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SHOT OF THE WEEK: Super 8 (2011)

Alice Dainard: So how am I supposed to be a zombie? Joe Lamb: Oh, um... Pretty much be a lifeless ghoul, with no soul. Dead eyes. Scary. Did you ever have Mrs. Mullin? Alice Dainard: For English? Yeah. Joe Lamb: Yeah. Kind of like her, but hungry for human flesh. Like she wants to turn somebody into a zombie. 'Cause that's kind of what zombies do. [ Alice practices being a zombie. Soft music playing ] Joe Lamb: Oh, my God, yeah. Thats really good.

15 YEARS IN FILM: 100 MOST MEMORABLE ACTING PERFORMANCES: 2001-2015

1. Daniel Day-Lewis  as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007) " The best movie performance so far this century? No contest. There's Daniel Day-Lewis' awe-inspiring turn as a greedy oilman in There Will Be Blood, and there is everyone else." -  Lou Lumenick in New York Post 2. Kirsten Dunst as Justine in Melancholia (2011) " Melancholia is a potent beauty of a film, and Kirsten Dunst gives an incomparable performance. " -  Peter Travers in Rolling Stone 3. Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain (2005) " Much as it is about love, Brokeback is also a potent study of repression that comes alive in Ledger's shattering performance ." - Carrie Rickey in Philadelphia Inquirer 4. Michael Fassbender as Brandon in Shame (2011) " [Fassbender is] so good as a man completely lost to his baser impulses that it makes "Shame" worth sitting through. Enjoying? Th