Can a man's life be defined by one word? Zach explores Orson Welles' 1941 masterpiece, Citizen Kane.

NOTE: This is the final film on "the list", but fear not, Zach on Film will continue.

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film produced by, co-written by, directed by and starring Orson Welles. The picture was Welles's first feature film. The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories; it won an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles. Considered by many critics, filmmakers, and fans to be the greatest film ever made, Citizen Kane was voted the greatest film of all time in five consecutive Sight & Sound '​s polls of critics, until it was displaced by Vertigo in the 2012 poll. It topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as AFI's 2007 update. Citizen Kane is particularly praised for its cinematography, music, and narrative structure, which were innovative for its time.

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Top Five is a show where the hosts categorize, rank, compare, and stratify everything… from cars to gadgets to people and movies. From stuff that is hot, and things that are not nearly as interesting - it's Top Five.

Bruce is back on this Christmas morning, and he will have you rockin' and rollin' in this week's Top Five Express.

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Time to check in the Doc Savage's cousin, Patricia, to see what happens when she takes on babysitting.

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This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast - We’re celebrating a holiday, looking at Spider-Woman’s new duds, and reviewing The X-Files X-Mas Special and Unity #13.

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Spider- Woman gets a new costume

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A Renegade stands against The United!

Even the addition of the bright and bubbly Faith Herbert – aka Zephyr of the Harbinger Renegades – can’t solve Unity’s PR crisis in the wake of the team’s actions during the Armor Hunters’ attack. But can she help stand against the threat of the international strike force known as THE UNITED? And what secret is the US harboring that threatens to push the world to the brink of war?

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This week, we return to the land of Smash Up and dive into the Big Geeky Box.

For some time Smash Up fans have cried out, "Give us a better storage box! The cardboard awesome is overflowing from this incredibly well-designed and amazing game your wonderful and generous company created. "And we heard you! This summer you'll be able to buy The Big Geeky Box! This oversized box features three long trays for holding your Smash Up factions, as well as high quality dividers for sorting. It also comes with the really cool foam spacers that people loved in Thunderstone and Nightfall. Organization was never this hot! Not only that, but the box comes with a bonus faction, the Geeks! Featuring Geek and Sundry, this deck will allow you to geek out like never before. Geek Dinosaurs, Geek Spies, you name it! Look for the box and the cards this fall. OK maybe we exaggerated that bit. And that bit too, but you get it.

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This week you’ll enjoy the return of Sam Johnson, one of the creators of The Almighties, who talks about their new issue #0, which is now available. He discusses the characters and how this title has moved from parody into its own adventure format, among other things. To get these books, go to this link! He also updates us on his other projects, Geek-Girl and Cabra Cini, Voodoo Junkie Hit Woman, as well!

Then I continue my yearly holiday tradition of playing the audio from Twas the Dark Knight Before Christmas, an excellent video you can find here on YouTube. It has a great lesson for this festive season, so don’t miss it!

Next week, I’ll be back to chat with another excellent comics creator! Don’t miss it!

It’s the middle of Hanakuh and Christmas is just around the corner so we are talking about gifts that certainly won’t make it to your hands until 2015 on this episode of The Want List!

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LEGO teases Frozen sets:  http://on.fb.me/1z5s7Mt

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In this installment of Critical Hit - A Major Spoilers Dungeons and Dragons Podcast: We crack open the Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Starter Set to see what happens.

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This week Zach learns about Terry Gilliam and his 1985 classic, Brazil.

Brazil is a 1985 British film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard. British National Cinema by Sarah Street describes the film as a "fantasy/satire on bureaucratic society" while John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies describes it as a "dystopian satire". The film stars Jonathan Pryce and features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm.

The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil '​s bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure.

Jack Mathews, film critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life". Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North America release. It has since become a cult film.

The film is named after the recurrent theme song, "Aquarela do Brasil", as performed by Geoff Muldaur.<

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