It's one of the finest movies made, a wondrous spectacle with outstanding hallmarks of what makes an epic. The parting of the Red Sea by Moses is a sight to behold, the clincher for a lone Academy Award win in Special Effects category, and it's still unbelievable for 1956. Charlton Heston will always be the King of Epics: The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, and El Cid. Not to miss is the strong performance by Yul Brynner.

The epic of all epics, it's a big-budget picture amassing over 15,000 extras. Rome has never been so glorious-looking since the fall of the empire. The greatest and the most breathtaking climax comes during the chariot race. That scene is the reason alone the epic remains an insurmountable work of cinema. Although it's the highlight of Ben-Hur, the movie is much more than that which includes the rise of Jesus Christ.

This is the grandfather of the film noir genre. Humphrey Bogart will always be iconic as Sam Spade, the anti-hero private dick everybody imagines when they read the pulp detective stories. The cinematography is top-notch, the script is marvelously done, and the mood can't be any more noirish. It's "the stuff that dreams are made of."

Sorcerer is a unique motion picture from William Friedkin that's shot on location in the Dominican Republic. This isn't about the plot per se but an adventure of four men who are down on their luck and will do anything to turn their fortunes around even if it means life and death. Among the finest and most unforgettable scenes in cinema history is the bridge crossing, twice at that, which took three months to film.

Among John Carpenter's top three films of all time, The Thing is a bona fide horror classic that improves on the original in every way possible. The plot is terrific which is alike to Alien. But this time, everybody dies because it's for the sake of saving the world from the unstoppable monster. The movie is pure terror all the way to the end.

Nobody played Philip Marlowe better than Robert Mitchum. It's just terrific writing. "This car sticks out like spats at an Iowa picnic." "She had all 'A's', none of them on a report card." "There was something about Abraham Lincoln's picture that loosened him up." "She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket." "I'll bet you five dollars you can't find a state they're not wanted in." "$50, $10 extra if you bleed in my boat."

Martin Scorsese's version of Cape Fear is more thrilling and suspenseful than the original. The performances are uniformly excellent. Robert De Niro is at once effective and chilling as Max Cady. Juliette Lewis embodies the look of an innocent teenage girl. A terrific scene is when they are alone in the auditorium.

Cousins is one of the greatest romantic and also funniest movies made, being the main precursor of Hugh Grant's British classic Four Weddings and a Funeral. Electrifying is the chemistry between Ted Danson and Isabella Rossellini. And the rest of the cast is impeccable, giving the film a lively pace.

The first and only disaster film to win Best Picture, Titanic wipes away all previous pictures about the unsinkable ship. Featuring a sweeping romantic story, it won eleven out of fourteen Oscars. James Cameron is a wunderkind because of how he's able to blend the visual effects with cinema so effortlessly well that it all looks as one. Although A Night to Remember is forgotten today, it remains the most accurate version of what happened that night of April 14, 1912, thanks to Walter Lord's book.

Without question, Yul Brynner is the undisputed leader of the ensemble cast. He has a quiet commanding presence, setting the tone of the film. Sorry, Steve McQueen...you lost. And it's not even close. I've seen Shichinin no samurai twice, but it's an overlong, boring film. Hence, The Magnificent Seven makes for a nice substitute.

Out of the two versions of The Front Page and His Girl Friday, Billy Wilder's is the best. The pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau for the respective roles of Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns is genius. Their comedic timing is unbelievable. It's a funny movie which has the pace just right. Billy Wilder was smart enough to end the film with Walter Matthau saying, "The son of a bitch stole my watch."

Son of the Morning Star is a dramatic improvement over Custer of the West by getting nearly everything correct. Not only that, the story is told from two points of view: Custer's wife and a Cheyenne woman named Kate Bighead aka Antelope. Dances With Wolves' Rodney E. Grant appears as Crazy Horse along with other authentic Indians which are 150 in all. The film was shot on location in Badlands National Park and Buffalo Gap, South Dakota.