventral part of the eye in the male, but not in the female. In the male in the dorsal part of the eye the visual pigment has an isosbestic point at 513 nm; in the ventral part this value is 490 nm. The latter value is found in the female in both parts of the eye. Prolonged pupillary responses were studied in the male Syrphus and appeared to be most marked in the ventral part of the eye. In both hoverfly and blowfly prolonged pupillary responses are induced by


political correctness that now is putting university lefties on their heels.

The biggest news, well reported here at the Washington Examiner, was about a massive win for reason in the settlement of a lawsuit by the conservative Young Americas Foundation against the University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley has been famously hostile to conservative speakers, putting major burdens and restrictions on student groups sponsoring such speakers that it does not put on liberal ones. Encouragingly, Berkeley got taken to the woodshed. The university not only agreed to pay the foundation $70,000, but also reversed a whole series of policies that discriminated against conservative viewpoints. This is a tremendous win for free speech and the unfettered exchange of ideas that universities are supposed to foster.

Elsewhere, Harvard is playing defense on twoPutin's Secret Courier Meets Putin's Puppet?

On Thursday November 3, 2016 Donald Trump held a rally in Concord NC. On the same day Russian Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev made a brief stop in Concord NC as well. He arrived in Concord around 9:20 AM and departed to Charlotte at 12:10 PM.

WHY?

Rybolovlev was known to Trump as he purchased Trump’s Palm Beach Mansion in 2008. Trump gloated about how smart he was by flipping this property that he bought in 2004 for a mere $ 41 million. Trump never lived there calling it the “second greatest piece of land in Florida” He put it on the market in 2006 for $ 125 million but alas, the Recession had arrived and the price was reduced until Rybolovlev finally stepped in and purchased


EU foreign policy chief calls for a relief of the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza, ignores the ongoing transfer of goods into the region.

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Thursday for a relief of the Israeli naval blockade on Gaza, which is ruled by the Hamas terror group.

"It is World Refugee Day and I chose to be here on this day," Ashton said from Gaza in remarks relayed by her office and quoted by AFP.

"I chose to be here to underline the situation in Gaza, and to say that we support the work of (United Nation's agency for Palestinian refugees) UNRWA and want to see a future for the people of Gaza," she said

"We want to see the crossings open, and the economic situation improved,"agents who were involved in delivering those messages ... Some people were sucked in."

"We know they’re bots," she stated, possibly “sitting in Moscow, or Macedonia, or the White House."

The former secretary of state did not spare the Democratic National Committee during her explanation for her loss Wednesday night.

"I inherit nothing from the Democratic Party," Clinton said, describing the days immediately after she won her party's nomination. "Its data was mediocre to poor, non-existent, wrong. I had to inject money into it."

Jesse Watters said Hillary Clinton is acting like she said President Trump would if he lost the 2016 election.

"Hillary is behaving exactly how Trump was going to behave if he lost," Watters said on "The Five," referring to Trump's allegations of a possibly rigged election during the campaign.


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TS is a Professor of the Anesthesiology Department at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan. KK is a Chief Manager in the Division of Critical Care, Kyoto City Hospital, and a Visiting Professor of the Anesthesiology Department at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan. KM is an Associate Professor in the Anesthesiology Department at Kyorin University, Japan.

This work was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) to Teiji Sawa (No. 24390403, No. 15H05008, and No. 18H02905) from The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan.

All data generated or analyzed during this studyas Erin Brockovich by way of Matthew McConaughey in Magic Mike.”

Vanity Fair claims this is, “some of the best acting work of her career.”

“Hustlers” is a heist movie based on New York Magazine’s 2015 article “The Hustlers at Scores.” The story follows a group of strippers who turn the tables on their Wall Street clients by stealing money from stock traders and entrepreneurs who visit their strip club during the late 2000s financial crisis. The film is a commentary on capitalism, money, and is a subversion of female stereotypes.

Audience members are raving about”Hustlers.”

With all the Oscars buzz for @JLo in #hustlers, here's an unbelievable statistic. No Latina actress has won the Oscar for best actress. Only four have been nominated (Fernanda Montenegro — at the 71st Oscars —


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Category:Taxonomy articles created by PolbotDolphins are the most diverse family of living marine mammals and include species such as the bottlenose dolphin and the killer whale. However, their early evolution and fossil record has been steeped in mystery due to lack of good specimens. A new paper published in latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology re-describes the oldest species of dolphin with a new name: Eodelphis kabatensis. Although the partial skull was previously described in the 1970s the scientific community largely overlooked it. The new re-description has important implications for the evolutionary history of dolphins.

The skull of Eodelphis kabatensis was originally collected from a small tributary of the Oshirarika River in Hakkaido, Japan from an outcrop of the Mashike Formation. Researchers working on the specimen have narrowed its age to


may have looked like," said Jonathan Geisler, a marine mammal paleontologist at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine.

In addition to its importance as the earliest true dolphin, this new study also incorporates the most comprehensive analysis of the relationships within the Delphinoidea, the group that encompasses toothed whales. By including Eodelphis in the analysis, the authors were able to get a much clearer picture of the evolution of the toothed whales. Furthermore, the presence of Eodelphis in the Pacific Ocean during the late Miocene has implications for the geographic history of dolphins. While more specimens need to be discovered, this study suggests that dolphins might have had their origins in the Pacific.Safety Superhero Day Twitter takeover

The heating industry’s first ever Safety Superhero Day saw experienced installer and industry advocate Paul Hull of @PRHullLtd, team up with Worcester, Bosch Group in a social media takeover, aimed to encourage the …

Vaillant introduce their College Liaison Programme

Vaillant Group UK is celebrating one year since the arrival of Managing Director, Klaus Jesse, and one of the ways they are doing this is by making their training facilities even better.

Klaus joined the UK team in August 2016, as part of a long and successful history with Vaillant Group. He has held many senior positions within the Group during his time at the company including Managing Director of Germany, Director of International Business and Export and China.

In the one year that Klaus has directed Vaillant


Group UK, he has restructured his commercial, marketing and technology teams.

Improved training is another key focus for Vision 2020, for both installers and VGUK employees at all levels. Improvements include restructured training for engineers to advance their skills, as well as investment in a learning database for installers. VGUK is also making improvements to its training programme and facilities by working closely with installers to ensure the continued provision of the best training in the heating industry.

Furthermore, the introduction of a College Liaison Programme which provides VGUK boilers to colleges for installation training ensures Vaillant can support installers through every stage of their careers.

This holistic approach, which puts installers at the centre of the Vaillant business, is being celebrated at VGUK’s Centre of Excellence in Belper, where installersCongestive heart disease is a progressive and debilitating illness. The disease is characterized by a progressive enlargement of the heart. As the heart enlarges, the heart is performing an increasing amount of work in order to pump blood each heart beat. In time, the heart becomes so enlarged the heart cannot adequately supply blood. An afflicted patient is fatigued, unable to perform even simple exerting tasks and experiences pain and discomfort. Further, as the heart enlarges, the internal heart valves cannot adequately close. This impairs the function of the valves and further reduces the heart's ability to supply blood.
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be made. There is no comparison, none whatsoever.

I'll flip it out to the other side of it -- the reason the whole forum would explode if those were Bargs numbers is because offense is all he has. He does nothing else. If he can't do well offensively, he might as well not be playing in the NBA.

That in itself should answer why we don't go nuts over Gay shooting bad. He brings so much more.

He has played well, and bounced back on the next shot... yes today he had some head scratchers, but in the end he played himself out of the funk. He also still draws defenders and allows others to get open looks. Not to mention his defensive presence.

I'll flip it out to the other sidelot of the tougher ones he has to take, and him doing so is a better option than Demar or Bargs. He could maybe stand to get a few more trips to the line, but he also has a tendency to just try and finish over guys with his length, and he's been somewhat effective with that.

I'm not complaining because he's +29 in 41 mins. of play along with 8 rebounds. Shooting percentages aside, did Bargs ever had a game where he was a +29 and had 8 rebounds?

“The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.” - Martin Luther King

Jesus, really? Complaining about Gay already. You're the guy


Brazil, it was observed that the characteristics of knee injuries are different according to age, sport and time of activity. The sport involved at the time of injury reflects the involvement of cultural character in the prevalence of results. We noticed that the average age of patients with meniscal injury is higher than that of patients with ligament injury, once the first injury has a degenerative character and second injury has a traumatic character.

In all groups, the most harmful sport was soccer, followed by racing in the isolated ligament and meniscus injuries group and gym activities in the associated injuries. The performance of all athletes decreased after the injury. In the Tegner scale, groups lost an average of 40--55% of its sport performance. In a ten-year study conductedSen. Dennis Linthicum of Klamath Falls gobbling up bacon and eggs at a diner in Redmond, Oregon, Saturday morning. (The militia member said later in a comment on the original post that he had made up the incident, claiming it was “satire.”)

GOP senators face a $500 fine for every session they miss. The Legislature is scheduled to recess at the end of June.


Whether you’re seeking the charms of quaintness, or the hustle-bustle of a progressed metropolitan city, Cardiff is probably the best buy can look forward to. The capital city of Wales is the largest commercial center and the most popular destination for tourists. Geographically, Cardiff occupies the southern part of Wales, having a central plain stretch and surrounded by hills along its northern, eastern and western borders.

When viewed from the eyes of a tourist, life in Cardiff seems to tread at its own merry pace. A place like Cardiff can be depicted as the perfect blend of developments and advancements one would expect in the capital city, and the adornment of subtlety and pleasantness for offering peace to its tourists. Breathtaking landscapes spread across this city, and the exquisitemix of culture ad traditions marks its beautiful diversity.

Cardiff is primarily famous for the world renowned Cardiff University, established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. The majority of its population is dominated by students, both local and international, coming from all over the globe. This rich heterogeneity, along with its world class institutionalized educational standards, gives Cardiff the best rankings in terms of lifestyle, diverseness and scenic experience.

Amongst the places to visit in the city, Cardiff Bay offers a mesmerizing view of the large water body, supplied by Rivers Taff and Ely, while sitting on the edge of the dock. The large stretch of land bounding this area is highlighted with cuisines indigenous to all parts of the world, purposed to feed the


Green Day in 2002. Being a huge museum, it has gone through several restructurings and modifications in the early times. It has travelled through time from being a Roman architectural fort, through the Norman time and finally, expanded to give it a Victorian face in the 19th century. It is located along the mammoth and lush grounds of Bute Park.

Cardiff Millenium Stadium is the home to the Wales National union rugby team and the Wales National Football team. the stunningl stadium incorporates a capacity of 74,5000 spectators, which can also be expanded for major sporting events, as has been in the past during New Zealand’s Test rugby match against the Wales. The ground is a natural turf, with added features of irrigation and drainage to provide excellent playingcomfort to the players.

Cardiff is located around 132 miles, or 212 kilometers, from the city of London. There is a perfectly neat connection of roadways and railways, and gives the tourist complete easiness flexibility to reach Cardiff via London. There are trains, coaches and cabs available at very affordable prices. Alternatively, the Cardiff International Airport serves the purpose of an easy access to reach Cardiff directly.


CNet's reviewed Samsung's 52-inch 650 series LCD, the LN52A650. While there is a 750 series, it's worth noting that those sets get MPEG and MP3 playback from USB drives but have the same picture. So, for this generation of Samsung LCDs, this is as good as the picture gets. In summary, David Katzmaier loved the set.

Samsung's 1080p LCDs are some of the best out there, and here are their top models for the coming year: The charmingly named LN40A650T, LN46A650T, LN52A650T, LN40A750T, LN46A750T, and LN52A750T. They've got 120Hz refresh rates with 4ms response times, putting them in the same league as last year's Sharps in those…Back To The Future Part II (1989)

Director: Robert Zemeckis

From the past to the present to the future and back again, Zemeckis hits his time-travelling stride with this chronology-screwing popcorner - only seven years to go until we discover if his vision of 2015 was on the money.

Read our Back to the Future Part II review

497. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Director: Ang Lee

Lee exceeded all expectations with this wushu masterpiece set in ancient China. A martial-arts opus packed with emotion, beauty and plenty of elegant ass-kickery, it's the ultimate fusion of action and art.

Read our Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon review

496. Superman Returns (2006)

Director: Bryan Singer

It may have been a slighter return than some people had hoped for, but Singer's vision of the Man Of Steel is an heroic effort.


Plenty of spectacle and a lot of heart helps Kal-El soar.

Read our Superman Returns review

495. Jailhouse Rock (1957)

Director: Richard Thorpe

Elvis plays up to his rock 'n' roll bad-boy image as a former lag who gets into the music biz, becomes famous and grows a hell of an ego. Featuring a bunch of classic tunes, it's The King's best movie.

494. Sideways (2004)

Director: Alexander Payne

Wine, women and a right old ding-dong are the driving forces behind this excellent midlife-crisis road movie, so impactful it put millions off Merlot forever. Read Review

493. In The Company Of Men (1997)

Director: Neil LaBute

Squirmy satire abounds in LaBute's all-too-recognisable tale of two corporate men's bullying of a deaf female colleague. Read Review

492. Amores Perros (2000)

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu

It's a dog-eat-dog world in this superb, multi-strandeddrama. Man's best friend (and one car crash) may provide the connection between three disparate people, but it's the director's assured control that keeps it all together. Read Review

491. Ben-Hur (1959)

Director: William Wyler

Wyler's version of Lew Wallace's novel may have been the third adaptation to hit the big screen but, boy, was it the biggest. A huge budget and an exhausting shoot were rewarded with 11 Oscars and an epic for the ages. Read Review

490. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)

Director: Tim Burton

The Gothic sensibilities of Tim Burton meet the musical mastery of Stephen Sondheim for a demented Grand Guignol spectacular, which finds Johnny Depp in bloody fine singing voice. Read Review

489. Brick (2005)

Director: Rian Johnson

Johnson's impressive debut finds Hammett-style P. I. stories re-staged in


a high school as the superb Joseph Gordon-Levitt sets about investigating the suspicious death of a former girlfriend. Read Review

488. Princess Mononoke (1997)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

The Studio Ghibli head honcho weaves a tale of swords and sorcery with his trademark stunning style. He intended this to be his swansong; thankfully, it wasn't. Read Review

487. Superbad (2007)

Director: Greg Mottola

This coming-of-age tale from the Judd Apatow school of comedy succeeds by genuinely caring for its lovable loser heroes - doesn't stop it from hilariously putting the pair through the wringer, though. Read Review

486. Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)

Director: Blake Edwards

While it has its flaws, there's no denying that Audrey Hepburn still looks ravishing and Henry Mancini's score still makes us swing. Read Review

485. The Wicker Man (1973)

Director: Robin Hardy

A movie about theevil that men (and women) do in the name of religion, Hardy's horror gets closer than most to exposing our own dark nature, all while creeping us out with a bunch of freaky folkies, led by Christopher Lee. Read Review

484. The Fountain (2001)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Despite splitting audiences right down the middle, there's no mistaking the conviction that drives this deceptively simple fable about love and death. Read Review

483. The Big Red One (1980)

Director: Samuel Fuller

Sam Fuller had brought leather-tough visions of war to the big screen before, but The Big Red One is his hard-nosed masterpiece, based largely on the former crime reporter's own experiences battling across North Africa and Europe during World War II, and the project he'd held close to his heart for most of his


filmmaking career. Legend has it that one studio wanted Fuller to cast John Wayne as the growling, indurate sergeant who, along with four privates (ultimately to include Mark Hamill), is one of the division's few survivors. Fuller opted not to make the movie rather than have the Duke headline it - which sums up exactly what kind of war movie this is. When, eventually, he rolled, the part went to Lee Marvin, who carries the movie to its devastating concentration-camp-liberation conclusion without breaking a sweat. One suspects, also, that Steven Spielberg took notes during the gut-wrenching Omaha beach sequence. Read Review

482. Scream (1996)

Director: Wes Craven

The self-referential irony may have become less hip in the aftermath of countless pretenders, but the brutal effectiveness of Craven's slasher - and hisghost-faced killer creation - remain a genuine genre highpoint. Read Review

480. The Son's Room (2001)

Director: Nanni Moretti

A heartbreaking look at a father's grief after the death of his son, Moretti's Palme d'Or winner is lifted from the maudlin by his thoughtful and tender treatment. Read Review

481. Topsy-Turvy (1999)

Director: Mike Leigh

Stepping away from the kitchen sink, Leigh gave us this fabulous study of theatrical types as they create the first-ever production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. Read Review

479. The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty (1947)

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

The story of a mild-mannered accountant and the imaginary fantasy world he visits every time reality gets too tough, this Danny Kaye vehicle plays like a Technicolor version of Billy Liar. Read Review

478. Flesh (1968)

Director: Paul Morrissey

Produced by Andy Warhol and


taking place in a New York awash with free love and free-flowing drugs, this tale of hustlers, dealers and sexual adventurers is frank, absorbing and surprisingly amusing.

477. Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

Director: Nicholas Ray

As a teenage loner who involves himself in knife fights and road races, James Dean created an icon for a generation adrift, while Ray's direction created a timeless tale of teenage disaffection. Read Review

476. Santa Sangre (1989)

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Sick, twisted and very, very bloody, Jodorowsky's tale of madness, revenge and hacked-off limbs draws from a variety of inspirations, culminating in an influential freakshow of a movie. Read Review

475. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

Director: Gore Verbinski

While it's confused and bloated, the first Pirates sequel pleased crowds by giving them exactly what they wanted:more Captain Jack. Read Review

474. Enter The Dragon (1973)

Director: Robert Clouse

The movie that introduced the wider world to the bone-cracking kung fu icon that was Bruce Lee, Clouse's martial-arts funhouse - hall of mirrors and all - still sets the benchmark for all chopsocky actioners. Read Review

473. Into The Wild (2007)

Director: Sean Penn

Penn's fourth feature takes him into previously uncharted territory with a true-life tale about a young hobo explorer and his quest to truly escape modern life in America. Using the entire country as his backdrop, this is Penn's most ambitious movie yet. Read Review

472. Le Doulos (1962)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

French director Melville did for gangsters exactly what the Italian Sergio Leone did for cowboys, creating a distinctively European take on a predominantly American form by focusing on


Cuarón

The point at which the books started to take a darker turn - the arrival of the soul-sucking Dementors, a troubled werewolf, death sentences for hippogriffs. Cuarón's tenure as Hogwarts caretaker has yet to be outdone. Read Review

470. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

Director: James Foley

David Mamet's pungent chronicle of real-estate hustling is a modern Death Of A Salesman and makes one of the great ensemble films. Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Baldwin, Harris, Arkin - 'nuff said. Read Review

469. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1998)

Director: Terry Gilliam

Johnny Depp channels Hunter S. Thompson and consumes inhuman amounts of drugs, while Gilliam shows that the straight, Nixon-voting world outside Thompson's head - represented by Vegas at its most hideous - is scarcely less insane. Read Review

468. The Crow (1994)

Director: Alex Proyas

Dripping withstormcloud-moody teen-Goth cool, Proyas' Hollywood debut brought glumster J. O'Barr's culty comic book to action-packed life. Infamous, of course, for the tragic death of star Brandon Lee. Read Review

467. The Deer Hunter (1978)

Director: Michael Cimino

Cimino's bold, powerful 'Nam epic goes from blue-collar macho rituals to a fiery, South?East Asian hell and back to a ragged singalong of America The Beautiful. De Niro holds it together, but Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep and John Savage are unforgettable. Read Review

466. Snatch (2000)

Director: Guy Ritchie

Surprising that this should make the 500 when Lock, Stock hasn't. Still, this is the more proficient film, and particularly laudable for having both Brad Pitt and Frank Butcher from EastEnders on the same cast list. Read Review

465. 12 Monkeys (1995)

Director: Terry Gilliam

Here's a crazy theory for you


- maverick genius Terry Gilliam, untameable and outspoken, a thorn in Hollywood's precious derrière since the last days of Python - is a director who works best beneath studio colours. Take 12 Monkeys, with its weird-fangled, time-tripping script from David 'Blade Runner' Peoples. Here, with a strong producer, big stars (Bruce Willis and a potty Brad Pitt) and a medium budget, was a film delivered on time, on budget, and which became a sizeable hit. Yet, it lost none of its necessary Gilliamness - its dystopian Philadelphia underworld glistens with his classic Hieronymus Bosch-meets-Heath Robinson fabulation. It's worth thinking about just picking up those studio offers once in a while, Terry... Read Review

464. Seven Brides For Seven Brothers (1954)

Director: Stanley Donen

A rip-roarin' CinemaScope Western musical, which needs itsabout the challenges of multiculturalism and the woes of miscommunication. Haggis' debut lays the message on thick, but boy, does he know how to pack an emotional punch. Read Review

459. Ikiru (1952)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

A dying man tries to get a playground built, and Akira Kurosawa demonstrates his range by segueing from acidic dissection of Japanese office workaholism to understated, uplifting tragedy. If you don't cry at the end, you need a new heart. Read Review

458. Batman (1989)

Director: Tim Burton

Burton's noir nightmare re-established the franchise for the '90s. Nicholson and Keaton are a star turn as freak villain and Gothic hero. Full of imaginative violence, clever rethinkings of familiar characters, astonishing sets and witty lines. Read Review

457. Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Director: Stanley Kubrick

After 50 minutes of R. Lee Ermey


shouting at Marine recruits during basic training, the Vietnam scenes of Stanley Kubrick's brutal war film are almost a relief. Read Review

456. 28 Days Later (2002)

Director: Danny Boyle

A revival of the zombie apocalypse movie, shot fast and cheap and digital, this instantly established a new style for low-budget horror, but has room for eerily depopulated cityscapes and character horror as well as ferocious monster attacks. Read Review

455. Top Gun (1986)

Director: Tony Scott

A combination US Navy recruiting film, closet gay porno movie, Reaganite flag-waver and love letter to big, shiny jet fighters. Tony Scott still manages to get fluttering doves and shafts of light through dust into it. Read Review

454. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Director: Paul Greengrass

A sequel which upshifts thanks to director Paul Greengrass applying what might well beme Mr. Glass." Read Review

451. Speed (1994)

Director: Jan De Bont

"There's a bomb on the bus!" The acme of high concept and the best-ever red-wire-no-the-blue-wire film, irresistibly combining action with suspense. Read Review

450. King Kong (2005)

Director: Peter Jackson

Most remakes are exercises in money-grubbing cynicism, but Peter Jackson's King Kong is all about love - for a film, a monster, a style of cinema and a child's instant bonding with a screen icon. Read Review

449. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Director: George Lucas

Despite a plot about trade embargoes and tax incentives, guff about midi-chlorians and Binks, greatness is so ingrained in the DNA of Star Wars, we're surprised The Ewok Adventure didn't get on this list. Read Review

448. A History Of Violence (2005)

Director: David Cronenberg

Family man Viggo Mortensen


reveals his inner psychopath, and creepily his wife and children like him even more. David Cronenberg twists minds rather than flesh in this spare, classic modern Western. Read Review

447. Ten (2002)

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

A kind of Iranian Marion And Geoff, Abbas Kiarostami's Ten is as minimalist as it is thrilling. The conceit is simple: ten conversations between Mania Akbari, a twice-married Iranian woman taxi driver, and her passengers over 48 hours, captured in long static shots from a digital camera secured to the dashboard. As Akbari traverses the city streets, she converses with, among others, her wilful son, a jilted bride, a local prostitute and a woman travelling to prayer. What emerges is a fascinating mosaic of the role of women within a repressive regime. Yet, through the accumulationof telling details, a rounded backstory for Akbari slowly starts to coalesce. Brilliantly performed, the effect is as direct and intimate as a confession, a halfway house between fiction and documentary. However you label it, it remains leagues ahead of Dudley Moore perving over Bo Derek. Read Review

446. High Fidelity (2000)

Director: Stephen Frears

Nick Hornby's North London discomaniac memoir makes as much sense in Chicago, thanks to John Cusack's unique mix of geekiness and appeal. Read Review

445. Dumb And Dumber (1994)

Directors: Peter and Bobby Farrelly

A high (or low) watermark in the history of gross-out, scrambling the frenzied talents of Jim Carrey and the Farrelly brothers, with Jeff Daniels gamely pitching in. Read Review

444. Hairspray (1988)

Director: John Waters

Waters delivers a garish but affectionate Baltimore flashback with "pleasantly plump" teen Ricki


Lake doing a mean twist and ending racial segregation on local TV as well. Read Review

443. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Director: Sidney Lumet

A riveting character study (Pacino makes his bank robber fuck-up extraordinarily moving), a penetrating exposé of a media feeding frenzy, or just a great heist-gone-wrong flick. Any way, it's brilliant. Read Review

442. Atonement (2007)

Director: Joe Wright

Ian McEwan's devastating war romance is masterfully conveyed to screen by Joe Wright, whose taut stylistics, from the telling typewriter-clack of the soundtrack to that one-take, Steadicam Dunkirk shot, can't fail to impress. Read Review

441. Being John Malkovich (1999)

Director: Spike Jonze

A weird premise, courtesy of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, is spun into the archetypal 'quirky' indie hit, with major stars geeking out, accessible in-jokes and a plot that surprisingly makes sense. Malkovich wonmajor points for caricaturing himself as 'John Horatio Malkovich'. Read Review

440. Akira (1988)

Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Hyperviolent. Apocalyptic. Kinetic. Lurid. Akira is the definitive anime classic. Read Review

439. Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Directors: George Armitage

A disappointingly low showing for one of the best comedy thrillers of the '90s. Great cast (John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd as a professional hitman!), great script, killer soundtrack. Read Review

438. The Lost Boys (1987)

Director: Joel Schumacher

Vampires, mullets and the Frog Brothers in '80s California, this was the Buffy of its time, a guiltily pleasurable blend of comedy and horror. If you're in your 30s and remotely cool, this was a big part of your adolescence. Read Review

437. Spider-Man (2002)

Director: Sam Raimi

A home run for Raimi, proving that a director of bonkers, low-budget horrors could helm


a gargantuan summer blockbuster apparently effortlessly, and still manage to crowbar in a role for Bruce Campbell. Read Review

436. Beauty And The Beast (1991)

Directors: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise

Disney's 30th animated feature well and truly announced that the studio's doldrum years of the '80s were now over, and that The Little Mermaid was no fluke. Read Review

435. American Psycho (2000)

Director: Mary Harron

The appalling violence of Bret Easton Ellis' supposedly unfilmable early '90s novel was understandably toned down, but Christian Bale's Bateman (his arrival as a grown-up star) remains terrifying, and the critique of '80s avarice remains undiluted. Read Review

434. The Cat Concerto (1947)

Directors: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

The 29th Tom And Jerry one-reeler is one of only three shorts to make the 500, and it's easy to see why.is hilarious as one of cinema's least heroic heroes. Read Review

429. Danger: Diabolik (1968)

Director: Mario Bava

Meet Diabolik (John Phillip Law), masked super-criminal, high-living sensualist and unmatchable pop-art icon. An archly eyebrowed, unrepentant thief, Diabolik is equally opposed to a bureaucratic government (on a whim, he destroys a country's tax records) and the Mafia, and addicted to risk when it comes to stealing fabulously valuable items (eg a 20-ton gold ingot) which are also useless. Director Bava, a cult hero on the strength of Gothic horror films (The Mask Of Satan, Black Sabbath), was persuaded by Dino de Laurentiis to step away from the crypt for this one psychedelic masterpiece. It's as thin as a poster, but still amazing cinema - a succession of striking, kinetic, sexy, absurd images


accompanied by a one-of-a-kind Ennio Morricone score that revels in its casual anarchy. Imagine if The Dark Knight were The Joker.

428. The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser (1974)

Director: Werner Herzog

The haunting story of a foundling - apparently raised alone in a cellar and released in adulthood only to then be murdered - is an enigma indeed. Don't expect any answers from Herzog. Read Review

427. Spring In A Small Town (1948)

Director: Mu Fei

This tale of a woman's emotional journey in re-encountering an old flame languished in Communist archives - deemed reactionary - for decades, and was only rescued for re-appraisal during the 1980s. Read Review

426. Enduring Love (2004)

Director: Roger Michell

Rhys Ifans is beyond creepy as a disturbed stalker harassing Daniel Craig following a chance meeting. It differs substantially from IanMcEwan's novel but is almost unbearably tense. Read Review

425. Wonder Boys (2000)

Director: Curtis Hanson

A failure at the box office despite being released twice, Hanson's adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel found acclaim in later life, with Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr. on top form. Read Review

424. To Have And Have Not (1944)

Director: Howard Hawks

Simply an impeccable pedigree: Hawks directing a Hemingway novel, the screenplay written in part by William Faulkner, and the birth of the onscreen chemistry between Bogart and Bacall. Read Review

423. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Talkier and calmer than the berserk Vol. 1, Vol. 2 is very much a Western to the first film's Eastern. Still violent as all hell, though. Read Review

422. A Man Escaped (1956)

Director: Robert Bresson

A magnificent prisoner-of-war drama, directed with


spare economy by a director who was himself an ex-POW. Tense and un-schmaltzy, Shawshank fans would do well to seek it out. Read Review

421. Lethal Weapon (1987)

Director: Richard Donner

The high watermark of '80s cop movies, Lethal Weapon is harder-edged than its sequels, which upped the humour quotient at the expense of the 'lethality'. Read Review

420. Jerry Maguire (1996)

Director: Cameron Crowe

Crowe's feel-good hit took his easygoing romantic indie sensibilities to the mainstream with dazzling effect, making a star of Renée Zellweger and giving Cruise one of his best roles. Read Review

419. Days Of Heaven (1978)

Director: Terrence Malick

Malick's astonishing tone poem is a jewel of minimal dialogue and astonishing cinematography. Two years in the editing, the film exhausted Malick to the extent that he didn't direct again for 20 years.with a superior villain in Alfred Molina's Doc Ock, and a more confident Raimi sneaking in some of his own trademarks. Read Review

410. A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Director: Richard Lester

A life in the day of the Fab Four. Mixing documentary stylings, Fellini-esque fantasy, Dalí-esque surrealism and Nouvelle Vague. Read Review

409. Men In Black (1997)

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

A comedy hit that slyly spoofs that X-Files mix of government conspiracy, secret agents and E. T.s on Earth. Read Review

408. Zelig (1983)

Director: Woody Allen

Woody's human chameleon meets the great, the good and Hitler. As much as it is a technical triumph (pre-Forrest Gump), it is also a celebration of wit, satire, great conceits and human nature. Read Review

407. The Jungle Book (1967)

Director: Wolfgang Reitherman

The last film personally supervised by Uncle Walt, this


The Right Thing (1989)

Director: Spike Lee

A Molotov cocktail of a movie, this long hot summer's day in Brooklyn has it all: energy, comedy, great tunes and a simmering sense of anger that boils over. Still Spike's best joint. Read Review

402. Little Miss Sunshine (1947)

Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

So indie it hurts - dysfunctional characters, mainstream actors (Steve Carell, Greg Kinnear) doing quirky, Best Original Screenplay awards - this transcends the easy labelling with a real sense of the pangs and pathos of family life. Read Review

401. Batman Returns (1992)

Director: Tim Burton

Easily the better of the two Burton Batmans, Returns was most notable for a certain feline, figure-hugging costume... Read Review

400. The Incredibles (2004)

Director: Brad Bird

One of the best superhero movies of recent years - a kind ofWatchmen with gags - this fizzes by on pure invention, great jokes and a real affection for the retro '60s stylings it's aping. Read Review

399. Greed (1924)

Director: Erich von Stroheim

Von Stroheim's silent masterpiece - an honest dentist becomes obsessed with money after winning the lottery - is as obsessive as Kubrick, as epic as Lean and as powerful as Scorsese. Read Review

398. Killer Of Sheep (1977)

Director: Charles Burnett

A landmark in both black and indie cinema, this is a plotless portrait of an African-American LA family, built around mundane activities but told with wit, pathos and stunning black-and-white imagery. Read Review

397. Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

Director: George A. Romero

The greatest zombie movie ever made. Stripped of the cackle and glee of modern horror, this plays its emotions and


viscera straight, the lo-fi feel adding to the unease. Read Review

396. The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Director: Andrew Dominik

The kind of satisfying, elegiac Western you thought died out with the '70s. Great performances by Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, but this is truly its director's work. Read Review

395. Casino (1995)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Originally dismissed as a GoodFellas retread, Scorsese's gangsters-in-Vegas chronicle has improved with age, a complex, terrifying, virtuoso look at Mob minutiae. And Sharon Stone upstages De Niro. Fact. Read Review

394. Cloverfield (2008)

Director: Matt Reeves

If this were the 500 Greatest Viral Marketing Campaigns, this would be number one. As it is, this most modern of monster movies is brilliantly handled handheld fun. Read Review

393. Garden State (2004)

Director: Zach Braff

Among the most likable ofindie-slacker-ennui movies, Braff's blank-faced charm and Natalie Portman's kooky energy make this hard to resist. Also gets points for its too-cool-for-school soundtrack. Read Review

392. Paris, Texas (1984)

Director: Wim Wenders

It's Kramer Vs. Kramer on wheels as Harry Dean Stanton's Travis goes on the road with his son to find his ex. Emotionally restrained, beautifully shot and memorably scored by Ry Cooder. Read Review

391. Mulholland Drive (2001)

Director: David Lynch

Lynch's best work for 15 years, a dark look at the underbelly of Hollywood with enough impenetrability to support 1,000 theories. Hot girls get it on, too! Read Review

390. 2 Days In Paris (2007)

Director: Julie Delpy

Owing as much to Woody Allen as Richard Linklater, Delpy's French gal-Yank guy relationship piece is less earnest and funnier than the pleasures of Before Sunset/Sunrise. For


romantic cynics everywhere. Read Review

389. Election (1999)

Director: Alexander Payne

Is it strange to see this as Payne's highest entry on this list? Surely one would have expected the broader, more audience-friendly Sideways to have snagged that spot. In retrospect, perhaps not. A film that manages the gargantuan task of goosing both the Darwinian proving ground of high-school USA and the Byzantine machinations of the American political system, Election is satire masquerading as quirky comedy. A canny adaptation of a Tom Perrotta novel, it was initially inspired by the Bush-Clinton election of 1993 and the infamous case of a pregnant prom queen denied her title after staff rigged the vote. Regarding the latter, it's possible to view Election - in which teacher Matthew Broderick attempts to sabotage monstrously ambitious studentReese Witherspoon's bid for student body president - as not merely bang on target but also, in the light of the Florida 2000 fiasco, remarkably prescient. Read Review

388. The English Patient (1996)

Director: Anthony Minghella

If the late Minghella's best film is ladled with a Dullsville, awards-bait reputation, it shouldn't be, as it is a complex, ferociously intelligent, hugely emotional work - a true testament to a lost talent. Read Review

387. Rain Man (1988)

Director: Barry Levinson

The best film about a slickster and his autistic brother ever made, the unsung hero here is Levinson, who tells the tale in crisp, confident beats. Tom Cruise also knocks it out of the park. Read Review

386. The Great Silence (1968)

Director: Sergio Corbucci

A critics' favourite, this classic Spaghetti Western sees Jean-Louis Trintignant's mute gunfighter take


on Klaus Kinski's bounty hunters. Also boasts one of the bleakest endings ever mounted.

385. Ace In The Hole (1951)

Director: Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder gives free reign to his legendary cynicism in this, his first film as writer-producer-director, a caustic tale of media exploitation with Kirk Douglas on top, sleazy form as ruthless journo Chuck Tatum. It's a film that gets more relevant with every passing year. Read Review

384. The Shop Around The Corner (1940)

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

The inspiration for You've Got Mail. Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart fall for each other via letters in a wry, winning rom-com that stays just the right side of sentimental. One of the best from the grandmaster Lubitsch. Read Review

383. Serenity (2005)

Director: Joss Whedon

Out of the ashes of Firefly came Serenity, a great space-cowboysingle-take action sequence. Read Review

379. Ratatouille (2007)

Director: Brad Bird

Pixar's rat-in-the-kitchen masterwork combines perfectly orchestrated slapstick with a self-portrait about the challenges of being an artist in a sea of mediocrity. In an age of fast-food animation, this is a three-Michelin-star experience. Read Review

378. The Goonies (1985)

Director: Richard Donner

Every generation has a film that will always be carried in its heart. This madcap, Spielberg- produced adventure about a gaggle of treasure-hunting brats stuck in booby-trapped mazes is that film for anyone born around 1980. Read Review

377. Mean Streets (1973)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Try to watch this remembering that, at the time, nobody had heard of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro or Harvey Keitel. You're watching the start of a new cinematic era. Read Review

376. Zodiac (2007)

Director: David Fincher

How do you turn


of not just style but storytelling technique as well. Read Review

372. Army Of Darkness (1992)

Director: Sam Raimi

The third, and silliest, in Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy is notable for completely letting Bruce Campbell off the chin, sorry, chain. And that is a glorious sight to behold. Read Review

371. Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl (2003)

Director: Gore Verbinski

Remember when the Pirates Of The Caribbean franchise wasn't misguidedly obsessed with character depth and darkness, and was just plain old fun? Read Review

370. Rocky (1976)

Director: John G. Avildsen

One of the finest ever sporting movies, a celebration of the can-do spirit - all the more important when it becomes clear that he can't. Read Review

369. The Breakfast Club (1985)

Director: John Hughes

To anyone who was a teen in the '80s,populist good times you'll have with a killer alien? You bet your ass. Read Review

365. The Bourne Identity (2002)

Director: Doug Liman

Liman's kick-off to the excellent Bourne series wasn't quite as accomplished as the sequels, but it was a morally murkier film and set up the mood that Paul Greengrass so rewardingly continued. Read Review

364. Natural Born Killers (1994)

Director: Oliver Stone

What do you get when you cross combustible provocateur Oliver Stone and (the then) enfant terrible of Hollywood Quentin Tarantino? Answer: Natural Born Killers, a volatile re-working of the Badlands/Bonnie And Clyde couple-on-a-killing-spree formula that (predictably) shocked the system, and (predictably) had Tarantino throwing a creative huff over Stone's liberal changes. The film is all the more fascinating for being a product of its time, strobing through the mid-'90s


zeitgeist (from daytime soaps to news docs), and populated with such (as of then) wild children as Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore, Juliette Lewis and Woody Harrelson. The mystical mumbo-jumbo harks back to Stone's predilection for '60s motifs, making it half-crazed, but iconic all the same. Read Review

363. Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

Director: Barry Levinson

Robin Williams off the Richter scale, as his jabber-mouthed DJ stirs up the Vietnam troops until the authorities pull the plug. The political framework at least gives more purpose to the freeforming comedian's verbal torrents. Read Review

362. The Elephant Man (1980)

Director: David Lynch

Easily Lynch's most sympathetic and outwardly 'gettable' movie tells the tragic 19th-century tale of John Merrick, hideously disfigured by a congenital disease, and taken in by a kindly doctor who sees the humanbeneath the freakshow. Read Review

361. Clerks (1994)

Director: Kevin Smith

The no-budget, über-indie convenience-store comedy that struck gold and made Smith the man he is today - the heartfelt if profane chronicler of America's slacker belt. Read Review

360. The Return (2003)

Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev

Family drama in the Russian wilds as an estranged father returns to his two teenage sons: this simple premise emerges as a stunning, near-mythic tale of emergent manhood in the hands of a director fast becoming Russia's premier filmmaker. Read Review

359. The Lady Eve (1941)

Director: Preston Sturges

The irrepressible Sturges takes another bow in the 500, with this familiar mix of rich characters and madcap plotting, as spurned con-woman Barbara Stanwyck disguises herself as an English lady to romantically torment dotty professor Henry Fonda. Read Review

358. Russian Ark (2002)

Director:


Aleksandr Sokurov

The film that famously involves one single shot, floating through the halls of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg during 19th century Russia. It's a virtuoso piece of directing, but can't quite escape the nagging sensation of stunt over content. Read Review

357. The Long Goodbye (1973)

Director: Robert Altman

Robert Altman's languid, freeform version of Raymond Chandler's last great novel relocates the 1953 story to 1973, critiquing the out-of-time values of Elliott Gould's Philip Marlowe - a slobby, unshaven, chain-smoking all-time loser introduced in a brilliant sequence which has him try to pass off inferior pet food on his supercilious cat. John Williams' superb score plays endless variations on a title tune and many sequences are astonishing: a violent gangster making a point by smashing a Coke bottle in hismistress' face ("That's someone I love; you I don't even like") and an invigoratingly cynical punchline ("... and I lost my cat") that turns Marlowe into a sort of winner, after all. Altman puts vital action into the corners of the frame, almost unnoticed, and highlights tiny moments of weirdness in a sun-struck tapestry of Los Angeles sleaze. Arnold Schwarzenegger, no less, has an unbilled cameo as a minor thug. Read Review

356. Napoléon (1927)

Director: Abel Gance

At its restored length, Gance's silent masterpiece runs to five-and-a-half hours. It was designed as a gigantic biopic in six 90-minute parts, but ended up this magnificent giant (about a shortarse) with groundbreaking visuals, literate captions and pulsating energy. Read Review

355. Sunshine (2007)

Director: Danny Boyle

Boyle followed his re-invention of zombie horror (in 28


with this pacy mix of literate dialogue and bold slapstick, with Rex Harrison's troubled symphony conductor contemplating the murder of his possibly philandering wife, Linda Darnell. Read Review

351. Zulu (1964)

Director: Cy Endfield

In the face of much parody, it is easy to forget how stirring Zulu actually is. Glorious to gaze upon, the battle scenes have an almighty clamour, but never at the expense of the characters, which include a posh Michael Caine. Read Review

350. Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

This trippy piece of new-Hollywood sci-fi mixes in issues of race, science, even politics, with its tetchy dystopian thrills and Charlton Heston's bronzed chest. The twist ending alone lands it on this list. Read Review

349. Arthur (1981)

Director: Steve Gordon

This daft odd-couple routine - boozy aristo Dudley MooreReview

346. Leave Her To Heaven (1945)

Director: John M. Stahl

A smart, flashback-driven noir-melodrama charting a marriage swept to hell on a dark wave of jealousy. Championed by Scorsese, who discovered it on TV after a midnight asthma attack. Read Review

345. Fatal Attraction (1987)

Director: Adrian Lyne

The movie that gave us the phrase "bunny-boiler", Lyne's cautionary anti-romance was a phenomenon at the time. It's not aged too well (terrible ending), but its influence is still felt. Read Review

344. The Last Waltz (1978)

Director: Martin Scorsese

If Woodstock (co-directed by Scorsese) marks the beginning of an era, The Last Waltz appropriately and sensitively captures its end, as Scorsese documents the last gig by former Dylan backing-act The Band. Read Review

343. Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Director: Pete Docter

Another Pixar charmer that zips along on a buddy-movie premise,


most notable for the novel concept that the horrors slithering under your bed are nothing more than regular working schmoes. Read Review

342. The Gold Rush (1925)

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Masterfully recreating the freezing wastes of Alaska on his Hollywood backlot, Chaplin keeps his notorious sentimentality in check and offers up one of the most durable gems of the silent era, following the

Tramp's varying fortunes as a gold prospector. Read Review

341. The Passenger (1975)

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Many would argue that Jack Nicholson has yet to better his lead performance in Michelangelo Antonioni's complex, disquieting thriller as a frazzled reporter who assumes the identity of a dead gun-runner. Read Review

340. High And Low (1963)

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Kurosawa's contemporary crime thriller is one of his relatively lesser-known efforts. Don't let the absence of swords andsamurai armour put you off - abetted once again by Toshiro Mifune (here a businessman whose son is kidnapped), Kurosawa proved himself a master of any genre he deigned to tackle. Read Review

339. Spirited Away (2001)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

For too many, this was an overdue introduction to the crazy-beautiful delights of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli - and also a reminder of the wonderful mythologies that thrive far beyond the boundaries of Disney's magic kingdom. Read Review

338. Jules Et Jim (1962)

Director: François Truffaut

Truffaut's deeply affecting love-triangle drama came at (or rather, helped form) the crest of the revolutionary French New Wave, and its zest remains untainted. Read Review

337. 300 (2006)

Director: Zack Snyder

Falling just 37 places short of its ideal spot, Snyder's buff, beefy comic adaptation slammed Sparta onto the cinematic


map. With help, of course, from Gerard Butler's very shouty grasp of the obvious ("This… is... SPARTAAAA!"). Read Review

336. Titanic (1997)

Director: James Cameron

Cameron’s ship-meets-iceberg magnum opus was talked up as a disaster in the making. Of course, he proved us all wrong, the clever bastard. Read Review

335. The Seventh Seal (1957)

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Bergman's challenging medieval masterpiece is one of cinema's most satisfying works - visually, intellectually, spiritually. It also showcases movies' greatest ever chess game... Read Review

334. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Director: Orson Welles

Welles' family drama is of the greats somehow, despite the fact that it was infamously molested by the studio while Welles holidayed. The suits blamed Pearl Harbour for the insertion of an upbeat ending. Read Review

333. Grease (1978)

Director: Randal Kleiser

Still lovingly mocked for featuring the oldesthigh-schoolers ever, Grease coasts on a double-dose of nostalgia: for the '50s as reminisced during the '70s. Read Review

332. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Forget the twist: it's the slow-freeze chills and upsettingly convincing performance by Haley Joel Osment that define Shyamalan's finest film to date. Read Review

331. The Green Mile (1999)

Director: Frank Darabont

Darabont's other Stephen King prison movie is not entirely successful at carrying its own weight, but with the heft comes a certain raw emotional power. Contains cinema's most disturbing execution scene. Read Review

330. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith (2005)

Director: George Lucas

Fourth best Star Wars, undeniably the most satisfying of the prequels. Read Review

329. The Lives Of Others (2006)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

One of the all-too-few films that resists subtitle-prejudice, this character-driven


instalment. Read Review

324. Lone Star (1996)

Director: John Sayles

Sayles specialises in deliberately paced, ensemble, slice-of-Americana dramas, and bolstered by a flashback-driven mystery element (featuring Matthew McConaughey's best performance), this bordertown saunter is one of his finest. Read Review

323. The Last Seduction (1994)

Director: John Dahl

Dahl and Linda Fiorentino crafted a bitch for the ages in crafty femme Bridget Gregory - but then, why should it always be the men who get all the fun in noir? Read Review

322. Aladdin (1992)

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker

Heartland Disneytainment, best-loved by boys for having a rogueish bloke rather than a princess at the centre of things, best-loved by everyone for Robin Williams' show-stealing vocal whirl as the genie. Read Review

321. Funny Face (1957)

Director: Stanley Donen

Audrey Hepburn has rarely looked better, and Fred Astaire's stillMaurier's fraught classic of timid new brides tormented by tyrannical housekeepers and distant husbands. It's all a bit melodramatic for the master, but he did to win the Best Picture Oscar. Read Review

317. Midnight Run (1988)

Director: Martin Brest

Quietly, hilariously, this odd-couple thriller was one of the films of the '80s. The teaming of a droll but square Charles Grodin (as the dodgy accountant on the lam) and a restrained and likable Robert De Niro (as the bounty hunter sent to retrieve him) proved perfect. Read Review

316. Trainspotting (1996)

Director: Danny Boyle

There's no doubting the jump-start Boyle's Scorsese-styled adaptation of Irvine Welsh's drug odyssey gave to the stuffy home-grown industry, not to mention the career of one Ewan McGregor. Read Review

315. Sense And Sensibility (1995)

Director: Ang Lee

Lee, with his keen


eye for the foibles of human behaviour, was a perfect fit for Jane Austen's silken satire. It's hardly a radical adaptation, but with decent performances, it remains popular. Read Review

314. Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

An extraordinary, unrivalled, utterly cynical piece of Hollywood noir, as Tony Curtis' sleazoid press agent rubs up against Burt Lancaster's formidable J. J. Hunsecker, the Broadway columnist who can make or break careers. Read Review

313. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Eisenstein's dramatisation of the Russian naval mutiny, cited as the kick-off point for the revolution itself, put down a breathtaking blueprint for what cinema could do. Read Review

311. American History X (1998)

Director: Tony Kaye

Hugely controversial in its day, Kaye's black-and-white tale of neo-Nazi redemption has, scarily, only grown in relevance. Edward Norton, whoreally a comedy? Read Review

308. The Terminator (1984)

Director: James Cameron

Only John Connor can overcome the monster machines who have nearly exterminated humanity in the future, so the cybernetic baddies send an unstoppable robot back in time to kill his mother before he is born. The Terminator is the great sci-fi-horror-action film, wedding ideas from old Outer Limits episodes and Philip K. Dick stories to the relentless, rollercoaster pacing of Halloween. Arnold Schwarzenegger became a screen icon in this version of his classic role (he is much better as an evil terminator), wiping out discos full of dancers or police stations full of cops in a single-minded search for Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton, with an alarming perm) and gradually losing human shape to appear as a Stan Winston robo-skeleton.


Writer-director James Cameron, redeeming himself after Piranha II, launched his career - arguably, the constraints suited him better than the unlimited funds he's had on subsequent movies. Read Review

307. Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Director: John Schlesinger

Bittersweet, Oscar-winning drama with Jon Voight's cowboy hustler struggling to make it in the Big Apple, only to find a weird kind of solace in the company of showstealing Dustin Hoffman as shrewish bum Ratso Rizzo. John Barry's music injects memorable pathos. Read Review

306. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (2007)

Director: Steven Spielberg

Spielberg endeavoured to mix it up for this, the lightest of the Indy quartet. Adding Sean Connery as a wisecracking Jones Sr. was a triumph, although the quest for the Holy Grail feels a bit formulaic. Read Review

305. The Prestige (2006)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Inthe wake of The Dark Knight, this twisted tale of warring Victorian magicians appears more of a side attraction on Nolan's grim canon. Still, it's gorgeous to look at, even if the 'cleverness' of its ending remains open to debate. Read Review

304. Radio Days (1987)

Director: Woody Allen

Made towards the end of Allen's early, funny phase, this is a sweet-natured homage to the big-band days of early radio, beamed across America through tub-sized Magnavox radios. Slight, by his early standards, but evocative and lovable all the same. Read Review

303. Together (2000)

Director: Lukas Moodyson

The film that made Moodysson the hip kid of new Swedish cinema is anything but Bergman reinvented. Set in a '70s Stockholm commune, it's light on its feet: an endearingly fizzy picture of the struggle for human


Story (1942)

Director: Preston Sturges

This bit of screwball Sturges magic concerns itself with marital fidelity beneath the lure of money. An improbable inspiration for Indecent Proposal. Read Review

298. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Melville, that beloved master of French noir, delivers a morally murky crime story of honour among poker-faced thieves, and corruption among hardened cops. Read Review

297. It Happened One Night (1934)

Director: Frank Capra

Another justly celebrated Capra fable has snappy heiress Claudette Colbert, on the run from her cosseted life, hit it off with cynical reporter Clark Gable in search of just this kind of story. Read Review

296. All The President’s Men (1976)

Director: Alan J. Pakula

The Watergate scandal told with razor-sharp intelligence from the perspective of Woodward and Bernstein (realised via the opposing styles of Dustin Hoffman andin 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. 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


most fascinating film of Spielberg's career. Read Review

264. American Graffiti (1973)

Director: George Lucas

Lucas' love letter to cruising, rock 'n' roll and growing up is the first and best Four Friends At A Crossroads movie. Warm, funny, wise, and light years away from Star Wars. Read Review

263. Das Boot (1981)

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

The most claustrophobic film on this list, charting the adventures of German U-boat U-96. A superbly crafted exercise in nerve-shredding tension, compelling characterisation and the minutiae of submarine life. Read Review

262. The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Director: Sofia Coppola

Debutante Coppola’s retelling of Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel — five sisters engage in a suicide pact — is the perfect calling card for her dreamy, lyrical style. Great Air score, too. Read Review

261. Roman Holiday (1953)

Director: William Wyler

The movie that gave the worldDownfall (2004)

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

With his feature debut, the shocking Das Experiment, German director Hirschbiegel arrived as the European filmmaker to get excited about. Not one to steer clear of controversy, implicitly Das Experiment was about the rise of the Nazis, and for his next trick he went the whole hog — depicting Hitler’s final days in his Berlin bunker, the Führer tipped into a hyperbolic frenzy by the fall of his kingdom. Giving evil a human face, Hirschbiegel dares us even to sympathise with the collapsing Reich. That is, until you see Frau Goebbels icily poison her own children. It makes Hirschbiegel’s crash-and-burn in Hollywood — The Invasion — all the more galling. Read Review

244. Dazed And Confused (1993)

Director: Richard Linklater

The plot, such as it is, concerns the