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"Get busy living, or get busy dying."


Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
Running time: 136 minutes
Country: USA


The Shawshank Redemption truly is one of the biggest modern day classics. This is a film that I think everybody loves for what it is. This film is about friendship, fear, freedom and most of all hope. This film teaches that life is never easy and we have to fight to achieve what we want or need. It is a film such a big heart and is a film with such inspiration; it fills people's hearts really high with joy as well as affectionate drama. I love this film to bits but it is one of the most overrated films of all time because I feel too many people love it. The Shawshank Redemption is adapted from a novel of the same name by Stephen King who is in my opinion the best novelist of all time. I loved the way Shawshank Redemption sends its message not only through watching the film but also the taglines of the film. This is probably the feel-good film of the 1990s along with Forrest Gump and amongst others.


I do like Tim Robbins as an actor but he is a better director. His performance as Andy Dufresne was good but not amazing because I couldn't really see Andy's really desperate measures to earn his freedom like I could Red's. Andy went through a lot before and in prison. Andy was a banker who was wrongly charged with the murder of his wife and lover. When Andy goes inside Shawshank and starts to become very close friends with red, Andy became a victim of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a gang called the Sisters especially by Boggs who is their leader. Andy overcomes that and makes a big name for himself inside Shawshank. Tim was a good choice but not the best for Andy. I loved Morgan Freeman's performance as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding because I could feel the love, kind-hearted nature and the desperation to be free within Red. Morgan is an actor who always LOOKS like Morgan Freeman and acts like Morgan Freeman because he acts all sorts of different characters but always looks the same. His performance would have been more of a supporting role is Robbins performance was worthy of an Oscar nomination or win.


Frank Darabont's directing big hit debut of The Shawshank Redemption wasn't a big hit in those days but nowadays it really is a remarkable direction with such force, light, power and even beauty that you could almost cry at literally. Darabont made The Shawshank Redemption a one-of-a-kind phenomenon that truly is worthwhile just like The Green Mile. The Shawshank Redemption is an unforgettable masterpiece that is dramatic, beautiful and even quite tense on occasions.


1994 was an unbelievable year for cinema and this is one of the best but I did prefer Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction and Léon: The Professional. Tim Robbins' best performance is still his Oscar winning one in Mystic River. Morgan Freeman's performance in The Shawshank Redemption is the best performance of his career and will always be hopefully. This isn't my favourite Stephen King novel. I love The Green Mile and The Shining more, it is one of the top prison films and a close inspiration to me. Frank Darabont's work is still better in The Green Mile but in The Shawshank Redemption, it is a great debut. It doesn't match Orson Welles or Sam Mendes as far as best debuts are concerned but it isn't far from that position. The Shawshank Redemption is a film that is just too irresistible to not love.

"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."


Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall
Running time: 175 minutes
Country: USA


The Godfather is probably the most famous motion picture that has been filmed ever. When I first saw a poster of Vito Corleone I thought to myself "what the hell is this film?" But I didn't really understand the plot of the film so I needed to see the film and find out myself. The first time I saw The Godfather I didn't understand it even though I really liked the characters. The second viewing of the film was absolutely incredible for me because I understood it more and finally realised how much of a classic it really was. The Godfather truly is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece that is just a complete gangster classic. It is obviously rather dramatic but it is a thriller as well because there are some threats involving each of the different families within the film. The Godfather is a film that you just have to call a classic whether you like it or not. I can understand why some people wouldn't like this film because it is hard to understand and it is a long film as well. People would appreciate The Godfather because of how it was filmed, how interesting the characters are whether they are heroes or villains.

The Godfather including the second one has one of the best ensemble cast members of all time. The Godfather is the one film where the entire cast have all delivered top-notch performances. They are all ones worthy of an Oscar win. Marlon Brando delivers an ultimately legendary performance as Don Vito Corleone. Don Corleone is the father of Sonny, Fredo, Michael and Connie Corleone. He has an adopted son called Tom Hagen which is still classified as a member of the family. Marlon's portrayal of Don Corleone was very unique because he has a very bizarre voice and with absolutely awesome make-up as well. I think the producers and director wanted to make it look the least like Marlon Brando even though it is obviously still him. I think they wanted to make the Vito Corleone character as realistic as possible. It is quite hard to compare Marlon Brando as Don Corleone with characters like Stanley Kowalski and Terry Malloy because he is almost 20 years older and also Vito is a rather odd person. Marlon was an actor with a really specific taste of characters he would portray which is a very good talent for Marlon because he wanted to keep his reputation at a very high standard. There were some films that I have heard he has done bad performances in including his Razzie win. Unfortunately Marlon declined his Oscar winning performance as Don Corleone because Hollywood were discriminating against Native Americans. Al Pacino's performances in his early years are probably his best performances. His performance as Michael Corleone was really awesome. Michael became a totally changed person when he got himself involved with the family's affairs. Michael was just going to live a normal private life but when Don Corleone was assassinated but not killed, he ends up becoming a big part of the family even though he is the youngest son of Don Corleone. Al Pacino showed Michael slowly becoming a monster in which he did become in The Godfather: Part II. James Caan was really awesome as Sonny Corleone who is the oldest son of Don Corleone. Robert Duvall was absolutely awesome as Tom Hagen. Tom Hagen is the adopted son of Don Corleone. I really liked Diane Keaton as Kay Adams as well who is Michael's girlfriend and then ultimately becomes his wife and the mother of his children.

Francis Ford Coppola has created the start of a classic trilogy that are just legends of cinema. Coppola's Godfather is like Jackson's Lord Of The Rings. It's like Lord Of The Rings are this decade or maybe even century of The Godfather. The Godfather is a story that is a mafia sort of film that would be something Martin Scorsese would do but to be perfectly honest he would have made it rather crap. Francis Ford Coppola made it feel like I don't need to read the novels because the films are just so good including the third one as well. Coppola has made The Godfather a very unusual gangster film with dark settings, cinematography, costumes and make-up design. Coppola hasn't really directed any films at all really because I think he wanted The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 to be his most memorable works as well as extremely memorable works in cinema. The script is just absolutely outstanding with a famous quote from Don Corleone: "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse." Despite the fact I haven't read the novels yet, I think the films are probably better.

This film won 3 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Leading Actor (Marlon Brando) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Marlon Brando regrettably refused to accept the award for the reason that the U.S. and especially Hollywood are discriminating Native American people. Brando did not show up at the ceremony, but instead sent a faked Indian woman named Sacheen Littlefeather who later turned out to be Maria Cruz, a less known Californian actress. The Godfather was nominated for Best Supporting Actor which had three actors from the film nominated but none of them won (James Caan, Robert Duvall and Al Pacino). They lost to Joel Grey in Cabaret. It was also nominated for Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) but lost to Bob Fosse in Cabaret, Best Costume Design but lost to Travels With My Aunt, Best Sound but lost to Cabaret, Best Film Editing but lost to Cabaret and Best Music Original Dramatic Score but lost to Limelight. The Godfather won 5 Golden Globes: Best Picture Drama, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola), Best Actor Drama (Marlon Brando), Best Screenplay and Best Original Score. It was nominated for another Best Actor Drama nomination for Al Pacino but lost to his older co-star Marlon Brando and Best Supporting Actor (James Caan) but lost to Joel Grey in Cabaret.

The Godfather is one of the two trilogies that had had all three films nominated for Best Picture. The other trilogy is Lord Of The Rings. The Godfather is one of the all-time best classic films. The first is the best and most famous in the trilogy. The first one started absolutely amazingly and ended amazingly as well. The Godfather is one of those films you might have to watch twice to understand it like I did. The Godfather is Marlon Brando's most famous performance but it isn't his best and my favourite. My favourite is A Streetcar Named Desire which was his first film. Vito Corleone is one of my 10 favourite film characters of all time. I love Vito more than Michael. Al Pacino's best performance is still in The Godfather franchise but he is the best in the second film. The Godfather is my 5th favourite film franchise of all time after Lord Of The Rings, Star Wars, Batman and Harry Potter. The Godfather made me watch classic films no matter how old they are. I absolutely adore the second film but this one is better. The Godfather will always have its rightful place in history as one of the best films of all time and one of my all-time favourites ever.

"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship."


Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: USA



I have always loved The Empire Strikes Back since I was a kid. It was my favourite childhood film from when I was under 10 years old. It was my favourite film of all time too before I saw The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. The Empire Strikes Back is a film that I have always appreciated for being a film that isn't just any film but a film with such great effects of how well it was filmed, great story and its powerful twist. The Empire Strikes Back is a film that I loved in its own way because it is obviously a sci fi story but is one out of a man's head. The Empire Strikes Back is a film that sent chills inside me throughout every second of it especially the carbonite scene. Having "I love you" "I know" as my all-time favourite quote is something that a lot of people have questioned me about because it isn't the most common Star Wars quote. The reason why it is my favourite quote is mostly because instead of saying "I love you too" which is something that I think everybody would probably respond by. When Han says "I know" it was really brilliant because of the powerful way that moment was filmed and also of the situation Han Solo was in. The music added brilliance to that moment as well which is something that is probably the best quality that the Star Wars franchise has. The space visual effects were a lot like the effects in 2001: A Space Odyssey but the way the planets were was very different. We see three different kinds of planets in this film as well as space: an ice planet called Hoth, an ugly planet with swamps called Dagobah and a city in the clouds called Bespin. All of these planets and the whole film was obviously filmed on Earth like all films are but when you see them it feels like a world beyond ours that we never knew of. To me, The Empire Strikes Back is the perfect science fiction film because it is based on imagination, children's ways of having points of view on space, planets etc. It is a masterpiece that I think children would love as well as adults just like the prequel trilogy.

I find Mark Hamill's performance a lot like Elijah Wood's in Lord Of The Rings because they both show their ups and downs of the way they approach the characters and the way they are played. Mark Hamill is good as Luke but has a few flawed moments but nothing majorly serious obviously. Harrison Ford is just too cool for Han Solo just like he is for Indiana Jones. I love Star Wars more than Indiana Jones but I think I prefer Ford as Indy than Han because Indy's character is more interesting. Carrie Fisher's performance as Princess Leia Organa was brilliant as well which doesn't make me surprised about how good she really was.

I am ever so glad George Lucas didn't direct this one because I don't think it would have been as good. It's weird because the two best Star Wars films weren't directed by the actual creator George Lucas. Kershner did a fantastic job at Empire Strikes Back and would have been brilliant at Return Of The Jedi as well even though that was still brilliantly directed by Richard Marquand.

This film won 2 Oscars. It won a Special Achievement Award for the visual effects and Best Sound Mixing. It was nominated for Best Art Diretion but lost to Tess and Best Music Original Score but lost to Fame. It was nominated for 1 Golden Globe: Best Original Score but lost to The Stunt Man.

The Empire Strikes Back is the best of the franchise and the best of all science fiction films. The Empire Strikes Back is the best film of the 1980s with A Fish Called Wanda and Raging Bull trailing only just behind it. The Empire Strikes Back is the most inspiring one of the franchise and most powerful one as well. It was my favourite film as a child from when I was 10 years old and under. The Empire Strikes Back is an eternal masterpiece that I have watched countless times and will watch quite a lot because it is just too amazing to not love. Masterpiece!!

"Today is history. Today will be remembered. Years from now the young will ask with wonder about this day. Today is history and you are part of it. Six hundred years ago when elsewhere they were footing the blame for the Black Death, Casimir the Great - so called - told the Jews they could come to Krakow. They came. They trundled their belongings into the city. They settled. They took hold. They prospered in business, science, education, the arts. With nothing they came and with nothing they flourished. For six centuries there has been a Jewish Krakow. By this evening those six centuries will be a rumor. They never happened. Today is history."


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Embeth Davidtz
Running time: 195 minutes
Country: USA


I loved Schindler's List an awful lot. I liked it first time but loved it even more after watching it again. It is really emotional because obviously it is a heartbreaking film because of the Holocaust and what happens to the Jews during World War II. Approximately 6 million Jews were murdered. This film truly shows us what the Holocaust was really like and what the Jewish people were treated like. Schindlers List shows us what it was really like and made us feel like a Jew because we felt sorry for them because they werent appreciated at all. This film made me feel quite sick in a few ways because the Nazis stated that the Jews were scum, evil and with dirty blood but they arent at all. They are only human. The Nazis are the ones with dirty blood, scum and evil because what they do to the Jews is right to them. Despite of how emotional, heartbreaking and depressing this film is, it is also an absolutely beautiful and inspiring film too. This film shows that even an enemy can save people for the right reasons which is what Oskar Schindler does. It also shows despite of what damage humans can create but also shows what beauty humans can create aswell. Schindlers List is one of those films that is really hard to watch and that everyone must watch aswell. I find Schindlers List quite hard to review to be perfectly honest.

Liam Neeson delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Oskar Schindler. Neeson is obviously a well known actor but he doesnt really earn much credit for the films he has been in like Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Batman Begins, Kingdom Of Heaven and Kinsey. Oskar Schindler is the character of Neesons character and is without a doubt Neesons best performance. He is the perfect Schindler because he makes Schindler not only a real life person but also a character of his own in my opinion. He deserved his Oscar nomination but wasnt good enough in my opinion to win the Academy Award. Oskar Schindler was obviously a hero but Liam Neeson made him a real hero of his own as his own character. Ben Kingsley delivers an awesome performance as Schindlers Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern. Stern worked alongside Schindler as the accountant for his Enamelware company in Kraków and greatly helped in running the company. He is credited with typing the list of names known as Schindlers List; a list of Jews who survived the Holocaust because of Oskar Schindler's intervention. Ben Kingsley was a major and extremely supportive actor in this film. He alongside Liam Neeson in the scenes made this film more powerful that it already is. He should have had an Oscar nomination alongside Ralph Fiennes in this film. Ralph Fiennes delivers an even more powerful performance as commandant of the Nazi Concentration Camp Amon Goth. Ralph Fiennes also made Goth a character of his own too because of how cleverly Fiennes interpreted the cold hearted man that was Amon Goth. Ralph Fiennes has always been brilliant at portraying a villain but Amon Goth is the colder villain than Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter series. He is truly a character that I want to really hurt so badly because he is so cold and horrible. Ralph Fiennes deserved his Oscar nomination in this film.

The directing from Steven Spielberg was absolutely phenomenon. The beauty as well as the horror that Spielberg brings into this film is just great. Spielberg proves something in this film especially when it involves the little girl in the red coat because anyone can see a Jew suffer, anyone can help a Jew and also anyone can hurt a Jew that size. Despite, the fact that the little girl doesnt speak in the film, she is quite a difference making character because she is the only character that shows colour because she is like the only beauty within the film even though there are dark hours and dark events that occur in this film which is why I have to call Schindler's List the best from legend Steven Spielberg. I think the one thing that I simply love about Steven Spielberg is that all of his films affect people in different ways. Most of the films he has done have been very heartfelt emotional ones particularly this, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, A.I: Artificial Intelligence, Saving Private Ryan, Munich, The Terminal and Catch Me If You Can. But Spielberg can affect people because of the complete enjoyment of his films. For example, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and War Of The Worlds are complete action packed thrill rides. People will love those because of its action, suspense and general beauty of them. The script writing was phenomenal. It was very clever and it was very persuasive in a slight way because of the beauty and the horror that was the Holocaust. This film is obviously a war film but it isnt a war action packed soldier film but despite that, this film needs to be called a war film because it is obviously set during World War II (1939-1945) and also because it is like a war that the Nazis are causing in the Holocaust between them and the Jews. This is one of the best biography films ever made. The one film that is similar to Schindlers List is The Pianist because it is the cloest film to Schindlers List that tells a true story about the Holocaust.

The only difference is that The Pianist is mostly about one person but Schindlers List is about every single Jew in Poland.
The chemistry between Oskar Schindler and Itzhak Stern was obviously a slight enemy side to it because Stern is Jewish and Schindler is Nazi but they obviously are absolutely great friends who arent just work partners but also seem like brothers or any other family relation. Their relationship was beautiful. My heart melted when Schindler broke down in tears because he couldnt get enough Jews out to save them but Stern understood Schindler and said that he had got enough out and that he did too much. Also, when the Jewish people walked up to Schindler and hugged him. I felt really tense with the relationship between Oskar Schindler and Amon Goth because it is like a certain clash of personality. Schindler sort of changes personality when he first sees what the Nazis do the Jews and how they treat them. Also, of how Amon Goth treats them. It is tense because no one knows for sure whether Schindler did confront Goth about the Jewish massacre.

The twist was when Schindler decided to write a list down of all the Jewish people he could save from the Holocaust and death itself. Every single thing about this film was true. It is a story that I first didnt believe was true but it really was true.

This film was very violent when some Jews were shot in the head. There was a lot of bloody impacy from the gunshots from the Nazis. This film did have one sex scene involving Schindler and his wife and that was about it with sex itself. But there was an awful lot of nudity especially when the gas chambers were involved and also when the Jews were told to run around a field naked until they are told to come out and either be sent to a camp or work.

The cinematography was absolutely outstanding indeed. I liked the black and white photography within the film. It is so clever how it changes from a black and white screen to a complete colour screen with the same Jewish people which occurs around the end of the film. The art direction was awesome. It truly made it seem like it was in World War II. I loved the costumes too especially on the little girl with the red coat. The make up was phenomenal too. The music was sort of typical classical music.

This film was a winner of 7 Academy Awards overall. It won Best Picture 1993, Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Art Direction, Best Costumes Design, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing and Best Music Score. It was nominated for Best Leading Actor (lost to Tom Hanks in Philadelphia), Best Supporting Actor (lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive), Best Costume Design (lost to The Age Of Innocence), Best Sound (lost to Jurassic Park) and Best Make-Up (lost to Mrs. Doubtfire). This film won 3 Golden Globes in total. Best Picture (Drama), Best Director (Steven Spielberg) and Best Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Leading Actor (Drama) (Liam Neeson) but lost to Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, Best Supporting Actor (Ralph Fiennes) who lost to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive and Best Music, Original Score which lost to Heaven & Earth.

This is my favourite film from the extremely talented Steven Spielberg. It is Liam Neesons best film and is certainly Ralph Fiennes best performance too. The ending was beautiful which makes it one of the most powerful endings of all time. It is such an inspirational ending too that will warm your heart. This will always be Steven Spielbergs eternal masterpiece that will be remembered forever!!!

"Here's looking at you, kid."


Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: USA


Casablanca isn't just any ordinary classic film but it's a classic of legend with all of the quotes, the scenes and the chemistry between the characters. I can't believe how good Casablanca turned out to be. Casablanca is probably along with Gone With The Wind and It's A Wonderful Life is probably the best well-known classic even the modern times today after over 60 years. I don't think there is one single thing that is flawed in Casablanca. I honestly think Casablanca can be called a film for a family. Maybe isn't the best film to choose for kids what with the romance and that but for young adults (teenagers) with their/his/her parents. Casablanca is THE classic romantic story. Casablanca proved that romantic films and love itself doesn't just have to have a lot of sex but it is mostly how powerful the love is in relationship which is why Casablanca and Brokeback Mountain are my favourite romantic films. They both reveal what love really is and how affective it can be in not just their lives but other people around them too. Casablanca is a film even now that is earning a lot of critically acclaimed glory even after almost 70 years of when it was first released.

The two leading actors were actors who are legendary in their own kind. Humphrey Bogart delivers the performance of his career because I personally think that Rick is a very realistic business man who is in that sort of situation. Rick Blaine is probably Bogart's most famous character after all of the films he was in. Humphrey was the literally perfect actor for Rick because even of the famous quotes, they won't be best remembered without him in it. Rick is an American business man who owns a bar in Casablanca, Morocco. His life goes upside down when he sees his old flame Ilsa in his bar with her husband Victor Laszlo. Ilsa is a young woman travelling to Casablanca to flee from the Germans. She accidentally finds Rick and asks for his help despite the consequences. Ingrid Bergman's performance as Ilsa Lund was in my opinion just as good as Humphrey Bogart's because I would deeply see and feel the love between them. They both come out with such legendary and eternal lines that will never be forgotten and have become some of the best quotes in cinema history. Quotes such as "Here's looking at you, kid," "We will always have Paris," "Play it again, Sam" and "Louis, this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Humphrey and Ingrid have created a masterpiece for the ages that will pass on for generations to come. I loved Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo. Claude was another legendary actor who has been in a lot of the classics in the past.

Michael Curtiz's direction of Casablanca totally blew me away completely. Without Curtiz, there would be no classic Casablanca. His direction was like he wanted us to feel the reality of the love between Ilsa and Rick. The script introduced those classic lines to the film which made the rest of it very effective towards Hollywood. Casablanca truly is one of those extremely rare scripts that has such classic, legendary and just simply amazing quotes within it.

This film won 3 Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director (Michael Curtiz) and Best Writing, Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Leading Actor (Humphrey Bogart) but lost to Paul Lukas in Watch On The Rhine, Best Supporting Actor (Claude Rains) but lost to Charles Coburn in The More The Merrier, Best Cinematography (black-and-white) but lost to The Song Of Bernadette, Best Film Editing but lost to Air Force and Best Music Scoring Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture but lost to The Song Of Bernadette.

Casablanca inspired me to watch classic film as did It's A Wonderful Life, Gone With The Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire and The Godfather. Casablanca features a lot of things for me: 2nd best romantic film after Brokeback Mountain, a very close contender for best film of the 1940s, a very powerful bond between two characters and most importantly, Casablanca hits my favourite films of all time without a shadow of a doubt.

"Oh, I'm sorry, did I break your concentration?"


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis
Running time: 154 minutes
Country: USA


Wow! I love this film!! Pulp Fiction is an absolutely phenomenal film that is filmmaking at its finest. Every single thing about this film is perfect! It is such a cool film that I think everybody loves; even people who aren't film fans. Pulp Fiction is one of those rare crime films that has a really cool black-comedy taste to it. This film did make me laugh a few times especially Jules. This film deserved every single Oscar it won and was nominated for. It deserved the script Oscar. It should have won Best Director and Best Supporting Actor but not quite for Best Picture. This film has four stories to it that changes as it goes on.


John Travolta was amazing as Vincent Vega!! Travolta is one of those extremely rare actors who have a talent of playing a character in almost every single genre. Vincent is a hitman who works for gangster Marcellus Wallace. Vincent gets involved with Wallace's wife Mia in the second story. Vincent's hitman accomplise is Jules Winnfield. I believe that Jules ties with Tyler Durden and The Dude as the coolest film character of all time. Jules is an absolutely brilliant character because he is a real cold-hearted killer just like Vincent but Jules tries to make his victims suffer but in a cool way. Uma Thurman's performance as Mia Wallace was awesome as well. She collaborates well with Tarantino especially in Kill Bill: Volume 1 and 2. She seems like a nice woman but is a bit of a drug addict and seems a bitch as well. She tries to seduce Vincent but ends up in trouble with drugs before doing so. Bruce Willis isn't in this film THAT much, really. Despite this, he is absolutely awesome still as Butch. Butch is a boxer who owes Wallace a debt. During a confrontation with Wallace, they get themselves into an awkward and uncomfortable situation.


Quentin Tarantino and Pulp Fiction match absolutely perfectly because they are both mean one word: "cool". This film is so original! It is perfectly made because it is acted, directed and produced perfectly! The way Tarantino involves food, dance and music in this film mixes brilliantly well with the characters especially Vincent and Jules. Tarantino has become an icon for making this film because I think this is a favourite from most people. The script is out of this world. In my opinion, Pulp Fiction has the best script of all time because it sticks perfectly to what it is aiming, what its purpose is for the viewers of the film and also it shows that Tarantino is a self-tought filmmaker especially for Pulp Fiction.


Overall, Pulp Fiction is one of the best films ever made! It is a very close favourite of mine and it totally deserves to be. This is a perfect film that is filled with crime, comedy, violence and coolness. Pulp Fiction is my favourite John Travolta film. Samuel L. Jackson's performance is one of my close favourite male performances ever! Pulp Fiction is the best film from Quentin Tarantino and probably always will be.Pulp Fiction is the second best film of 1994 after Forrest Gump. It is one of the best films of the 1990s too and that is the best decade for films ever! Pulp Fiction and A Clockwork Orange tie for my favourite crime film. Pulp Fiction is the coolest film ever made and it totally deserves to be!

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Murray Hamilton
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: USA


Back in the 1970s, Jaws became the ultimate blockbuster and one of the biggest landmarks of cinema. Jaws changed cinema forever not only for thrillers but also for filmmaking itself. I think that people sort of underestimated Jaws at first until the trailer was released. I don?t think I have ever seen a film that is filled with such unbelievable tension. Obviously, the shark looked fake but to be fair that wasn?t exactly the main thing people were noticing when watching it. Also, despite people knew that the shark looked fake the audience watching it still felt so tense about it and the fear of not wanting to go deep into the sea grew and still grows more and more as a person watches it. I saw this film for the first time only 2 days before I went to a local beach and I still felt nervous about going into the sea because of it. That is something that I didn?t like but loved at the same time because it is a very gripping film like Psycho is as well. Without the music and top-notch filmmaking from Spielberg, there would be no Jaws. This is probably a film that some children would watch to build confidence up of watching older films and also because nowadays there are a lot of children who watch horror films anyway. I think that people treated this film like they treated Star Wars back in the 70s.


Roy Scheiders performance as Chief Officer Martin Brody was really awesome! I really found his acting rather extraordinary. Obviously, he was the leading character within the film but it was more about what happens regarding the shark attacks. The film would obviously be crap without the human characters in it but the fact that it made the audience be more curious and more scared about where, when, how and who the shark is going to attack next. Robert Shaw was amazing as Quint! Quint was chosen to find and kill the shark alongside Brody and Hooper. Quint is like the arrogant character within the film who tries to do things his way but he has to be very careful catching and killing the shark until he gets himself eaten by the shark. Richard Dreyfuss was awesome as well as Matt Hooper. Dreyfuss appearance in this film led to another appearance in a Spielberg picture for Dreyfuss. That film was 2 years after Jaws which was Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.


Jaws is the film that started to make Steven Spielberg a legend for films. I cannot believe how brilliantly he managed to craft a very weak and simple story into a film that is so realistic and goes into great depth to think about and a lot of things to say and talk about. He was only 28-29 years old when he directed Jaws and that is something that not many directors at that age managed to create a landmark. The only other I can only think of is Orson Welles for Citizen Kane. Other Spielberg masterpieces like Schindlers List, E.T., Saving Private Ryan and Indiana Jones are brilliantly crafted but I think that Jaws is the Steven Spielberg film that people really got hyped up about and that first made Spielberg famous. I do prefer E.T., Saving Private Ryan and Raiders Of The Lost Ark more than Jaws but it is still a classic to be remembered!


Overall, Jaws is an absolute classic that has proven itself to be a landmark of cinema and a film that will never be forgotten. Jaws was the first ultimate blockbuster and nobody can take that away from it. Fact: Jaws and Psycho are the two most famous thrillers of all time which makes them my two favourite thrillers of all time. Lastly, thanks a lot, Steven, for making me afraid to go deep into the sea now.

"Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells "stop!", goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight."


Director: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf
Running time: 139 minutes
Country: USA


Fight Club is a total masterful work of art from David Fincher. Fight Club is a film that is just complete kick ass all the way through it. It is one of those films that is very violent even before you watch it because the two words in the title are ways of violence. Fight Club is a new cinematic experience that truly reveals human behaviour not only because of the fighting in Fight Club but also because of the psychological side of humans. It is a film that some people wouldn't like because of the violence but would because of really cool characters and actors involved. I find Fight Club was underestimated at first because it came out but now it is a cult masterpiece with a lot of meaning to it. It is a little overrated but can't help but adore it to bits as I do.


Brad Pitt is awesome in this film as Tyler Durden. He makes me laugh in this film because Tyler can be a total arsehole and a slimy arrogant character but in a humurous way. Tyler is described just the same as Brad Pitt as far as appearances is concerned. He was a very hard leader at Fight Club. Tyler is a very manipulating character because of what he does to the narrator in this film and what he usually likes to do. Edward Norton is really good too. I think he was chosen to be in this film because his character is slightly similar to his character in American History X. Edward told a story in that film as he does in Fight Club in which he is really good at. I find Marla Singer a typical Helena Bonham Carter character because she is a very unusual and mysterious character and also because of Marla's appearance. She is like a really heavy smoker and a mixed up slag. It is really unusual when she attends the testicular cancer obviously because she is a woman. Marla is a sort of character that Helena hasn't ever portrayed before but now feels like she should portray characters like Marla now. Marla's bizzareness is sort of like Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street.


The direction from David Fincher was simply outstanding. I liked it more than Se7en. I loved the instant camera angles that Fincher has in this film particularly the fight scenes. The script was very original which is what most cult films are like as far as screenplay is concerned. It was written to catch the audience's attention and to keep their eyes on it because it is so breathtaking.


This is my favourite film from Fincher so far. It is my second favourite film from Brad Pitt after The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Edward Norton so far but it is my second favourite Helena Bonham Carter film after obviously Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Fight Club is my favourite cult film and third favourite film of 1999 after American Beauty and The Green Mile. It is on the list of favourite films without a single doubt. Also, it has the greatest plot twist that I have ever seen and in my opinion, the biggest twist of all time. Masterpiece!!!!!

"Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?"


Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin
Running time: 201 minutes
Country: New Zealand, USA



This is definitely one of the best films ever made. It is a film that sets different standards within pretty much all the genres there is because of its really clever story and very powerful script. Also because of the way it was filmed and what the characters were like. It doesnt so much help but it teaches other filmmakers that Lord Of The Rings has changed the world of cinema forever. What I really truly love about Lord Of The Rings is that they are obviously mythical stories but they are stories that are really believable and people can really imagine as being really realistic. It is a franchise of novels that I was probably thinking would turn out to be like the way the Batman films were. When I saw them, they are like a joint rival of greatest franchise of all time next to Star Wars (original trilogy) and The Godfather trilogy. Lord Of The Rings is the most powerful franchise that has ever been made which is why I have to say that Lord Of The Rings is the greatest franchise of all time. When I went to the cinema to see this film when I was 12 years old, I was shocked by how long it was on for and I thought to myself "How can a film by such a long running time not become a boring film but become a total masterpiece of work?" But when I did see it, I thought that Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is the best of all three and is a real new cinematic experience that invents and creates new types of movies within the genres fantasy, action, suspense and even drama. Return Of The King is the most inspiring one of them all because it is a very emotional film with a lot of drastic twists and turns that occur with the characters and the events. Also, it is an inspiration because this is the one film from the trilogy that everyone has been waiting for because it is the one that determines the fate of the Ring, of Middle-Earth, of Frodo and Sam and also for the lost King of Gondor which is Aragorn. It all balances together even though it does take you into a different story with the different characters which is what The Two Towers does. Fellowship Of The Ring doesnt because they are all together. Like in Return Of The King, there are scenes involving Frodo, Sam and Gollum, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and King Theoden and also Gandalf, Merry and Pippin too. I know that this film is a sequel to The Two Towers just like that is to Fellowship Of The Ring but it never seems to loose its story nor its lust for the audiences attention. When I saw the end of Return Of The King, it is a feeling that I get that I want more of Lord Of The Rings but obviously cant because there are only three novels. Return Of The King is like Empire Strikes Back as far as classic trilogies are concerned especially comparing with Star Wars, Fellowship Of The Ring is like A New Hope and The Two Towers is like Return Of The Jedi. To me, The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is the greatest fantasy film of all time and is the greatest final film to a franchise ever made.

I thought the acting was really good from almost the whole cast in this one. Elijah Woods performance is a lot better in this one. Elijah truly shows his excellent talent at showing Frodos pain with the Ring but he doesnt show 100% that Frodo is a hero. He still does make Frodo a hero of course but not as much as I was hoping he would. I noticed that he cried a lot in this film where there are some scenes where he didnt really need to. Particularly the scene where he makes Sam go back to Hobbiton when they are half way up the Winding Stairs. When he said "Go home" to Sam. I noticed that was familiar with Elijah because when I saw the extended version of the film where there was a disc with interviews, making the film etc and they were doing try-outs of how Elijah can say those words. It would be either shouting at him or just ordering him but in a calm and more relaxed way. He sort of acts how Mark Hamill acts in the Star Wars trilogy. Ian McKellen never seems to disappoint me in any of the films he has been in. His performance as Gandalf is perfect once again just like in the previous two films. McKellen IS Gandalf and it is simple as that. He makes Gandalf like a really hard and really classic supporting character to other characters like Frodo in Fellowship Of The Ring, King Theoden in The Two Towers and Pippin in Return Of The King. Ian McKellen is definitely the best out of the whole trilogy. I cant wait to see him return as Gandalf in the two Hobbit films coming up. Viggo Mortsensen returns more heroic than ever in Return Of The King than the previous two films. Aragorn shows his true colours in this film by becoming King Elessar more than Aragorn. He is no random Ranger anymore. He is an heir to throne of Gondor of all places. He is a hero that everybody loves in the film because to me it is like revenge for Aragorn aswell as saving Middle-Earth because he is losing his love and he lost pretty much all his kin along time before. Sean Astins performance was very heartbreaking and was very emotional. It was a performance that I think was pretty much the same type of acting that was used in Fellowship Of The Ring and The Two Towers. I think this is one of the few films that have a very powerful supporting cast. Sam was a rather weeping character in this one compared to the previous films. It was a really good thing in that case because Sam was a very heroic character and a mentor to Frodo. Andy Serkis particularly in this one reveals one of the best film villains of all time that is Gollum. It is puzzling for me as I am sure it is for everyone who has watched the three Lord Of The Rings films whether Gollum was against Frodo and Sam all along because there was a loving Gollum in The Two Towers and when Frodo so-called betrayed Gollum he decided to kill them. And also in The Two Towers when Gollum was telling Frodo and Sam about the second way into Mordor when the stairs and tunnel. I think he knew that it was the lair of the giant spider that is Shelob. I think he was against them all along but just needed their trust for him to do what he wanted. He only wanted the Ring.

Peter Jacksons direction of the film creates a brand new standard of modern filmmaking. His directed angles were very far out and were very accurate particularly with the zooming out on Minas Tirith. I think Peter tries to show us the sceneries and make us feel the reality of the story. If Peter Jackson hadnt directed the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, they wouldnt be masterpieces. Peter Jacksons previous films in the past have been rather poor ones I have been told: Meet The Feebles and Braindead. Fierce Creatures is supposed to be pretty good. Peter Jackson has become a legendary filmmaker after only creating three films. I think he was a legend already after he only did Fellowship Of The Ring. King Kong is a bloody awesome film aswell. Better than the original version. I think of this century, Lord Of The Rings is like the original Star Wars trilogy of last years century. The script is probably the best that I have ever seen from a fantasy film. It is adapted to make it seem a bit like an ordinary drama film even though it is obviously a fantasy story.

This film won all 11 Academy Awards of its 11 nominations. It is a tie along with Ben-Hur and Titanic for most Academy Awards in only one film. It won: Best Sound Mixing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Make-Up, Best Original Song (Into The West), Best Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director (Peter Jackson) and Best Picture 2003. It became the first and only fantasy film to win Best Picture. It also won all 4 Golden Globe nominations it was nominated for: Best Director (Peter Jackson), Best Original Music Score, Best Original Song and Best Picture Drama.

Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is in my opinion and maybe most peoples opinion the greatest fantasy film of all time. It is the best of the trilogy. It is the best of 2003. It is my favourite epic film too. Along with Sweeney Todd, The Dark Knight, The Pianist, Pans Labyrinth and Sin City, Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King is one of the best of the 2000 decade. There is a bigger word to describe Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King than masterpiece because it is so amazing!


BEST FILM EVER MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Rosebud..."


Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Dorothy Comingore
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: USA


What an legendary phenomenon!! Citizen Kane truly is one of the cleverest and most remembered films of all time. It is also one of the greatest films of all time. I thought that this film was absolutely brilliant. It is a masterpiece. I thought that this film was really well brought together and adapted but I have to say that it was a very hard story to follow with all the flashbacks and the different things Kane decides and things like that. This is a drama on how a lot of business men can go through life particularly men who are very rich and are one of the most famous people in all of the USA. Despite the fact that this film is very complex and is like a real mysterious film, it is a very deep and personal story aswell.


Orson Welles delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Charles Foster Kane. Orson brings the power of Kane onto the screen like no other actor had done before. His acting was probably one of the best from an actor at such a young age. Orson Welles performance is probably the best film acting debut of all time. I am sure that it is probably the greatest directing debut of all time aswell for Orson Welles.


The direction from Orson Welles was absolutely amazing. It is without a doubt the best directing debut of all time. I have always been fascinated by a director directing a film that he/she is the leading role in. For example, Mel Gibson in Braveheart, Kevin Costner in Dances With Wolves, Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful and Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby. The screenplay was absolutely amazing. I find that this film would have been either a really good novel or a real life true story. But I think one of the main reasons why people love this film is because of how clever it is written and how well it is adapted together to fit into a story that isnt just a great drama but can be an inspiration to many people around the world.


There are some awesome supporting characters too that make Kane a powerful character. Characters like Susan Alexander Kane, Jerry Thompson, Bertha Anderson, Signor Matiste and Jim W. Gettys. I have only seen Orson Welles in this and The Third Man and he has does great films of the ones I have seen so far. But I think Citizen Kane is his most famous as both director and actor.

The only thing that disappointed it for me was that I thought it was a very confusing and complex story but it was awesome enough to understand. When I first saw it, I got totally lost because it was complex but once I saw it again and remembered the scenes, I loved it second time. Orson Welles has created a film for the ages, a film that is still a masterpiece and one of the best films ever made after over 60 years and a film that some people would closely refer as perfect. It has some of the best characters and it has one of the biggest twists. Not on my favourites list but Citizen Kane does deserve its rightful place as one of the best films of the 1940s and of all time.

"May the Force be with you."


Director: George Lucas
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Running time: 121 minutes
Country: USA


This is originally titled as "Star Wars" but since there was going to be a prequel trilogy about how Darth Vader became the way he is. Basically the history of the galaxy. This is the most iconic Star Wars film because it became such a great success and an ultimate blockbuster and landmark of cinema. It is an icon. There are a few reasons why some people might not like it and they are that it's sci fi and effects and technical design is lame. The visual effects aren't like they are now but it is the originality of the effects that we predict to see like we did with 2001: A Space Odyssey. I am an ultimate Star Wars fan because I love the whole franchise. I believe that a true fan of a franchise is a person who loves all of the films within it like I do. The beginning of A New Hope is like the ending of Revenge Of The Sith. The original trilogy is a landmark of cinema and beats the prequel trilogy at everything except for visual effects.


Mark Hamill was ok as Luke, Harrison Ford was dead cool as Han Solo, Carrie Fisher was brilliant as Princess Leia and Alec Guinness was awesome as well. I understood why Guinness hated Star Wars but he shouldn't knock George Lucas for his great work in Star Wars. It is weird because I knew how much Guinness hated Star Wars but was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars in 1977.


George Lucas' directed work is the best in this one compared to Episode I, Episode II and Episode III. The script was awesome for a sci fi film. This is the beginning of the end of the Star Wars franchise because as I said Revenge Of The Sith ended how A New Hope began and Revenge Of The Sith is the latest episode of the Star Wars franchise. It is the least best of the original trilogy but still a classic phenomenon that will never be forgotten.

"There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."


Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro
Running time: 200 minutes
Country: USA


The Godfather: Part II is an absolutely phenomenal sequel to the classic film that is The Godfather. It isn't better than the first one but it has proved itself to be one of the greatest film sequels of all time. This one is longer than the first one is because we see more about Vito Corleone's childhood and past of how the family began. The way those scenes are structured are absolutely fantastic. It is clever how they get modern days of Don Michael Corleone and the childhood of Vito Corleone back in the 1910s/1920s. If I lived in the 1970s and loved The Godfather, I would have predicted that this sequel would have failed but it didn't fail in any way whatsoever. It is a rare treasure because it is a sequel that didn't fail and not that many sequels succeed. The other sequels I can think of that did succeed are The Empire Strikes Back, The Two Towers, The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 2. The second Godfather becomes more personal and deeply affectionate with the Corleone family. The Godfather: Part II is also the darkest one of the trilogy particularly because under Don Michael Corleone and there were a lot of deaths in this one. It is a story that takes and beats down lives including Michael's.

Al Pacino delivers the best performance of his career as Don Michael Corleone. Al Pacino was a better actor in his early days apart from Scent Of A Woman, The Godfather: Part III and Heat. His portrayal of Don Corleone made Michael one of the coldest film villains of all time. I actually feel sorry for Michael because in the first one before his older brother and newly married wife were murdered, he was having a normal peaceful life but after those events and since his father Vito died of a heart attack in the gardens, he became Don Corleone and he became obsessed with power and became a very dangerous man that nobody will betray and double cross. When I saw him in the sequel, I thought to myself "Is that really Michael Corleone?" because he becomes a whole new person in this one. Al Pacino is perfect for Michael because Michael is a rather slimy and scheming character and also a really powerful, dominant character which is what Al Pacino is like in some of the films he has been in before. Robert Duvall's performance is top notch once again as Tom Hagen who is the fostered son of Vito Corleone and is the family's lawyer. Hagen always tries to get through to Michael for what he is doing but doesn't listen. Tom Hagen doesn't appear in The Godfather: Part III. Robert De Niro's performance as younger Vito Corleone is an absolute legendary performance. Two legendary actors have portrayed a character both with Oscar winning performances. The late Marlon Brando portrayed Vito in The Godfather Part I and Robert De Niro portrayed the younger Vito Corleone in The Godfather: Part II. The Godfather: Part II became the ultimate start to Robert De Niro's legendary career. Some say that he is the best living actor right now and Marlon Brando was the best actor ever of the past. Thankfully, Robert De Niro didn't ruin Marlon Brando's amazing reputation of Don Corleone. His performance is almost in my opinion just as good as Marlon Brando's with the amazing Italian accent for an American man and also an absolutely fantastic way of portraying the gangster kind of character. Diane Keaton's performance as Kay Corleone is good but not amazing. I felt sorry for her when she was worried about Michael and for the sake of her children for what Michael was doing. Keaton isn't the perfect choice for Kay but she still a really good choice. As we reflect on most of the cast in The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, it is rather strange to see them almost 20 years older in The Godfather: Part III such as Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Talia Shire.

Francis Ford Coppola proves once again after the first one that he is the only director who could have been able to pull off The Godfather trilogy. He makes The Godfather: Part II the darkest one of the trilogy but not the best. The way he directed was that he wanted us to feel the breaking down of the Corleone family and at the same time to learn how it all began which leads to young Vito's introduction and how he raised his four children Sonny, Fredo, Michael and Connie. The script is outstanding. Francis Ford Coppola has a great gift at writing the scripts for The Godfather scripts as well as directing and producing them.

This film won 6 Oscars (more than the first one did): Best Picture 1974, Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction and Best Original Dramatic Score. It was nominated for Best Leading Actor (Al Pacino) but lost to Art Carney in Harry And Tonto, Best Supporting Actor (Michael V. Gazzo and Lee Strasberg) but lost to Robert De Niro in the same film, Best Supporting Actress (Talia Shire) but lost to Ingrid Bergman in Murder On The Orient Express, Best Costume Design but lost to The Great Gatsby. It was nominated for 6 Golden Globe awards: Best Picture Drama but lost to Chinatown, Best Actor Drama but lost to Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) but lost to Roman Palonski in Chinatown, Best Screenplay but lost to Chinatown, Best Original Score but lost to The Little Prince and Most Promising Newcomer (Lee Strasberg) but lost to Joseph Bottoms in The Dove.

The Godfather: Part II is an eternal masterpiece that takes its place as one of the greatest films of all time. It is one of my favourite films but I still love the first one more. The Godfather: Part II is in my opinion a tie for best sequel ever made after The Empire Strikes Back. I loved this film a lot and it led to a very good yet rather failed third Godfather: Part III because of the pressure of trying to successfully suceeded by being just as good as first two Godfather films. It is one of my favourite films of the 1970s as well as of all time. It is an absolute masterpiece that will never be forgotten. It is Al Pacino's best performance of his whole career, I loved Robert De Niro's performance as young Vito Corleone but I prefered his performances in films such as Raging Bull and Taxi Driver. The Godfather: Part II is a film that is a bit of an unexpected phenomenon that I don't think people were really expecting to be fantastic. I cannot think of one single person who doesn't like The Godfather Part 1 or Part 2. Love it! Always have and always will!

"A boy's best friend is his mother."


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Running time: 109 minutes
Country: USA



Psycho is one of those thrillers that would be referred more as a horror but a thriller aswell. It was a horror in those 1960s days but nowadays I just refer it is a psychological thriller even though it is shit scary. This film scared the hell out of me the first time I saw it but I couldn't help but love it. That does happen to me with a lot of thrillers. I couldn't take my eyes off this film because it was so gripping and it messes with your head. When you see the first 30 minutes, it is pretty much like a normal story but when Marion takes a shower that changes. This film has two twists: shower scene and the ending. I have had nightmares in the past and sometimes still do about the events that happen. Those people who have called me a wimp because and asked why it gave me nightmares but when they watch it they will see what I mean. I think the twist at the end spoils people's first time viewing because everyone knows who the psycho is nowadays and those people hadn't seen the film before probably knew the twist.



Anthony Perkins performance as Norman Bates was outstanding. He showed Norman as a cute character with a sweet personality. He really looks like a nerdy mummy's boy by doing everything she says. He tells Marion that Mrs. Bates is a little bit mad and is very rude but Norman doesn't hate her. When Norman sort of loses his rag with Marion about Mrs. Bates we see a slightly wrong side to Norman. The big question is: Is Norman all he says he is and is Mrs. Bates all she is? Janet Leigh was absolutely phenomenal performance as Marion Crane payed off really well because she earned an Oscar nomination and she is really well remembered because of the classic shower scene. I think that scene gave her an Oscar nomination. She was the perfect actress for this film because if it wasn't for her we wouldn't have a classic scene. Her screams in the shower scene is the Jack Torrance 'Here's Johnny! ' classic moment when he breaks through the bathroom door. That is what both scenes have in common: both are set in bathrooms.



Hitchcock has created not only a one-of-a-kind thriller but one that will be remembered for the ages. He has also created his best work as well. I think Hitchcock spent 5 days doing the shower scene because he wanted it to be precise to affect the audience. Also, like when people watch it and they say 'Hey, it's that classic shower scene in that Alfred Hitchcock movie'. I think that is what Hitchcock was trying to achieve in which he did. The script was adapted but original as far as Hitchcock is concerned because all the films he did his whole life was thrillers and horrors.



The shower scene is like the opening scene of Jaws because some people have fears of showering in a hotel especially when you're alone and swimming alone far out into the sea and getting dragged down under the water. I used to fear having to swim in the sea after seeing Jaws but happens very rarely and I don't think it happens at all in a hotel.

The relationship between Norman and Marion was at the start very kind and gentleman-like of Norman to supervise Marion's needs but when they eat dinner together and talk it becomes dark times. The relationship between Norman and his mother Mrs. Bates was pure aggression and pressure from Mrs. Bates onto Norman because of Marion or any visitor of the hotel. She always pushes Norman and makes him do awkward things. She sounds like a really nasty character where it must be hard to get along with her.



Psycho is one of the most terrifying films I have ever seen my whole life. It is the greatest thriller of all time alongside Jaws, The Silence Of The Lambs, The Shining, V For Vendetta and Rear Window. Janet Leigh's performance is on my list of top Best Supporting Actress performances. It is close on my top leading male performances as well. It is my favourite and probably the most and best remembered Alfred Hitchcock film, it has one of greatest twists in cinema history and is my favourite film of 1960s.

"Which one of you nuts has got any guts?"


Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Brad Dourif, William Redfield
Running time: 133 minutes
Country: USA


One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a film that is rather hard to watch on some occasions. This film is really dramatic obviously because of the mental problems all of the patients have and how they could become normal people. I would definitely call One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest a black comedy because it has a lot of scenes where you could just burst out laughing such as when Murphy is trying to bring together lots of bright bonding between all of the patients within the institution. This film is very emotional obviously because of the patients and their conditions but also because of how McMurphy tries to bring some joyful life into the institution but unfortunately he comes to the wrong place for that. I find One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest a very unique film because I don't think there are many films that are similar to this one. It is a pure adventure on getting to know characters and what can be seen inside their minds as well as their hearts.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is Jack Nicholson's most famous performance without a doubt. His performance as Randle P. McMurphy truly is one-of-a-kind. To me, Randle P. McMurphy is like the male Pauline "Poppy" Cross who just always tries to be hyper, happy and cheerful. Jack was dramatic, wacky, funny and even violent as well. Randle is a man who pretends he is mentally retarded both mentally and physically so he can enter the institution but he ends up going to the wrong one and causes more problems between all of the characters. Randle is an American-Irish brawler who was found guilty of battery and gambling. He has a prison sentence but pretends to be insane to be inside a mental institution. Randle is a man who is very helpful but can be helpful to the patients at some awkward times or at the best times for them. His most helpful moment was when he sneaks two prostitutes into the institution for Billy (one of the patients) to lose his virginity. The institution is lead by Nurse Ratched who is considered as one of the coldest film villains of all time. Nurse Ratched's first name is Mildred. She doesn't really help the patients she just humiliates and manipulates them. She is really cold hearted and is refered as a cold person but with a lovely profession. That is what I like about the character that she is a powerful villain. Louise's performance as Nurse Ratched was really quite fearful because she does seem like that type to be nervous around when you meet her especially when she is playing a character like that. I liked Brad Dourif's performance a lot as Billy. Dourif is remembered for his portrayal of Billy and of Grima Wormtongue in Lord Of The Rings. Billy is perhaps the most disturbed patient throughout the whole institution. He is a suicidal, stuttering and helpless young man whom Ratched has humiliated and dominated. Chief Bromden is probably the most famous patient after McMurphy because there have been a lot of takes in TV shows and other films regarding Chief's character. Chief is the closest friend to McMurphy within the institution. Will Sampson was absolutely awesome as Chief because he has pretty much all characteristics that are part of his personality. However, he did have a slight lack of drama. Other co-stars such as Danny DeVito, William Redfield, Scatman Crothers, William Duell and Christopher Lloyd were good as their characters.

Milos Forman has directed a masterpiece that is disturbing in almost every kind of way within cinema. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was foul-languaged, very crude regarding sex and nudity and it was quite violent as well. Forman hasn't done that many films in his career but most of them are such famous films that are considered one of the best. It also had that scary motion where everything goes deeply psychological with all the treatments and the different sorts of behaviours. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is adapted from a 1962 novel of the same name. The novel reveals the imaginary side to the psychological ways of the story whereas the film shows the reality of psychological minds.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest turned out a great success regarding awards. It won 5 Academy Awards: Best Picture 1975 beating Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws and Nashville, Best Leading Actor (Jack Nicholson), Best Leading Actress (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Milos Forman) and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Brad Dourif) but lost to George Burns in The Sunshine Boys, Best Cinematography but lost to Barry Lyndon, Best Film Editing but lost to Jaws and Best Music Original Score but lost to Jaws. This film won all 6 Golden Globes it was nominated for: Best Picture Drama beating the 4 actual Oscar Best Picture nominees Barry Lyndon, Dog Day Afternoon, Jaws and Nashville, Best Actor Drama (Jack Nicholson), Best Actress Drama (Louise Fletcher), Best Director (Milos Forman), Best Screenplay and Best Acting Debut In A Motion Picture (Brad Dourif).

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is without a doubt Jack Nicholson's best acting performance. The Shining isn't my favourite Jack Nicholson performance but is just my favourite film starring Nicholson. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is definitely one of the greatest films of the 1970s, one of the biggest psychological-dramas. Has one of the best and most powerful villains of all time. It features one of the best relationships in films between McMurphy and Ratched. I love this film because, yes, it is disturbing but it is a film with a bit of fun to it at the same time because it is quite funny and it is quite an experience for people to see. A really enjoyable cinematic experience.

"I wanna live again!"


Director: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: USA



It's A Wonderful Life is the ultimate classic in my opinion and there are a lot of reasons for this. It is a beautiful story that is such an inspiration to thousands of people around the world as it is to me, it is one of the rare family black-and-white films that I think everybody could understand, it shows how wonderful life really is. It also shows the beauty of family and friendship too. When I was first going to watch It's A Wonderful Life I knew I was going to like this film a lot but I had no idea that I was going to love it as much as I actually did. After seeing It's A Wonderful Life, I now realise why it is refered as "the ultimate feel-good film". At the ending of the film and the beautiful character that is George Bailey, I was almost in tears which ultimately touched me the most about this film. I love films that involve different aspects of life like ways of living and what can be achieved too. I like to call It's A Wonderful Life "The Classic Of Classics" because that is what it is. It is a film that a lot of people would appreciate because it is a classic story and it is a Christmas film but some people won't because they are too fussy because "it is too old". There are films in the past that have been absolutely fantastic but none of them are as magical and inspiring as It's A Wonderful Life. Gone With The Wind, Casablanca, Pinocchio and Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs come close to beating It's A Wonderful Life.

James Stewart delivers in my opinion his best and probably most famous performance of his career as George Bailey. As a child in 1919, George was a hero by saving the life of his younger brother Harry from falling through ice but George caught a cold that became an ear infection and left him half-deaf in one of his ears. From childhood, George's greatest ambition has been to see the world and design bridges and skyscrapers. However, George repeatedly has to sacrifice his dreams for the well-being of the people of Bedford Falls. George works and owns the Bailey Building & Loan Association but since that became in danger because of the problems that go on with Mr. Potter. George ends up attempting suicide on Christmas Eve and is "rescued" by Clarence who is his guardian angel. He shows George what Bedford Falls would be like without him if he never existed. Stewart hasn't really portrayed a family character but he did an absolutely outstanding job of it in this film. Somehow, I was expecting it because James Stewart was one of the best actors of all time and still is. Donna Reed's performance as Mary Hatch (who later becomes Mrs. Mary Bailey) was really awesome as well. Mary has always had a crush on George since she was a little girl and her dreams of being together with George become reality. Reed makes Mary seem like a really caring, loving and loyal person as a wife as well as a mother to her and George's children. Lionel Barrymore was absolutely fantastic as well as banker Mr. Henry Potter. Mr. Potter is one of the coldest film characters of all time because he shows no mercy or loyalty for George. When George is desperate he doesn't help him at all, he just makes things worse for him, his family and his business. He is heartless, cold, apathetic and really evil all the way through the film. He tries to gain control of Bedford Falls by making the businesses within it go downfall in which almost happens to George. Barrymore was perfect for the character because he really did look evil and a sinster man who deserves a slap or punch across the face.

I didn't know about Capra before I saw It's A Wonderful Life but now his work in all of the films he has done in the past are legendary because I think he is refered as "the feel-good director" because he has done films in the past filled with hope, courage and a sense of achieving things. He is a director with such inspiration it is untrue. Capra worked on It's A Wonderful Life like he wanted us to feel something about life that we hadn't felt before: how unusual life can become but also how beautiful it can be as well.

It was nominated for 5 Oscars: Best Picture 1946 but lost to The Best Years Of Our Lives, Best Leading Actor (James Stewart) but lost to Fredric March in The Best Years Of Our Lives, Best Director (Frank Capra) but lost to William Wyler in The Best Years Of Our Lives, Best Sound Recording but lost to The Jolson Story and Best Film Editing but lost to The Best Years Of Our Lives.

It's A Wonderful Life is a tie with E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the best family film of all time. It is my favourite classic film which is why I call it "The Classic Of Classics". It is the best film of the 1940s, it is Capra and Stewart's best film and is definitely one of my close-favourite films of all time.

"When two people love each other, they come together - WHAM - like two taxis on Broadway."


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: USA


Rear Window is in my opinion one of the best thrillers ever made. Every single scene of this film made me feel really tense and made my heart pound so fast, it hurt. It took my breath away and couldnt let me breath very much because it was so tense. One of the things that I loved about Rear Window was that the mystery and suspense wasnt really between the characters but was mostly about what the characters were doing. The tensest moment was when Lisa sneaked over to Lars Thorwolds flat to investigate what the truth is but when he starts to come back, it becomes even tenser which made my heart race really fast.

James Stewart delivers an awesome performance as photographer L.B. Jeffries. His performance is one of those underrated performances I find. I personally think that Stewart doesnt earn enough credit for his roles in the Hitchcock films. I think that this is his best film with Hitchcock as director. I really liked Vertigo too. Grace Kelly was absolutely awesome too as Jeffries lover Lisa Carol Fremont. Grace Kelly is almost perfect for Lisa because she is like a real action packed young woman with such a beautiful and sexy style that not many actresses have. She makes Lisa a completely irrestistable woman who anyone can fall for.

The direction was absolutely outstanding from Alfred Hitchcock. I think Hitchcock directs every single film that he has done almost to complete perfection which probably has made him the greatest director of all time. This is one of those Hitchcock films that shows Hitchcock can never be rid of his classic masterpieces. The written screenplay was really clever not because obviously it is a complex mystery but because it is a short story and of how they adapted into an ordinary feature film.

I think that this film changed everything about what thrillers are really like. I personally think that this started to make Hitchcock the master of thrillers but after seeing Psycho (which is Hitchcocks best) and the release of Psycho completely determined Hitchcock as the Master Of Suspense.

The chemistry between Jeffries and Lisa is really good because I could tell that they were in love and I could tell that they both felt that they had to work together to try and investigate what happened opposite the other side of the flats. There wasnt really any chemistry between Jeffries and Lars because they only met properly around the end of the film.

The main twist was when Jeffries witnesses Lars returning home without his wife and that is the moment when Jeffries starts to become suspicious and tries to investigate the mystery.

This film was not violent at all really but had a few violent references. There wasnt really any bad language involved but there was quite a few moments that were quite crude with the language. There werent any sex references but there were quite a few making out scenes between Jeffries and Lisa.

As I already said, this film had simply outstanding writing with the clever screenplay. I also said about the awesome direction of the great and late Alfred Hitchcock. The cinematography was simply superb with amazing photography and the clever sound sequences used too. It had awesome sound and scenery. It made it like it was really happening.

This film earned four Academy Award nominations. It earned Best Director for Alfred Hitchcock (lost to Elia Kazan in On The Waterfront), Best Writing Screenplay (lost to The Country Girl), Best Cinematography (lost to Three Coins In The Fountain) and Best Sound Recording (lost to The Glenn Miller Story). I think that this film should have been a close nomination for Best Actor for James Stewart and a close one for Best Supporting Actress for Grace Kelly too.

This is my second favourite James Stewart film after It?s a Wonderful Life and it is my second favourite Alfred Hitchcock film after the obvious one Psycho. Grace Kelly hasnt been in many films really so I have to call Rear Window her best film then. The thing that really annoys me that involves me with Rear Window is that they made a remake of such a great masterpiece and it turned out to be a complete disaster just like the Psycho remake did. I really hope that there won't be any more Hitchcock remakes like Vertigo, Shadow Of A Doubt, Rebecca nor North By Northwest. Rear Window is a complete masterpiece that will always be remembered as one of the best of Hitchcock and also one of the greatest suspensful thrillers ever made.

"I've thought of an ending for my book - "And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days." "


Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin
Running time: 178 minutes
Country: New Zealand, USA


The Fellowship Of The Ring is the start of new landmarks of filmmaking. Fellowship Of The Ring s the one film of the trilogy that is rated PG whereas The Two Towers and The Return Of The King are PG-13/12A. This one was quite scary because of the Nazgul/Ringwraiths who are on the trail of the Ring. The opening scene is probably the most powerful start to a film that I have ever seen before in a film. It was full of anticipation and excitement of what's coming in the trilogy. From the novels, the start sort of tells the epilogue of the book. It was very tense involving the Ringwraiths. All of these names in all three are made-up names, made-up places and made-up races (apart from Men). This first one was a brand new experience to everybody because no film like it has ever been done before. There has never been a fantasy story with such a believable force to it.

The cast was really good in this one as well as the other two films. Elijah Wood was good as Frodo but seems a bit over the top when he cries. He was still really good though. Ian McKellen delivers a very well deserved Oscar nominated performance as Gandalf The Grey. I prefer seeing Gandalf grey than white because grey is Gandalf's original form and he looks a bit weird white whereas grey he looks cool. His performance is a lot like Alec Guinness' performance in Star Wars: Episode IV ? A New Hope apart from Alec hated Star Wars. Viggo Mortensen was awesome as Aragorn/Strider. He is a very heroic character with a big heart. He wasn't very well known until Lord Of The Rings. Aragorn reveals himself to be heir to the throne of Gondor aka Isildur's Heir. He meets the four Hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin in an inn called Prancing Pony and helps them reach Rivendell. When there, he falls in love with Arwen who is the daughter of Elrond who is probably the most powerful Elf in Middle-Earth. Other cast members Christopher Lee, Sean Astin, Dominic Managhan, Billy Boyd, Liv Tyler, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Cate Blanchett and Sean Bean were really good as their characters in this film.

Peter Jackson has created an unforgettable trilogy that will probably be remade in about 40 years time. The first film was directed absolutely brilliantly by a director who directed all three films in the same way. He has created the cinema changing franchise that I think everybody loves. All three Lord Of The Rings films are just too perfect to describe. The script was really good. It is really rare of a fantasy film to earn an Oscar nomination for the script. Yes, it was a very long film and there wasn't one flawed scene not even in the extended versions of the trilogy.

I have said this in my reviews of The Two Towers and The Return Of The King that it is a very realistic film because I can't even imagine if the world was really like that with all of that type of war, all of the upsets and triumphs and what sort of people they all are.

The chemistry between Frodo and Gandalf is ever so powerful because they are so close to each other but it is unfortunate that Gandalf is the one who sent Frodo on a mission to destroy the One Ring. The scenes they are in together are just amazing with a lot of heartfelt emotion. They don't see each other in The Two Towers whereas they do in Fellowship Of The Ring and Return Of The King. What slightly annoys me about Frodo and Sam's relationship is what some people get the impression of it. Yes, they both do cry a lot and hug each other but they do because it is very hard for both of them. Some stupid people say they are gay. I mean, that is pathetic. They are very good partners. In fact they are so close they are like brothers. The Fellowship is such a powerful group because they all come from different races. There are nine of them: 4 Hobbits, 2 Men, a wizard, an Elf and a Dwarf.

The cinematography was awesome. It is definitely the best of the three films. The art direction, the costumes, make-up, music and sound are just amazing because it is a dark story just like its two sequels. The art is like what a Del Toro film would be like, i.e. Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. The make-up is beyond any other we have seen before.

This film won four Academy Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Make-Up, Best Music Original Score and Best Visual Effects. It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Ian McKellen) but lost to Jim Broadbent in Iris, Best Art Direction but lost to Moulin Rouge!, Best Costume Design but lost to Moulin Rouge!, Best Editing but lost to Black Hawk Down, Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to A Beautiful Mind, Best Music Original Song ("May It Be") but lost to Monsters, Inc. ("If I Didn't Have You"), Best Sound Mixing but lost to Black Hawk Down, Best Director (Peter Jackson) but lost to Ron Howard in A Beautiful Mind and Best Picture but lost to A Beautiful Mind. It was nominated for four Golden Globe Awards: Best Picture Drama but lost to A Beautiful Mind, Best Director (Peter Jackson) but lost to Ron Howard in A Beautiful Mind, Best Music Original Song ("May It Be") but lost to Kate & Leopald ("Until...") and Best Music Original Score but lost to Moulin Rouge!

This is the start to the best franchise ever. No matter how many times you watch it you will always experience something new about it. Also, you will get this feeling that tells you "I want to watch The Two Towers and/or Return Of The King now". This is the best film of 2001 and alongside its sequels it changed my liking for cinema forever! Loved Lord Of The Rings before and love it just as much now. Always will love it!!

"Get away from her, you bitch!"


Director: James Cameron
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn
Running time: 154 minutes
Country: USA, UK


Aliens is one of those films that is a really scary film but can impress everybody because of its completely heart racing story. It is an absolutely outstanding thrill ride that deserves its place on my favourite films list. I dont think I have ever seen a film that is really weird but is really well adapted and made look so realistic. All of the aliens in this film particularly the Alien Queen are all characters that are obviously not real but are characters that stay in your mind and cant stop thinking about. In a slight way, it is for good reason because of the reality of the film but isnt because are fictional creatures. It is a film that made me feel really great because of its thrilling story, characters and technical qualities like sound, visual effects, cinematography, art direction etc. I didnt want to watch this film at first because it is a sci fi horror and I dont like those sort of films but now after watching all four of the Alien films I changed my mind and I love sci fi horrors now. It is a very emotional and good story which is very rare of a sci fi horror film.


Sigourney Weaver delivers a performance that is far better than her performance in the first film. Also, raises a new level of acting in science fiction films. Sigourney was still really good in that one though. I liked Ripleys character more in this one because she is a real badass in this one and a badass more than ever because she is obviously a real hero but can be a bit of a bitter person which is in her personality. She sort of seemed like a female Indiana Jones/James Bond sort of character particularly as far the action scenes are concerned. Her performance sort of brought a new Ellen Ripley because she was an ordinary person but since witnessing the aliens and everything about her has changed, he becomes a whole new person and for damn good reason. I liked Carrie Henn as Newt because she is a lot like a supporting young action hero in a science fiction film. For example, Dakota Fanning in War Of The Worlds and Danny and Walter in Zathura.


The direction from James Cameron was absolutely awesome. It was better than Ridley Scotts direction from the previous Alien film. This is Camerons second well known film after The Terminator. He started one of the greatest film franchises of all time (The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day), one of the best sequels of all time (Aliens), best science fiction films of all time (Aliens and The Abyss), one of the best romantic films, one of the best epics of all time and the highest grossing film of all time (Titanic). The script was really good aswell with awesome scenes that were all none-stop action.


This is my favourite James Cameron film. This is my favourite film from Sigourney Weaver. The 1980s was an amazing decade for science fiction films and action/adventure/thrillers. Aliens is the best of the quadrilogy. I loved Alien too, really liked Alien: Resurrection but was quite disappointed with Alien3. I love this film a lot too because it is my dads favourite film and one of my mums favourite films too. Along with Star Wars trilogy, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix trilogy, Blade Runner and The Terminator trilogy, Aliens is one of the greatest science fiction films of all time. It is without a doubt one of the best films of all time. Masterpiece!!!

"So long as the Arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people - greedy, barbarous, and cruel, as you are."


Director: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Running time: 227 minutes
Country: UK


This film was such a real inspiration to me because it has one of the most friendly and nicest men that have ever been on screen ever. This film truly shows us about self discovery because he doesnt really show his true colours until he meets the Arabs and becomes one of them even though he is white. This film was absolutely amazing too because Lawrence was a real life person and truly was a hero and an inspiration to everyone around the world. Also, it is an inspiration to me because of the beautiful qualities that this film has (read about my view of those later in my review). This film was really thrilling and dramatic because all epics are dramatic and a lot of them are thrilling too.


Peter O Toole delivers one of the greatest performances in cinema history. His performance as T.E. Lawrence was in my opinion was the greatest film debut of all time. Peter O Toole obviously has a really deep voice in real life but in this it was quite soft really. I know it is Peter O Toole but I can't really tell sometimes because he was so young. I think he was only 30 years old at the time of when the film came out. His performance makes T.E. Lawrence a really nice, loyal and very generous man who would do anything for you especially the fact that T.E. Lawrence was a real person too. He made the perfect combination for such a delightful and pleasant character. This film featured a lot of awesome stars too including Omar Sharif, the late Alec Guinness, the late Anthony Quinn and the late Jack Hawkins. Omar Sharif delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Sherif Ali. He is the other leader of the Arabs along with Lawrence. Alec Guinness was absolutely awesome too as Prince Feisel in an obvious and absolutely awesome supporting actor performance. He made Feisel like a real helpful companion to Lawrence. I loved Anthony Quinn too as Auda Abu Tayi who is the third leader of the Arabs with Ali and Lawrence. He was another powerful character that was like a mentor to Lawrence and made him feel strong when confronting and fighting off people that he isnt even part of. He is neither Arab nor Terk. He is just an ordinary British man. Jack Hawkins was awesome too as the British General Lord Edmund Allenby. He was quite strict and was quite a hard General which was, I guess, fair enough but he sent Lawrence to Arabia even though he was unsure about it at first until Lawrence went there and met all the people and knew what was going on with the Turks.


The direction was absolutely outstanding was the great and late David Lean. He has done a lot of absolute classics that are some of the greatest ever. I would say that Lawrence Of Arabia is my favourite Lean film. I loved the way David Lean was calculating the camera angles and how they were all placed perfectly. It is one of those films that most films win Best Picture and win Best Director because most epics have won Best Picture and Best Director. David Lean was the master of epic films. It is as simple as that. I would say that Hitchcock and Lean were the best British directors from the past. The writing was absolutely awesome! This is a typical epic film because of the style of the costumes, the setting, the characters and also of what happens too.


This film was a lot like The Bridge On The River Kwai and yet it was very different because Lawrence Of Arabia was more action packed, it wasmore emotional and was more of a thrill ride even though I loved The Bridge On The River Kwai a lot. I really felt sorry for Lawrence because he wanted to help the Arabs and help defeat the Turks but he is obviously white and the Turks are like racist to him because he wants to help and he looks totally different. There are like a little rivalry between Lawrence and Ali at the start but when Ali truly sees Lawrences intentions, they start to become not just allies and partners but also a very close and personal friendship. I liked Lawrences relationship with Prince Feisal who arent in many scenes together. This relationship was a combination between two great actors: Peter O Toole and Sir Alec Guinness. This is obviously Peter O Tooles best film. It is David Lean's best film. I dont think it is Alec Guinness best film. I loved him mostly in The Bridge On The River Kwai but liked him in Star Wars too. Peter O Toole's performance has become one of my all time favourite leading male performances of all time. As I said his performance is the greatest film debut performance ever!! Can't deny that! Lawrence Of Arabia is without a single doubt one of the best and most famous British films of all time. This film was so awesome that I personally feel that T.E. Lawrence himself would have been proud to call a film about him as one of the greatest films of all time.

"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."


Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich Von Stroheim, Nancy Olson
Running time: 110 minutes
Country: USA


Sunset Boulevard is probably one of the darkest films of all time. It is probably the darkest psychological story of the 1950s and you will see what I mean when you see it. The start of the film takes you to how that event happened throughout the whole film. Sunset Boulevard takes you on a journey of not only romance but also of psychological behaviours that the characters have. Sunset Boulevard is a classic that has earned a lot of credit including from critics and awards as well. Sunset Boulevard is in my mind a story that you could watch again to get why these events occurred within it and how that sometimes happens in modern day life.


Gloria Swanson's performance as Norma Desmond was a bit similar to Bette Davis's performance as Margo Channing in All About Eve. Both of those two films were released on the same year. I liked Davis' performance more but I was more into the Norma Desmond character. Norma Desmond is a very mysterious character because she has something about her that doesn't quite seem right. Norma is an aging ex silent film star who has moved away to live in a mansion on Sunset Boulevard. Her one companion is Max, her butler, former director and we later learn, first husband, who serves as her protector and shields her from the outside world. Because he is still in love with her, he tells her she is still a star, and cuts her off from the news media to keep her from realizing that she has been completely forgotten by her beloved public. One day she meets Joe Gillis who is a young, unemployed screenwriter. He luckily arrives there because he was being chased by two repo men after a flat tyre. She asks him to write her a script for her. She wants it to be the story of Salome and she plans to star in it though she is way too old. As Gillsi and Desmond get closer they fall in love and then there are severe consequences on hold that will leave you reeled with shock. William Holden was really good as well as Joe Gillis. I loved the way Holden made the character feel towards what he was doing regarding his script for Norma and also the way he was holding back against himself by trying to resist her. Their relationship becomes effective when Joe meets a younger screenwriter Betty Schaefer. Nancy Olson's performance was good as Betty and so was Erich Von Stroheim's performance too.


Billy Wilder has created another masterpiece that has gone to legend and has declared its rightful place on one of the best films of all time. Billy Wilder is one of my favourite directors and all I can say why is because he has created different kinds of films that have all turned out masterpieces. Sunset Boulevard is probably Wilder's most famous achievement but I still think that Some Like It Hot is his best film. He has created a film noir film that I got to grips with all the way through it and wanted to know the fates of the characters.


Sunset Boulevard is without a doubt one of the best films of the 1950s. It is a very dark story which is rather rare for a classic to have. Sunset Boulevard isn't Billy Wilder's best film. His best is still Some Like It Hot. Sunset Boulevard deserves his rightful place on one of my all time favourite films. It is a masterpiece that will never be forgotten in my mind.

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain
Running time: 142 minutes
Country: UK, USA


Well, what can I say? 2001: A Space Odyssey is a beautifully crafted film that I was blown away by but because of the slow pace of the film, I found it to be rather dull. To me it is "enjoyably dull" because I enjoyed seeing all of the art and all of the techology used for this film but the story was very complex and it was very slow but it was good seeing the creative technology used. Personally, I think the beginning part of the film (The Dawn Of Man) and the end (Hal's shutdown and Child Star) were the only outstanding moments of the film. I think people will only like it if they look for the art of cinema more than the story. I look for both but it is more the story and characters for me. I can see why people wouldn't like this film but I have to say, I would be extremely annoyed if they rate this film 2-star or below because they can't appreciate the beautiful filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The music used in this film has been used numerous times not only in other films but in other programmes too. This film has the best music score of all time and I am proud to say that.


Kier Dullea was good as Dave Bowman but I couldn't help but get this feeling that I couldn't really get into Dave's character. I was more interested in HAL 9000's character. What I love about HAL is that despite it's just a computer with a red circle for its eye and HAL doesn't move at all, it proves to become a powerful dominant force within the ship that seems very threatening. Douglas Rains' voice is very soft for HAL but I think his voice is quite scary because HAL is a villain in this film and villains with soft voices can freak people out on ocassions. HAL is the famous character in this film and I thought his appearance in 2010: The Year We Make Contact which is the sequel of this film was irrelevant just like the whole film was.


Stanley Kubrick is a legendary director and after what I have read on Wikipedia of how he created his films, I think 2001: A Space Odyssey is the film that he worked hard on the most out of all of the films he has done. Kubrick has proved to the film world that he can create rather extraordinary stories but become very clever and deeply interesting. Of the Kubrick films that I have watched this was the start of his slow camera angles but it wasn't the start of creating breakthrough films. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb was in that spot and it deserved to be. Kubrick was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director in this film and I cannot believe he didn't win it. He should have won a Best Director Academy Award for A Clockwork Orange and Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb but didn't which was a shame. However, he did win Best Visual Effects Oscar for this film.


2001: A Space Odyssey is a landmark for cinema and you cannot deny that but it is one of those sci fi films that people will either love, like or absolutely hate. I'm in the situation where I love it for it's creativity but dislike it for it's slow pacing and complex dialogue. There isn't a doubt that 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the best science fiction films of all time but it isn't one of my favourite films of all time though. One thing it does have an all-time favourite of mine though is the music score. It is a masterpiece but is something that I call "enjoyably dull".

"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
Running time: 155 minutes
Country: UK, USA


Oh my God! I was totally blown away by this epic masterpiece from the extremely talented Ridley Scott. This is a historic story that is very emotional with a very powerful dialogue which is very rare not just from Ridley Scott but also of all cinema. It was a very heartfelt story that teaches us all about what both life and death can give us and what they mean. It teaches what afterlife could be like if it actually exists. This film makes a slight possibility that life after death could exist. The way this story is set up is really good because there is a lot of raw emotion, a lot of hard hitting cinematic action effects and with very powerful directing and a very good script. I think I loved pretty much everything about Gladiator. It has a lot of outstanding action with the sound effects and visual effects. It was very intense because we all knew that Maximus was somehow going to win the fight but it was really questionable of how graphic it could be and it certainly was with a lot of very graphic realistic effect to it. It was a very tragic story regarding Maximus losing his wife and son but after that there was a lot of pride that brought that really strong life force so to speak towards his character. This is a film that can make people cry because of the emotional story but it didn't make me cry. Yes, it is a very emotional story but I wouldn't call it heartbreaking and one you could cry at.


Russell Crowe delivers a performance that he will probably be best remembered for. He didn't just deliver a very emotional performance as Maximus but he also created one of the most powerful and coolest characters in cinema history. There was a lot of tears from his eyes and I could easily see the hatred and the rage from Maximus towards Commodus with nothing but vengeance on his mind. Maximus is an ordinary Roman general whose life is turned upside down when he is betrayed by the son of his great friend Marcus Aurelius when Commodus murders his father when he announces that he isn?t dependent enough to become Emperor and wants Maximus as his heir to the throne. Because of Commodus' jealousy he requests Maximus to be executed but Maximus escapes and rushes to his family and they are killed by Commodus' men. He then becomes a slave and a gladiator. A lot of things in Maximus' life changes when he becomes a gladiator. This is my favourite Russell Crowe film and I did love his powerful performance as Maximus but his performance is better and more emotional as John Nash in A Beautiful Mind even though I liked Gladiator more than A Beautiful Mind. Joaquin Phoenix delivers an even more emotional performance as Commodus. What I truly loved about Joaquin's performance in this one was that it was a character that seems very soft with a soft voice and looking like a nice man but when you cross him or when you do something that he doesn't like or approve of he becomes a very fearful and evil character. The evil and jealousy in Commodus came when his father Marcus Aurelius says that he isn't good enough to be Emperor of Rome. Hurt by this and wanting to become Emperor, he murders and suffocates his own father by rapping his arms around him so hard that he couldn't breath. After he finds out Maximus is still alive after requesting his execution, he starts to feel really reeled and feels betrayed by his sister and nephew. Despite of how good Russell Crowe's performance was, Joaquin's was better with a more believable and realistic character. The late Richard Harris's acting as Marcus Aurelius was absolutely brilliant because I could see a lot of emotion and a lot of deep meaning that Richard brought to the character especially coming out of this soft voice. He will be best remembered for Harry Potter and Gladiator. I loved Oliver Reed, Djimon Hounsou and Derek Jacobi were all awesome aswell. This film has an absolutely outstanding cast and is one of the rare films where all of the actors have delivered top-notch performances.

Ridley Scott directs this to almost complete perfection. He has always had a talent of making action films but with different genres. This is his best work to date and will probably always be his best film. He made this film totally unforgettable and a phenomenon for the ages. Scott shows he can make blockbusters as well as just ordinary not-so-highly grossing films. Gladiator is one of the very few blockbusters that have won Best Picture. Others are like Forrest Gump, The Silence Of The Lambs, Saving Private Ryan, Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King and particularly Titanic. This is a very different type of film as far as story is concerned that Ridley Scott has done. He has done a lot of cool unbelievable stories but this is one of the few that he did make believable. The script was very good with really amazing scenes. I love the scene where Maximus sees Commodus again after believing Maximus was dead. That was such a powerful scene with a lot of fantastic direction from Ridley.


This is Ridley Scott's best work to date and probably always will be. Alien, A Good Year, Thelma & Louise, American Gangster and Blade Runner are behind it on top Ridley Scott films. It is a damn shame that Joaquin Phoenix has quitted acting for music because he had such a great rare acting talent. Gladiator is probably his best film and he will be remembered for that just like he will for his other Oscar nominated performance in Walk The Line. Gladiator is my favourite film starring Russell Crowe and his performance was very much deserved but I thought his performance was better in A Beautiful Mind. Shame he didn't win Oscar for that otherwise he would have the third actor to have had back-to-back Oscars after Spencer Tracy and Tom Hanks. Gladiator made history by becoming 1 of the 2 blockbusters to win Best Picture in the 2000s decade along with The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. This is my favourite epic film, my favourite action film, it is my dad's favourite film which is a tie with Aliens which is another reason why I love it even more than I already do but most importantly Gladiator is definitely one of my favourite films of all time.

"Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention."


Director: David Fincher
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey
Running time: 127 minutes
Country: USA


Seven is without a single doubt in my mind one of the darkest thrillers of all time. It is absolutely amazing with a really amazing cast. It is a dark mystery-thriller that turned out a masterpiece. It is like Zodiac when it comes to that. Seven is a film that made me feel really thrilled by which is very rare of a film to do so. It is a rather horrifying film to watch because of the gruesome murders and the solving of the murders on the seven deadly sins Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy and Wrath. This film involves the seven deadly sins but it would be a really big sin for anybody to miss this film. It is probably the best mystery film of the 1990s. It is a thriller than I wouldn't say scared me but it is one that sent a few chills down my back when I watched it but was quite a good feeling because it showed how much I enjoyed this film. Like most thrillers, Seven is a really gripping film but in more of a psychological way rather than a violent way. The way Seven is filmed and how dark the story is reminds me a lot of The Silence Of The Lambs which is another reason why I love Seven. It has a great twist at the end of the film that I was horrified at. This really tense psychological thriller stars 4 absolutely fantastic actors. 3 of them are Oscar winners and 1 is a two-time Oscar nominee.


Brad Pitt has delivered a performance that in my mind is one of his best roles. Most people might think that Legends Of The Fall is his breakthrough performance but I think that Seven is. Pitt has been an actor of portraying hard-hitting, aggressive and rather serious characters. When you see him in films like Seven and Fight Club, he sort of acts himself when regarding looks not personality obviously. Morgan Freeman is another extremely talented actor that I always expect awesome performances from. Freeman worked really hard with Brad Pitt and the rest of the cast on this film. I don't think this film would have been good if Fincher wasn't directing and if it didn't star Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt have brought together two characters that are close friends as well as partners in solving the mystery. I really loved Gwyneth Paltrow's performance as Tracy Mills who is the pregnant girlfriend of Detective David Mills She isn't really that sort of actress to star in a psychological thriller but personally it is a performance from her that shows she can be in a film like Seven in the future. Kevin Spacey is really good as villain John Doe. His performance was a bit like his performance in The Usual Suspects.


After the critically disappointing Alien3, Fincher has created his big breakthrough film. Fincher has always been a talented director of psychological thrillers. His directing in Seven was a big introduction to his other amazing thrillers such as Fight Club, Panic Room and Zodiac. Personally I would have thought that he would have been a good director for The Silence Of The Lambs but that probably wouldn't have been half as good if Fincher did that one. Jonathan Demme who was the director of The Silence Of The Lambs would have been a good director of Seven if not David Fincher. As far as I'm concerned, Fincher is the present Hitchcock apart from Curious Case Of Benjamin Button which is an epic, fantasy, romantic drama. Fincher's collaboration with Brad Pitt is one of my favourite collaborations ever because the three films that they have been in together have turned out to be masterpieces!


Seven is one of my all time favourite thrillers and I am proud to say that. It is David Fincher's third best film after The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Fight Club. Those two and Seven are the Fincher films that I think everybody would call their favourite. Perhaps Zodiac too. Seven features one of the cleverest psychological thrillers of our time. It has one of the best film twists as well and most powerful endings as well as one of the best starts. Seven is the best film of 1995. It is Brad Pitt's third best film after The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Fight Club. It is Morgan Freeman's third best performance after The Shawshank Redemption and Million Dollar Baby. It isn't Gwyneth Paltrow's best performance but it is one of the best from her though. Kevin Spacey has delivered another gripping performance and Seven is one of his best too. Seven is one of my favourite films of all time and you will see why when you see it.

"Maybe you can find yourself a nice antique rocking chair to die in."


Director: Michel Gondry
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst
Running time: 108 minutes
Country: USA


When I first read the plot of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, I knew I was going to like it but I had a few problems with the plot because it is a rather bizarre story. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is an absolutely outstanding film that is very weird but is very original and really beautiful to watch. It is one of those films that is bizarre but in a very creative, clever and very original way. Others are Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. It is a film that is really heartbreaking because of the romance between the characters and the dramatic yet bizarre consequences. This film is a bright black-comedy as well as sci fi drama. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a film that some people hate because of its weirdness but some people love it like me for its beauty and it's creativity. I loved this film all the way through because of that and also it is a film that is in my opinion a creative landmark in cinema like Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. All three of the original bizarre masterpiece films all have really good casts.


This is the first drama Jim Carrey performance so far because he is playing a man who requests a prodecure to forget all his memories. He portrays Joel Barish in a new way of acting for Carrey but has some comedy involved so that is where it slightly becomes typical Jim Carrey. Joel is a man who meets girlfriend Clementine for the first time at a beach party in Montauk, New York. They both become lovers and experience different things on life. Kate Winslet's performance as Clementine Kruczynski was typically outstanding as always. Kate proved herself to be the only actress to portray Clementine. Kate's portrayal of Clementine is rather unusual and it's the first time she has been part of an unusual film. Clementine is a very bizarre character because not only does she go through different illusions so to speak within the film but also she has lots of different hair colours: blue, red, pink, green, orange etc. If Kate Winslet or Jim Carrey weren't in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind at all then I personally think it would have been a big disappointment. Kirsten Dunst, Elijah Wood, Mark Ruffalo and Tom Wilkinson were good as well as their characters.


Michel Gondry's direction of Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is very similar if not the same kind as Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. I love films like that. They are just really clever and films that you can really use your imagination on. The stories are similar in all three of those films but the one thing that all three have in common is that they have the same screenwriter Charlie Kaufman. Kaufman is my favourite screenwriter and has yet to fail. To me he is the best ever! Most screenwriters think of made up stories and end up failing miserably but all three of those films that he has done have been great successes to me and have earned a piece of Oscar glory.


Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a very unusual film that is just an absolute masterpiece! Despite the fact it's a masterpiece it isn't Charlie Kaufman's best written achievement. I prefered both Being John Malkovich and Adaptation over Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. It is in my opinion Jim Carrey's best performance so far. I also loved his performances in The Grinch, Bruce Almighty and Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events. Kate was the best of the whole cast but I still prefer her performances in Revolutionary Road and Titanic. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is one of my top 10 science fiction films and romantic films. It is my fourth favourite film of 2004 after Closer, Spider-Man 2 and Finding Neverland. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is an absolutely amazing masterpiece that I will never forget and will always love forever.

"I'm Shellie's new boyfriend and I'm out of my mind. If you so much as talk to her or even think her name, I'll cut you in ways that'll make you useless to a woman."


Director: Frank Miller
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Jessica Alba
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: USA


Back in 2005, I had no interest in this film whatsoever but when I saw a while ago, I am ever so glad I watched it. Sin City is one of the most creative, coolest and most hard-hitting films that has ever been made. It is an absolutely brilliant film that I think is both underrated and overrated. Sin City is one of the finest examples of being called a cool film that is loved by a lot of film fans. Sin City is in my opinion along with Pulp Fiction one of the coolest films ever! I have to say that Sin City is loved more by teenagers than adults because they would have that cool taste about it and also a lot of teens as well as adults love violence in films. I love every single story in this film. They are all totally different but you have the same feelings about them. What I love about this film is that it doesnt only show the wide variety of violence within the film but also the wide variety of crime and what truly does happen in the world. Personally, I think it is probably a fact that The Dark Knight and Sin City are the greatest comic book adaptations of all time and they totally deserve to be.


This has one of the most amazing ensemble cast ever! I think that the three main leading actors in this film are three of the coolest actors of all time who can play characters who are cool: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Clive Owen. They are all actors who can be deadly, charming and quite sensitive on occasions. Bruce Willis was awesome as Hartigan. Hartigan is an aging cop who is protecting a stripper called Nancy Callahan from danger. What I find weird is that Bruce Willis makes Hartigan an old man but Bruce himself isnt that old at all, really. Now, Mickey Rourke was absolutely perfect for Marv! Seeing Mickey as Marv was almost precisely the same as what Marv looks like in the comic book itself. Marv is a man who has a passionate night with a woman called Goldie but wakes up to find her head. To avenge her death, he goes on a hunt to find out who killed her. Marv is the most brutal character within the film because he kills his victims so deadly. Clive Owen was amazing as well as Dwight. Dwight is a man who is in love with a woman called Shellie. When he spends his time with her, he has to protect Gail and her Old Town Girls (group of prostitutes) from Jackie Boy who likes to make violence. Dwight is my favourite character from the whole film mostly because Clive Owen is my favourite actor out of the actors in Sin City. Jessica Alba is a bad actress all around but she is so damn HOT. She was actually really good as Nancy Callahan. She surprisingly has everything that Nancy has. I realised that this is a film that shouldnt be taken seriously when it comes to acting but should have actors who are able to portray the characters and Jessica managed to do that. Other actors Benicio Del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Elijah Wood, Michael Clarke Duncan, Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, Michael Clarke Duncan and more did excellent jobs in this film as well.


Frank Miller isnt a brilliant filmmaker but he is an absolute genius and writing comic books! He did a good job in this film and I am glad that he chose to direct this film. He showed how bad he can be in The Spirit but Sin City showed how good he can be. Sin City was directed like it was just for pure entertainment and also to send out an important message. I think that there were some Oscar nominations that were robbed from this film. I think it should have been nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects and Best Make-Up. Sin City is probably the most popular film of 2005 and it deserves to be one of the best but it doesnt quite beat Brokeback Mountain. The script is that sort of script that I think Quentin Tarantino would write because I find the script of Sin City very similar to Pulp Fiction because they are very original and are written in a certain style.


Overall, Sin City is the ultimate graphic novel film that I dont think will ever be beaten. It is one of the most violent films ever and is also one of the coolest films that I have ever watched. It is one of my favourite films as well as one of the most entertaining and thrilling thrill rides in film history.

"Well, I'm not used to supposin'. I'm just a workin' man. My boss does all the supposin' - but I'll try one. Supposin' you talk us all out of this and, uh, the kid really did knife his father?"


Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Martin Balsam
Running time: 96 minutes
Country: USA


12 Angry Men is one of those films that you just have to call a classic no matter whether you like it or not. It is a story of great mystery and great power because of what could happen to the convict of the film and that the 12 jurors have the power to decide that. 12 Angry Men is a classic that isn't a very long running one but the main thing is that it is a classic that is really easily remembered as well as the actors within the film particularly the legendary Henry Fonda. Watching 12 Angry Men is a lot like playing the Cluedo board game. If you've ever played the game, you will see what I mean. It is a film with adventure because it takes you into depth within the case and the decision of whether the convict is guilty or innocent. It shows a greatly artistic design of what the courts were like in those days and also about how serious they were with the investigation because almost all of the jurors fell out with each other.


What I also really loved about 12 Angry Men is that we never knew any of the 12 jurors real names. Not even juror 8 who is the main character in the film who was portrayed by Henry Fonda. Juror 8 was the most curious juror out of all 12 because he was sort of really keen to cover everything within the investigation. Each of the 12 jurors are very different people really. Juror 1 is an Assistant High-School Football coach, juror 2 is a meek and unpretentious bank clerk, juror 3 is a businessman and an emotionally distraught father, opinionated and stubborn with a streak of sadism, juror 4 is a rational stock broker, unflappable and self-assured, juror 5 is a young man from a violent slum, a Baltimore Orioles fan, juror 6 is a house painter, tough but principled and respectful, juror 7 is a salesman, sports fan, superficial and indifferent to the deliberations, juror 8 is an architect, the lone dissenter (in the beginning), juror 9 is a wise and observant elderly man, juror 10 is a garage owner; a pushy loudmouthed bigot, juror 11 is an immigrant watchmaker, proud to be a naturalized American citizen and juror 12 is an indecisive advertising executive. In the 1997 remake of this film another legendary actor portrayed juror 8 and that was Jack Lemmon.


Sidney Lumet's directing was really good in this film. He makes it seem so realistic that the murder investigation was real and almost everything else was real. Most court dramas are set in the same place but they all investigate different cases. Sidney Lumet has created probably his most famous film first. His directing debut started with a bang and in a huge way. The script was just amazing that is really well written and didn't flaw once.


This is a masterpiece from Henry Fonda but I don't think it's his best film though. I preferred his acting and character in The Grapes Of Wrath. It is one of the best classics to have ever come on screen in cinema history. It is a classic that has been remade and has failed greatly. 12 Angry Men is an amazing film but my favourite courtroom drama is still To Kill A Mockingbird. 12 Angry Men is one of the greatest films of the 1950s and is one of the best if not the most famous mystery film of all time. I have given this film 5-star because it deserves it but I wouldn't watch it for a long time just in case if effects my liking for it.

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: UK, USA


When I first read about this film on the internet I was unsure about whether I would like this film. Because Stanley Kubrick directed it with both Peter Sellers and George C. Scott in the leading roles of the film, I decided to watch it and I am ever so glad I did. The first time I saw it I really enjoyed it but after a second viewing of it, I absolutely loved it. Dr. Strangelove is a comedy but one that you won't literally laugh out load at because it is quite a serious story but has quite amusing characters especially Dr. Strangelove. The title of this film is very long and in a way it is quite a mysterious one to me because I don't fully get why it has to be so long. Dr. Strangelove is a film that I think is appreciated by most classic film fans and critics from all over the world but it won't really be appreciated or likable to people who either don't like classics, dark comedy or Kubrick/Sellers/Scott. My favourite shots of the film are where the planes are in the air and there are the beautiful settings of the mountains and fields. Depending on the angle of the plane, it looks like the plane is coming towards the camera, the camera is alongside the plane or the camera is following the plane.


Peter Sellers was a legendary actor with a very wide taste of comedy. His performance in this film was so serious and so funny at the same time especially when he was playing three characters. He portrays Group Captain Lionel Mandrake who is a British exchange officer, President Merkin Muffley who is the American Commander-In-Chief and Dr. Strangelove who is a disabled ex-Nazi war expert. Dr. Strangelove was my favourite character in this film because he was the comedy of this film and he was a very tight character to watch. Peter Sellers' Dr Strangelove voice was absolutely fantastic that was quite frightening at times especially with his facial expressions when he speaks to people. Peter Sellers should have won the Best Leading Actor Oscar instead of Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady. George C. Scott was awesome too as General Buck Turgidson. The whole cast was mostly men with only one woman cast in this film. That woman was Tracy Reed who was Miss. Scott. Miss. Scott is the secretary and mistress of General Buck Turgidson. She only appeared in one scene in this film.


I absolutely love the very beginning and the very end of this film because it shows the pure beauty of what the film is going to bring despite the genre. Also did it because it was about the possible ending of the world but those scenes proved the beauty and innocence of the world. Kubrick did this for the beginning and end of 2001: A Space Odyssey too which was absolutely brilliant. I think that Dr. Strangelove was his breakthrough film despite Paths Of Glory because after Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick truly does what he can do regarding the art of cinema and how he creates the characters and writes the scripts for them. Most black comedies are very original but because it was a film that involves quite a complex dialogue. Kubrick was nominated for Best Director in this film. Dr. Strangelove should have won all the Oscars it was nominated for including Best Picture 1964. Kubrick should have had an Oscar for A Clockwork Orange and 2001: A Space Odyssey too.


Dr. Strangelove is an absolutely phenomenal masterpiece that is the most famous black-comedy of all time and it is one of my favourites of that kind. Kubrick is one of my close favourite directors so Dr. Strangelove is the fourth best film from him after A Clockwork Orange, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. It isn't 5-stars but it is very, very close to reaching that rating. When I watch it again in the future and love it more, it could be 5-stars. Dr. Strangelove is a beautifully filmed masterpiece that I think I will love more as I watch it more.

"Next time, Indiana Jones, it will take more than children to save you."


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys- Davies
Running time: 115 minutes
Country: USA


This is truly one of the best action packed thrill rides of all time. It is a really tense film too because it is quite a violent film in some ways. This film was the dawning of one of the greatest movie heroes of all time. Indiana Jones truly is in my opinion one of the coolest characters in cinema history. This film made me feel really tense because there are some scenes where there are a lot of scary moments especially when Indy and Marion were in this hole where the Ark is and there are snakes and dead corpses. Also, because of the fight scenes that Indy comes across and is a question of how Indy will pull his awkward situation off.


Harrison Ford delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Indiana Jones. Harrison Ford is the perfect actor for Indy because he makes the character like a James Bond sort of character. He is rather deadly, he is a real charm to women but the main thing is that the character is a really cool and clever character that truly is a hero. I think that Harrison would have been good enough for an Oscar nomination. I think Harrison Ford only became really well known in the 1970s and 1980s and a few films in the 1990s too. Mostly the four Indiana Jones films, the original Star Wars trilogy and I really liked his performance in The Fugitive too. I really liked Karen Allen in this film as Marion Ravenwood. Her character isnt really an action packed character but it is more of an emotional character. She is a really cool accomplise to Indy and she forms a not only a love relationship but also a really adventurous combination.


The direction from Steven Spielberg was absolutely outstanding. He made it his most adventurous film ever and also in my opinion Steven Spielbergs best character too. The actions and all of the things that Indy did were just too cool to be true. They were deadly and really charming too. Steven Spielberg directs this film really well as both he and George Lucas make Indy a really difficult character to defeat even when Indy is in a really awkward situation. Indy always wins in the end!!! The written screenplay was absolutely awesome.


It is my favourite of all four of the Indiana Jones films because it is the classic of all four and in my opinion it has the best written story and a more exciting thrill ride than all the others even though I love all four of them. I love Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones but I think I like him more as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy. It is my second favourite Steven Spielberg film after Saving Private Ryan. For me, this film achieved itself to be one of the best action packed films of all time. It is a shame that this isnt a biography film but it would have been great if there was one. It is really high on my top action packed films of all time. It is the start of a franchise that will never be forgotten. Masterpiece from Steven Spielberg and George Lucas! Always has been and always will be a classic action packed phenomenon.

"The horror... the horror..."

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
Running time: 153 minutes
Country: USA


Apocalypse Now is a war film but is now a new kind of war film. It is very dark with not so much blood, guts etc but it shows the pure horror of war. It is filmed with dark cinematography, art direction, costumes and even dark make-up. The characters and the whole story is dark. It isn't scary but it is dark. Despite most of the dark qualities, the settings are really beautifully designed and filmed. This is one of the rare war films that has a really deep drama story that determines fate. It has action that is hard-hitting, impactful and quite gruesome which is natural of a war film. Apocalypse Now is a film that blew me away in almost every single aspect. I don't think there will be any darker war film that this.



Marlon Brando leads the cast but is only in the last hour out of the 157 minutes (195 minutes in the extended version). I can't see Marlon playing a supporting character very much. Marlon Brando portrays another villain but this time he is portraying a colonel of the US army who has gone AWOL and is declared insane. Marlon has brought back that real badass character back but Kurtz is a psycho killing his own people. Colonel Kurtz is the highly decorated American Army Special Forces officer who goes renegade. He runs his own operations out of Cambodia and is feared by the US Military as much as the Vietnamese. The way he kills his victims is a bit like a cannibalistic manner even though he isn't a cannibal. His performance was really terrifying. I liked Martin Sheen as Captain Benjamin L. Willard but I don't think he is exactly the top-notch actor to play that sort of character. Willard is a veteran who has been in Vietnam for three years. He is in the U.S. Special Forces and hinted to be an assassin. It is also strongly implied Willard worked for MACV-SOG and even the CIA. His attempt to re-integrate into society failed and he was sent back to Vietnam. I liked Robert Duvall's acting as well as Lieutenant Colonel William 'Bill' Kilgore. Kilgore is a strong leader who loves his men dearly but has methods that appear out-of-tune with the setting of the war.



This is Duvall's third collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola after The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. Coppola has directed a different kind of directing to Apocalypse Now like he did for the two Godfather films. However, there is one thing he did bring to Apocalypse Now that The Godfather films have and that is they are epics but in different genres. Coppola has in my opinion created one of the best war films of all time at even the modern days now. He hasn't done many films but I guess that is rather good because he should stay with his masterpieces that were the Godfather trilogy and Apocalypse Now. This film has a very dark script that is just kick-ass is some ways like 'oh the horror, the horror' but in other ways of the film, it is very typical from a war action film.



Apocalypse Now is my second favourite war film of all time after Saving Private Ryan. It is definitely the darkest war film so far. Marlon Brando's performance is amazing but it isn't his best performance. He is better in A Streetcar Named Desire, The Godfather and On The Waterfront. Francis Ford Coppola's second best work after The Godfather. Brando's second collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola is an amazing one because they have worked together on two masterpieces. Apocalypse Now is definitely one of my favourite films of the 1970s and isn't far off from reaching my favourite films list.

"What's wrong with the way I talk? What's the big idea? Am I dumb or something?"


Director: Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Running time: 103 minutes
Country: USA


Singin' In The Rain is without a single doubt one of the most beautiful, delightful and funniest musicals that have ever been put to screen in the history of cinema. The reason for this is because the whole story in general is all of those things and it is a story that can touch people's hearts in many different ways. To be perfectly honest, Singin' In The Rain is a musical that is rather odd in some ways because when there are scenes where the actors are singing on stages and in fantasy songs it sort of feels a bit like watching a music concert. It is a film that is a classic and is the best musical of the 1950s without a single doubt. It is inspiring because it is about love, friendship and trying to fulfill your dreams and ambitions. It is a deeply lovable story that I could definitely watch quite regularly. Where I mean that it's funny is that Lina Lamont's voice is obviously funny but it can also be pretty annoying but still in a funny way. Also, the slapstick the characters pull off in the songs they sing especially "Make 'Em Laugh". My favourite song is obviously the classic song "Singin' In The Rain" and is also one of my favourite songs of all time.


It had a really good cast and all of the performances from all actors were absolutely fantastic and hilarious. First of all, Gene Kelly's performance as Don Lockwood was really good. In films like this, Kelly acts a lot like Dick Van Dyke in films like Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He has that delightful, charming and excellent singing voice which Dick Van Dyke had in those days too. Don Lockwood is a silent film star and is a famous celebrity which in my mind is almost a perfect choice for a Gene Kelly character. Donald O'Connor made me laugh a lot as well especially in that "Make 'Em Laugh" song when he was throwing himself around while singing at the same time. Jean Hagen was probably the funniest out of the whole cast because she obviously had that squeaky voice for that character and she always acts this irresitable, talented and young singer and actress. Her bad singing pays off against her when they ask her to sing. Debbie Reynolds was awesome as well as Kathy Selden. As Don and Kathy work together to help Lina with her singing they slowly gradually fall in love and their comes the romance within this masterpiece as well as the delightful music, the comedy and even the slight drama within.


Gene Kelly actually surprised me as co-director of Singin' In The Rain because he was a man who I don't think really seemed that directing type but after I saw Singin' In The Rain I was wrong and he did an amazing job. He made this film a real delight for whole family and for children at almost any age. I am unsure who wrote the songs but if Gene Kelly did then it would have become a fine achievement for him and he would have become a great song writer as well as singer and actor.


Singin' In The Rain has proved itself to be one of the best musicals of all time as well as in my opinion one of the best family films of all time too. Singin' In The Rian is my favourite musical of the 1950s therefore it's my fifth favourite musical after Sweeney Todd, Grease, The Sound Of Music and Beauty And The Beast. Singin' In The Rain is a beautiful, heartfelt and electrifying film that is just too amazing to not hate. Masterpiece!! A classic that always has been a classic and always will be a classic!

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."


Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland
Running time: 224 minutes
Country: USA


Gone With The Wind is a film that I think some people are rather biased about because of its extremely long duration. Obviously, it is a very long film to watch but it is damn sure worth the 4 hours. Gone With The Wind proves itself to be an eternal masterpiece that will always be remembered for many generations to come. Gone With The Wind is an ultimate landmark of cinema because it was the first of a new kind of film. It was the first eve epic film which is the reason why Gone With The Wind is my all-time favourite epic film. It is a film that is filled with love, romance, hatred and jealousy. Gone With The Wind is one of the classic films that got me deeply interested in them and made me watch more and more of them just like It's A Wonderful Life, Psycho, Rear Window, A Streetcar Named Desire, Harvey and Roman Holiday did too. Gone With The Wind received 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture 1939, Best Leading Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel)


There aren't many films that have been made where the entire cast deliver Oscar worthy performances. Alongside Gone With The Wind, I can only think of The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II. Vivien Leigh's performance as Scarlett O'Hara is absolutely legendary as Scarlett O'Hara. Vivien's performance will be a memorable one that will never be forgotten. She plays a character like no other cinema has ever seen before. Scarlett is one of the most powerful female characters ever if not the most. She has her eye on a young man called Ashley who she has always loved. Scarlett marries three times (including Rhett) and Ashley is none of them. It is like Scarlett wants to be happy but also wants to be married to these men to get to Ashley or to make him jealous which is what she does in the first marriage. Vivien's performance is the best female performance of all time in my opinion and it totally deserves to be! Her performance in A Streetcar Named Desire is amazing and is almost as good as her portrayal of Scarlett. Clark Gable's performance as Rhett Butler is legendary as well as Vivien's. Seeing Clark as Rhett is a classic and iconic sight because his performance was so perfect! Clark Gable was one of the most charming actors ever and Rhett is a very charming character who is almost irresistible to women and that is perfect for Clark. Rhett is a very powerful character because he shows his love for Scarlett but sometimes he doesn't when he acts a bit abusive towards her and also he won't let things go which sort of does make him quite a stubborn character. His performance as Rhett Butler is one of my favourite male performances ever as well. Supporting actors Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland, Hattie McDaniel and Butterfly McQueen all deliver amazing Oscar winning and nominated performances as well.

1939 was probably the best year in Victor Fleming's career because he created two landmarks of cinema and two eternal classics that will always be remembered. He was the director of both Gone With The Wind and The Wizard Of Oz. Despite, creating two legendary films in one year, I still find him an underrated director who deserved more than he got. He will always be remembered as the director of the first ever epic/costume drama film. The filming was beautifully done even in war scenes.


Overall, Gone With The Wind is an eternal classic that is filled with love, romance, top-notch acting, landmark filmmaking and classic quotes and scenes.

"Anybody ever tell you you look dead, man?"


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, John Hurt
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: UK, USA


Alien is a very scary, tense and psychological masterpiece that can be watched timeless times. Alien is probably the first sci fi horror film and it is probably the most famous one. The second Alien film is another masterpiece of the genre but that one is far better. The late 1970s released two science fiction films that are landmarks of the genre: Alien and Star Wars. Alien is a film that can absolutely freak people out but can make people feel really great because some people absolutely love the tension in a film or just love scary films in general. There isn't a single doubt that Alien is a horror film but the second Alien film isn't in my opinion. That is more of a sci fi action film even though it can be tense and scary on occasions which is why I prefer Aliens to Alien. I have now decided that Alien is the most graphic film of all time as far as violence is concerned.


Sigourney Weaver is Ellen Ripley and it's as simple as that. She portrays Ripley with such seriousness that has a real taste for creating a female badass character. Weaver was better in the second film especially with her Oscar nomination for that film but she should have been nominated for one in this film. Ellen Ripley is just a normal person in this film but when it comes near the end, her life becomes really difficult and she becomes a very different person which is revealed in the next three Alien films. It is only until when she is left all alone when she goes into sort sort of coma or cybric sleep and that changes things around. The violence that happens to each of the characters is absolutely unbelievable such as alien coming out of man's stomach and a man really being an alien with alien guts, blood etc.


Ridley Scott's first feature film is an absolutely phenomenal debut. Ridley Scott has created a masterpiece already in his very early career. I'm glad that Scott didn't do the second Alien film because it probably wouldn't have been as good. I think that most people say that Aliens is better than Alien. Ridley Scott has crafted a masterpiece for all of cinema as well as of the science fiction and horror genres.


Alien is an unbelievable, outstanding, mind-blowing, heart-racing yet gut-retching masterpiece that I absolutely loved from start to finish. Aliens is better than Alien by a mile. After Alien and Aliens, the Alien franchise went downfall. The third one was could but could have been better. Fourth was good too. Regarding the ones, with Predator in are absolutely appalling. Alien is Ridley Scott's second best film after Gladiator. I love Blade Runner, Thelma And Louise and Matchstick Men as well from Ridley Scott. Alien is the first sci fi-horror film and nothing or nobody can take that away from it. Masterpiece!

"E.T. phone home."


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore
Running time: 115 minutes
Country: USA


E.T. truly is one of the most pleasurable, heartwarming films that I and probably everybody has ever laid eyes on in front of the screen. It is very much loved from Hollywood, from critics and from the public as well. E.T. is a film that is just an unforgettable classic with such famous scenes and excellent pieces of filmmaking. The most famous scene is when E.T. is inside the basket which is strapped to Elliott's bike and he makes the bike fly in the air. That is just so magical and is just a film you could wail in tears at. E.T is a lovely film that sends a very important message to families and also to young children. The main keyword in the message E.T. sends is friendship and what it really means. This film is such an inspiration to me and is one of the most tear-jerking films of all time. It can make you cry because of how beautiful the friendship is between Elliott and Henry and also the E.T. character. This film is such a legendary phenomenon that is just amazing. It is a real adventure of experiencing each of the characters' personalities but also exploring the beauty of friendship and loved ones. This became a worldwide phenomenon in the 1980s and it still is in the modern days after 20 years. E.T. is a really funny film as well because E.T. is obviously cute but he is pretty funny as well with the things he gets himself into when he is in the house like when he drinks a can of lager from the fridge.

The cast is really awesome! Henry Thomas has been in some good films at the present time like Legends Of The Fall and Gangs Of New York but he will obviously be best remembered for E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial. Henry's performance as Elliot was very heartfelt and funny as well because he ends up making it hard for the family to have to look after E.T without anybody finding out. E.T. comes along at a great time for Elliott because he is a lonely ten-year-old boy who is bullied by his older brother Michael. When Elliott finds E.T he adopts him and their bond becomes very heartfelt and pretty tear jerking. Robert MacNaughton was good as Michael. He is 16-years-old and he picks on his younger brother Elliott but that doesn't occur as much when he meets E.T and they become responsible for him. Drew Barrymore was just an ordinary child star when this film was released but now she is a Hollywood actress she is really remembered for portraying the youngest child Gertie. Gertie is a young seven-year-old girl who is very mischievous. When E.T. first comes into the film she is terrified of him but she slowly begins to love him. E.T. taught Michael and Gertie lessons by not being troublemakers. It felt like they couldn't resist E.T's cute beauty.

Steven Spielberg directed his first and only family film in his legendary career and has created one of the most famous family films of all time. E.T. inspired Spielberg because he said so himself that E.T. destined him to become a father. Spielberg was only mid 30s when he directed this film. After seeing thrillers that were Duel, Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Spielberg creates a one-of-a-king film. There aren't very many science fiction films that are family films, that are touching and thought provoking like this film really is. Spielberg is the perfect director for E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial. The script is absolutely amazing. I think it is probably the best written science fiction film of all time. Spielberg is one of the films from the past that has made Steven Spielberg a legend in only his 5th film. He was already a blockbuster legend when Jaws was released but was even more at E.T.

E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial was a winner of 4 Academy Awards: Best Sound, Best Music Original Score, Best Visual Effects and Best Sound Editing. It was nominated for Best Picture but lost to Gandhi, Best Director (Steven Spielberg) but lost to Richard Attenborough in Gandhi, Best Original Screenplay but lost to Gandhi, Best Cinematography but lost to Gandhi and Best Film Editing but lost to Gandhi. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial was a winner of 2 Golden Globes: Best Picture Drama and Best Original Score. It was nominated for Best Director (Steven Spielberg) but lost to Richard Attenborough in Gandhi and Best Screenplay but lost to Gandhi.

E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial is one of the biggest tear jerking films of all time because of its pure beauty. It is my third favourite Spielberg film after Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. It is my third favourite science fiction film after The Empire Strikes Back and Aliens. E.T. is just a beautiful family phenomenon that everybody loves. E.T is one of my favourite film characters and is a close similarity to WALL-E's character because of the way they both speak and behave around others. E.T. is a magical film that makes you really think about things. I have to say that E.T. can be a character you can just think about and can be a friend to you in a way to help you so to speak. E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial is one of my all-time favourite childhood films. Masterpiece, phenomenal, beautiful, inspiring and there are loads more words to describe E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial. You will have to watch the film yourself to find out why.

"Shit... I'm waiting for the sun to shine."


Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Running time: 113 minutes
Country: USA


I find Taxi Driver to be one of the most powerful films ever made because of the characters and their behaviour. It is like the attitude of some humans at the present time. It is a story of loneliness, slowly falling into madness and a story of different twists and turns that occur for Travis. It is a very heartbreaking film because of Travis's downfall and turning himself into a murderous monster. I would call Travis Bickle Martin Scorsese's most powerful character. I do think that Taxi Driver anlong with The Godfather and A Clockwork Orange are the start of classic crime films. Taxi Driver is the start of the eight Scorsese-De Niro films that have been made so far. This is the best of the collaboration between the two.

Robert De Niro gives out a performance for the ages. He truly reveals how twisted people on Earth can become and how much of a different type of person one can be. The Godfather: Part II is Robert's ultimate start after winning his first Oscar in his first nomination. Taxi Driver is the ultimate start to seeing Robert De Niro in a leading role. It is weird at the start because De Niro hadn't played a villain before. I have mixed feelings about Travis being a villain. I think he is a villain because he becomes mad and kills people. However, I think he isn't a villain because he becomes sort of confused with himself of why he is so lonely. In this case, I think I find it similar to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight apart from that Harvey did it because appears different and dramatic twist occurs. Travis must have certainly been mad enough to cut his hair from ordinary black hair to a black mohawk. But De Niro truly delivers the most powerful performance of his career. Jodie Foster's performance is another outstanding performance that outdid me and blew me away with my expectations because she was only 13 or 14 at the time of the film but she is playing a 12 year old child-prostitute. It must have been hard for Foster because she was only a kid and she was playing a very crude character. This is a performance that she will be remembered for but will be remembered more for The Accused and especially The Silence Of The Lambs.

The directing was really good from Martin Scorsese. He reveals human behavious in his very own way like David Fincher does in Fight Club. Scorsese shows what life can be like and how it can affect a person's life. The writing was very good. It is like the start of awesome cult films. It was written like it was either trying to make a point or making Taxi Driver a cinematic experience that can teach a person what life would be like if you start to ruin it.

At first, this didn't really seem like a typical Scorsese film because it was like his second film that he had ever done. After seeing his later work, it is really original of Scorsese because he brings a very similar sort of story to the screen. The most similar Scorsese film to Taxi Driver is Cape Fear because he is a psychopath in both films.

I loved the chemistry between Travis and Iris because he tries to help her by reconsidering about being a child-prostitute when he isn't helping himself by shooting almost anyone. Also, because the characters were so powerful together and Foster made Iris a really irrestiable girl buty quite a scary one too because of her ways with sex and everything. But Travis resists her charms but doesn't resist being around her because he sort of stalks her which leads to the famous scene where Travis points his hand to his head as it was a gun with his hand covered in blood where he pretends to shoot himself. That picture is on my review just above. But I loved their combination even though De Niro and Foster are the two stars in it but they aren't in that many scenes together.

I liked the setting because obviously it was New York City but it is like a really dangerous place which makes it more of an abrupt and violent New York City.

This film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Leading Actor (Robert De Niro) but lost to Peter Finch in Network, Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster) but lost to Beatrice Straight in Network, Best Music Score but lost to The Omen and Best Picture 1976 but lost to Rocky. It was nominated for two Golden Globes aswell including Best Actor Drama but lost to Peter Finch in Network and Best Screenplay but lost to Network.

In my personal opinion, I think that Taxi Driver is the best film of the 1970s. It is the best of De Niro-Scorsese films. It is Robert De Niros best film and also Martin Scorseses best film too. Love this film. Always have and always will. It is a masterpiece and it is as simple as that.

"Do us a favor... I know it's difficult for you... but please, stay here, and try not to do anything... stupid."


Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Running time: 137 minutes
Country: USA


The Curse Of The Black Pearl is an awesome start to one of the most popular franchises of all time. I have to say the franchise is very overrated especially Dead Man's Chest but I do love the franchise. Curse Of The Black Pearl is the best one of the three for the family as well as the best of the three overall. The first one isn't the funniest but it is the most fun which is really the basic point of the series anyway. It can be quite scary regarding the skeletons but it is still called a family film after all. It is an epic fantasy story that is very tense as well as explosive and hilarious.


This franchise probably wouldn't be half as popular than it already is it Johnny Depp wasn't portraying Jack Sparrow. Jack Sparrow is Johnny's own character. His portrayal of Jack Sparrow leads him to his first Oscar nomination. He is perfect! He's hilarious, clumsy, scheming and also pretty explosive when it comes to the action scenes. Jack is a really weird character to watch because there has never been any film character like Captain Jack Sparrow in cinema before. Johnny portraying Captain Jack is one of the very few perfect performances by an actor portraying a character. If any other actor portraying him, there would be no Captain Jack Sparrow. He is Johnny Depp's most famous film character. I really don't like Orlando Blood at all let alone him playing Will Turner in Pirates Of The Caribbean. Orlando didn't make Will's character very realistic or heroic in any way whatsoever. I never really felt any love for Elizabeth that Will had. A rival Heartthrob and a far better actor than Orlando Bloom who was around the same age was the late Heath Ledger. Now, he would have been an ace Will Turner. They should have stuck with him instead of shitty Orlando Bloom. I like Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann because she showed Elizabeth's change of heart as the film goes on. She slowly starts to become a slightly different person but she still wears the same clothes. Keira is best remembered for Pirates Of The Caribbean but I liked her performances more in The Duchess and Atonement. Geoffrey Rush was hilarious and really cold-hearted as Captain Hector Barbossa. The make-up design was the best on him because he had a bit of a wrinkled, distorted and messy face with scars and cuts. His performance as Barbossa creates one of the best film villains of all time.


Gore Verbinski really managed really well with this film because it was like the franchise is a dark one but they managed to make a franchise for the family because of its pure entertainment and really amazing characters. Verbinski has created a franchise that is overrated and too popular but is one that people can't help but love. The script was really amazing as well. It was written a bit like it was written from a novel but I obviously know that Pirates Of The Caribbean aren't novels; they are just made-up stories.


Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl is one of the best family films of the decade, it is one of my favourite films of 2003, it is Johnny Depp's fourth best performance after Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Edward Scissorhands and Finding Neverland. To be honest, Orlando Bloom's performance in Pirates Of The Caribbean particularly the third one is the worst supporting male performance of all time. Yes, worst than Hayden Christensen in Star Wars especially Attack Of The Clones but only just. It is one of the most popular franchises of all time and it totally deserves to be. Masterpiece!!

"I was cured, all right!"


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Warren Clarke, James Marcus, Patrick Magee
Running time: 136 minutes
Country: UK


A Clockwork Orange is one of the single most disturbing films I have ever seen. Many times I have heard even when I was at school that both the film and novel are really scary. When I watched A Clockwork Orange it wasn't so much a scary film but it was a film that will just stay on your mind for a long time and it is totally mind blowing. A Clockwork Orange truly is one of the most powerful psychological thrillers of all time. Personally, it was the story that made me deeply interested in this film more than it was a film from Stanley Kubrick. It was very tense as well because as the film went on I was suspecting that there will be a huge twist around the corner. I don't completely get why people refer this as a classic science fiction film because, yes, it is a technology that is invented refered as a 'cure' but it isn't an impossible invention for the future seeing that nothing is impossible. I only saw it for the first time in January 2008 and it was a bit obvious to me that I was going to love this film a lot.


Malcolm McDowell's performance as Alex DeLarge was bloody awesome with a scary, weird and even quite funny performance. Malcolm is quite a scary looking man anyway which makes him an absolutely outstanding choice for Alex. It wasn't only Malcolm's appearance as Alex that made him terrifying but it was his voice as well. Why he wasn't nominated for Best Leading Actor at the 44th Academy Awards I have no clue. Alex is a very twisted young man who is the leader of a gang called Droogs. Alex's pleasures include classical music particularly Beethoven, rape and ultra violence. His three companions are called Pete, Dim and Georgie. When Alex is at home with his parents he behaves but skives off school. His parents probably refer his as an angel until he is arrested. The scene that truly shows Alex is twisted is when him and his Droogs break into a writer called Mr. Frank Alexander's house and they are both ambushed. Alex is cutting his wife's clothes off with scissors and beating Mr. Alexander up while he is singing to "Singin' In The Rain" which makes it worse because it is a very delightful song. That song was chosen for the film because apparently that was the only song Malcolm McDowell knew all of the words to. Mr. Alexander was being forced to watch his wife getting brutally raped. Despite how cold Alex really is he is a very interesting character to watch because he is rather mysterious of why he is the way he is. As far as Alex's "cure" is concerned, the ending leaves you with questions and because of that I feel it is a light twist.


Stanley Kubrick has directed this film absolutely amazingly. Kubrick has always been really clever as far as camera angles are concerned. There is one scene that freaked me out was at the very start of the film where Alex gives that evil look directly at the camera and then very slowly zooms out while Alex is still giving that look. Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange is very weird which does make this film absolutely typical of Kubrick to direct. The script was really awesome with very powerful and effective scenes and with very well written lines from each of the characters.


A Clockwork Orange is one of Kubrick's best works. A Clockwork Orange is definitely his most famous film. This film features one of the best psychological thrillers that have ever hit the screen. It is probably my favourite film of the 1970s and is my favourite Kubrick film. I love them both equally. It would probably be The Shining. A Clockwork Orange is a fine example of a disturbing film that leaves you to think about various things and reflect on deep thoughts about how tense and often quite terrifying (not in a scary way) this film really is.

"The battle of Helm's Deep is over; the battle for Middle Earth is about to begin."


Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin
Running time: 179 minutes
Country: New Zealand, USA


This film was more emotional that the first film for various reasons. Those reasons mostly being because I found The Two Towers darker than The Fellowship Of The Ring. Also, because of the darker story and it was more of an epic film mostly because there were more action and war scenes especially in Rohan, Helms Deep and Isengard (when Ents and Hobbits attack).

Elijah Wood delivers a good performance as Frodo Baggins. This is the one of the trilogy that Elijah delivers his best performance. In this one, he made the audience feel for Frodo because of the Rings seductive powers. Ian McKellen delivers another outstanding performance as Gandalf. Ian is just too perfect for Gandalf. There cannot be any other actor in the world for Gandalf. I really liked him in this but I have to say I prefered him in The Fellowship Of The Ring. As Gandalf mostly says things generally in the film, it is like in riddles and I could easily tell how much this film must have meant to Ian. Viggo Mortensens performance improved as Aragorn. He was still good in the first one but was a lot better in this one and Return Of The King. In my opinion, Aragorn was more of a heroic and powerful character which made Aragorn a typical epic character. Sean Astin delivers another really emotional performance as Samwise Gamgee. He does his best by trying to help Frodo with the Ring but Frodo is so let astray by feeling sorry for Gollum and becoming like best friends with him.

This film was really directed by Peter Jackson once again but I dont think it was as good as The Fellowship of The Ring and Return Of The King. The camera angles were really epic and really quite clever with the epic scenes. The script was awesome. I cant believe it didnt receive any screenplay nominations at all.

This film was different to its prequel because it was scarier and was more emotional too because of what the Ring really does even though it shows you what its like in The Fellowship Of The Ring. What I mean is that the Ring didnt really hurt Frodo or try and manipulate him in The Fellowship Of The Ring but it certainly did in The Two Towers and Return Of The King. We see a new Frodo and we certainly see a new Gandalf too because he was Gandalf the Grey but now he is Gandalf the White and has become twice more powerful that he was before. Also, Aragorn is Strider anymore he has now become Aragorn (if you get what I mean).

I could feel the chemistry between Frodo and Sam because I personally think that Elijah Wood is far too young to be Frodo and isnt quite good enough to be a strong character like Frodo. He is still good though. I could easily feel the tension between Gollum and Sam because Sam truly hates Gollum and doesnt trust Gollum at all. Gollum is quite a mysterious character in this film because I am unsure whether he is against or with Frodo and Sam by attacking them one minute and then helping them. But in The Return Of The King he is obviously against them. Frodos relationship with Gollum is very emotional because Frodo feels really sorry for Gollum but doesnt realise that is being led away from Sam by Gollum but I am unsure whether at first whether it was intensional from Gollum.

The main twist is when the people of Rohan go to Helms Deep and there is a twist that affects Frodo and Sams quest to Mordor.

This film was more violent that The Fellowship Of The Ring because of the epic battles. This film had no sex references at all apart from a few kisses and making out between Arwen and Aragorn. There obviously werent any bad language at all. This film would be if there was bad language in it because it is a fantasy series. There isnt any bad language in Star Wars nor Pirates Of The Caribbean either but there is in Harry Potter.

The visual effects were absolutely outstanding. The Helms Deep fight scene visual effects were amazing and so were the visual effects when the wolves of Isengard attacked the people of Rohan and there was a battle in the middle of the fields of Rohan. The visual effects were outstanding on Gollum but were even better on Treebeard. I simply loved the awesome visual effects of when Frodo fell into the water of the Dead Marshes and there were the dead ghosts. That really scared me when I saw this film at the cinema when I was 11 but obviously doesnt anymore. The sound was outstanding too with very loud action thrilled music but like high pitched emotional music too. The art direction was awesome and so was the costume design too.

This film was an Academy Award winner of two awards. It won Best Visual Effects (beating Spider-Man and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones) and Best Sound Editing (beating Minority Report and Road To Perdition). It was nominated for Best Picture (lost to Chicago). I think it should have gone to The Pianist. It lost Best Art Direction (lost once again to Chicago), Best Sound (for a third time lost to Chicago) and Best Editing (Lost for fourth time to Chicago).

This film was better than The Fellowship Of The Ring but not as good as The Return Of The King. This film didnt disappoint me at all. It was just as amazing as I knew it was going to be.

"You're dumber than you think I think you are."


Director: Roman Palonski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
Running time: 131 minutes
Country: USA


Chinatown is a classic masterpiece with a lot of hard hitting suspense and with a lot of deep thinking mystery involved. Chinatown was one of those classics that is a very heart racing thriller that would make you feel grabbed by the throat, pulled and then was twisted inside out because of the really thrilling suspenseful moments within the film and also the events that occur. This is one of those films that you would carry on watching and would expect a great twist or a very powerful ending which you will have to see for yourself. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama.


Jack Nicholson delivers one of his best early performances if not one of his best performances of all time as J.J "Jake" Gitties. Gitties is a Los Angeles private investigator who is hired to spy on Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer for the city's water department. During his mystery, he ends up becoming really close with Mulwray's wife Evelyn. Jack play a hero one year and then only a year later he becomes a really hyper man who just wants a bit of fun. I prefered Faye Dunaway's performance as Evelyn more because I liked the character more and was a character that I found to be quite mysterious and that she was somehow hiding something but the question was "what is she hiding?"


Roman Polanski creates a film that is quite hard to watch in some ways because of the events that occur and also of what some of the characters would actually do. He became really well known for Chinatown but became even better known for his Oscar win for The Pianist at the 75th Academy Awards. He directs it like it is a very dark story in almost every aspect. Chinatown is one of Jack Nicholson's best films without a doubt. His best performances are still The Shining, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, The Departed and Batman. Chinatown isn't my favourite Roman Polanski film. I do still love The Pianist. Chinatown is definitely one of my favourite mystery films and is one of the best of the 1970s. Watch it as soon as you can! Believe me you won't regret seeing this masterpiece!

"Am I not supposed to have what I want? What I need? What am I supposed to do?"


Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina
Running time: 127 minutes
Country: USA


Spider-Man 2 is in my opinion one of the greatest sequels of all time. To me, Spider-Man 2 is The Dark Knight out of the Spider-Man franchise. Spider-Man 2 is the most action packed and most interesting story of the trilogy. We didn't see so much of how dark Spider-Man can be but how being Spider-Man can affect Peter's personal life. This one didn't become as much of a blockbuster as the first one and didn't earn as much money but it still was one obviously. This film had the best of everything than the other two films. It is quite strange because three of the superhero franchises there has been the second/sequel one turning out the best i.e. Spider-Man 2 is the best Spider-Man trilogy, The Dark Knight is the best of the Batman films and X2 is the best of the X-Men trilogy.


Once again Tobey Maguire delivers the literally perfect performance as Peter Parker/Spider-Man. Maguire is the perfect actor because Peter is a nerd, a bit of a heartthrob and a quite hard-hitting sort of actor as well which is what Maguire has and is really good at doing. Peter begins to deeply suffer because of his breaking down relationships with both love interest Mary Jane Watson and best friend Harry Osborn. Kirsten Dunst isn't really a very good Mary Jane Watson. I couldn't really feel her suffering mind tricks regarding Peter very much. Dunst is quite a popular actress nowadays but in my opinion, she doesn't really deserve to be completely. If she wasn't in Jumanji nor the Spider-Man trilogy she wouldn't have earned as much credit. James Franco is good as Harry. Harry doesn't become very good friends with Peter like he used to because Spider-Man "killed" his father Norman Osborn who was the Green Goblin and also Harry despises Peter being a friend and photographer to Spider-Man for the Daily Bugle. Rosemary Harris' acting as May Parker really gets on my nerves for some unknown reason. Alfred Molina was good as Otto Octavious/Doc Ock but he didn't quite give the full fearful effect to the viewers inside the villainous character of when he becomes Doc Ock.


Spider-Man is the best MARVEL comic book character ever. Spider-Man 2 is the best MARVEL film and I don't think anything else will beat it to that spot. It is my second favourite film of 2004 after Closer, it is my third favourite comic book adapted film ever after The Dark Knight and Sin City. Spider-Man 2 is definitely one of my favourite science fiction films. This one is better than the first one which was awesome but not better than sequel and far better than the extremely disappointing Spider-Man 3.

"I'm the king of the world!"

Director: James Cameron
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Frances Fisher
Running time: 195 minutes
Country: USA


Titanic is without a single doubt one of the most heartbreaking, beautiful and intense motion pictures that have ever hit the big screen. It is absolutely beautiful because it tells us the meaning of love and what one would do for their love which Jack does for Rose. It is beautifully filmed and produced which makes it a great romantic epic. Titanic is heartbreaking because the story of the Titanic sinking is true and most of the people on the ship died but the story of Jack and Rose is a made-up story. Titanic is a film that not only teaches us the meaning of love but also the meaning of bravery and courage no matter what kind of situation one is actually in. Titanic is a bit of an overrated film because of its heartbreaking story and the characters and actors within it but to be honest that doesn't bother me. Titanic is the highest grossing film of all time both domestic and worldwide. I think what attracted people the most about Titanic was that it was a really romantic story, it was a real disaster and it was directed by James Cameron (Terminator 1+2, Alien, The Abyss and True Lies). This film has an absolutely brilliant ensemble cast starring lots of talented actors.




I was unsure what to make of Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson because I thought he was good but I would call Titanic his best film yet. He makes Jack look like a young teenager instead of a grown heroic man. Jack is a tramp who luckily ends up on Titanic with his friend after playing a game of poker in a bar. Once he comes on the ship, he comes involved with Rose and her personal private life so the two fall in love but that all changes when the Titanic strikes an iceberg and the ship starts to sink. It was only after the Titanic struck the iceberg that I was really getting into the character. Kate Winslet's performance is just so memorable she almost makes Titanic like her own film. She was so young as Rose. I think she was 21 or 22 years old and she is in her mid 30s now. Her performance as Rose is a one-of-a-kind performance that only Kate Winslet could have pulled off. Rose is a young woman who is getting married to a millionaire Cal on Titanic and I don't think she really wants to because he is abusive and hard with her especially involving her then friendship with Jack until they became lovers. Rose and Jack's love is a love that I personally think will live on throughout the entire cinema world forever. Kate wasn't a popular actress in Sense And Sensibility and Heavenly Creatures but after Titanic, she has become one of the best living actresses. Billy Zane's performance as Cal was actually really good because he is a charmer, rich and a complete slime ball which is part of Cal's personality. Cal is abusive towards Rose and he pressurises her to be happy and to marry him just like her mother does as well. Oscar winner Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart, Bernard Hill, Bill Paxton and Victor Garber added some amazing quality to the cast as well. Bernard Hill has starred in the top 2 highest grossing films of all time (worldwide): Titanic and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.




James Cameron is an absolute legendary director of this generation. He has always done films that aren't disappointing in any way whatsoever. Cameron's work on Titanic is probably the most work he has ever done on a film before other than the Terminator trilogy (writer and director (only first two)) and Aliens. Cameron did everything on this film. He was the director, producer, writer and editor of the film which is something not many directors can do other than possibly Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick and Quentin Tarantino. Cameron's direction sort of relived romantic epics again like Gone With The Wind. Cameron has created a worldwide phenomenon but in my opinion not his best work. The script was really good which doesn't surprise me because there have been a lot of films based on the Titanic disaster but this one tops them all. Cameron isn't just an amazing director but he is also an amazing screenwriter and producer.




Titanic is a worldwide phenomenon that will never be forgotten. It is a beautiful, heartbreaking yet overrated romantic epic story. It was Kate Winslet's best film until I saw Revolutionary Road, it isn't Leonardo DiCaprio's best film. I preferred his performance in Martin Scorsese's The Departed. I have to say that Titanic is the most overrated film ever but I still love it! I don't think it is James Cameron's best film neither. Titanic is the best film of 1997 and one of the best epics of all time and is definitely one of the most tearjerking films ever made.

"Mag Wildwood. She's a model, believe it or not, and a thumping bore."


Director: Blake Edwards
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen
Running time: 115 minutes
Country: USA


This is an absolutely fantastic classic romantic comedy. It was a story that is really funny, very romantic and rather dramatic. This is a very beautiful film with a big heart and with a story that does appear like a chick flick but it is a film like Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, My Fair Lady and Roman Holiday. It is one of those classic romantic comedies that will certainly be remembered and a film that young kids could watch. It is one of my top romantic comedies of all time.


Audrey Hepburn's performance was absolutely fantastic as Holly Golightly. She really does looks absolutely gorgeous in the dresses she wears which are probably the main purpose of the character. I believe that Holly Golightly's type of character leads to Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady. Holly behaves like a real lady with the dresses, hats etc. Her performance was pure entertainment which was really good and funny about it. George Peppard was really good as Paul 'Fred' Varjak because he was that typical charming type of actor who could portray that kind of character. He was a man that Holly couldn't take her eyes off and she needed to sort of dig her claws into him and take him but not in a villainous way.


Blake Edwards directs it like a classic romantic comedy that was made before the 1960s like It Happened One Night and Romany Holiday. Edwards brings after 30 years a film that delivers the classics previous but Breakfast At Tiffany's is a classic nowadays and films like Pretty Woman relive those sorts of films.


This is one of the best films of the 1960s, it is one of the best romantic comedies of all time. Audrey Hepburn's performance was fantastic in this as well as My Fair Lady but her best film is Breakfast At Tiffany's. It is a classic that is like a family film because of the really good characters. It is a classic that will always be remembered.

"To infinity, and beyond!"



Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney
Running time: 81 minutes
Country: USA



Toy Story is a legendary classic that is a landmark on animation and is new creative way of making animated films. Toy Story is a beautiful, very smart and hilarious that is perfect for the family. Toy Story changed all family films forever because it was an outstanding debut film from a very talented and successful studio. Pixar's Toy Story is probably their most famous film but isn't their best in my opinion. Pixar are absolutely geniuses even now who don't seem to run out of brilliant ideas for stories. What I love about the two Toy Story films is that they both send clear messages about what some children are like in real life with toys. Also, because the toys in the film are real life toys. I cannot wait for Toy Story 3.



Toy Story is another film Tom Hanks is famous for. He voices Woody. Woody is a cowboy and is his owner Andy's favourite toy. Because of this, he is the leader of all the toys within the house. When it is Andy's birthday a new toy comes into the act. He is a space toy called Buzz Lightyear. Woody starts to become jealous of Buzz because he is getting the more attention and affection from Andy more than Woody is. Buzz is a nice toy but he thinks he's a real space ranger on a mission. Woody and Buzz are enemies to start with but as the film goes on, they become good friends who are there for each other. Other toys Rex, Mr. Potato Head, Slinky Dog, Hamm and Bo Peep are other awesome characters too.



Overall, Toy Story is a family classic that is very fun to watch. I loved this film as a kid and still love it now. It is my 7th favourite Pixar after Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. The Incredibles and WALL-E. It is one of the best films of the 1995 as well. It's also one of the best phenomenons of the 1990s.

"I get ya's both in the ring, I'll give ya both a fuckin' beatin', ya both can fuck each other."


Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
Running time: 129 minutes
Country: USA


Raging Bull is definitely one of the most serious, aggressive and violent films of all time. The title says it all. It is a real life story about a famous boxer and his downfall. Raging Bull is a sport film that I personally think is a perfect sport film because Raging Bull is a story full of ups and downs. Raging Bull shows the very aggressive side because of the way Jake LaMotta really was when he was a boxer. This film is just legendary as far as I am concerned. This film was very emotional with betrayal, utter rage and even quite psychological.

Robert De Niro's performance as Jake LaMotta is definitely one of De Niro's most famous performances of all time. I was really fascinated by Robert De Niro being trained by the real Jake LaMotta to prepare for the boxing scenes of the film. Jake LaMotta is a professional boxer who meets a young 15-year-old girl called Vickie at a local swimming pool. They both form a relationship and end up getting married together but something happens which breaks Jake's heart which you will have to see for yourself. Robert De Niro's performance was absolutely outstanding with such powerful, motivating, moving and very intriguing regarding the boxing. His personal life becomes the most effective part of his life which affects his career as a boxer. I loved Joe Pesci's performance as Joey LaMotta who is the brother of Jake LaMotta. Joe's performance was very slimy and very encouraging and helpful because he was a one-time manager of Jake in his boxing fights. Joey LaMotta was also a boxer but for a short time and wasn't as well known as Jake. His record was 32 wins (22 KOs), 5 losses, and 2 draws. Cathy Moriarty's performance as Vickie reminds me a lot of Sue Lyon's performance in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita because she is a blonde haired young girl who is just irresistible to adults. Cathy was 9 years younger than her husband Jake even though I think she looked a lot younger than he was.

Martin Scorsese's directing in Raging Bull is absolutely awesome. I read that Scorsese was unsure about making a boxing film because Scorsese isn't really into sports but it was Robert De Niro who persuaded him to make it and it was a damn good choice that he did make it because it turned out to be the greatest sport film of all time. This is obviously a sport film but Scorsese makes it have that aggressive gangster/criminal taste within it partly because of Jake's aggressive personality and very short temper. The way this film is written is absolutely typical from Scorsese and is very rare from a sport film.

This film won 2 Academy Awards: Best Leading Actor (Raging Bull) and Best Film Editing. It was nominated for Best Picture but lost to Ordinary People, Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci) but lost to Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People, Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty) but lost to Mary Steenburgen in Melvin And Howard, Best Director (Martin Scorsese) but lost to Robert Redford in Ordinary People, Best Cinematography but lost to Tess and Best Sound but lost to The Empire Strikes Back. It won Best Actor Drama (Robert De Niro). It was nominated for Best Picture Drama but lost to Ordinary People, Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty) but lost to Mary Steenburgen in Melvin And Howard, Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci) but lost to Timothy Hutton in Ordinary People, Best Director (Martin Scorsese) but lost to Robert Redford in Ordinary People and Best Screenplay but lost to The Ninth Configuration.

Raging Bull is without a doubt the greatest sports film of all time. It is my favourite Scorsese film. It is one of Robert De Niro's best performances. I do love his performances in Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, The Godfather: Part II and The Deer Hunter as well. Raging Bull is one of my favourite films of the 1980s. It is also one of my favourite bio-pic films too. Raging Bull is a sports masterpiece that I would watch quite regularly without getting bored of it.

"My mama always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." "


Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright-Penn, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Running time: 141 minutes
Country: USA



Forrest Gump is one of the single most amazing films that I have ever watched in my whole life. Forrest Gump is one of the biggest inspirations to me and I have many reasons for this. It is a beautiful story of a man with a low IQ who experiences different things in life. That can encourage people to live life to the maximum level they can just like Forrest does. Forrest Gump and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button are the only two films that make me see through life and what there is to achieve within it even though they both tell different stories of life. Forrest Gump is a film that I cannot take my eyes off while I'm watching it because it is that much of an inspiration to me. Forrest Gump is a purely magical story that is really well known in the public especially with the Bubba-Gump shrimp restaurant in Manhattan, New York in which I went to when I was 13 years old. It is a comedy but I wouldn't call Forrest Gump an absolutely outrageously hilarious film because it is more of a romantic drama. Forrest Gump is the feel-good film of the 1990s and it is that simple. It is a deeply lovable story that I have watched time and time again when I need cheering up or anything like that. Forrest Gump himself is an inspiration to me as well because through Forrest I can see other different kinds of people especially people with learning difficulties, disabilities or anything else like that.

Tom Hanks' performance as Forrest Gump is a one-of-a-kind performance that can never be beaten. Personally, I think Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump is the best leading male performance of all time because he is one of the few actors who can make the character very realistic like they're a real person. Performances that are quite similar to Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump are Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt, Sean Penn as Sam Dawson, Russell Crowe as John Nash and Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button. Tom Hanks portraying Forrest Gump truly is a performance that will become legend in the future because of the accent and the truly realistic personality that Hanks brings into the character. Tom Hanks has always been an actor of such inspiration to me because he has been in masterpieces where he has portrayed different characters and has given very different points of views of films and the character's personalities. The Green Mile made Tom Hanks my favourite actor of all time and when I saw Forrest Gump, he became even more of an inspiration to me. Hanks' performance as Forrest Gump is a performance that I personally think is sort of respecting to those people who suffer with disabilities and learning difficulties in real-life by showing what it is really like to suffer from a disability. Forrest Gump is a man who is born with an unknown disability and has leg braces on his legs. The doctor says his legs are the ones that are strong but his back is really crooked. He lives with his mother in a mansion on the outskirts of Alabama. Things start taking a turn for Forrest because he starts school and he ends up being the victim of bullying. I think the one scene that sends chills down my back is when Forrest is running from the bullies while he has the leg braces on and Jenny says "Run, Forrest, Run!" Then his braces come off and he starts to run really fast while Forrest as an adult is telling the story. He experiences college, the army, ping-pong, shrimping and being a national celebirty which is a dream life and Forrest is the lucky one chosen for it. His love for Jenny is one that she never really understood because she said that he doesn't know what love is but he sees love in a clearer and better way than she does because he had love for her but she had love for sex and illegal drugs. Robin Wright Penn's performance as Jenny Curran was another amazing performance. Robin portrayed a very emotional yet a very disturbed and confused Jenny with such realistic motions and ways of expressing other people who are in that kind of situation in life. Jenny was the only friend Forrest had as a child. She achieves all of the things within high school but she got too deeply involved with sex and illegal drugs. After she was kicked out of college, she became a drug addict and prostitute unbeknownst to Forrest. Robin proves as well that only she can portray Jenny. Gary Sinise's performance as Lieutenant Dan Taylor is probably the most serious performance of the whole film because he is a man who suffers and thinks he doesn't need to live anymore but eventually his life gets back on track again. Sinise showed the really emotional side to Dan and also the very rude and abbrupt side to his personality as well. Dan is a Lieutenant of a platoon during the war in Vietnam with Forrest and Bubba as two of those soldiers. After an unexpected attack from the Vietnamese, he and most of the platoon get wiped out or badly injured. Forrest rescues pretty much all of the platoon including Dan but he had to have his legs cut off. That is where he thinks he has no other reason why to live. Dan now behaved a bit like Forrest. Dan didn't want to be called "cripple" or "freak" just like Forrest didn't want to be called "retard" or "stupid". Sally Field's performance as Mrs. Gump was an absolutely fantastic one. She reminded me a lot of Queenie in The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Sally Field is only 11 years older than Tom Hanks and she is portraying his mother. That is exactly the same when Toni Collette and Paul Dano were in Little Miss Sunshine together because Collette is only 11 years older than Dano and she portrays his mother. Mykelti Williamson was really good as Bubba but did get quite annoying at times.

Forrest Gump was the first Robert Zemeckis film that I saw and I have to say that he won't ever create another film as good as Forrest Gump. Zemeckis is a director who has given us films of different genres but all have one genre in common that the characters experience: adventure. If Zemeckis hadn't directed Forrest Gump there wouldn't be a Forrest Gump masterpiece and it is that simple. Zemeckis is a man who has brought a gift to the world as well as the film world that life can be beautiful if you live it to the maximum level. This is a film adapted from a novel and this film couldn't be better adapted in any other way than it was in this film.

This film won 6 Oscars out of 13 nominations. It won Best Picture 1994, Best Leading Actor (Tom Hanks), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Director (Robert Zemeckis), Best Visual Effects and Best Film Editing. It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Gary Sinise) but lost to Martin Landau in Ed Wood, Best Cinematography but lost to Legends Of The Fall, Best Art Direction but lost to The Madness Of King George, Best Sound but lost to Speed, Best Sound Editing but lost to Speed, Best Make-Up but lost to Ed Wood and Best Music Original Score but lost to The Lion King. It won 3 out of 7 Golden Globes. It won Best Actor Drama (Tom Hanks), Best Picture Drama and Best Director (Robert Zemeckis). It was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Gary Sinise) but lost to Martin Landau in Ed Wood, Best Supporting Actress (Robin Wright Penn) but lost to Dianne Wiest in Bullets Over Broadway and Best Screenplay but lost to Pulp Fiction.

Forrest Gump is my all-time favourite drama, it is the best film of the 1990s and that is probably the best decade for cinema. Forrest Gump is Tom Hanks's best film and always will be, it is Robert Zemeckis' best work and always will be hopefully. Forrest Gump is a masterpiece that is filled with comedy, beauty and heartbreak. Forrest Gump and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button are two films that are very similar and those two are the two biggest inspirations to me. Forrest Gump has its rightful place on one of my close favourite films of all time.

"You must become more than just a man in the mind of your opponent."


Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes
Running time: 140 minutes
Country: USA


Batman Begins is a brilliant, hard-hitting, explosive and intense thrill ride that I really enjoyed. This was the first Batman film I saw even before the cartoons so the first time I saw Batman Begins I wasn't that fond of it but after seeing it another few times on DVD after a few years, I enjoyed it more especially because I love The Dark Knight and Batman a lot. This film couldn't have been better told with any better director or actor playing Batman. This is a very dark Batman film but it is almost as dark as the two Tim Burton Batman films. The Dark Knight is obviously darker than all of the Batman films. Batman Begins was a deeply interesting story because we see Bruce grow up which is something nobody has seen before.


Christian Bale's performance as Batman/Bruce Wayne was absolutely incredible! Despite that it's the character, Christian portrays a different kind of Batman because it's a young Batman and also because Christian Bale is a big muscley man and we see Batman muscleier. Christian Bale made Batman a big build unlike Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer or George Clooney. Liam Neeson's performance as Henri Ducard was really good. He became a very powerful character with a passion for dominance and power. He became a mentor to Bruce as well as a trainer because he was teaching him to fight. However, that friendship takes drastic consequences. Cillian Murphy was good as Dr. Jonathan Crane who became Scarecrow. Murphy is great belonging in science fiction/comic book films. Katie Holmes performance as Rachel Dawes was pretty bad to be fair because she didn't really show her commitment to the film and what she wanted to achieve within it. Thankfully, Maggie Gyllenhaal rescued the character in The Dark Knight. I'm so glad Holmes wasn't in the masterpiece that is The Dark Knight. Film legend Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman and Tom Wilkinson were really good in this film too.


Chris Nolan has rescued Batman. He's resurrected it so to speak after the two disappointing Batmans that Joel Schumacher did: Batman Forever (good but could have been better) and Batman & Robin (just plain awful). Nolan is a director that I have always admired because of how he filmed all of the films he did and how he would like people to feel about them especially the two Batman films, Memento, Insomnia and The Prestige. Nolan will be a legendary director in about 40 years time. His great talent has already been recognized but will be even more in the future. Other similar directors David Fincher and Danny Boyle will be too.


I think it is a fact that Batman Begins isn't as good as The Dark Knight. I love the two Joker Batman's the most because I absolutely love the character. Batman Begins is a brilliant film in the Batman franchise. It's not as good as The Dark Knight or Batman but is better than Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Batman is back!!

"Hasta la vista, baby."


Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton,
Running time: 137 minutes
Country: USA, France


This is an absolutely unbelievable, explosive, intense thrill ride that gripped me from start to finish! Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the most famous film of the Terminator series even though it was probably underestimated at first. When I saw it the first time, I absolutely loved it and when I saw it again on DVD, I still do love it! The first Terminator film is a rather simple story but Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the start of a very complex franchise. After seeing the first one, I didn't think there needed to be more Terminator films. I changed my mind about that when I saw the second film. The third Terminator was pretty crap and the fourth one was really good. The second one is complex but isn't as complex as the third or especially the fourth Terminator film.


Arnold Schwarzenegger makes an absolutely splendid return as The Terminator. The visual effects on The Terminator in this second film are better than in the first one. In the first film, we just see The Terminator as a cold-blooded killer but in this film we see that he actually does have a heart and has feelings especially when he gets involved with Sarah and John Connor. Linda Hamilton made another awesome return as Sarah Connor. We see a different kind of Sarah Connor in this one as we do a different kind of Terminator when comparing to the first film. She is a normal woman in the first one who is in danger of The Terminator. She is a bit of a psycho in the second film to start with but when she gets involved with her son John and Terminator that changes.


It is a fact that James Cameron is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. James Cameron is only the director of science fiction films but also of action films because every single film that he has done does have action in it; even Titanic. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is another great accomplishment of his. James Cameron is a genius at creating the Terminator series but I have to say that it is the most complex film franchise ever. James Cameron has created a hardcore and brutal film that I think most people would love.


Terminator 2: Judgment Day is one of the best films of 1991 and that was a great year for cinema. I love this film more than Terminator: Rise Of The Machines and Terminator Salvation but I don't like Terminator 2: Judgment Day as much as The Terminator. As far as films James Cameron has made, I prefered Aliens, The Terminator, True Lies and Titanic over this film but I liked this one more than The Abyss. Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a very violent, action-packed, suspensful thrill ride that I absolutely love!

"Let me explain something to you. Um, I am not "Mr. Lebowski". You're Mr. Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's what you call me. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing."


Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, Julianne Moore
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: USA


To start with, I have to call this film one of the coolest films of all time. It is a very funny film that both men and women would love. However, I do think that because "dude" is used loads of times and that is a name calling for a male like "chick" is for a female. By wanting to be called "dude" that is one way where and why some women won't understand but if you're a dude then you would obviously understand. Despite this, it doesn't effect women' love for this film. This film is very cool for teenagers and for adults at any age. Bowling is a very cool sport particularly for a character like the Dude.


Jeff Bridges delivers the most perfect performance than any other actor can give for the Dude. Jeff looks like a really cool actor anyway but looks even cooler in this one. The Dude doesn't have to dress cool with a leather jacket, boots and jeans. He dresses like a scruffier but acts like a real dude. The Dude really made me laugh because he always has to have something different or has to do something very lightly to make me laugh. The Dude is the third most coolest character of all time taken after Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction and Tyler Durden in Fight Club. John Goodman's hilarious performance as Walter Sobchak added more comedy to this film when alongside the Dude. Walter sort of acts a bit like Jules Winnfield. John is a really good actor for that character because John has a deep voice and particularly because he's far. Steve Buscemi always makes me laugh because he is very weird looking and he has an extremely bizarre voice but a funny one though. Donny is a really hilarious and clumsy character. Julianne Moore wasn't bad in this film but I found her quite attractive in this film. Phillip Seymour Hoffman made me laugh as Brandt. Also American Pie star Tara Reid who portrays Kevin's girlfriend Vicky was very hot for Bunny Lebowski's character. She wasn't in it very much but was an effective character.


The Big Lebowski is the only Coen brothers film that isn't a black comedy in my opinion because, yes, there is violence but there is a lot of swearing with a lot of hilarious moments with a very original script like Pulp Fiction. This is my second favourite film of 1998 after Saving Private Ryan, it isn't my favourite Coen brothers film but it is one of their best ones. I enjoyed No Country For Old Men more. It is my favourite Jeff Bridges film, one of my favourite film partnerships with the Dude and Walter Sobchak. Thank you Joel and Ethan Coen for this hilarious masterpiece!

"If you shoot this man, you die next. Repeat. If you shoot this man, you die next."


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: USA


I have given this film a very lucky third viewing because I am a big fan of Quentin Tarantino and I wanted to enjoy his first work that bought him his best film: Pulp Fiction. When I saw Reservoir Dogs for the first and second time, I absolutely despised it! After a third viewing, I suddenly and unexpectedly enjoyed this film. Reservoir Dogs is an extremely violent crime film that had a lot of blood involved that was realistic especially with the ear-cutting. I personally could recognize this film as a film from a college student for some reason. Reservoir Dogs is a cool film for teenagers as well as adults but I don't find it that cool because I think that the film focused more on the violence rather than the characters. I can see why people love this film and I can see why people hate this film too.


Reservoir Dogs has a very wide ensemble cast that have a lot of great actors. One thing that was cool yet pretty weird was that the men were named after a particular colour like "Mr. Pink", "Mr. Brown", "Mr. White" etc. Quentin Tarantino makes an appearance as Mr. Brown. I don't really think that many people noticed that Quentin was playing him because he had never been seen before Reservoir Dogs.Tim Roth's performance was good but he was dying throughout the whole film and his acting in those moments were great! Steve Buscemi was the best in this film. I have to say that he is one great actor! He is a good actor to choose in a violent crime film like Reservoir Dogs and Fargo and then stars in a childrens cartoon film like Monsters, Inc..


Quentin Tarantino's film debut started off well. I think that Pulp Fiction was his ultimate start especially when he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for that film as well as a nomination for Best Director. Seeing Reservoir Dogs was just like watching a film that one single man self-learned to make because of films being Quentin's inspiration and passion. The script by Tarantino was really good. I admit that it isn't the best script he has ever written but it is still a fine accomplishment for him.


Overall, Reservoir Dogs is a cool and gruesome crime film that is one of the most famous film debuts of all time. Not only Reservoir Dogs but also Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown truly shows us the coolest as well as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."


Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: USA


This film really scared me because of the psychotic Dr. Hannibal Lecter. There are a lot of close camera angles towards Lecter that actually show Lecters true colours. It is mostly because Lecter tries to manipulate Clarice by questioning her about her past and childhood. Buffalo Bill makes me feel really scared aswell because of his psychotic intentions for the women he kills. This film touched me a lot too because it teaches us about self discovery which is what Clarice achieves with herself. When Clarice confronts Buffalo Bill it becomes a very tense and a scene that makes The Silence Of The Lambs one of the greatest thrillers of all time. Most people would say that this film is a scary horror film just like Psycho and Jaws but I dont think it is like it is a really tense thriller. Well, it is like a psychological thriller.


Sir Anthony Hopkins delivers one of the greatest performances in film history as Dr. Hannibal Lecter. Anthony makes Lecter his own character and has made Lecter an extremely fearful character that everybody would fear. Hopkins doesnt just make Lecter a scary psycho that has a taste for human flesh but also a man who you dont want inside your head. He will haunt you even though he is inside a prison cell. Hannibal will question someone a bad memory about their past or anything else. If that person doesnt want to answer, Hannibal somehow finds a way to do this. Anthony Hopkins deserved his Oscar for his performance but personally I think it was luck because he did not win neither BAFTA nor Golden Globe. Jodie Foster delivers another outstanding performance and is another on the list of greatest performances of all time. Jodie makes Clarice a very emotional and a quite powerful and stubborn woman who will get what she needs to get. When Clarice is with Lecter and she talks to him, she sort of looks tortured because he manipulates her and tries to scare her but she doesnt let him scare her. Jodie and Anthonys on screen partnership in this film is one of my favourite partnerships of all time. I also really liked Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill because Ted had everything that a psychopath should have. Ted has that evil style who would do anything to get what he wants. But the one thing that is ever so dark about Ted with Buffalo Bill is Teds extremely deep and booming voice. Because of that, Buffalo Bill makes a terrifying character also just like Hannibal Lecter.


Jonathan Demme became a very unknown director at the time of this film but after this film was released, he became even better known afterwards. Also, after he directed Oscar winning film Philadelphia (Best Actor for Tom Hanks). The Silence Of The Lambs wouldnt have been any better that it already is if Demme was directing it. I liked The Silence Of The Lambs the most of the Hannibal Lecter films not because it won Oscars including Best Picture but because it had that very new style that nobody has ever seen.


It isn't just a really tense thriller that seems like a horror film but it is also quite a depressing and dramatic film too. This is my favourite from the Hannibal Lecter series. This can affect people about self discovery and learning who they really are inside. This film didnt disappoint me at all. This film is nothing more than a masterpiece and a dark thrilling phenomenon that will always be remembered as one of the greatest thrillers of all time.

"I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years. And I'm just now waking up."


Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: USA



American Beauty is a film about life. It is a surburban drama which features what like is like in USA. This film is very bizarre in alot of other ways because of the fantasies that Lester has and what Ricky Fitts tries to prove when videoing things all the time. I personally think that at the start it seemed very female film because of the roses, visions etc but it is very male aswell. This is a film on drama, betrayal, obsession and about life in a new angle and in it's new way. It seemed a bit like a peaceful area because all of the houses and gardens within the neighbourhood look really clean and very beautiful but I find American Beauty to be a rather dark film. This film teaches the other side of America and what beautiful and natural things really are like. It tells taht side of the story because it gives that in the title. American Beauty is a very inspiring film that can warm people's hearts or can break them because of the events that take place within the film. Well, for me it did both of those things which is what a lot of other people would think of it.


Kevin Spacey gives the performance of his career. I knew that it was Spacey portraying Lester Burnham obviously but Lester is a character I can easily get the hang of and get to understand. Lester is suffering from a mid-life crisis because he ahtes his job, his bitch of a wife and young daughter who has a lot of problems against him. To take his mind off that he fantasises about and has a crush on his daughter Jane's friend Angela Hayes. Whatever character Kevin portrays for some reason he always makes me laugh even in The Usual Suspects. I found Lester really funny because he is very sarcastic with his wife which truly reveals that he hates her. Annette Bening added more spice to this film. Her performance was fantastic as Carolyn Burnham. She is the villain of this film because she always causes a fight with Lester. She is almost like a control freak who will lose control if she doesn't get what she wants but the main reason is because she ends up having an affair and cheating on Lester. They both have crushes and affairs without the other person even realising. Annette made me laugh aswell even though Carolyn is a greedy, selfish, careless and self-absorbed bitch she brings comedy together with Kevin Spacey. Thora Birch's performance as Jane Burnham was good but in my opinion could have been better. She is a nice looking woman now but I think she was a bit too ugly for Jane's character. Thora is a really powerful actress with a lot of character thouhg I really liked Wes Bentley as Jane's boyfriend and a really good friend of her father Lester Ricky Fitts. He seems like a charmer who people can fall for easily but also a complete slimeball with alot of dirty secrets by keeping lots of illegal drugs in his bedroom with faking a urine test by using someone else's so he can smoke and use the drugs. Mena Suvari was really good as Angela Hayes. Mena was an adult at the time this film was released because I realised this after seeing American Pie which was released in the same year as American Beauty, Mena really looked like a young irresistible teenager so personally I don't blame Lester for falling for her. I liked Chris Cooper too as Colonel Frank Fitts who is strict, abusive, bully, homophobic and controlling particularly against his son Ricky.


Sam Mendes gives his first and best film of his whole career. He hasn't done many films at all but they are all good films. Mendes makes American Beauty one of the most powerful films ever made. Mendes? directing career starting with American Beauty makes it the greatest film directing debut of all time. The closest rival in my opinion is Orson Welles as both actor and director in Citizen Kane. Sam Mendes wanted us to be trapped in a circle so to speak to get into the characters and to get into the chemistry between them. Alan Ball writes a very good script which is very original. I find pretty much all of original scripts to be the same.


American Beauty is one of my favourite dramas, one of my favourite film partnerships, a tie for best film of 1999 with The Green mile, Kevin Spacey's best, Sam Mendes' best, the greatest directing debut ever, one of the most powerful and beautiful films of all time with one of the biggest meaning, a close collision of best film of 1990's with Forrest Gump, The Green Mile and Fight Club. I will never forget American Beauty because it is a treasured piece of art for me which makes it one of the best films ever!

"A grown man knows the world he lives in. For the moment, that world is Rome."


Director: William Wyler
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd
Running time: 212 minutes
Country: USA


Ben-Hur is an absolutely outstanding epic story that is set in the times of Jesus. Despite Jesus is involved in Judah Ben-Hur's life, I think it is set more in an Egyptian time around the time of Moses. It is a very memorable film because of it being one of the very early epic stories. Also, I think it was the running time of the film that made it very interesting to the public as well as to the Academy. Ben-Hur is tied with Titanic and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King for most Oscar wins. All three films have won 11 straight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. The chariot race was the most intense moment in the whole film and the whole race is very memorable and famous. I have read on a few websites that people have died in this chariot race during filming and now after seeing it I'm not really surprised at all. The chariot race was a very excited experience not only because people really died in it but also because epics are full of intense moments and are set to make something happen that some viewers may not be expecting. I can see why some people might not watch it because it's an epic and especially because it is over 200 minutes long which isn't far from 4 hours.


The late Charlton Heston's performance as Judah Ben-Hur is legendary. It earned him his first and only Oscar nomination and win. I absolutely loved his acting in this film. I think his portrayal of Moses in The Ten Commandments led to his portrayal of Ben-Hur because of the epic desert environment and also they are to do with the Bible and the past. He is definitely one of those heroic sorts of people who would do anything but to protect himself as well as others around him. Jack Hawkins' performance as Quintus Arrius was absolutely awesome too. He was a good friend of Judah's at the start of the film but then he turned out to be the enemy and betrays him. So, a rivalry forms between the two men and has severe consequences.


This was the first William Wyler film that I saw and so far he has given me a good impression that he is a good filmmaker and creates classic masterpieces. The direction in the chariot race literally lifted me off the each of my chair because it was so explosive and intense. There were so many sudden shots of the film that were changing around quite a lot.


Ben-Hur is an epic masterpiece that I loved from start to finish. However, there were a few scenes that were a bit boring and dragging on a bit. Apart from that, Ben-Hur is a classic masterpiece that should be remembered forever and be one of the best films of all time.

"Oh, the human mouth is a disgusting place."

Director: Andrew Stanton
Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe
Running time: 100 minutes
Country: USA


Finding Nemo is without a single doubt one of the funniest and most treasured animated films ever. It is a clever story with hilarious, cute and extremely lovable characters. Finding Nemo is probably the most adult out of all PIXARs so far because it has such hilarious jokes especially with Dory's short-term memory loss. The animated effects inside the water and the sea creatures are almost like Ratatouille and WALL-E effects. It is a very inspiring film as far as Marlin's commitment to achieve his goal which is to find his son Nemo. I love films that are for both kids and adults. Finding Nemo is a really cool animated film. What I mean that it's a cool film is that it has a lot of really hilarious sayings that a teenager would say such as "Dude" and "Sweet". Finding Nemo may not be as famous as Toy Story 1+2 but it is better than both of them. Finding Nemo is the one PIXAR that everybody loves.

I loved all of the different sets of characters in Finding Nemo. They all had two things in common: funny and serious. Marlin is a clown fish who is a single parent after his wife Coral was eaten by a pike. Because of the tragedy and his now open fear of the ocean, he is very overprotective towards his son Nemo up until one day that phobia hits him in the face when Nemo is taken away by deep-sea Australian divers. Marlin takes his adventurous journey to find his son with a fish who has short-term memory loss. Her name is Dory. She is the funniest out of the entire film as well as one of the funniest film characters of all time. She comes out with some really silly things and gets herself and Marlin is really awkward situations such as "speaking Whale", always saying Nemo's name incorrectly and also when she almost suddenly forgets things. Dory is a character that is just too hilarious to ignore or to not laugh at. I love Nemo's personality because he is a very cute character and with such a powerful way of seeing through life at such a young age. He is a very brave little fish because he shows that he isn't really that scared of the ocean like his father is. I loved his close friendship with Gill who is the leader of the group within the Sydney Dentist fish tank. I loved other featured characters such as the three vegetarian sharks Bruce, Anchor and Chum, the fish within tank Gill, Bloat, Peach, Jacques, Bubbles, Deb and Gurgle, turtles Crush and Squirt, pelican Nigel and sting-ray Mr. Ray. If you think about it and see the cast, this film actually has an awesome cast including hilarious American homosexual comedian Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush as Nigel, Willem Dafoe as Gill, director Andrew Stanton as Crush, Allison Janney as Peach and other returning PIXAR actors John Ratzenberger, Brad Garrett and Bob Peterson.

Andrew Stanton surprised a lot of people of how great Finding Nemo really turned out to be and how successful it was with the gross takings. Stanton's direction of Finding Nemo is the most adult PIXAR film so far. I could easily tell that Stanton's work on Finding Nemo was work that really needed thinking through because he probably wanted it to be funny, dramatic and rather tense for adults and for kids. He made it not too kiddish and not too grown-up either which is what I love the most about Finding Nemo. The script was very awesome with such hilarious scenes and with very motivating movements as the film was carrying on. To me, Finding Nemo was written to send people a very important message almost like an alert so to speak to advice parents not to be so overprotective but also to not do almost everything they want.

Finding Nemo was nominated for 4 Academy Awards. It won Best Animated Picture 2003 but was nominated for Best Original Screenplay but lost to Lost In Translation, Best Sound Editing but lost to Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World and Best Music Original Score but lost to The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King. This film was nominated for a Golden Globe as well: Best Picture Musical/Comedy but lost to Lost In Translation.

Finding Nemo is one of the top films of 2003 as well as one of the top animated films of all time. Finding Nemo is the funniest animated film of all time without a doubt. Finding Nemo is a film that only PIXAR could have created. It is a film that has earned a lot of credit in awards and also with the public as well. Finding Nemo is my second favourite PIXAR after my favourite Ratatouille. Finding Nemo deserves its rightful place on the best of comedy, adventure and animation in the world of cinema. It is a masterpiece that I do watch quite regularly and don't ever get bored of it.

"He's more machine now than man; twisted and evil."


Director: Richard Marquand
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse
Running time: 134 minutes
Country: New Zealand, USA


This was an absolutely amazing end to a trilogy of landmark cinema. It is an end to a franchise of drama, adventure, suspense, comedy and particularly of how you can use your imagination of what could be beyond our world. Return Of The Jedi is the last in episode order but it's the third of the ones in release order. This is probably the most emotional episode of the original trilogy if not of all six because Luke tries to relive the Jedi spirit within his father and also of the consequences. Also, because it was what the fate of the galaxy was going to be. The ending is very heart-felt that can either make you cry or send chills down your spine. In a way, the title and synopsis of Return Of Te Jedi sort of ruins or spoils what the twist is in Empire Strikes Back. Return Of The Jedi is another Star Wars film that is just stunning and can't take your eyes off it until the end of the film.

I like Mark Hamill as Luke but does quite a bit of what Elijah Wood does in Lord Of The Rings: in a few ways overdoes it a bit, sometimes doesn't show Luke's feelings in a realistic way but I will give him credit for being a good fighter and having the ability to do what he does in the whole trilogy. Harrison Ford is definitely the hero of the original Star Wars trilogy. The reason why is because obviously Mark Hamill as Luke isn't exactly a great performance whereas Harrison's is very heartfelt, funny and just really cool. Ford returned into intense kick-ass action just 2 years after the start of his other really famous character Indiana Jones in the film Raiders Of The Lost Ark and in a huge way. Ford is another action hero even now in his 60s. Carrie Fisher was hotter and more brilliant than ever as Princess Leia. Carrie exposes herself more in this one than she did in the previous two films. She was really good as Leia as well. I loved how well Carrie and Harrison worked together as lovers Leia and Han Solo. The scenes with her in that bikini are obviously really hot but are absolute classic images of female celebrities and of science fiction cinema too. Ian McDiarmid was bloody terrifying as Emperor Palpatine of the Empire. He was obviously a lot younger in Return Of The Jedi than the prequel trilogy but looks a lot older in Return Of The Jedi.

To be honest, I am actually quite glad Irvin Kershner didn't reprise as director of Return Of The Jedi because it might not have been as good as Marquand's direction. Mind you, making Richard Marquand as director of Return Of The Jedi was a bit of a risky move but it turned out to be a great success. Both Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi might not have been as successful if creator George Lucas directed them. That is one of the reasons why I liked Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi more because Lucas is a fairly lame director apart from his work in the final film Revenge Of The Sith. Richard Marquand directs this one very similar to Kershner in Empire Strikes Back especially with the epic action scenes.

This film won one Special Achievement Award for it's visual effects. It was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Art Direction but lost to Fanny Och Alexander, Best Sound but lost to The Right Stuff, Best Sound Editing but lost to The Right Stuff and Best Music Original Score but lost to The Right Stuff.

This is the second best Star Wars film after it's previous film The Empire Strikes Back. I love the original trilogy more than the prequel trilogy. Return Of The Jedi is the most emotional of the trilogy. I love this one a lot! Alongside Return Of The King, Return Of The Jedi is one of the best threequals of all time. A masterful end to one of the best film franchises of all time.

"Heeeeere's Johnny!"


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: USA, UK


The Shining is an absolute masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick. This is the phenomenon of horror films. I loved pretty much everything about this film. The Shining is a scary, haunting and psychological film that makes me feel really good which is very rare of a horror film. That is one of the main reasons why The Shining is the greatest horror film of all time. It is like a fantasy film when you look at it in a deeper way because of the visions within Jack's mind and Danny's as well. It was scary but not scary enough for it to freak me out. It wasn't so much the characters but it was the music that did it for me. It is scary because it is a massive hotel which is beautiful, clean and peaceful. What I find really twisted about this is that its a nice hotel in the countryside but unfortunately it is possessed and the Torrance family are the unlucky ones. They are torn apart by the hotel through Jack. This teaches about a lot of things in life particularly wherever you are it is never 100% certain that you are safe. It was a very clever horror film not just because it is a piece of work from the late Stanley Kubrick, not just because it stars Jack Nicholson and that it's a novel from my favourite novelist Stephen King but because of the cinematic qualities it has and how well it was filmed.


Jack Nicholson delivers one of the most terrifying performances I've ever seen. Jack has always been one of those actors who plays really entertaining characters both heroes and villains. When he is Jack Torrance he shows how scary he really can be. I get an impression that people underestimated Nicholson as a villain before The Shining. I think Jack's performance leads to his role as the Joker in Tim Burton's Batman because of the real psychological side of seeing Nicholson as a complete psycho. I really liked Jack's determination to this film because he made the acting decent to watch especially because Shelley Duvall was pretty bad as Wendy Torrance. There are quite a few reasons for this. I don't think she took Wendy's character which is what should be done in a film particularly from a director like Stanley Kubrick I also realise that Wendy is an innocent woman who's husband is going mad and her son is wrapped up in his own world as well, so she is suffering from this but what annoyed me about Shelley was that she always pulled the same face when upset, she was constantly wailing and wasn't even crying. I also think that she didn't quite say her words in a correct way of professional acting. Even director Kubrick said that her performance was dreadful. I saw this on a documentary called "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures " on Kubrick's work. He stated to Shelley Duvall during filming of The Shining: "You've got to sound serious, Shelley, or else you re just wasting everyone's f***ing time". Kubrick was right about that though. But I will Shelley credit for how scary she looks when freaked out so that's where her acting was decent. I liked Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance as well. Because of him being a child star in a horror film, I find it a close similarity to Linda Blair as possessed girl in The Exorcist.


I cannot believe that Kubrick earned a Razzie nomination as Worst Director. I think he directed it pretty well with camera angles especially the "Here's Johnny!" scene. He just did what he does best and that is that he directs his films in his own way. Directs them very similarly as zooming out/in camera angles. He directed Jack Nicholson's actions well but I admit he didn't do very well with Shelley Duvall's which could have been improved. I have always admired King's work but I think that this film is the closest film to its book. The script was half original-half adapted because most horrors are original but The Shining is like an epic horror film which makes it the first and only of that kind. Epics are films that are written into adapted scripts.


The Shining is a haunting and epic masterpiece. It is one of Jack Nicholsons best and one of Kubricks best as well. It is one of the most iconic horrors of all time if not the most iconic. I think that this film is almost perfect (apart from Shelley Duvall) which is why The Shining is the greatest horror film of all time.

"I am already grown up, I just get older."


Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, Danny Aiello
Running time: 110 minutes
Country: France


Bloody hell!!! I love this film to bits! Léon is a film that is just totally unbelievable with the black comedy, drama and the thrilling moments within the film. I just loved the tone Leon sent with it being a totally amazing kick-ass action film. This film is very hard-hitting because it is very emotional especially of what happens to Mathilda's family. Léon is just an absolutely stunning action-packed thrilling experience. I loved this film so much because it is a rather serious story as well as a very entertaining piece of filmmaking. It is a film that might seem just a random director choosing a random cast and randomly making it like quite a lot of action films do. This is a rare fun film that turned out a masterpiece.


Jean Reno's performance as Léon was actually really awesome. I was predicting that I would be disappointed but I wasn't disappointed at all. Seeing Reno as Léon, he is a very scheming character and he has a slight sensitive side as well because he is a man who ends up feeling sorry for Mathilda after her family were killed. Léon is a professional assassin and hitman who is living a solitary life In New York City's Little Italy. Léon likes to call his professional job a 'cleaner'. I think what he means by that is cleaning the city of criminals, gangsters and drug dealers. Léon has a very cool and very entertaining personality. I loved the way Léon was with Mathilda. He was the one who played that true father of Mathilda. Natalie Portman's performance was really awesome as Mathilda. Natalie was only 12 or 13 years old when this film was released and when she was filming it and I have to say she is definitely the most underrated child star performances of all time. Natalie's performance as Mathilda was just absolutely amazing! I am used to seeing Natalie play those rebel, badass and yet charming sorts of character in which she makes Mathilda which is why Léon and Closer are her best films and best performances in my opinion. Mathilda is a mixed up young teenager because of her problems with her family. To escape this and get herself distracted, she constantly smokes cigarettes which are obviously bad for children at her age. When her father, stepmother, half-sister and brother were all killed, she turns to neighbour Léon for secure protection and help because she has nowhere to go. When she meets Léon and lives with him she becomes a totally different person who is messed up and doesn't really give a damn about how important life really needs to be to someone. Because of Mathilda's bad behaviour I sometimes call her a "cute little shit" because that's what she is: cute and very mischievous. Gary Oldman was absolutely awesome as well in this masterpiece as Norman 'Stan' Stansfield. Gary makes a really good villain and should portray more villains in some more films. Stan is a man who is literally addicted to drugs, who is the leader of a cadre of DEA agents. Mathilda's father attracts the ire of corrupt DEA agents, who have been paying him to store cocaine in his residence, after they discover that he has been stealing some of the drugs for himself. That leads to the entire family's murder apart from Mathilda.


The directing from Luc Besson was just thrilling, darkly humorous and quite emotional. Besson makes Léon a phenomenal piece of entertainment that will be a great value of time in your life as it did in mine. The way Besson handled the directing of this film was really well handled with a lot of crime and with drama. There aren't that many films that feature crime and deep raw emotion like Léon does. Léon: The Professional is one of my favourite films because it is just really well made, has extremely interesting characters and also has a really good cast.


Natalie Portman's performance was absolutely amazing which makes it one of the best child star performances of all time. Léon and Closer are Natalie's best performances definitely. Closer is the better performance from her especially in her Golden Globe-winning and Oscar nominated performance as Alice. Gary Oldman's acting was absolutely awesome and it was quite terrifying. Jean Reno was probably the best choice for Léon because he is French and it is a French film and he seems that sensitive yet extremely deadly type for a character like Léon. Léon: The Professional is a masterpiece of crime-drama films and it takes its rightful place on the top list of that category as well as on my favourite films of all time.

"No. No, Mother, I have not been drinking. No. No. These two men, they poured a whole bottle of bourbon into me. No, they didn't give me a chaser."


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Eve Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll
Running time: 136 minutes
Country: USA


Wow! What an intense action-packed thrill ride this film turned out to be. It is a really fun adventure that takes you cross-country and finding different ways to survive. I just love cat-and-mouse aka films involving fugitives and hostages because they are really suspensful and they are always packed with entertainment. I loved pretty much everything about North By Northwest. It is an absolute masterpiece from a director and actor who have been really well remembered for this film. Once, the opening credits rolled in this film, I was literally glued to it for the rest of the film because it was so good and also because of the intense thrill ride that it was.


This was my first Cary Grant film that I saw and I am glad I saw him in North By Northwest first because I think it is his most famous film along with Arsenic And Old Lace, None But The Lonely Heart and Penny Serenade. Cary Grant was probably the best fit for this film especially with the classic image of him running in the countryside with a plane behind and rushing towards him which appears on my picture review. Eva Marie Saint has risen even higher after her Oscar winning performance in On The Waterfront and she was absolutely fantastic in this film which I was sort of expecting.


Hitchcock doesn't make North By Northwest as suspensful in a scary way as he has done with some of his films like Psycho and The Birds. It is probably just as tense as Rear Window, Rebecca and Vertigo but obviously in a different way because all of the stories are different. Hitchcock always uses suspense in his films that makes us feel the same way because they're thrillers but all of his films are different kinds of thrillers. Some are scary, some are funny and some are tense but neither scary nor funny. Because there have been a few Hitchcock remakes such as Rear Window and Psycho, I seriously hope that there won't be a remake of North By Northwest or Vertigo, Rebecca or Shadow Of A Doubt. There is a The Birds remake coming out which is bloody annoying but it is pretty predictable that it is going to be shite anyway. Two of my 5-star Hitchcock films are his two most underrated films because they don't earn as much credit as one of the late great directors best films like Psycho, Rear Window and Vertigo do.


It is my fourth favourite Hitchcock film after Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho. It is my favourite film of 1959 and that was a great year for a cinema from the very early past of the world of cinema. North By Northwest is one of the best thrillers ever made and it is one of the best films ever made as well. Masterpiece!!!

"I'm a junkyard."


Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm
Running time: 138 minutes
Country: USA


All About Eve is certainly one of the most powerful and emotional films of all time. It is like a truly inspiring film because Margo desperately needs to be with her boyfriend and friends but there is the new bitch Eve Harrington who tries to take everything from her. It also makes me angry because Eve is such a bitch and worst of all she pretends that she is a big fan of Margo Channing but she just wants to ruin her and become a really well known stage actress.


Bette Davis delivers an absolutely phenomenonal performance as aging actress Margo Channing. Her performance in my opinion is one of the best female performances of all time. She should have won her Oscar in this film. She made Margo an obsessed and yet quite deranged character but does it for right reason by doing it for her own good. Anne Baxter delivers another great performance as cunning Eve Harrington. Eve is obviously a young beautiful woman and an evil one too but I personally believe that Anne was too good looking and wasnt quite evil enough. She was evil but not that much. I really liked George Sanders aswell in this film too. George makes Addison DeWitt a real curious critic who can easily see right through Eve and what her intensions are.


The direction from Joseph L. Mankiewicz was really awesome and was really well filmed. The writing from Mankiewicz is absolutely fantastic too. All of the scenes were just outstanding and a pleasure to watch.


This film didnt disappoint me that seriously. I wished that Anne Baxters acting was a bit better. She was good but could have been better. Apart from that light flaw, All About Eve is one of the best films of 1950s and of all time too.

"I told her not to worry, you had your papers on you. If you'd been hit by a bomb, they'd have known where to take you."


Director: Roman Palonski
Starring: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Ed Stoppard
Running time: 150 minutes
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK


This film is one of the most powerful films of all time. I personally think that this film is just as powerful as Schindlers List. I find it so powerful because it has that beautiful inspiring taste to it of how Szpilman survived the Holocaust and also because of the adorable music that is used. The best scene is the scene where Szpilman is playing the piano for the German officer in a really huge house in Warsaw. It is such a powerful and inspiring moment that does touch everybody in different varieties of ways who watch it. It is a horrible and gut retching too because of what the Holocaust was really like and how the Jews were treated by the Nazis. It shows the true horror of what it was really like not only for a Jew but for anybody at all in the world who lived around the 1930s and 1940s. It is just so shocking because it is such a realistic film and makes me fell hard to believe that it was true.


Adrien Brody delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Wladyslaw Szpilman. His performance is very powerful because Adrien drags us along Szpilmans journey to survival in the Holocaust. Adrien is obviously an American man but he really does look like a young, Jewish musician man which makes Adrien Brody absolutely perfect to Wladyslaw Szpilman. He makes us believe that the Holocaust made us obviously feel terrible because of what happened but mostly to the people who survived about who they really are. Adrien shows that Wladyslaw seemed like a really nice hearted man and a real hero who could have saved more Jews but obviously only saved himself. Thomas Kretschmann makes a mild appearance as a German officer. His performance is a really good supporting performance. His character reminds me of Oskar Schindler because the officer saved Szpilman and Schindler saved people too. The differences are that more than one Jew was saved by Schindler and also Schindler was a member of the Nazi party but not in the army.


I thought the direction from Roman Polanski was absolutely oustanding. His direction is very similar to Steven Spielbergs in Schindlers List. It is like a direction of massacres, of redemption and of beauty too. The writing was absolutely outstanding. It was a really cleverly adapted piece of work that is used.

I personally think that this film along with Schindlers List make biographic films obviously important and quite depressing but also absolutely beautiful and inspiring aswell


It is Roman Polanskis best film in my opinion. I liked it more than Chinatown. It is probably Adrien Brodys most famous performance too after he did win an Academy Award for his performance as Wladyslaw Szpilman. This film became my all time favourite biography film (film based on a true story) of all time. It is also my favourite film of 2002. It is my Best Picture winner of 2002. It is a film that is horrible but is just an absolutely gorgeous and beautiful film to watch as you carry on with it. It is a masterpiece!! Simple as that!

"You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?"


Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: USA


Lost In Translation is a beautiful masterpiece that I just was gripped with from start to finish. It is a masterpiece that will always have a place in my heart because of its deeply inspiring story and beautiful filmmaking. Lost In Translation is a beautiful story of friendship and it is definitely one of the best films based on that. I loved every single thing about this film. It is just so good to watch that its filmmaking standard is just too amazing to not love. I loved how this film was filmed in a more technical way. Lost In Translation is a masterpiece of romantic comedies and is probably one of the best. Whoever wouldn't like to watch Lost In Translation or don't want to watch it then that person or those people are missing out on a lot in a masterpiece like this. It is funny, beautiful, emotional and an absolutely wonder. It is a film that some people might find quite unusual. I can't explain why because it is very hard to explain that. I don't think that anybody I have known have said that this film is bad, boring, slow, pathetic or anything like that ever and I would have to ask them numerous questions why they didn't like this masterpiece. This film ends like the viewers request answers in which I'm not going to say because it will obviously spoil it.

The performances from both actors in this film are absolutely amazing. Bill Murray's performance was bloody amazing and it certainly gave him a very much deserved Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win. His character is a character you would deeply feel sorry for and would stay alongside until the very end. Murray hasn't really been an actor who delivers top notch performances that are worthy of Oscars and Golden Globes but he hits his massive glory jackpot in Lost In Translation and for damn good reason. His acting was just so good it literally blew me away in every scene he was involved in the film. It is an absolutely amazing memorable performance that I will always remember as one of the best. Bill Murray shows he is the only actor to portray Bob Harris. Bob is an aging movie star who has arrived in Tokyo to film a Suntory Whiskey advertisement. His marriage with his wife of 25 years is breaking down and they are falling out of love. Scarlett Johansson's performance as Charlotte wasn't only her best performance but it was her breakthrough performance and it is that simple. Her performance should have earned her first and only Oscar nomination. I was blown away by how beautiful and stunning she really was in this film. I don't believe that it is the greatest leading female performance but I have to say that it isn't far from achieving itself as one of my favourite performances from a leading actress. I personally believe that Scarlett became rather gifted with this film and she was only 19 years old when she was in this film. Her performance made me get deeply interested in her character. Charlotte is a young woman who is the young wife of a celebrity photographer on an assignment in Tokyo. Because of his work, he ends up leaving her behind in Tokyo. Being bored and lonely she meets Bob in a bar and they become close friends and make them seem unlikely lovers because of the age gap between them.

Lost In Translation has proved Sofia Coppola to be a brilliant director. She is an awesome director but a very shit actress especially in The Godfather: Part III and Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. She has followed her directing talent straight after her father Francis Ford Coppola. I don't really see many women direct a film ever and I have to say that Coppola's directing of Lost In Translation is the best a woman has ever done. After her dreadful performance in The Godfather: Part III and The Phantom Menace, Sofia Coppola proves herself to be a director not to be reckoned with. Her script earned her first Oscar win and rightly so. She should carry on directing instead of acting because she is awful at that and she has already proved that twice already in a bad way. I don't think this film would have been good at all if Sofia Coppola wasn't directing it with Bill Murray nor Scarlett Johansson starring in it.

This film won 1 Oscar: Best Original Screenplay (beating Dirty Pretty Things, Finding Nemo, In America and The Barbarian Invasions). It was nominated for Best Picture but lost to The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, Best Director (Sofia Coppola) but lost to Peter Jackson in The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King and Best Leading Actor (Bill Murray) but lost to Sean Penn in Mystic River. It won 3 Golden Globe awards: Best Picture Musical/Comedy (beating Big Fish, Bend It Like Beckham, Finding Nemo and Love Actually), Best Actor Musical/Comedy (Bill Murray) (beating Billy Bob Thornton, Johnny Depp, Jack Black and Jack Nicholson and Best Screenplay (beating Cold Mountain, In America, Love Actually and Mystic River). It was nominated for Best Actress Musical/Comedy (Scarlett Johansson) but lost to Diane Keaton in Something's Gotta Give and Best Director (Sofia Coppola) but lost to Peter Jackson in The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.

This is a film that I think made Sofia Coppola want to concentrate on directing films instead of acting in films. This is Bill Murray's best performance so far without a single doubt in my mind and probably always will be. It is Scarlett Johansson's best performance so far as well. It is her ultimate breakthrough performance and nobody can ever take that away from her. She is one of my all-time favourite actresses and this is the film that brought deep interest in Scarlett Johansson to me. Lost In Translation is one of the best films based on friendship and love, it is one of the best films of 2003, one of the best romantic comedies, one of the most heartwarming films of all time in my personal opinions. It is a film that I find an ultimate pleasure to watch. It is definitely one of the most creative films of all time as well because of its absolutely amazing modern filmmaking. A beautiful, exciting, romantic, funny and emotional film that I have loved every single I've watched it.

"There's no place like home!"


Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr
Running time: 101 minutes
Country: USA


When I first saw this film on DVD, I wasn't that keen on it for some reason. I don't know why this is but when I saw it for the second time, I realised what an adventurous, beautiful, funny, imaginitive and tense family film this really is. I think The Wizard Of Oz is the oldest children's live-action film and it blew me away with how well it was filmed because the visual effects stunned me. No, they aren't computer visual effects like Lord Of The Rings, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Transformers etc but it is a film from the 1930s which were the extremely early days for technology as well as for cinema. Some people have been a bit biast against this film by saying that the visual effects are awful but to be honest they are being fair because it was made such a long time ago and it was just simple visual effects which are after all part of the classics. It is a beautiful story that goes beyond words. It is a real cinematic experience as well as a life experience too because of the way Oz is and what it looks like could be what heaven's like. It is a good impression of it anyway. The Wizard Of Oz is an absolutely magical musical as well with lots of delightful songs that you could sing along to quite regularly. The classic and my favourite song of this film is "Over The Rainbow" which is definitely one of the best film songs ever made!


Judy Garland's performance as Dorothy Gale is her most famous film without a doubt and I am ever so glad it is because Garland was a very talented actress. She can quite annoying with her accent at times but it's her acting talent that I really appreciate and deeply respect her for. Judy Garland was an absolute hot star after The Wizard Of Oz and probably still is now after 40 years since she died. Judy Garland was only 16 years old when she portrayed Dorothy and she really impressed me. She is a bit like a child-star because she looked like an adult but was really only a teenager at the time. That is something that is extremely underrated. Dorothy's character is a lot like Alice in Alice In Wonderland because they both dress pretty much the same, behave the same and also seem like the same sort of people. Ray Bolger, Jack Haley and Bert Lahr were all good as the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion. The make-up is unrealistic on the Cowardly Lion but is awesome on Scarecrow and Tin Man because that's the point. It is a classic film that is very old and it is probably the first attempt at creating top-notch make-up in a live-action color film whereas you can't really tell with a black-and-white film. We don't know how the Scarecrow and Tin Man went from men into the way they are in The Wizard Of Oz but there is a play called "Wicked" which is like a prequel to The Wizard Of Oz and it actually gets itself involved into The Wizard Of Oz. So, it tells the story in that play.


Victor Fleming directs two films in 1939 that are totally different but have two things in common: they can both be inspirations and also they are two of the best films of all time. Those two films are The Wizard Of Oz and Gone With The Wind. Fleming proves to me that he can go from the first romantic epic to a childrens fantasy musical. There was nothing that went wrong with The Wizard Of Oz in any way whatsoever. The script was adapted form the great novel which was published in 1900. The Wizard Of Oz is very similar if not the same kind of film Alice In Wonderland is.


The Wizard Of Oz is a beautiful, inspiring and hilarious classic that I could watch over and over again. I can't call this a childhood favourite of mine because I was 15 when I first saw it and I can't believe why I was that age when I saw it. Victor Fleming's best and most famous work is obviously Gone With The Wind but The Wizard Of Oz is another fine achievement to his legendary career. It is Judy Garland's best performance and most famous film of all time. The Wizard Of Oz is one of the best family adventures of all time as well as one of the best musicals and best films ever made too.

"This time the mission is the man."


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Matt Damon, Edward Burns
Running time: 170 minutes
Country: USA


Wow!! What an absolutely amazing war film Saving Private Ryan really is. It is an epic film with a very powerful storyline and with a lot of intense and unbelievable action that is totally remarkable. Saving Private Ryan is a rare kind of war film because it was a blockbuster and it did earn $481,000,000 worldwide which is the most a war film has ever achieved. This film might seem quite silly to some people because eight men are risking all of their lives to bring only one man back home but despite how weird the story is, it is so well filmed with a very realistic tone and with such powerful characters and chemistry between them. It was very violent with all of the blood and cut off legs and arms. That shows the pure horror of World War II and how each of the men felt when they were fighting in the war. This film didn't just show the feelings of the English people during World War II but because of the 8 eight men having to go through France, it shows their feelings about World War II. I have to say that Saving Private Ryan is without a single doubt one of the most impressively filmed motion pictures of all time. Some people don't like Saving Private Ryan because it is a long film (170 minutes) but that isn't really an excuse by saying how badly it was filmed. The sound effects were just indescribable to write about because they were just so good. The visual effects, make-up, art direction and cinematography were just bloody amazing as well. Saving Private Ryan is emotional, hard to watch and tense which makes it a perfect war film for me. It was tense because we don't know when they could get attacked my other soldiers or whether they attack anyone else or not. What I love about Saving Private Ryan is that it is a film that is so well filmed but has a simple story and not too complex otherwise it would have been greatly flawed. I loved everything about this film. My favourite action scene was at the beginning on Omaha Beach because that was just absolutely fantastic. I loved the final action war scene as well. Bloody hell!! Saving Private Ryan is perfect!

Tom Hanks' performance as Captain John Miller is just absolutely phenomenal. Tom's performance is the best performance that I have seen in a war film ever. Tom has never been in a film like this before. He has never portrayed a character with a lot of bravery and intense violence. Tom deserved to be in this film especially with it being directed by the great Steven Spielberg. We saw the aggressive and dark side towards Tom's style of acting even though John Miller is a very thoughtful and caring man. I think this is the only film that I have seen that features only male actors. John Miller keeps his men under control and wants them to do all that he tells them to do whether it is the right thing to do or not. He tries his best for none of his men to get killed but you will have to wait and see if that actually does happen at all. There were other good performances from co-stars including Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon and Vin Diesel.

Steven Spielberg has created a one-of-a-kind war film that cannot be beaten in any way whatsoever. His directing was just so realistic and was phenomenally filmed as I have said many times. Spielberg's work on Saving Private Ryan was very similar to his work on Schindler's List because he made them feel the same and wanted to make them both as powerful as each other which is why Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan are the best films from Steven Spielberg. Also, they are both epic films in each of their genres. Saving Private Ryan proved once again that Spielberg can create a modern day classic work of art and can't ever disappoint. The script was really well written and has a lot of very powerful scenes for such a simple story. It was a very original story which is what most war films are. I loved the screenplay for that as well.

Saving Private Ryan won 5 Academy Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Director (Steven Spielberg), Best Sound Editing, Best Sound and Best Film Editing. It was nominated for Best Picture 1998 but lost to Shakespeare In Love (unfortunately. One of the biggest Best Picture snubs ever even though Shakespeare In Love is awesome too.), Best Leading Actor (Tom Hanks) but lost to Robert Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, Best Original Screenplay but lost to Shakespeare In Love, Best Art Direction but lost to Shakespeare In Love, Best Make-Up but lost to Elizabeth and Best Music Original Dramatic Score but lost to Life Is Beautiful. It was a winner of 2 Golden Globes too: Best Director (Steven Spielberg) and Best Picture Drama. It was nominated for Best Actor Drama (Tom Hanks) but lost to Jim Carrey in The Truman Show, Best Screenplay but lost to Shakespeare In Love and Best Original Score but lost to The Truman Show.

Saving Private Ryan is a film that seems like a really hard film to think of a complex story but it was a very simple story. It was excellently directed and produced from Spielberg. This is my third favourite Tom Hanks film after Forrest Gump and The Green Mile. It is my second favourite Steven Spielberg film after Schindler's List. It is my favourite film of 1998. It is one of the biggest Oscar Best Picture snubs of all time along with unlucky second favourites: Brokeback Mountain, The Pianist, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, Raging Bull and probably The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button too. Saving Private Ryan is one of my favourite action films of all time and is my favourite war film of all time as well and I seriously hope it stays that way as well. Saving Private Ryan is a rare film because it was a blockbuster and not many war films are blockbusters. It is a film that has achieved a lot to Spielberg's career as well as Tom Hanks' and the rest of the public. Saving Private Ryan is a war film that is just amazing that is just perfect in every single way. Love it and always will! To me, Saving Private Ryan is The Godfather of war films. Phenomenal film from Spielberg and Hanks! Way to go!!

"This is me. I think it's apparent that I need to rethink my life a little bit. What's my problem? First of all, I'm a rat. Which means, life is hard. Second, I have a highly developed sense of taste and smell."


Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Ian Holm, Jeneane Garofalo
Running time: 111 minutes
Country: USA


Ratatouille is a really magical film that has gone beyond any other animated film that has ever been made. The story is new to all films because I think it is one of the first if not the first film on cooking and food. This film inspired me alot because it helped me choose me possible career option: a critic apart from being a critic in films instead of food. Also, because it was a story about passion and inspiration. The only difference that Ratatouille has with other PIXARs is that it wasn't as funny as all the others. I wasn't expecting it to be hilarious like Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Toy Story because it is a story of support, friendship, passion and commitment. This is the most personal of all PIXARs so far. It made me feel really good because as I said, it led to my number 1 career choice but also the characters were really lovable and deeply interesting.

What I loved about Remy's character was he is brave, loyal, passionate and friendly. He has almost everything that a good person/thing should have. The only thing that Remy doesn't quite have is the completely loyalty to his rat family and friends. He has a very unlikely friendship with Linguini especially because they are supposed to be enemies. They have a very special friendship because they are both willing to help each other with the cooking and what each one wants from the other. Linguini is a young man who requests a job at Gusteau's restaurant. His mother passed away and gives Linguini a letter to Chef Skinner. As Linguini carries on working he catches Remy cooking food. From then on they become partners and good friends. Lou Romano's voice is perfect for Linguini's character because it is soft and sort of geeky which describes some of Linguini's personality. Chef Skinner is my favourite character in the whole film because he is very mean, bossy and a bully but he is a dwarf which brings some comedy within the character. Ian Holm brings together a very realistic French accent which was very good where all of his words that he said were really good for an American man. Anton Ego is a really good character to me because he is a scary man and is quite terrifying to meet because it is part of his personality. Also, because he is only doing his job but he is very strict and wants precise taste, texture etc of all the foods he tries but unfortunately never seems to get. Anton Ego isn't a villain because he doesn't do any crime at all, he just does his job very powerfully.

Brad Bird's directing was awesome which is one thing that never disappoints me from PIXAR. I heard that the kitchen in Gusteau's restaurant is a real life American kitchen. The script was very original with alot of deep meaning, powerful scenes and exciting moments which was one of the reaons why I think this is one of the best animated films of all time.

The characters really attracted the audience particularly Remy because I was (don't know about other people) always concerned about much of a passion food really is to him and what he would do for it. The story was obviously a made-up story but it is a story that you would like to think about. That is where this film is such an inspiration to me. This is the best animated film that has the best animation as well as the best animated film of all time in my opinion. Ratatouille is the best animated film of 2007 obviously. It is the second most inspiring animated film I've seen after Pinocchio. A truly loving masterpiece that I will always love and is one of my close favourites of all time.

"That woman deserves her revenge and we deserve to die."


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine
Running time: 111 minutes
Country: USA, Japan


Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2 are now two of the best action films of all time. The first one is the start of thrilling, explosive, impact and extremely excited action films that have generated ideas of creating new action films. It is an action film with a really catchy title name which did catch my biggest attention to Kill Bill. For some reason the first Kill Bill reminded me a bit of Sin City with the kinds of action involved but not in a coloured visual way. When I watched Kill Bill: Volume 1 for the first time, I watched Sin City for the first time straight afterwards. Kill Bill: Volume 1 is the ultimate action film of the 2000s (decade not century) so far. Kill Bill doesn't just take us through the Bride's path of revenge but also through a series of different acts of violence. This film has a twist that I wouldn't call shocking but one that will sort of reveal the outcome of the sequel.

Uma Thurman proves herself to be the only actress who could have been able to portray The Bride. It is an absolutely phenomenal performance that should have earned her an Oscar nomination. I just love the Bride's character because she is a character that you would get totally gripped with all the way through and she is a deeply interesting character. She is a woman who is fighting for revenge and stopping other crimes by that group of people when she is committing crime herself. That doesn't make her a villain at all. She is only deadly to those who betrayed her but when she's not like that; we see the light side of her being rather nice to other people. Uma Thurman is perfect for The Bride and I'm not going to repeat that because it's that simple. Lucy Liu is really awesome as the Bride's main arch rival in this first one after Bill called O-Ren Ishii. I loved the showdown between the two women. It was an ultimate kick-ass action scene and so was the showdown between the Bride and the large group of men known as Crazy 88 in the House Of Blue Leaves which does lead to the showdown between the Bride and O-Ren Ishii. David Carradine is another almost perfect choice for Bill because he is a very fearful character and a bit of a ladies man at the same time which you will find out in Kill Bill: Volume 2. He didn't have as much involvement in the first one as he did the second one because I think that Tarantino wanted us to feel what we would be preparing to see when the Bride meets her match when she fights off against Bill in the sequel.

Quentin Tarantino has created a new kind of film for him because he has usually bene a master of creating crime black-comedies which are Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. Tarantino brings that dark humurous comedy into it but in a more action packed sort of way. He has quite a few long scenes that not only flows with the story but also the chemistry between the characters and that determines fate between the characters. The script is really original. It is without a doubt one of the coolest scripts ever but no other script in the history of cinema will ever beat Pulp Fiction which is also a Quentin Tarantino film. To me, it is a masterpiece from a master of cinema who taught himself to create masterful films with some of the best films of all time.

It was nominated for Best Actress Drama at the Golden Globes (Uma Thurman) but lost to Charlize Theron in Monster. As far as the Oscars are concerned, I personally believe that Kill Bill: Volume 1 should have been a contender for Best Leading Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound Mixing and Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography and maybe even Best Picture 2003.

Kill Bill: Volume 1 is definitely better than Kill Bill: Volume 2 even though that is still an absolutely fantastic masterpiece as well. The first Kill Bill is my second favourite Quentin Tarantino film after the obvious favourite Pulp Fiction. Kill Bill particularly the first one is the best performance and probably always will be Uma Thurman's performance. Kill Bill is one of my top 5 action films of all time after Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Aliens. It is and will probably be the best action film of the decade and there is no chance in hell nobody can deny that.

"The Von Trapp children don't play. They march."


Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Peggy Wood
Running time: 174 minutes
Country: USA


I absolutely loved this masterpiece! The Sound Of Music is a very heartwarming, delightful and inspiring musical that I could watch over and over again. It is a musical that is beautifully filmed with such beautiful sceneries. The sceneries mix the taste and feeling of what music is because Maria feels like singing because of the neighbourhood and wanting to get along with the Von Trapp children. This film truly reveals what music really is and the good feeling of it. It is my mother's favourite film which is another reason why I love this film so much. The Sound Of Music is like an epic musical because of the way it is filmed. It is a bit like a costume drama but a musical. The Sound Of Music is a classic musical that is loved by thousands of people and it totally deserves to be.


Julie Andrews performance as Maria is absolutely amazing. Julie Andrews is the actress of musicals and it is that simple. Seeing Andrews play Maria was an absolute pleasure because she was a very bright hearted person but was a very emotional and serious character. Julie Andrews is one of the best British actresses ever and she proved that in Mary Poppins but she certainly did in The Sound Of Music. I absolutely love the way she plays the character because I could feel the warmth of the character of expressing her feelings towards the children and towards Captain Von Trapp. Andrews is a fantastic actress when it comes to heartwarming, family treasures. I really liked Christopher Plummer as Captain Von Trapp. He seemed like that kind of actor who you need to crack his outer shell and once you see inside you'll realise what kind of person he is. He is a bitter man to start with but as he starts to get closer to Maria and as he was watching her get closer to his children, the audience starts to see him as a really friendly, caring and loving father.


Robert Wise is a fantastic director who is brilliant at all of the films he has done and he is very well remembered for making them classics. The Sound Of Music is his best crowning achievement in my opinion. The work Wise did in this masterpiece was out of this world. If he hadn't directed it, there wouldn't be The Sound Of Music or it not being a classic. It is a very typical family film because it is filled with pure beauty but filled with seriousness too which I think makes a perfect family film.


The Sound Of Music is my 3rd favourite musical after Sweeney Todd and Grease. The Sound Of Music is the musical of the 60s and it's as simple as that. It is without a doubt Julie Andrews best performance. Yes, better than Mary Poppins. It is also Robert Wise's best work as well. The Sound Of Music is a very beautiful and adorable film that I could maybe watch countless times. It is a beautiful masterpiece that I really do love a lot!

"Step out of your car, please."


Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Kelly MacDonald
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: USA


Wow!!! No Country For Old Men is an absolutely brilliant tense, thrilling masterpiece from the Coen brothers. I was literally blown away by how good this film really was. It is one of the rare thrillers that wins the Best Picture award. It is a film that you get totally gripped with in such a suspenseful way that makes you feel that you are really there taking the journey with all of the characters and are feeling some of the things that the characters are feeling within it. The suspense isn't so much the events that happen but it was mostly the suspense is between the characters within the film. There is this sort of cat-and-mouse game that is played where one man chases and goes after another man for money. This is very hard to watch on some rare occasions because it is a very violent film which is so deadly and so unmerciful that it can make you feel a tiny bit sick. I don't really know whether to call this film a western or not because there aren't any cowboys but I suppose it is because it is set in deserts and large fields where they are sheriffs wearing cowboy hats. I find it to be a rather rare treasured film from filmmakers that have done similar sorts of films in the past.


The acting from the entire cast it absolutely awesome! Josh Brolin's performance as Llewelyn Moss was really good. Llewelyn is a welder and Vietnam veteran who flees with two million dollars in drug money that he finds in an open field in Texas. It was more of the hard situations he ended up in because of his being a fugitive to Anton to earn the $2 million. His performance was a good contender for Best Leading Actor at the 80th Academy Awards but I think Emile Hirsch hada better chance at it. Tommy Lee Jones is absolutely awesome as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell. He is a laconic, soon-to-retire small-town sheriff who is meant to try and hunt down Anton Chigurh. Javier Bardem delivers one of the most terrifying male performances of all time and one of the best film villains of all time too. Anton is cold hearted killer who is after the $2 million so he can buy more weapons. Anton Chigurh is a sociopathic assassin hired to recover the drug money.


The Coen Brothers have made a film that is rather unusual for them to make because they haven't made any other film like No Country For Old Men before. I think the one other Coen that is similar to No Country For Old Men is O Brother Where Art Thou because that is a bit like a western apart from that is a comedy and No Country For Old Men isn't. They both go from black comedies to a crime thriller and have created their best and most accomplished work so far. This film is adapted from a 2005 novel of the same name by American author Cormac McCarthy. It is a very well filmed motion picture that is full of suspense that makes it feel like a rollercoaster.


No Country For Old Men is the best of the five Best Picture nominees of 2007 which is why it deserved to win Best Picture. It is the best work from the Coen Brothers so far. Bardem's performance is one of the most terrifying performances of all time. Javier Bardem's performance is the best male performance of the year, only just beating Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street even though that is my favourite film. 2007 was an outstanding year for cinema so No Country For Old Men is the 3rd best of 2007 after Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Ratatouille. For the past two years in a row, Best Supporting Actor has gone to two actors playing two extremely fearful villains: Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in 2007 and then Heath Ledger as The Joker in 2008. No Country For Old Men is one of the best thrillers of all time and is one of my favourite cat-and-mouse films ever too!! It is a masterpiece that you will be totally gripped by from the start right until the very end.

"This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama."


Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeffrey Jones
Running time: 127 minutes
Country: USA


Ed Wood is a film from a director that was a bit of a hard risk because Tim has done dark film with imagination to it but he goes to a bio-pic and in a huge way. Ed Wood turned out to be a witty, hilarious, dark, dramatic and even romantic masterpiece that is definitely a film to be remembered. I loved this film for those reasons but also because of the way it was filmed. Ed Wood turned out to be a typical Tim Burton film because of the way it was filmed and the very bizarre person that was Ed Wood. Ed Wood's personality with films and with women was very witty and Burton is good at expressing characters in that way. This must have been a hard film to make because in the scenes where Ed Wood is shooting a scene in one of his films because there is a film making a film.


Johnny Depp's performance as Ed Wood was absolutely fantastic! It is definitely one of Johnny's best performances so far. His acting as Ed Wood when he is in women's clothes is just absolutely hilarious that I couldn't believe it. Was very funny and unique seeing Johnny in women's clothes. Johnny Depp should have earned an Oscar nomination for this film as well as a Golden Globe win for portraying Ed Wood. Martin Landau was awesome as Bela Lugosi but I was dead surprised that he beat both Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction and Gary Sinise in Forrest Gump to the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. I personally believe that was luck that he won it.


Ed Wood is an adventure of bad filmmaking as well as clumsiness, drama and romance. I loved this film all the way through but it doesn't quite beat Burton masterpieces Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands or Sleepy Hollow. Ed Wood is still a masterpiece from Tim Burton and is one of the greatest films of 1994 and that was a phenomenal year in cinema. I loved Johnny Depp's performance as Ed Wood but he is better in Sweeney Todd, Pirates Of The Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands and Finding Neverland. Ed Wood is a very unique masterpiece that I think cannot be beaten or be attempted at better than Tim Burton starring Johnny Depp.

"Ma chère mademoiselle. It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure that we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite to relax, let us pull up a chair, as the dining room proudly presents... your dinner."


Director: Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Starring: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach
Running time: 84 minutes
Country: USA


This is an ultimate treasure of Walt Disney that has touched and both melted and broken people's hearts. Beauty And The Beast is another remake of a film that is probably better than it's original. The only difference is that this one is animated. It is a story that is just too beautiful to watch. Beauty And The Beast is the one Disney Classic that the late and great Walt Disney missed out on because he died just under 30 years before the film's release and one he would be deeply proud of if he was still here with us. Four of the Disney Classics in a row are the main four he missed and are probably the most famous ones: The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. Beauty And The Beast definitely tops all four of them. Beauty And The Beast is a musical that sends a very powerful, true and heartfelt message and that is love isn't really about the looks on a person but it is mainly about what is inside and who they are. Because of that message, Beauty And The Beast is too lovely to watch let alone imagine. It is a film that is hilarious with really funny and yet bizarre sorts of characters. This is a really creative story compared to other Disney's because it helps us realise a lot of things in life involving love that are very important. It is very beautiful because it seems to be a life-changing film because of the romance. A lot of people refer Beauty And The Beast to be the best and most famous animated film of all time because it is the first and only animated film to have been nomination for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. It shows that even one so beautiful can love one so ugly and different (as far as looks are concerned anyway).


The voice acting performances were all awesome and funny. I just love Belle's character because she looks inside a person not outside to love. She would rather choose a suddenly sweet, friendly and nice Beast than an arrogant, rude, strong and charming man called Gaston. Belle is my favourite Disney princess for two reasons: she loves inside not outside and my little sister loves Belle as well as she reminds me of her. Belle is a very special character because of those two reasons and also she always tries to be polite to people even if they give her grief on occasions. Also, her loving, caring and loyal way with her father Maurice makes her a very special person. Belle goes through a lot of hard yet bizarre events in the film. Belle always showed who she really was especially with the books she reads. She wouldn't let anybody tell her what to do by telling her to do different things and she wanted to prove that she is happy the way she is. She is a very respectful person to be around and to talk to. Beast was a young human prince once. The young prince was spoiled, selfish and unkind. When he committed his latest sin: shutting an old lady away after wanting shelter because of the cold weather. That old lady turned into a beautiful enchantress. She punishes him by transforming him into a beast and transformed everybody within the castle who lived there into different things. She even changed the whole castle itself around as well from beautiful angel statues to evil devil ones. The only way that would all return is that Beast loves a woman and she loves him in return before the enchanted rose petals fell off. Beast is almost stunned by Belle's beauty but the only weakness he has is that he has a much uncontrolled temper. Beast is a villain to start with but when he slowly falls in love with Belle he then becomes a real hero. Gaston is the main villain within the film because he is a real bully and a real 'so full of himself' sort of man. In the song about him in the pub makes Gaston and the audience feel like he is a literally perfect man. To keep it that way, he wants the most beautiful girl in town as his wife and that unfortunate girl is Belle. He always pushes her into it but always in the bad direction for her to agree to the offer because of his rude attitude towards her. He would use her as a 'trophy wife' so to speak. He is always horrible and violent towards his little sidekick LeFou especially when tries to help Gaston regarding Belle. The once-human now objects inside Beast's castle Lumiere (now a candlestick), Cogsworth (clock), Mrs. Potts (teapot), Chip (cup) and Wardrobe (obviously wardrobe). My favourite one of them all is Lumiere because he is really hilarious, an idiot and a really nice person with good intentions. Gary Trousdale has created a very deep and emotional story that has struck people's hearts like a bolt of lightning. This is a really feel-good and pleasurable story that can be watched over and over again. The director made it a real family film that can be a tradition if you will to make a family watch Beauty And The Beast on a special occasion or something. The script is absolutely awesome with very sublime lyrics in the songs. They are all just amazing to listen to. They are catchy, heartwarming and even quite funny. My favourite song is 'Beauty And The Beast' where Belle and Beast dance in the ballroom. That scene makes me feel the same as the spaghetti scene in Lady And The Tramp. Beauty And The Beast is a very rare treasured story that did earn it the Best Picture nomination in which is the first and only time an animated film has been able to do so. PIXAR's WALL-E should have followed up this year but didn't.


Beauty And The Beast is a classic animated story that does take its place on my favourite romantic films as well as on my favourite animated films. As far as Disney Classics are concerned, I loved this film just as much as Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs but it does not top Pinocchio but isn't that far of. Beauty And The Beast will be the first and only animated Best Picture nominee for a very long time. It will take a lot more than just fun for it to be nominated. It is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon that I could watch again and again and again!

"If those little sweethearts won't face German bullets, they'll face French ones!"


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirt Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: USA


This is a fantastic war film which is very underrated. This is a film about World War I which is the first film that I have seen about that. People seem to make more films about World War II because it was probably darker. This film showed both the similarity and difference between World Wars I and II. This film had often mixed ways with both films. The story is rather dark with very hard hitting characters. It showed how enemies were treated by the other in the 1910s.


Kirk Douglas was awesome as Colonel Dax because he was on a very important job to take the Ant Hill at any cost. Dax is both a lawyer and a soldier. He tries to defend three innocent soldiers but he has to try and prove that the Generals were to blame that the attack didn't go to plan. I have no idea how Kirk Douglas is still alive at 92 years old. He must a really blessed guy. He was 41 when he filmed Paths Of Glory. Kirk is a legendary actor and he will probably be best remembered for Paths Of Glory and another Kubrick film Spartacus.


This is a very underrated war film from Kubrick. All of his films up to Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb were underrated. Kubrick's other war film Full Metal Jacket got the credit where Paths Of Glory should have instead. Paths Of Glory is the Kubrick war film. Full Metal Jacket is good but not as good as Paths Of Glory. Kubrick showed the start of his epic filmmaking in which he always had a talent for. This is one of the few weird Kubrick films. The way this film was written seemed very original to me just like All Quiet On The Western Front was.


This is one of those early war films. The older ones are probably the best but new ones like Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and Letters From Iwo Jima are still really good. I liked Paths Of Glory more than Full Metal Jacket. Out of the 10 Kubrick films I've seen, my order is: The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita, Paths Of Glory, Spartacus, Full Metal Jacket and Barry Lyndon. I wouldn't call Paths Of Glory a masterpiece but an awesome film that shouldn't be missed or avoided.

"I found you, you fuck."


Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Jorja Fox
Running time: 113 minutes
Country: USA, UK


What I really really liked about Memento was that despite of how weird and how confusing it is you can't help but love it. It is a film that is very original with a very powerful, personal, creative and clever story. There is more than one twist in this film which doesn't happen very often in a film. One of the films that does have more than one twist are Psycho, The Dark Knight and The Sixth Sense. Memento is a very unusual motion picture too because people would be mad and stupid to write and draw things on pretty much ever part of their body using them as tattoos. This was a film I couldn't take my eyes off because it was a very powerful, gripping and hard-hitting story to watch for just under 2 hours. I find Memento overrated but not as much as The Dark Knight is but can't help but love it. Overrated films don't affect my liking for them.


Guy Pearce was fantastic as Leonard Shelby. The way we get into Leonard's character was like how Jason Bourne started in The Bourne Identity especially because both suffered from amnesia. I am not used to seeing Guy Pearce with blonde hair because I saw him with brown hair in L.A. Confidential. Memento is probably his most famous film. Leonard acts like he missed a lot of important events during his amnesia which he has forgotten. He wants to find out what happened to his wife for every reason: who, what, where, when, how and particularly why. So that is where this film is very complex and can be quite hard to get around. Carrie-Anne Moss was really good as Natalie. Natalie was a very mixed up and confusing character to calculate. I think an actress like Jennifer Connelly would be good for that type of character. Teddy was always the main suspect but Leonard had to try and search it on a more personal level but Joe Pantoliano was good as Teddy though.


I have always loved Nolan's work but he created his first well-known film in such a huge way. He also makes it his most confusing one yet. His screenplay was very original with an adapted atmosphere. Despite the fact I loved Memento, it is my least favourite film from Christopher Nolan. Guy Pearce's most famous film but I preferred him in L.A. Confidential. Carrie-Anne Moss is better in the Matrix trilogy. One of the best films of 2001 and a much loved film that deserves a few watches and has become a favourite to lots of people around the world.

"You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren't up there now... I don't think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it."


Director: Tim Burton
Starring:Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall,
Running time: 105 minutes
Country: USA



Aww... Edward Scissorhands is a film that has made me feel pleasure and inspiration within life. It is one of the wierdest Tim Burton films but it is weird enough for it to be real because Edward is like a really beautiful character to watch. It is a weird film with obviously fictional characteristics but with a heartbreaking meaning to the film. It is weird because when you see the cover of the DVD, it doesn't seem that beautiful but when you watch it, it really is. It is Tim Burton's most emotional film so far. It made me feel great because of the pure magic and of what Edward can actually do with himself especially when he lives all alone in a castle above a small town. It is just so magical when Edward is cutting things into shapes especially ice that turns into snow. Love the scene where he is cutting ice in the garden and while he is doing it Kim comes out and sort of relaxes in the snow. That is just like heaven. This film is an inspiration to me because it teaches me no matter what someone looks like it is more about their personality and who they really are. Despite of how romantic and dramatic this film is, this film is absolutely hilarious.


Johnny Depp delivers an absolutely awesome performance as Edward Scissorhands. His performance is a performance which is very unlike Johnny really because Johnny hasnt really portrayed any soft, loving characters before. People love Johnny in this film for many reasons but one of the main ones is because he is only in his late 20s early 30s in this film and is quite good looking. Johnny's hair, costume and make-up totally suited him. As much as I simply adored his performance in this film, I do have to say I like Johnny more as Sweeney Todd. Winona Ryder's performance is good as Kim. Her acting is good when she is sort of bewildered and intimidated by Edward but I dont think it is very good when she starts to fall in love with Edward. Her words were for some reason quite weak but she did cry in a few scenes which looked real. I did like her more in this than Beetlejuice. Dianne Wiest was really good in this film too. She was a really good mother to Edward even though Edward is a grown man. She could have been better but she was still good though.


Tim Burton directs this film ever so well because this is a story that he has thought of himself. It was really well filmed, written and directed by Tim Burton only from his imagination. Its like Tims very own story. I am really inspired that Tim chose to just use his head to make it instead of writing a novel of it and then making a film adaptation afterwards. As I said, it was really well written from a mans head without a novel to help. Also, it is a fantasy story which makes it quite a bit harder. For a film like this, I do honestly think that Burton deserved an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay or should have at least been close. This is typical Tim Burton because of the bizarreness of the story and the characters but it is quite different compared to some others because it is a very emotional and both heartwarming and heartbreaking aswell which is unlike Tim Burton. I think that is one of the reasons Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street and Edward Scissorhands are my two favourite Tim Burton films: because they are both emotional stories.


This is my second favourite Tim Burton film after Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Four of Tim Burtons films are on my favourite films list. It is my second favourite Johnny Depp film after Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. Edward Scissorhands is only just ahead of the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy. It is on the list for one of my most inspiring films. Edward Scissorhands is one of my favourite fantasy films and romantic films of all time. It is my favourite film of 1990. It is one of my top films of all time too. An unusual masterpiece from an unusual director Tim Burton which is great!! Always have loved this film and always will.

"In the end it's all nice."


Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayons
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: USA


Requiem For A Dream is a very dark, twisted, depressing and psychological journey that takes you on a path of seeing inside a person's mind when they are struggling in desperation over something. It is something that shows how badly a person can lose their mind but also how it can literally make you feel sick. It is a very heartbreaking story that is really hard to watch especially around the end of the film. This is a film that doesn't have any flaws but I couldn't help but get this strange feeling that there was something off about Requiem For A Dream. Don't get me wrong it is a good film but I think there were some moments in the film that were really dull and pretty boring. I think the thing I liked the most about this film was how the audience were meant to feel about it and what the outcome reaction would be. I think the main purpose of this film is that the film doesn't want us to make this just a film but a life experience that will teach us lessons.


Ellen Burstyn's performance as Sara Goldfarb was absolutely fantastic. I could see all of Sara's torture so to speak with the drug addiction and the hard feelings she has for her son and his girlfriend. The more she becomes addicted to all of these drugs, the harder life becomes for her. Ellen is a very underrated actress with an underrated performance but in my opinion the film is overrated but I don't like it any less because of that. Her performance is a lot like Ewan McGregor's in Trainspotting apart from Trainspotting is a lot better than this.


Darren Aronofsky has always been a director of creating very personal, affectionate and deep films with different plots and different messages. Requiem For A Dream was his most famous film before The Wrestler but both The Wrestler and The Fountain are better than Requiem For A Dream and I am proud yet disappointed to say that. The script is very original because of the layout of the film but it is used from a novel which makes it an adapted script more.


Requiem For A Dream is a good film but became quite boring at times which disappointed me a bit. It is better than Pi but not as good as The Fountain or The Wrestler regarding Darren Aronofsky films. I admit that Requiem For A Dream is one of the most powerful and disturbing films of all time. I've seen this film twice now but after the second viewing of it, I didn't like it as much. If I watch it again in about another 5 years, I think I'll enjoy and appreciate it more.

"Mmmm lovely food... for rabbits that is."


Director: Nick Park
Starring: Peter Sallis, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Kay
Running time: 85 minutes
Country: UK


Ever since I was a little child, I have always been a fan and have admired the Wallace And Gromit shorts. I was unsure about them making a Wallace And Gromit film but now after seeing this film at the cinema when I was 14, I was ever so glad that they did make this film. Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and Finding Nemo are in my opinion the cleverest animated films of all time that have the coolest and funniest jokes in them. I laughed at every single second of this film! Curse Of The Were-Rabbit is another reason why I love Wallace And Gromit.


There wasn't one thing in this film that didn't have no original taste at all. It was the same old Wallace and Gromit that we knew in the three shorts. Wallace and Gromit don't only live together but they work together as well. The neighbourhood are having rabbit problems due to a Giant Vegetable Competition coming up. They are called "Anti-Pesto" who try and stop rabbits ravaging at the vegetables before the competion. After Wallace's new and latest invention that he tries to join together to brainwash the rabbits minds against vegetables so that they wouldn't no longer eat vegetables goes wrong that changes the course of the film. This film has a few awesome British actors who have made a name for themselves in the past but have once again in this masterpiece! Peter Sallis' voice has always been literally perfect for Wallace. Ralph Fiennes provides the voice of Wallace's enemy Victor Quartermaine. Victor is a hunter who is obsessed with what he does. He is trying to lure himself into Lady Tottington's good books so he can marry her and take her fortune. Basically, wants to marry her because she is rich. Victor starts to become jealous when he notices Wallace getting into a personal relationship with her. Victor has a dog called Phillip who is Gromit's enemy. Victor always calls himself a tough guy but really he is an absolute idiot! Helena Bonham Carter provides the voice of Lady Companula Tottington. She lives at Tottington Hall which is where the Giant Vegetable Competition is due to take place. She is Wallace's love interest. Peter Kay, Nicholas Smith and Liz Smith give out hilarious voices as other characters in this film.


Nick Park did an absolutely fabulous job with this film because he made the plot of this film very childish but very adult at the same time because it did become quite scary. Despite how scary it would be for kids, the constant comedy within the film helped it carry on brilliantly! I have always been inspired by Nick Park because of his creative art not only to animation but also to childrens programmes. His work on Chicken Run was awesome as well even though that was a bit of a spoof of the classic film The Great Escape. The script was absolutely brilliant!! There was obviously very childish quotes but it flowed well with the film and it is something that I think most adults appreciated. The script of the film that features the jokes in this film was absolutely brilliant!


Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit is the cleverest animated film of all time. It is the best animated film of 2005 and that is a fact! I love Chicken Run but I love this film more in every way! Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit is one of my very close favourite animated films as well as one of the best films of 2005. In my opinion, this is a landmark of animation alongside Toy Story, Spirited Away, Finding Nemo and The Lion King and it totally deserves to be!

"What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere! What's this? There's white things in the air! What's this? I can't believe my eyes, I must be dreaming; wake up, Jack, this isn't fair! What's this?"

Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, Danny Elfman, William Hickey
Running time: 76 minutes
Country: USA



It really was an unusual film to begin with because of the extremely bizzare animation and also of the very creepy characters. Jack Skellington is a character that nobody has ever seen before. This film was really beautiful and was quite scary aswell because as I said it is very weird and unusual. When I first saw The Nightmare Before Christmas when I was a little kid, it scared me because is was a dark coloured film and also I had never seen any 3D animated film. This film was released before Toy Story so this film was the first ever 3D animated film. The character Oogie Boogie used to scare me a lot because he was like a ghost and was really evil. Also, I found a lot of the dead people quite creepy to start with because of the ugliness of the characters and also because of the way the characters body parts were missing and could see like Sallys arms and legs came apart, Jack could pull his own head off and Dr. Finkelstein could pick off bits of his own brain and can touch it too. After watching about 3 years after watching it first time, I absolutely loved it as I still do right now.



The voice acting was superb from Chris Sarandon because he made us all feel sorry for Jack and yet made us not feel sorry for Jack because he was wrecking a world tradition that everybody loves. Music composer Danny Elfmans singing voice for Jack was simply amazing. His voice is a really good talent for both music and for singing too. I liked Catherine O Hara in this film too because she made Sally in my opinion the most powerful character in the whole film. This film shows true colour of what is more important in this world: Halloween or Christmas.



This film was really well directed by Henry Selick but would have been even better if Tim Burton himself directed it. But Tim Burton did most of this film. He produced it, thought of the story and all the characters too but he didnt write this film. The screenplay was really good because there were a lot of lines that mixed between Halloween and Christmas which was really great and was the whole point of the story.



This film is my 8th favourite Tim Burton film after Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Ed Wood, Batman and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. But I do still love this film a lot. This is just a delight to watch around Halloween and around Christmas. It is a very unusual family but it has the moving abilities to have its rightful place as a beautiful family film for everyone to enjoy. Masterpiece!! Without a doubt one of most fun and eventful animated films of all time.

"Suck my fat one, you cheap dime store hood."


Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
Running time: 88 minutes
Country: USA


I knew I was going to like Stand By Me because of it being a Stephen King novel but I had absolutely no idea that I would love it as much as I did. Stand By Me is a really grand experiencing adventure for the four kids within the film. What I loved most about this film was that it showed how fun experiencing new things can really be and how also I love going camping and walking through forests and experiencing things in the outside world. The title comes from a song with the same title by Ben E. King (which plays during the closing credits) and is based on the novella The Body by Stephen King. The film was just too amazing to describe. Personally, Stand By Me is a film/book of true friendship and what friends really are. This is probably the most different book from Stephen King because King has always done books of science fiction, horror and thrillers whereas this one is like a real drama. It does have a similar taste to The Treasure OF Sierra Madre to it apart from that they aren't there to find any gold but to try and find a possibly dead child. This film was pretty funny at times mostly with the "lardass" story. It was also rather tense especially with the gang. I have to say that this is a very predictable story and you can sort of tell what is going to happen but it is a story on great friendship and powerful bonds between characters. I don't know any other actor in this apart from obviously the late River Phoenix.


River was an actor with such great talent at such a young age. He's a bit like Heath Ledger. His death hit everybody just like Heath Ledger's death did. River was only 15 or 16 years old in Stand By Me and Chris Chambers with such a realistic helping hand towards his friends and is a very understanding person as well. He is like a real tough guy at least at the start of the film anyway and as their adventure carries on he becomes a bit softer. I liked the other three young boys who portrayed Chris's other companions. Will Wheaton as the sensitive lad Gordie, Corey Feldman as flamboyant Teddy and Jerry O'Connell as scaredy-cat Vern. They are all very brave kids especially because they are only in their mid teens and are going through the woods to try and find a dead child.


The directing was absolutely fantastic from Rob Reiner. He made it a real film for adults but regarding the teens relationships and how they behave around each other that is rather good for teenagers because it helps build relationships to a slightly higher and more personal level. I was reconsidering in calling this film a road film but I am unsure if Reiner didn't direct this film it wouldn't be. It is a film that only he could have directed.His directing was really awesome with that really clever, brand new standard of adventure drama films. The script was very good with a very original theme of murder mystery and of friendship.


I do love Stephen King's novels because he is my favourite novelist. My favourite King novel is The Green Mile but I do have The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, Misery and now Stand By Me as five-star Stephen King novels. This one is the least best of those ones but a bloody masterpiece! I think it's River Phoenix's best performance. R.I.P. River Phoenix. Stand By Me stands its rightful place on my favourite films list, on my top adventure films, one of my favourite road films and even one of my favourite films of the 1980s. Love it!!

"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."


Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg
Running time: 151 minutes
Country: USA


I was literally blown away by The Departed. Every single thing about this film was so tense. Despite how many times I've watched it, I still find it really suspensful. The Departed is an absolutely outstanding film that has a few unexpected twists that will leave you totally shocked. It does have a lot of crime within it but I find it to be more of a drama film because it goes get pretty personal whereas crime films are more violent and deadly than personal. The Departed is still violent and deadly. The Departed is a remake of a Hong Kong film called Infernal Affairs. I haven't seen Infernal Affairs yet but I have serious doubts that I will like it more than The Departed. One thing that this film definitely does have out of all of the films that I have watched is there is an awful lot of swearing in it. That didn't bother me at all because on occasions it actually made me laugh. This film totally deserved every single Oscar it won including Best Picture 2006, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing.


This film has an absolutely fantastic cast with a lot of well known actors that are very famous. Leonardo DiCaprio's performance as Billy Costigan is absolutely incredible which I find extremely underrated. Billy is a young man who has grown up in crime because pretty much all of his family were criminals. He doesn't want to be like his family so he decides he wants to be a cop. He has a few problems though because he has to get through Captain Queenan and Staff Sergeant Dignam first. They don't think he would be a very good cop because of his family being criminals. He goes undercover to bring down mob boss Frank Costello. Matt Damon was good as Colin Sullivan. He is a sergeant in the Massachussetts State Police but there is something about him which makes it a very suspensful ride. There is a lot of questions whether there are moles in each and what is going to happen. Jack Nicholson's performance as Frank Costello was really powerful because it was pretty terrifying and pretty funny as well. Costello is a typical Jack Nicholson because Costello is a real ladies man and Jack is such a charming actor for his age which makes him perfect for the character. Mark Wahlberg really cracked me up in this one because he cannot stop swearing. He acts like he suffers from tourettes syndrome but does it in a funny way which can be quite offensive. I think due to his black-comedy performance, he earned his Oscar nomination for that. Wahlberg was really awesome but Jack Nicholson should have been nominated instead for Best Supporting Actor. Ray Winstone was pretty awesome as well as Costello's right-hand-man Mr. French. I don't know why but Vera Farmiga sort of irritated me in this one. Martin Sheen and Alec Guinness were good in this film too.


Martin Scorsese directs his best film since Raging Bull in my opinion. It is quite a different film from Scorsese because he isn't really a director for thrillers; he's more of a crime director. I find The Departed and Cape Fear to be the Scorsese thrillers. Scorsese usually creates gangster/mafia films but this one was a bit like that still which makes them re-born in his filmography. There hasn't been a proper mafia film since Casino. He finally deserved his Best Director Oscar for this film. He should have previously won ones for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and GoodFellas. The script is very well adapted because of it being a remake but it was written quite originally because of some of the black comedy within it.


The Departed is definitely the best film of 2006 and it totally deserves to be. It is Martin Scorsese's second best film after Raging Bull, it is my favourite Leonardo DiCaprio film, it is my favourite Matt Damon film and it is my third favourite Jack Nicholson film after One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining. The Departed is an absolutely amazing suspensful thrill ride that I have watched over and over again that I really love every time! Highly recommended to everyone!

"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty that killed the beast."


Director: Peter Jackson
Starring: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis
Running time: 188 minutes
Country: USA, New Zealand


King Kong is just a beautiful, dramatic and tear inducing epic masterpiece. Most of the scenes make me feel good and feel upset. The main scene that did that was the Empire State Building scene because I knew what was going to happen. But Kong couldnt have escaped because if he did he would have been killed anyway. Basically everything was dramatic and fun too. The music makes me move a lot too because it is beautiful and also very thrilling.


Naomi Watts performance as Ann Darrow was really good but I personally think that she could have been a lot better. Her performance should have been worth a Golden Globe nomination but wasnt quite good enough for an Oscar nomination. But Naomi Watts was meant to play Ann Darrow because she is a beautiful woman who can do a lot with her beauty and her charms which is almost perfect for Anns character. Jack Black was good as Carl Denham. I personally think Jack makes Carl a funny character aswell as a dead serious character aswell after he wants to make another film but Carl does make a great deal of money by capturing Kong. This is probably Jack Blacks most serious film performance after he has portrayed daft and funny characters in his other films. There could have been a better actor for Carl but Jack was still good though. Adrien Brody delivers what I think a poor performance as Jack Driscoll. For Gods sake, he is an Oscar winner (The Pianist). He wasnt really that romantic type with Ann and I dont think Adrien was that heroic for Jack as I had hoped he would be. However, Adrien was good in the action scenes by fighting off Kong and also of those bizarre creatures below the log they all fell off because of Kong. Andy Serkis makes a good performance as Kong. Andy doesnt talk with Kong but acting isnt words, acting is about showing what the character is really like as far as looks, emotions and often anger, psychological or obsessed. Andy makes Kong a different Kong compared to the original 1933 version because Kong is more of an emotional and deadly character than doesnt care who he kills but only gets what he wants and also Andy Serkis makes us feel sorry for Kong particularly up until Kong is in New York because he shows his anger and his emotions too. For some reason, I sort of think that Kong looks a bit like Andy Serkis. Andys movements as Kong were sort of similar to Gollums as far as the action scenes is concerned but Gollum only fights in one scene in The Two Towers and in two scenes in The Return Of The King. The original Kong was a scary Kong rather than an emotional and action filled Kong which is why I preferred the Peter Jackson version to the original (even though I still really liked the original).


Peter Jackson makes another epic masterpiece after he had done The Lord Of The Rings trilogy. This film is a typical Jackson film because it is an epic that makes you move around in your chair and also that makes you stay in it too because of the pure beauty of it which is what Lord Of The Rings is like for me aswell. Peter Jackson has made four masterpieces as far as I am concerned. I need to see his previous films Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners. But I certainly cannot wait to see his upcoming psychological thriller The Lovely Bones. If Peter Jackson wasnt going to direct this film, I would have recommended Steven Spielberg because after doing a similar sort of epic like Jurassic Park I think Spielberg would have pulled this one off and succeeded in it and might have made it a bit shorter after this film was about 3 hours long. Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phyllippa Boyens write a script that makes us believe that is real. They are my favourite screenwriters. They wrote the scripts perfectly for all three Lord Of The Rings films. Peter uses almost the same sort of Art Direction, Sound and Visual Effects that he used for Lord Of The Rings particularly The Return Of The King. I can't believe that this film didnt earn the Academy Award nomination for Best Director like it did for Fellowship Of The Ring and Return Of The King in which Peter Jackson won Best Director.


I thought that this film was better than the original because I personally thought it was more realistic and also was more emotional and the characters were a lot stronger aswell. This film proves that no matter what a person looks like it is what is inside that counts and also you should never take an animal from its home even if it is safe because it is really cruel. This film has become one of my all time favourite remakes because this is one of the few films that I liked a lot more than its original adaptation. This film is one of the five films that have made me cry at the end. For me, Peter Jackson creates another epic masterpiece that will always be remembered not just of Peter Jackson but also of epic films and action packed films and brilliant remakes too.

"I'm asking you to marry me, you little fool."


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: USA


I love this film because it is so dark, so mysterious, so tense and even quite lovely to watch as well. It is a very dark psychological story based on deep thinking mystery and puzzle solving. Rebecca is probably the classic of thrillers before Psycho was released especially because they are both Alfred Hitchcock films. Rebecca is one of those stories that you would get totally gripped with all the way through because the mystery involved and I think that audience wants to know what the effect it would have on the characters which is basically the meaning of the twist involved. It was a twist that I actually was really surprised at. Rebecca is a treasured thriller that can be watched over and over again by all fans of thrillers not only fans of Hitchcock or Laurence Olivier. Rebecca is probably the first psychological thriller. I became deeply impressed with how interesting the story kept getting as it was carrying on until the end. I have to say that Rebecca has one of the greatest film twists of all time.


Laurence Olivier delivers one of his most famous performance ever as George Fortescue Maximilian 'Maxim' de Winter. Maxim is a widower after losing his wife Rebecca in mysterious circumstances. Her death because the main factor of the story. Maxim is a rather mysterious character especially when he is questioned about his ex-wife by his new wife. Olivier was a man who had such extraordinary talents who was always careful of what films he would star in and Rebecca is probably his most famous performance. Joan Fontaine's performance as Mrs. De Winter was even better. We never knew what her first name was but I guess that is really good because Rebecca was Mrs. De Winter once and I think we never knew the second wife's first name because I think that the director wanted the audience to imagine what sort of person Maxim De Winter was with Rebecca even though she's dead by marrying his second wife. The relationship between Mr. and Mrs. De Winter is really tense because there seems like there is going to be a shocking twist involved in the film. Judith Anderson's performance as Mrs. Danvers was absolutely amazing because Anderson showed Danvers' really cold ways with the new Mrs. De Winter. Mrs. Danvers was literally obsessed with Rebecca's beauty and sophistication, and preserves her former bedroom as a shrine, even to the point of seeming to worship Rebecca's handmade underwear and expensive négligée. As one event comes to another in her moments in the film, they become very dangerous and very fearful for Mrs. De Winter. I think Danvers has some slight jealousy over her because Rebecca was his wife before and that the new Mrs. De Winter is earning all of the attention and love from Mr. De Winter. George Sanders was awesome as well.


I cannot believe how underrated this Alfred Hitchcock film really is. It is a film that is his first American film but is also one of his oldest films. This is the ultimate introduction to seeing psychological thrillers from Hitchcock. Others he has done are Vertigo and Psycho (of the ones I've seen anyway). Hitchcock has created a film that not that many people will have seen which does annoy me a bit but I suppose it might be better like that because Hitchcock's work on Rebecca would have been over the top if it hit the public that much like Psycho did.


To me, Rebecca is like the Alfred Hitchcock debut because as I said it's like an introduction to what he does best. Rebecca is another Alfred Hitchcock masterpiece which makes this Hitchcock's third best film after Rear Window, Vertigo and Psycho. I think this is the only Laurence Olivier film that I've ever seen and this is a performance from him that I was not disappointed in at all. This will probably always be my favourite Laurence Olivier film. 1940 was a great early year for cinema and Rebecca is the second best after Pinocchio. Rebecca is a film that nobody should let go past them because it is absolutely fantastic to watch! Rebecca is one of the greatest psychological thrillers that have ever been made as well as one of the best films of all time.

" They can't buy me, you can't buy me... it means fuck all to me!"


Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Kevin Costner, Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman
Running time: 189 minutes
Country: USA, France


It is a story that I found very interesting but also I found that JFK sent a message saying that all incidents have a story to them especially with deaths. I find it quite inspiring as well but I don't know why. It is a very powerful film but, my God, it is complex and hard to understand! It is complex because heard different stories from different people and most murder mystery films are anyway. Sometimes, I absolutely hate complex films but this one was really interesting because I wanted to find out what really happened to President Kennedy and how and why it happened. I have to admit that this film does drag on and get a tiny bit boring at times. JFK seems a very simple story that can be written with just one sentence: "New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy", but it is deeper and there is more as you watch it. 22nd November 1963 was one of the hardest days in American history because it was the sudden and unexpected murder of a President who changed America who most people loved but some hated as well. It is quite an emotional film not only for just the death of President Kennedy but also because of how desperate Jim Garrison is to find out the truth about the incident. I find it quite a tense film as well because of whether there will be any twists in this film like a change of who, where, how and why Kennedy was killed. When we see what really happened to Kennedy, we actually see him get shot which I wasn't really expecting. The film was based on the assassination of President Kennedy but the film was more about Lee Harvey Oswald who was the man who killed him. Despite the large amount of evidence, I don't think it really needed to be 3 hours long. They could have cut it by at least ½ an hour. JFK was a nominee of Best Picture 1991 but it wasn't nearly as good as fellow nominees Beauty And The Beast and The Silence Of The Lambs.


This film has a great ensemble cast with a wide range of very talented actors. Kevin Costner hasn't been in many good films with good performances and I have to say that JFK is definitely one of his best films. I obviously knew Kennedy and his assassination was true but I am unsure whether Jim Garrison was a real person. The assassination investigation affects Jim Garrison's personal life because he becomes totally obsessed with it. It takes over his life so to speak. He even stays up most nights investigating. He cares more about Kennedy's death more than his own wife and children. As Garrison gets closer to finding out the truth, Garrison's family become in danger and he starts to lose his mind. He goes through a very hard time because he only wants to find out the truth. He was really affected by Kennedy's murder which is probably why he became obsessed with the investigation. Garrison acts more like a cop and detective more than a District Attorney in JFK. Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman, Laurie Metcalf, Micheal Rooker, Jay O. Sanders and Sissy Spacek were good in this film too.


After hearing Oliver Stone's amazing solid script of JFK, Stone must have studied really hard on Kennedy's assassination and the mystery behind Oswald too. Stone has always had a great talent at creating bio-pics including JFK, Born On The Fourth Of July, World Trade Center and W. Oliver Stone only earned credit for his early films because he doesn't really make amazing films nowadays. He won Best Director Oscars for Platoon and Born On The Fourth Of July. He totally deserved the nomination for JFK but didn't quite deserve to win it. The script was absolutely amazing! I find that the best scripts are mostly on bio-pics that are about real-life events.


JFK is a very gripping story that is slightly flawed. It is one of the best films of 1991 but isn't the best of the 5 1991 Best Picture nominees. I prefer The Silence Of The Lambs and Beauty And The Beast over this film. I would recommend this to every American as well as every person who loves films.

" Are you quitting on me? Well, are you? Then quit, you slimy fucking walrus-looking piece of shit! Get the fuck off of my obstacle! Get the fuck down off of my obstacle! NOW! MOVE IT! Or I'm going to rip your balls off, so you cannot contaminate the rest of the world! I will motivate you, Private Pyle, IF IT SHORT-DICKS EVERY CANNIBAL ON THE CONGO!"


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: UK, USA


Full Metal Jacket is a film that I loved and didn't like which is something that I think is really weird but can't help but think this way. What I loved about Full Metal Jacket was only the first 40 minutes of it involving the training in the army. I found it absolutely hilarious because Drill Sergeant Hartman was a complete bastard and the way he was speaking and what he was saying was hilarious! Also with the sudden screaming of "Sir, yes, sir!" and "Sir, no sir!" I was totally gripped with Private Pyle's character but I was disappointed when he commited suicide because I thought that it was about him but it was more about Private Joker. Pyle's suicide was a very powerful and dark scene. After that moment, I didn't like the rest of the film because I thought it was pretty dull and boring.


I wasn't really interested in Private Joker's character at all to be honest because I think it was mostly because I didn't really like the actor playing him. I thought Vincent D'Onofrio was really brilliant as Private Pyle because he brought out that sensitive, kind-hearted attitude but also his psychological side as well. He was the ultimate bully victim not only to the drill sergeant but also to some of the other privates in the platoon. His name isn't really Pyle. His real name is Leonard Lawrence. The more pressure Pyle was under he became totally twisted which is really tragic because he didn't deserve it. I think his relationship with Drill Sergeant Hartman was absolutely brilliant because they both revealed to the world what sensitive people could be feeling like when in the army with the Drill Sergeant screaming and hitting them. It was good that Hartman was naming all of the privates by something they've said, done or anything else like Private Joker, Private Cowboy, Private Snowball and Private Pyle. R. Lee Ermey was absolutely fantastic! He was hilarious and very cold hearted which is after all the nature of a sergeant/colonel in the army.


Stanley Kubrick's work in Full Metal Jacket is very good. The way Kubrick filmed this film was in a very similar way to his other films. Even if I didn't know that Full Metal Jacket was a Kubrick film I would be able to tell that it's one of his because of the camera angles used within it. The camera slowly zooms out in an impactful event just like it does in A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut as well as Full Metal Jacket. Full Metal Jacket is Kubrick's war film not Paths Of Glory despite that is a fantastic film though.


It is weird because I loved the first 40 minutes but didn't like the rest of it very much as it says in my review. That is the only thing that has happened to me in a film before. I think if I watch all of it again in the future I will appreciate it more. Full Metal Jacket is Kubrick's sixth best film after A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb. Full Metal Jacket is one of the best war films as well as one of the best black comedies.

"You were born to be murdered."


Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard
Running time: 104 minutes
Country: UK


This film was a really good film-noir film. It is a really tense film because of the chemistry between the characters and the way this film is filmed. It made me feel really great because I never realised at first of how awesome this film really is. It is one of those films that is really loved because of its absolutely outstanding cast especially because Orson Welles is in it. This film is about betrayal, corruption, disillusionment and guilt. It has one of those stories that people would really like because of its powerful characters like I do. It is a very complex mystery but it is that for a damn good reason.


Joseph Cottons performance is really good as Holly Martins. His performance makes Martins a really confused and mixed up young man after discovering his old friend Harry Lime is really alive after he pretended his death. He is sort of tortured because he really liked Lime but after the betrayal of Lime, he becomes a different character and becomes confused with his emotional. I liked Alida Valli as Anna Schmidt. She was a confused person aswell particularly the business with Lime. I really liked Orson Welles in this film as Harry Lime because I really liked his cold hearted character towards Martins and the other people he sees in the film. It is very strange but very good that Orson Welles was a really heroic guy like Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane. This film shows that he is really at portraying a villain aswell as a hero.


The direction was outstanding from Carol Reed. I have never seen one of her films before but this is a good start for me. There have been a lot of sexist discrimination of how "crap" women are at directing films but I find them just as good as male directors. For example, Sofia Coppola directed Lost In Translation. She may be a crap actress but she is an awesome director. That is another reason why I love this film aswell as Lost In Translation because they are directed by women and have absolutely fantastic ways of directing a film with the different aspects of camera angles and ways of telling the actors what to do in the scenes of the films. The written screenplay was absolutely awesome. I was told once that this film is very different compared to the novel. I am unsure whether that is true. People would say that this film is quite similar to Citizen Kane but I dont think it is anything like it. People would probably say that because it stars Orson Welles in both films but that isnt really the main key point here.


This film is my favourite Orson Welles film so far. I havent seen that many films from him but I will try and watch as many as I can. It is my favourite film-noir film of all time. It is one of the best mystery films of all time. It is one of the best films of 1940s. It is one of the most famous British films of all time but most importantly, it is one of the greatest films of all time. Its a masterpiece! Its as simple as that!!

"Story of my life. I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop."


Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: USA


Some Like It Hot is an absolutely hilarious comedy that is without a doubt one of the best of all time. It is a bright hearted film with comedy involving men dressing up as women. To me, Some Like It Hot is like the original version of Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire. I loved this film all the way through and I don't think there was one single moment in the film that didn't make me laugh. It is one of the rare old comedies of the past that actually made me laugh-out-loud. Some Like It Hot can be for a family as well as adults and teenagers because it has that hilarious humour, silliness and rather wacky behaviour that the characters are.

This is the first film from every single cast member. Jack Lemmon's performance as Jerry/'Daphne' was absolutely fantastic. His performance is rather similar to Robin Williams and Dustin Hoffman's performances in Mrs. Doubtfire and Tootsie. Tony Curtis was hilarious as well as Joe/'Josephine'. Joe and Jerry are two struggling musicians who witness what looks like the Saint Valentine's Day massacre 1929. Due to this, they both flee for their lives. The only way they would hide their identity is by becoming part of a girl-band and dressing themselves up as women. Once there, they both change their names and they become good friends with 'Sugar' Kane Kowalczyk. Joe/'Josephine' is closer to 'Sugar' than Jerry/'Daphne' is because he has a crush on 'Sugar' and he ends up in awkward situations where he has to be in two places at once but with being those two different people. The legendary Marilyn Monroe's performance as 'Sugar' Kane Kowalczyk was an absolutely typical character for her to play because by only hearing the nickname she has it is a real sexy nickname in which Monroe was before she died. She died only 3 years after Some Like It Hot was released. Monroe died tragically of a drug overdose on 5th August 1952 and has since then become an ultimate sex symbol. Some people think that Scarlett Johansson is the present Marilyn Monroe. In a slight way, she sort of is because she's blonde, an ultimate sex symbol and is a rather popular actress but I seriously hope Johansson doesn't die like Monroe did. All three actors within Some Like It Hot are absolutely fantastic in which I was expecting anyway even though I hadn't seen any of them in a film before until I saw it.

Billy Wilder had a fantastic talent at creating films with different tastes, genres, themes, characters etc but all in black-and-white. Billy Wilder goes from disturbing (Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard) to hilarious in this masterful, perfect comedy. Some Like It Hot is my favourite Billy Wilder film and probably always will be. Wilder was a director that I think everybody would expect an ultimate masterpiece from and from the films that I have seen so far from him have all been masterpieces of its kind. The script was hilarious with the lady humour and the very clever story. It is a script that I personally believe cannot be better written regarding transvestite films.

This film won 1 Oscar out of 6 nominations. It won Best Costume Design (Black-And-White). It was nominated for Best Leading Actor (Jack Lemmon) but lost to Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur, Best Director (Billy Wilder) but lost to William Wyler in Ben-Hur, Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to Room At The Top, Best Cinematography (Black-And-White) but lost to The Diary Of Anne Frank and Best Art Direction (Black-And-White) but lost to The Diary Of Anne Frank. It won all 3 Golden Globes it was nominated for: Best Picture Comedy, Best Actor Musical/Comedy (Jack Lemmon) and Best Actress Musical/Comedy (Marilyn Monroe).

Some Like It Hot is one of the funniest films of all time that I laughed at from start to finish, it is the best film from late legendary director Billy Wilder, it is one of the best films of the 1950s. I personally think it should have been a contender for Best Picture 1959. Overall, Some Like It Hot is an absolutely amazing hilarious comedy that I could watch quite regularly and have loved and always will love for the rest of my life. Masterpiece!!

"Oh, wouldn't it be great if I *was* crazy? Then the world would be okay."


Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeline Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer
Running time: 129 minutes
Country: USA


I was unsure of what to expect with 12 Monkeys. It was average because I thought the acting was awesome but the story was an absolute mess. I mean, the story was really interesting at the beginning but as it went on it got itself totally lost. I didn't even know what was going on because it was so complex. It seemed a really threatening film at the start but in middle and end, it went dull and it disappointed me.


Bruce Willis' performance was amazing! Bruce Willis was the only thing that kept me going with this film. James Cole is an extremely messed up and confused man who doesn't exactly know where he is and what he is doing. Madeleine Stowe was awesome as Dr. Kathryn Railly. She was Cole's hostage, then his accomplise and then started have deep feelings for him. Brad Pitt was awesome in this film. Just like The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, I am not used to see Brad play different kinds of characters than he usually plays. He was pretty creepy in this film.


Terry Gilliam has always directed either stupidly hilarious or bizarre films which he does have a talent for. I think he sort of lost it with this one because 12 Monkeys is absolutely mad. It is well directed but I don't think he should have directed it.


Overall, 12 Monkeys is well acted and well made but plot is so confusing. I find 12 Monkeys to be Bruce Willis' most powerful performance but not my favourite. Brad Pitt was awesome but I've seen him in better films with better performances. I have seen far better films than 12 Monkeys and I have seen far worst films too.

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older."


Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie
Running time: 106 minutes
Country: UK, USA


I absolutely adored this film!! Finding Neverland is a real-life story but is mixed with fairy tales. I found Finding Neverland to be a very rare family bio-pic. Finding Neverland not only shows the beauty of love but also of using your imagination. It is a big inspiration to me for that basic reason. It wasn't only the characters that made it beautiful for a family but also the way it is filmed. I loved the artistic designs of the neighbourhoods and also the costumes and cinematography as well. Finding Neverland is so magical it's untrue. Out of the 5 Best Picture nominees of 2008, I liked Finding Neverland the best. It is a film about self-discovery in which Barrie learns about himself with Peter Pan. Despite how beautiful the film is, it is quite a heartbreaking film as well. It is a masterpiece that I could watch over and over again.


Johnny Depp rarely stars in family films. I can only think of Finding Neverland, Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands and the upcoming Alice In Wonderland. Depp almost made J.M. Barrie his own person as well as his own character. I was fascinated by Barrie's work on Peter Pan especially because I love Peter Pan. Depp has portrayed a man who loves being with children which is something Depp has ever done before. Johnny's performance as Barrie reminds me a lot of his performance as Ed Wood because being a maker of entertainment. They are both funny characters. I loved Kate Winslet's performance as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. She is a single mother of 4 sons Michael, George, Jack and Peter. Barrie comes into their lives at the right time especially after the boys lost their father. Kate's performance was a very heartbreaking and a performance that makes you think about things. Johnny and Kate's performances were different: Kate was deeply emotional and Johnny was serious and funny. Freddie Highmore is one of my favourite child star male actors of this generation. His performance in Finding Neverland was his breakthrough performance before Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. He is better in Finding Neverland than Charlie And The Chocolate Factory. Other cast members Dustin Hoffman, Julie Christie and Radha Mitchell were really good as well.


Marc Forster has been a director of making different kinds of films. His work in Finding Neverland is his finest achievement so far. His directing in Finding Neverland was far better than his lame directing in Quantum Of Solace. Forster isn't a good action film director but Finding Neverland proved him to be a good director for family based stories and could make another go of a bio-pic. The script is written really well about a person who lived just over 70 years ago now. Finding Neverland is without a doubt one of my favourite family films of all time.


This one is the best of the 5 Best Picture nominees in 2004. It is my second favourite film of 2004 after Closer. Finding Neverland is Johnny's fourth best performance after Sweeney Todd, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl and Edward Scissorhands and it is Kate Winslet's fourth best performance after Revolutionary Road, Titanic and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind. Finding Neverland is Marc Forster's best work so far and will hopefully always be his finest achievement. Finding Neverland is one of the most heartbreaking films as well as one of the most beautiful, inspiring and magical films ever made.

"And now, ladies and gentlemen, before I tell you any more, I'm going to show you the greatest thing your eyes have ever beheld. He was a king and a god in the world he knew, but now he comes to civilization merely a captive - a show to gratify your curiosity. Ladies and gentlemen, look at Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World."


Director: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
Starring: Faye Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Running time: 100 minutes
Country: USA


There is no denying that this is a classic but there are a few things that I think are a bit cheesy about this film compared to the films nowadays. Obviously I appreciate that there wasn't any kind of special effects/make-up technology in 1933 but I think the problem is that I don't think that some people will greatly appreciate it because it's in an older generation and the effects are pretty crap. To be fair they are nowadays but were awesome in those days. I think is the reason why I prefer the remake. It is still a very enjoyable film nevertheless. It was a very dark adaptation of King Kong even though it was the first.


I think the acting was good from Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham and Bruce Cabot as John Driscoll but Fay Wray really annoyed me as Ann because it is quite typical in those days to behave in a very posh manner which is really irritating to me. When she was screaming a lot in the film, her mouth was open but I don't think the screams came out of her mouth. It was like it came out of a speaker or something. I can notice this because the scream was exactly the same with the same sound and the same amount of time the scream lasted. One thing that this King Kong adaptation doesn't have but the Peter Jackson remake does have and that is emotional drama. The original Kong needs a heart and a soul but I don't think he had that very much at all. I obviously appreciate that it's a 1930s film and must have been very hard to make at that time but they should have at least made it emotional. It was more of a horror film which did sort of annoy me. I think it was the point that it was meant to be a horror film but I would have prefered if it wasn't a horror film.


King Kong was well directed obviously but personally I don't think the director made it a very believable or realistic film to watch because of the lack of drama within it. I think I have a few negative points about this film because I saw the Peter Jackson adaptation before I saw this one.


The original King Kong isn't as good as its remake but it is still a very good film nevertheless. As I said the Kong character lacked a soul and emotional drama but apart from that King Kong is a really fun, intense and brilliantly filmed (for those days) thrill ride that I did enjoy!

"She's 17. I'm 42 and she's 17. I'm older than her father, can you believe that? I'm dating a girl, wherein, I can beat up her father."


Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway
Running time: 96 minutes
Country: USA


This is an absolutely brilliant film! I was surprised that I liked this more than Annie Hall. I think the reason I did was because it was funnier and more magical. The way Manhattan was in the 1970s and the way the city was filmed was absolutely incredible. It was so incredible that it really looked magical. I think the reason for that was because it was filmed in black-and-white because if it was in colour it would have just looked like ordinary New York City. Manhattan is a very light hearted film that I think is definitely one of the best romantic comedies of all time.


Seeing Woody Allen and Diane Keaton as the two leading roles again in a romantic comedy makes it look like some sort of sequel to Annie Hall but it isn't like it at all because the plot is totally different and so are all of the characters. Manhattan is a darker film than Annie Hall but more magical when it comes to its filming. I think Manhattan is Woody Allen's only black-and-white film and I think that he should have made some more black-and-white films because Manhattan proved that he can do it. Woody Allen is really good at playing a character with a big heart but can be a bit of a dorky idiot which he is in both Manhattan and Annie Hall. Diane Keaton is an absolutely brilliant actress anyway but her performance in Manhattan made her even better than she already was. Meryl Streep makes a short supporting appearance as Isaac's ex-wife Jill Davis who has turned lesbian and left him for a woman.


Allen has been the best director of romantic-comedies and it is as simple as that. He is an absolutely astonishing filmmaker with a talent for making films that involve love and comedy. Manhattan is a really good black-and-white romantic comedies that deserves to be one of the best of that genre.

"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges."


Director: John Huston
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Running time: 126 minutes
Country: USA


Wow! What a great adventure this film really turned out to be. This film has a lot of twists and turns between the characters which affects the whole story. This film was really well made because it is like a mixture of different genres. It has action within it, obviously adventure, quite a bit of drama and it was a rather tense story as well. Films that I can describe similar to The Treasure Of Sierra Madre are Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Dances With Wolves, The Maltese Falcon (which also stars Humphrey Bogart), The Asphalt Jungle and There Will Be Blood. It is similar to those but in different ways. The Treasure Of Sierra Madre is a classic adventure that goes beyond words. It is one of those stories that a lot of people would love because of the beautiful settings and the really adventurous story but some people might not because they either aren't into classics or don't like Humphrey Bogart very much. This is one of those classics that isn't complex and isn't like a political film. It is an epic, action-packed, thrilling adventure with really cool characters like the Indiana Jones quadrilogy. I don't know how to explain this but I would call The Treasure Of Sierra Madre but I wouldn't call it a western. I would because it is a story in the mountains and they're after gold and also because they wear cowboy hats. On the other hand, I wouldn't because it is a story that is set up in a few ways like Dances With Wolves which makes it similar.


Humphrey Bogart delivers another outstanding performance as Fred C. Dobbs with a very powerful and threatening sort of character because all three men were going to use each other to betray each other and earn the gold for him. Walter Huston was definitely the best performance in the whole film as Howard because he was a nice guy but seemed like a bit of trouble because he acts quite sinister in quite a few scenes. They all team together to fight off the bandits when searching for the gold. I really liked Tim Holt as Bob Curtin as well. They all bring a really powerful and deeply interesting three way combination that brings together a series of twists and turns between them.


The son of Walter Huston, John Huston directed this film in a huge and creative way. I think this is probably the earliest film that I have seen where it involves a jungle and gold. The action sequences were a lot like the ones from a film that Akira Kurosawa has done in the past such as The Seven Samurai. It was very solid directing from Huston. Through most of his films that he has done in the past have been a lot like some of his other films especially comparing the themes that Huston uses for the films he does. This film is mostly similar to The Maltese Falcon because of that reason. The script was mixed really with original chemistry between characters, original outcome of what happens and the original way of how a film like this are put together. It is adapted as well because of the story is rather exciting and is from a novel so must be adapted from a novel into a motion picture.


This isn't my favourite Humphrey Bogart film because I loved his performance more in Casablanca. John Huston has created a masterpiece that is still a classic even now after 60 years of when it was released and has every reason to be as well. I was very unsure of what my rating was going to be of this film. Whatever rating it is it is a high rating. It might change in the future but will have to see if I watch it again. This is a film that I could describe as higher than "masterpiece" but don't really know any word better than that which shows how good this film really is.

"I suppose I do have one unembarrassed passion. I want to know what it feels like to care about something passionately."


Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Brian Cox
Running time: 114 minutes
Country: USA


Adaptation is another unusual and deep story that is hilarious and dramatic when it comes to twists and effective consequences. Adaptation is a film that is rather bright and funny regarding flowers and other plants but is very weird because of the way this film is filmed and produced. The story attracted my attention the most as well as the unbelievable ensemble cast. I loved this film a lot because of its original story and it's really beautiful sets of characters. Adaptation is a film that some people might not appreciate because of its very unusual story but some people may love because it is beautiful, creative and clever just like Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich. Adaptation is a film that is absolutely brilliant for comedy, drama and romance. This film does have an unexpected twist that I was rather gobsmacked at so to speak. The cast is really good that features some extremely talented actors.


Nicolas Cage delivers the best performance of the decade at the moment and in my opinion the best performance of his career as both Donald and Charlie Kaufman. Charlie Kaufman is a screenwriter going through melancholic depression and writer's block who is hired to write a script for The Orchid Thief. He is afraid to kiss his girlfriend Amelia. Charlie has failed romances with Susan, Valerie and Alice the Waitress. Donald Kaufman is Charlie's obnoxious yet optimistic brother. Donald has failed at various get-rich-quick-schemes in the past and decides to become a screenwriter like Charlie, whom he looks up to and helps when asked. Donald visits the seminars of Robert McKee and writes a cliché psychological thriller spec script titled The 3. Marty sells the script to a studio and Donald is set to be a millionaire before he's killed in the climax. Both of their characters are based on the director of this film and his brother. Nicolas Cage portrayed both men perfectly because we obviously knew Nicolas Cage was both but it was rather clever how he created two different personalities. It is like Nicolas Cage has now got a split personality in this film like Norman Bates but not in a psychological way. Cage actually surprised me because be made both twin brothers very realistic characters even though they were both him. Chris Cooper was awesome which surprised me even more because Cooper is an actor who isn't really one of the best actors of all time. He's more like one of those actors who just fills a space in the cast of a film. His performance as John Laroche was absolutely incredible. Laroche is an eccentric orchid poacher working for the local Seminole Indian tribe. Laroche considers himself "the smartest man I know" and has a unique knowledge of Charles Darwin, fossils and flowers. He lost his front teeth after a car accident wherein his mother and uncle were killed. His ex-wife divorced him after waking up from a coma. Laroche also ran a successful porn website before being killed by an alligator. Meryl Streep's performance was incredible as well as Susan Orlean. Personally I believe Adaptation to be one of Meryl Streep's best films. Susan is a journalist and author from The New Yorker. She is fascinated by Laroche's trial in Florida and intends to write a piece about it. She becomes romantically involved with Laroche. Other actors such as Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Judy Greer add more quality to this masterpiece.


Spike Jonze has created another masterpiece after Being John Malkovich. It is another film that people wouldn't appreciate because of its weirdness but would love because of its originality and beautiful design and creativity of the film. Jonze and Kaufman are my favourite director-screenwriter collaborators.


Charlie Kaufman is my favourite screenwriter and the way he writes his films are the main reason why I love his work a lot. Adaptation is an absolutely outstanding masterpiece that I absolutely love. It is the best performance from Chris Cooper and Nicolas Cage. It isn't my favourite Meryl Streep film nor Spike Jonze. My favourite Spike Jonze film is still Being John Malkovich. Adaptation is definitely a close favourite on one of the best films of 2002 and one of my favourite films of all time too. Overall, Adaptation is a really bizarre story but it flows in a clever, exciting, shocking and creative way.

"I'm ashamed that you came out of my body."


Director: Tony Kaye
Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Avery Brooks
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: USA


American History X is one of the most heart racing and gut retching films that I have ever seen. It is a film tat a lot of people love because it is just so cool and also because people may just the general plot of the film. It is also one of those films that a lot of people hate aswel because it is an extremely disturbing film with a lot of violence, aggressive characters and extremely disturbing plot too. When I first saw American History X I didnt like it at all because I thought that it was way too violent and quite ridiculous characters at first so it just wasnt quite my type of film at that time until I saw it again and gave it another try. When I did watch it again, I thought to myself: why did I think that this film was crap? It is a film that is sort of appeared as a cult film. Other films like that are Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption and The Usual Suspects.


Edward Norton delivers an absolutely awesome performance as Derek Vinyard. His performance is extremely powerful and a very cult character which sort of leads to his character in Fight Club. I do think that this is Nortons best performance by far but I do still really like him in Fight Club and The Incredible Hulk. I also thought that he was a sort of tortured soul because he regretted what he did, what he suffered in prison and also tat he wants to try his best to help his brother from going down the same bad way he did. He deserved an Oscar nomination but not to win though. I heard that Derek Vinyard was a real person but I dont really believe that. I really liked Edward Furlong too as Danny Vinyard. Both the performance and the character sort of reminds me of Shaun from This Is England even though I havent seen that yet. Mostly because they are both young, both bald and both are going through a hard time with crime. I thought that Edward Furlong made Danny Vinyard in a very slight way quite a fearful young character to come against because he hangs around with the wrong people and they cause trouble everywhere. I think that he should have been a close nominee for Best Supporting Actor. I also really liked Beverly D Angelo too as Doris Vinyard because she acts like a typical close relative who cares for her sons and what their fate could be. Also, because she makes a really good impression of a supporting character in a film like this.


I thought the direction was quite good especially when there were the flashbacks of the film when it went black and white and there were slow-motion visual effects too. The screenplay was descent too because of the type of film. It is mostly a typical cult script which makes it quite similar compared to Fight Club and Eastern Promises. The chemistry between Derek Vinyard and Danny Vinyard is very tense indeed because the audience dont know who either character are going to react when they reveal about what they might have done before. It is also very emotional because Derek really tries to persuade Danny that it really is bad but Danny probably thinks it isnt that bad because Derek did it. It is like a complete clash but emotionally more than anything else. This film had one of the most effective and shocking twists at the end of a film that I have ever seen. It is a twist that will make you keep your mouth open until the very end of the film because of the complete shock and unexpected event that occurs.


As I said, I was told that Derek Vinyard was apparantly real-life person but I dont think he is because it would be stated as a biography film and it would also be a film that would have ending credits with what happened to Derek afterwards. I personally think that this is one of those films that the director didnt earn very much credit for his work on this absolutely awesome film. As I have already said, this is my favourite Edward Norton acting performance but I enjoyed Fight Club more. This film truly had one of the most powerful endings in the history of cinema and at the same time, it tries to send a message. It had a very powerful beginning too. The only think that disappointed me was that this film was quite slow and it didnt adapt together quick enough only until it was on for about 30 minutes. Apart from that tiny flaw, this is an absolutely awesome film that needs a lot of credit for its awesome qualities.

"1,000 years from now there will be no guys and no girls, just wankers. Sounds great to me."


Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Ewen Bremner
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: UK


Trainspotting is one of the cleverest films that I have ever seen. This is a very dark film because it shows how screwed-up a person's life can really be when addicted to drugs particularly on heroin. This film is really funny in a dark film or in a dark way which are referred as a 'black comedy'. The funny thing about it was that the whole group are rally foul mouthed, disgusting and also appear hilarious because of their messed up nature. The scene which I was overwhelmed by was where Renton went down a public toilet referred as "the worst toilet in Scotland" and his whole body went down it and he got two tablets from below the water and got out of the toilet the same way too. When I first saw this online (because it was rare and couldn't find it anywhere), I liked it but after a second viewing on Boxing Day 2008, I bloody loved it and so it goes on my favourites list. It is a film about alcohol, drugs and sex. I loved the tagline of Trainspotting: "Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that?"because it is a true statement. People should always put life first and live it to the maximum and the best way they can. That tagline catches the attention of some other drug addicts.

Ewan McGregor delivers the best breakthrough performance of all time in my opinion. I really liked Mark Renton's personality because he had a lot of problems but he does at least try at times to try and snap out of the situation he is in. In a way, Renton is quite a cute character because some women choose to have sex with him because of that. Despite of his problems, I think he has a nice attitude to him of where and how he can change his life around. I think how it began was that Renton met and made friends with the wrong people. Robert Carlyle was vile as Begbie. I think only Robert Carlyle and Ralph Fiennes are the only two living actors who can portray different kinds of villains and make the audience have a fear for them. There are four other drug addicts with Renton. They are called Begbie, Tommy, Spud and Sick Boy.

Danny Boyle directs this film masterfully in his early career. There hasn't been any film like this until now. He wanted to prove what drug addiction can do to you. It can send you mad, have horrifying visions, it can make you really ill or can even kill you. I loved this original script becaue the screewriter and director wanted to make this film look as public and casual involving the characters, the drugs themselves and how it was filmed. One thing I do find hard about original scripts is that they are quite hard to understand. Well, they are for me anyway.

The realistic side is that it is so effective with the drugs and such. The way the drugs are formed and layed out are very clever because they surely aren't the real drugs. The sex scenes were very realistic but doesn't beat Monster's Ball. The only difference is that there is complete full nudity in Trainspotting whereas there isn't as much in Monster's Ball. Also, it happens to lots of people all over the world and it warns rest of people of what could happen. For some reason, I don't think it sets the best example to the people of the world. When Renton saw Diane in a club he "fell in love" for the first time in his life. When they met they had sex in Diane's bedroom and then Renton soon discovers she's a school student so from then on he doesn't really see her in many scenes.

The art direction was absolutely outstanding. It was a completely wrecked design (meaning design looked totally wrecked which fits almost perfectly with the film). Also the flats they were living in with the tiny TVs, half ripped/cracked/broken walls/windows, small kitchens, dirty bathrooms etc.

This film only earned one Academy Award nomination and that was Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to Sling Blade.

Trainspotting is one of the coolest films of all time. It is one of the best British films of all time. It is my favourite drug/alcohol related film, my favourite film of 1996. Ewan McGregor's best tied with Moulin Rouge! And Big Fish. It is my favourite Danny Boyle film so far. His new film Slumdog Millionaire is supposed to rival with David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button for Best Picture, so don't know whether Slumdog Millionaire will replace Trainspotting as favourite Boyle film or not. You'll just have to wait and see. Trainspotting is an unforgettable masterpiece!!

"A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal."


Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Helena Bonham Carter
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: USA


Big Fish was really knocked around at the start before it was released because it is a film from Tim Burton which is really bright and heartwarming which isnt really like him. Also because there wasnt any actors involved in this film who have been in a film with Tim Burton before apart from Helena Bonham Carter and Danny DeVito. I thought that at first but when I saw this film, I was totally blown away by how beautiful this film really is. I think the odds of the success of this film at first were against Tim because of how different this film is. But some people state that this film is his best film. People would choose either Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Beetlejuice or Ed Wood. This film made me feel really good because of its beautiful story and its inspiring characters within it. It also had a very cute meaning because it tought me what life really is about which is what a lot of films have tought me. It is a heartwarming fairy tale that is complex for a family film and is very creative and magical. This is inside Tim Burton's imagination just like Edward Scissorhands. I am unsure whether than fantasy place where Bloom went where he met that giant Karl and met a few other characters was in his imagination or really happening. That is why I have to say that this is Tim Burton's most complex film so far.


Ewan McGregors performance as young Ed Bloom was really good. His acting was like Ed was confused with the fantasy world and the illusion he was involved in with himself. Albert Finney's performance was awesome! It was the best from the whole film. He really do anything wrong at all with his acting. He did look like a really adorable heartwarming actor to portray a character like that. He looks like Ewan McGregor aswell so that's another reason why. Albert was snubbed of an Oscar nomination. Personally, I think that when there are scenes with Ewan as Bloom and Albert as Bloom, they are obviously the same character but I do find for some reason them both to be portraying different sorts of characters. Billy Crudup was really good too as Will Bloom because he makes him act like more of a curious yet passionate character than I was expecting he was going to be. Jessica Lange was really good aswell as elder Sandra Bloom. Helena Bonham Carters second collaboration with partner Tim Burton was a far better one than their previous film together which was Planet Of The Apes. I find Jenny's character a very mysterious character because she has always had a little crush on Ed Bloom ever since she was a little girl. Also, because of why she is so lonely, why she always has her cats with her and also why she lived in a random house in the woods. That is why I think Helena was really good for her character. I found the witch character quite a confusing character to calculate because I didnt really understand what was with her eye. I did think that maybe it could tell the future. The costume on Helena was really good which made her look similar to Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street. But make-up on her for the witch was obviously very good but didnt look anything like Mrs. Lovett. Steve Buscemi was really good in this film as Norther Winslow. He makes me laugh all time which is why I think Steve Buscemi deserves to be a character like Norther Winslow because he was a humourous character to witness. Danny DeVito made me laugh aswell as he always does aswell as circus ringmaster Amos Calloway. I liked Alison Lohman as young Sandra Bloom and also Oscar winner Marion Cotillard as Will Blooms pregnant wife Josephine.


Tim Burtons direction in Big Fish is in a lot of ways typical from Tim but in a different way it is a new way of direction from Tim Burton. Tim Burton's Big Fish is like Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump and David Fincher's The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Tim Burton has made this film his second most heartwarming film after Edward Scissorhands. Also, he made Big Fish his brighest (brightly coloured) film yet. As I said, I think the odds were against Tim with the success of this film because of how bright this film really is. There is a lot of bright colours involved especially when Bloom enters that land where there is bright lights, beautiful houses and really nice people. In a slight way at the same time, I find that like typical Tim Burton because it is like a setting and a film that a guy is in an extremely bizzare sort of illusion with himself and his life. It was like overrated because obviously its Tim Burton but can be underrated too because it is a Tim Burton film that not many people really appreciate because of its bright characters. The script was awesome aswell. This film is a novel but if it was without the fantasy world, the giant and the business with Bloom and the large fish then this would have been an excellent life story. It is a script that tries to revolutionise the meaning of life. But it does try and beat other previous classic films that try and show us what life really is about. Still a class script though.


This is my favourite Albert Finney film so far. Ewan McGregor was awesome in this film but I prefer his acting in Moulin Rouge!, Trainspotting the Star Wars prequel trilogy and The Island. I loved Helena Bonham Carter in this film too as Jenny but I prefer her in Sweeney Todd obviously. Danny DeVito and Steve Buscemi made me laugh in this film too and their performances were really good aswell. I did love this film from Tim Burton obviously but I prefer Burton films Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow. Big Fish is a masterpiece and a masterpiece that should have been nominated for Best Picture. That is where I find this film like Sweeney Todd because they are both films that have been snubbed from the Best Picture Oscar nominations. They are the only two Tim Burton films that have ever been close. I dont think Tim Burton will ever make another brightly charactered film like this ever again. If he does then it cant be better than Big Fish because it is a masterpiece and is one of the best films of 2003. Big Fish is pure magic that I absolutely love!

"I've done some things in my life I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I've ever felt in real danger of hell."


Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan
Running time: 188 minutes
Country: USA


The Green Mile is one of the single most tear-jerking films of all time if not the most. It has a very dark and depressing story which is what I like most. It is a story about God and shows that miracles can and have happened in the past. This is a biblical story about friendship, crime (what man is capable of), love and commitment. Also about what death could be like and what its like to lose your loved ones while you're left behind. A real bastard who I used to know (not anyone on Flixster) recommended it to be and I loved The Green Mile to bits. It was my number two film before I saw Sweeney Todd, Forrest Gump and The Dark Knight. I really love prison films and this has to be my favourite. This film is a very long one but as I watch it more, I tend to find it a bit shorter probably because it is one of my favourite films. I was taken, twisted than blown away again just by watching The Green Mile.

Tom Hanks was amazing in this film as Paul Edgecomb. Paul is the boss of E-Block on the green mile who is suffering from a bladder infection but when he meets John Coffey that changes. Tom has always had a talent of choosing different types of characters and making them powerful and real. Michael Clarke Duncan's performance as John Coffey was one you could just burst into tears by. He is the absolutely perfect actor for John Coffey. There was a lot of tears and pain coming out of John. Despite of what he did, he has some mental problems and is a kind and friendly man. Michael was the best of them all. I really liked David Morse, Jeffrey DeMunn and Barry Pepper as Brutus 'Brutal' Howell, Harry Terwilliger and Dean Stanton. Doug Hutchinson is fantastic as Percy Wetmore. Percy is vile, pathetic a bully and arrogant. He acts like he is the tough guy because his uncle is the governor and he also was probably just raised that way. Percy is one of those character that you would really like to give a good smack around the face. Percy is a perfect example of a bully particularly because he bullies the inmates like Dell and bullies are cowards which Percy is. The reason for this is because when Wild Bill touched him below and kissed his cheek he started whimpering, crying and pissed himself. Sam Rockwell really made me laugh as William 'Wild Bill' Wharton because he was nuts, bad ass and very nasty. Also it is what comes out of his mouth and the way he says the things he says which makes him a pretty funny character. Bonnie Hunt was amazing as Jan Edgecomb because she was very supportive, sensitive and understanding with Paul. Her, Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan are the best in this film.

Frank Darabont creates another masterpiece just like The Shawshank Redemption but is better. Darabont does best prison films. Shawshank Redemption and Green Mile are both Stephen King novels which is another reason why I love The Green Mile so much. The script was very good with a lot of powerful and deeply effective scenes to the characters.

The reality of the Green Mile is that death in the electric chair used to happen, crimes like rape and murder happen a lot and also some people may wish that there was a miracle in this world like John Coffey.

The chemistry between Paul and John at first was just like how Paul treates normal prisoners but when John performs a few miracles Paul becomes suspicious of whether he is innocent because of the gift that John has. The relationship between Paul, Brutal, Harry and Dean with Percy is hate because Percy is a troublemaker in the wrong place and he doesn't do his job correctly like the others do. They wanted Percy out of the block as soon as he had the job. The chemistry between Percy and Del is unpleasant because Percy both physically and emotionally abused Del. Because the fact Del had a mouse in his cell who he calls Mr. Jingles and is happy with it and he gets along with Paul, Brutal, Harry and Dean really well like they were friends with him. There is an evil, cold blooded end to Del by Percy in which you will have to see for yourself.

This film has fantastic sound effects particularly in the electric chair executions. It made us want to feel the lightning and the pain the prisoner is getting. The art direction was very original of a prison but was quite bizarre too because the whole prison was pretty much green. The setting mixed well with the prison guards costumes because they are green too but a darker green. They were very classic and very historic which made this look like a film made in 1935 when it was really made just 10 years ago.

This film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture but lost to American Beauty, Best Supporting Actor (Michael Clarke Duncan) but lost to Michael Caine in The Cider House Rules, Best Adapted Screenplay but lost to The Cider House Rules and Best Sound but lost to The Matrix. This film earned only one Golden Globe nomination: Best Supporting Actor (Michael Clarke Duncan) but lost to Tom Cruise in Magnolia.

The Green Mile is the most tear-jerking film of all time tied with The Elephant Man. One of Tom Hanks' best films. His best is Forrest Gump. David Morse's best film too after appearing in Contact and Disturbia. This is Sam Rockwell's best performance too. He has been in a lot of recent films and also films from such great directors with great actors. It is a very personal masterpiece that you could just watch again and again and again because of how amazing it is.

"I am not an elephant! I am not an animal! I am a human being! I am a man!"


Director: David Lynch
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: UK, USA


The Elephant Man is the single most gut retching film of all time. It is a really hard film to watch because of what happens to John Merrick and what his appearance is too. It is a film that I can understand that people won't watch because of the way Merrick was but after all it is a film that must be seen because it is a film with a real meaning to it that I think has an effect on us all. The Elephant Man is a gut retching film but a beautiful one too because we see the beauty of friendship, love and courage. That is where this film can be a massive inspiration. It is also extremely heartbreaking as well because of what happens to John Merrick and why he is the way he is. The Elephant Man is one of those films that you would find really horrible to watch but a film that you can't help but love for what it is.

John Hurt's performance as John Merrick was absolutely fantastic. His name was really Joseph Merrick but is based on same person but with a different forename. Hurt is the only actor who would have had enough quality to portray Merrick. It is a perfect performance in my mind because he made Merrick one of the most realistic characters of all time even though Merrick was a real-life person back in the early 1900s. Hurt have pretty much every single characteristic for John Merrick. He had that really soft voice that really reveals how deformed John Merrick really is and how difficult it is for to speak and how to understand what he is saying. The way Hurt was speaking in a quite loud tone was a real sign of courage, strength of power within Merrick that Merrick hasn't really ever done in his life. When John Hurt was portraying John Merrick, I could see everything within Merrick's personality. I saw the monstrous appearance of Merrick and yet the beauty within his soul and inside him. It wasn't his face that made my gut retch but it was how some people treated him. There was one scene where a local bully came into his room and came with a few friends and prostitutes and they were physically bullying him and messing around with him like a toy. It was obviously the events that were going on but it was also the haunting and horrifying music that made me cry the most at that scene because that is in my opinion the true cruelty of the world. John Hurt is probably only best remembered for The Elephant Man but he maybe remembered for appearing as Mr. Ollivander in one scene of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, V For Vendetta, Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and Midnight Express. Despite how perfect John Hurt was for John Merrick, the Oscar did deservely go to Robert De Niro in Raging Bull. Anthony Hopkins performance as Dr. Frederick Treves was absolutely fantastic as well because when Hopkins was portraying Treves I could see the easily caring supporting type of person who wanted to help Merrick the best he could. He luckily saves Merrick from a freak-show as well as from a life of pain, agony and pity. Anthony Hopkins makes the perfect doctor in The Elephant Man. Hopkins has an extremely talented voice because it is a rather soft voice that is both really kind and gentle (The Elephant Man) and yet really terrifying (The Silence Of The Lambs). Anthony Hopkins' most famous films are The Silence Of The Lambs and The Elephant Man as well as my favourites from him.

The Elephant Man is the most different David Lynch film because it is a depressing bio-pic drama whereas his other films are disturbingly psychological ones. His work in The Elephant Man is his most famous because he is the only director who made The Elephant Man the way it is. He made it a rather strange story like it isn't a bio-pic but it really was a true story. Lynch is one of the best directors of all time and he has without a doubt created his finest achievement. The script was absolutely amazing about the life of John Merrick. This would have been a fine novel as well as a film because I think that people would be able to see the horror and the beauty within Merrick and also within the neighbourhood of that time.

The Elephant Man is the most gut retching film of all time and I don't think any film will take it away from that ever. The Elephant Man also brings together one of the best film partnerships of all time (John Hurt and Anthony Hopkins). 1980 was an amazing year for cinema and I am proud to say that The Elephant Man is one of the best of that year as well as of all time. It is John Hurt's finest performance but isn't the best from Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins' best is obviously The Silence Of The Lambs. The Elephant Man is David Lynch's best film without a doubt. It takes its rightful place on one of the best bio-pics of all time. It is a heartbreaking, hard to watch yet beautiful story that will never be forgotten and will be an eternal masterpiece.

"You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you're hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!"


Director: Roberto Benigni
Starring: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: Italy


I loved this film to bits because it is just so beautiful and is such an inspiration. It is a film that has a beautiful meaning to life. It is a film that truly teaches us about love family and hope. It is also about commitment with what is best for the ones you love no matter what situation you are in. It made me feel all emotional because Guido, his wife and son were in the Holocaust camps. It is beauty of family that keeps them together. Despite of how funny this film is, it is a very emotional story that will touch people in both a funny way and a really emotional way too. Roberto Benigni delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Guido. His character is really powerful because it is a mixture of two different personalities that connect really well.


I loved Benignis hilarious attitude towards the characters within the film. He is a Pee Wee like sort of character because he is a hyper character and also he wears like nerdy clothes. His performance brought delight towards the horror that was the Holocaust which can be offensive to people but can be quite good aswell because he wont let the Nazis let him live in fear for the rest of his life. I liked Nicoletta Braschi in this film as Guidos wife Dora. I really liked Giorgio Cantarini in this film too as their son Giosué Orefice. Cantarini has made another appearance in another Oscar winning film that won Best Actor. He portrayed the son of Maximus in Ridley Scotts Gladiator. And Russell Crowe also won an Academy Award for Best Actor aswell as Roberto Benigni did in Life Is Beautiful.


The direction from Roberto Benigni was really good because it was really peaceful and it was very depressing at the same time which is quite unusual but not bad though. I personally thought that the script was really well adapted because of the different point of view with the Holocaust. It was really well adapted because this film is neither a true story nor a novel by an author. This film is a sort of comedy point of view of the Holocaust because Guido has a hyper and beautiful personality with a very powerful sense of humour.


I dont think anything disappointed me with this film. I loved this film a lot but I have to say that I prefer films about the Holocaust that are more depressing and emotional because they are more powerful stories. I am not saying that this film isnt powerful at all. It is a very powerful film but others like Schindlers List and The Pianist are more powerful films about the Holocaust. This is my favourite Benigni film so far and is without a doubt one of the greatest foreign language films of all time. All I can finish my review of saying is that this film is a perfect example of hope, love and friendship. One of the best films of 1998. It is my favourite Italian film so far. It's a masterpiece!!

"Hello. I am Princess Moanna, and I am not afraid of you."


Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Starring: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Doug Jones
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: Mexico, Spain


Pan' Labyrinth is one of those extremely bizarre films that sticks the same way all the way through it. The story is very magical, very imaginative and very clever. It is a film with a large meaning to particularly younger children that fairy tales aren't really real. This has a lot of fantastic epic qualities within it. This is a fantastic example of fairy tales for adults just like Lord Of The Rings. It is a powerful story that sees through the eyes of a young girl. Pan's Labyrinth is a very emotional, heartbreaking and yet beautiful film which has fantastic qualities within cinema. Pan's Labyrinth ends in a similar sort of way Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain did.

Ivana Baquero delivers an absolutely outstanding performance as Ofelia. She goes through a lot of rollercoasters in this film which includes the three tasks Pan sets for her, looking after her pregnant mother and being around and obeying her evil stepfather. I remember when Ofelia's mother said to her that fairy tales aren't realy and never have happened and never will happen. So, that makes me question whether Pan, the fairies, the Pale Man, the tasks and the other creatures are just in Ofelia's imagination. Ivana's performance was very powerful and was very heartfelt which can be rare from a child in a film. It is definitely one of my top child female performances. Sergi López brings together one of the coldest film monsters of all time that is Captain Vidal. He kills innocent people for no reason but it is mostly how he kills them which makes Vidal a very dominant and powerful character to watch.

Guillermo Del Toro uses his typical visual style in this film. I think he imagines this film in his head as a similar sort of way Tim Burton did with Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. Del Toro's directing was so precise and he wanted the performances from the actors decent enough for his type of film. The script is fantastic. It is very original which makes it a bit like a cult fantasy film.

The reality of this film is that there is a war going on within but Ofelia is in another war of her own with Pan by trying to complete the three tasks to get the full moon. Also Pan seems to be one of those characters that people could be haunted by. The Pale Man is even more haunting because he is a villain and he appears shit scary.

The relationship between Ofelia and Pan is very unusual because Pan suddenly requests so much from Ofelia which becomes too much from Ofelia which causes mistakes and can makes things a little wrose. Captain Vidal never really liked Ofelia because she isn't his daughter, because she is the daughter of his wife and he might end up having a female heir and being sexist in which he is he wants a son for him for take over Vidal when he dies. Ofelia had a closer relationship with Mercedes more than she did with her own mother because Mercedes could understand her and how she is feeling with the war and other various things.

The cinematography was fantastic with very funky, dark and real photographic images. This film's art direction was out of this world. It was very well designed not only by paint, objects etc but visually designed at top-notch. The setting hasn't even been similar to any other film that has ever been made. The only designable quality that Del Toro is really talented at is the make-up. It is very dark and very bright it depends on what sort of scenery and what sort of character it is. Del Toro always uses disfigured make-up that looks really or looks like there is a mask on the person's face. The costumes were outstanding too which combined perfectly with the cinematography, art direction and make-up. The visual effects were awesome too mostly at the end. The music was very well put together. It was touching, beautiful and thrilling.

This film won three Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Make-Up and Best Cinematography. It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay but lost to Little Miss Sunshine, Best Foreign Language Film but lost to The Lives Of Others and Best Music Score but lost to Babel.

This is my favourite Del Toro film so far, it is my second favourite film of 2006 after The Departed, it is one of my close favourite fantasy films, it is my favourite foreign language film. It is a film that is almost tied with Sweeney Todd for film with best art direction, the same with best film with best make-up. One of my most treasured films ever! Love it to bits! Always have and always will!

"You never forget kids like Emily, or Andy, but they forget you."


Director: John Lasseter
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammar
Running time: 92 minutes
Country: USA


Toy Story 2 is another sequel that I would call one of the best sequels of all time because it follows up from the previous film ever so well and it doesn't flaw at all. This film is hilarious, original, emotional and very thrilling in some moments because of the action scenes within it. It rips off some moments of other previous movie moments most notably The Empire Strikes Back. I loved every single second of this masterpiece. This one may not be as famous as the first film but personally I think this one is better. The first is a classic but this is a follow-up of a classic. Both Toy Story and Toy Story 2 are top childhood favourites of mine that I would always watch and used to be literally obsessed with as a kid especially Buzz Lightyear. It is one of the cleverest and very well thought up films ever made. I am a big PIXAR fan and both Toy Story films have introduced the modern day PIXAR films nowadays that they cannot disappoint in any way at all. I think the main reason why I preferred the second one to the first was because I was more interested in the plot of the second film more than the first and I liked the characters more as well. Toy Story 2 is the best animated sequel of all time and I am proud to call it that. Most animated sequels except Toy Story 2 have been totally flawed and have been weaker stories and ridiculous characters. The only animated sequels I can think of that are almost as good as or better than the first films are Toy Story 2, Shrek 2 and The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. What I loved the most about Toy Story 2 is that they brought back the old characters again such as Woody, Buzz, Rex, Bo Peep, Mr Potato Head, Hamm, Slinky Dog etc but have brought more toys into the film and have made them very interesting and humorous for both kids and adults. They brought characters such as Jessie, Stinky Pete The Old Prospector, Bullseye and the Barbie dolls. They are all now real life toys which makes both films eve more famous than they already are.


Tom Hanks' voice acting of Woody is amazing once again. He is the only actor to portray the voice of Woody. Without Tom Hanks there would be no Woody. Instead of Buzz ending up in trouble like he was in the first film, this time it's Woody. Woody tries to save a friend from being sold in a yard sale but inadvertently gets himself into the hands of money-greedy, fat Al who owns the toy shop Al's Toy Barn. Once at Al's flat he meets Jessie, Stinky Pete and Bullseye who reveal themselves as Woody's Roundup Gang and say that all four of them are part of a phenomenal former television show. Buzz ends up rescuing Woody instead of Woody rescuing Buzz because of this. His accomplices to complete his mission are Rex, Slinky Dog, Hamm and Mr. Potato Head. They end up getting into situations that are hard for them to get out of.


The directing in this film was awesome from John Lasseter. He has created two family phenomenons that came out of his own head and he is now a genius. His work in the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Lief are awesome but his work in Cars was good but nowhere near as good as his other works. Lasseter has created one of the best sequels ever as well as the best animated sequel too. It is an ingenious film that I could watch often. I used to watch this a lot as a kid and I still do now. The script is absolutely amazing. It is original with a very clever meaning to it and it takes a genius to create masterful scripts in an animated film.


Toy Story 2 is my third favourite PIXAR film to date after Ratatouille and Finding Nemo. Toy Story 2 is a better film than the first one for the reasons I have stated in my review. Both Toy Story films are films that Tom Hanks will always be remembered for as well as Forrest Gump, Green Mile, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away. Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were one of my all-time favourite childhood films of all time. Toy Story 2 is one of my top animated films of all time as well. Toy Story 2 is a clever masterpiece that I have watched a lot and could always watch!!

"I am a golden god!"


Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand, Kate Hudson, Jason Lee
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: USA


When I first heard about this film, I was unsure what I would make of this film because I had mixed opinions that this film is a real music film but I don't think it is at all really. It does feature about a music rock band but really I don't think there was much music involved. It was more drama which is what I really liked about this film. It does seem a bit like a teenfilm when you see a clip of the film or the poster but it isn't at all. The adventure and characters may seem that way but the story and how well it is filmed doesn't make it like that at all. It is a story about quite a lot of different things in life. Things like moving from home and starting to live your own life and doing whatever you like, meeting new people in and from different areas and also how much a mother loves their child and how it can affect them if they are nsure or don't know whether their child i safe or not. I find this film underrated because I find it not to be as common as it should be.


Billy Crudup is really good as Russell Hammond. He acts like a friend who just goes ahead and does his own thing. He acts a tiny bit like Tyler Durden from Fight Club because he is a person who forced his "friend" to do something he is unsure of and he acts really cool to be able to do that. Frances McDormand still hasn't disappointed me yet. Her performance as Elaine Miller revolutionises about what a caring and loving mother is really like. Also, it shows the over-protective side to a parent. Kate Hudson's performance was awesome as Penny Lane. Penny is the leader of a group called "Band Aidies" who hang around with rock stars. She is a very mysterious character to me because she acts like a prostitute and a thief. She sort of messes with William's mind let alone her own head with the drugs. I sort of liked Patrick Fugit as William Miller. He has that cute touch for the character. I could easily tell that Patrick was a rookie actor. So gonna let him off with this film.


Cameron Crowe's directing was very adventurous and experiencing to different aspects of cinema and of life. The script was really clever because it seems a bit like a hard-thinking adapted story but it is a very original script like Little Miss Sunshine and Juno. They are original in their own ways.


I liked Frances McDormand in this film but can't beat her performance in Fargo. Kate Hudson hasn't been in many films at all but this is my favourite from her so far. One of the best films of 2000. A film that does deserve to be watched on a regular basis. Really good film that truly is worth seeing.

"Hey, toots! Canary bird, will you get out of the bathroom?!"


Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: 122 minutes


A Streetcar Named Desire is a classic that I could watch repeatedly and not get bored. I knew I was going to like this film but I had no idea that I was going to like it as much as I really did. I loved it so much that it made me realise that it is a classic that I should have watched before when I first got into classic films. A Streetcar Named Desire is a story about brutality, aggression, betrayal and also manipulation. It is a very classic masterpiece with a very different mixture of personalities. I think the main thing I truly loved about A Streetcar Named Desire is that it is a story that wants answers in the end and it is a rather questionable story of how much longer Stanley can stand to have Blanche living with him and his wife Stella. It is rather tense as far as sex is concerned especially between Blanche and Stanley. It is probably the tensest film that I have seen that I have seen from an ensemble cast with amazing performances. It was a rather dramatic story to watch as well because of the circumstances that the characters come across.


Vivien Leigh's performance as Blanche DuBois was really awesome with a very heartfelt, tense and even quite disturbing performance. Vivien was an actress who would always give amazing performances in all sorts of different ways. Her performances in A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone With The Wind were performances about characters who always like to appear as proper "ladies" who speak and appear very posh with bright clothes. Blanche is a woman who goes to New Orleans to move in with her sister Stella but she ends up in a bit of a rivalry with Stanley Kowalski who is her brother-in-law. She becomes very mixed-up while she lives with them and especially when she is sort of bullied by Stanley with his brutal attitude towards you. A Streetcar Named Desire was Marlon Brando's first film and is his best performance as well in my opinion. I have quite a lot of reasons for this: Marlon was in his young days a real heart throb and an ultimate sex symbol. I personally think that Marlon Brando's performance is the best acting debut of all time. Marlon didn't only show what sort of person Stanley is but he also showed what Stanley truly is capable of. Marlon was a big muscley man in his 20s and 30s which is amazing and pretty much perfect for his performance as Stanley Kowalski and is one of the best ways to describe Stanley's character. Kim Hunter's performance as Stella Kowalski was awesome as well with a very supporting, friendly and even quite argumentative performance. She understands her sister Blanche for being the way she wants to be. Stella is a Southern belle who leaves her home town of Laurel, Mississippi to find work after her family falls on hard times. There she meets her soon-to-be husband, Stanley Kowalski, who has just returned from World War II, complete with decorations. Her character is portrayed as independent of mind, young, and fair, everything that Blanche once was and no longer is. I really loved Karl Malden as Harold 'Mitch' Mitchell because he certainly showed his love for Blanche but unfortunately they couldn't completely work out because of Blanche's slightly disturbed attitude. This film has an absolutely fantastic cast with a very rare Oscar nominated cast. Three out of the four won the Oscars.


The directing from Elia Kazan was absolutely fantastic. The director wanted us all to know what becomes of the relationship between Stanley and Blanche because he is rather brutal towards her. Because of the deep tension within the house, the director sort of pushes us into a circle to watch what would happen to each of the three characters that lived in the house. That is where they made me feel the deep reality of the characters. Kazan directed this one better than On The Waterfront even though his directing in that was still awesome.


This film won 4 Academy Awards: Best Leading Actress (Vivien Leigh), Best Supporting Actor (Karl Malden), Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter) and Best Art Direction (black-and-white). It was also nominated for Best Leading Actor but lost to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, Best Director (Elia Kazan) but lost to George Stevens in A Place In The Sun, Best Writing Screenplay but lost to A Place In The Sun, Best Cinematography (black-and-white) but lost to A Place In The Sun, Best Costume Design (black-and-white) but lost to A Place In The Sun, Best Sound Recording but lost to The Great Caruso and Best Music Scoring Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture but lost to A Place In The Sun. It won 1 Golden Globe awards: Best Supporting Actress (Kim Hunter). It was nominated for Best Picture Drama but lost to A Place In The Sun and Best Actress Drama (Vivien Leigh) but lost to Jane Wyman in The Blue Veil. This film won three acting Oscars out of the four it was nominated for.


This is my second favourite Marlon Brando film after The Godfather. I do still love his performances in The Godfather and On The Waterfront as well. Elia Kazan's work is really amazing but I preferred A Streetcar Named Desire to On The Waterfront. A Streetcar Named Desire is my favourite film of the 1950s let along of 1951. I am torn what performance is better of Vivien Leigh between A Streetcar Named Desire and Gone With The Wind as my favourite leading actress performance of all time is. A Streetcar Named Desire is certainly one of my all-time favourite films as well as one of my favourite classic films as well and it totally deserves it. Masterpiece with one of the best ensemble casts of all time.

"Danger always strikes when everything seems fine."


Director:Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi
Running time: 190 minutes
Country: Japan


When I first saw The Seven Samurai I didn't fully appreciate it for some reason. I guess it was because it was one of the very first foreign films that I had seen. Now after seeing more foreign films, I watched it again and realised how much of a classic it really is. The Seven Samurai is one of the early epic adventures yet it is one of the most different because it being in black-and-white and is filmed in a quite extraordinary way. I was blown away by this film! It made me laugh, it made me feel sorry for the characters and most importantly, it kept me gripped to it from start to finish. Every single moment of this film was perfect! The Seven Samurai worked out really well because of its very simple plot which only seems like 90 minutes worthy, when you watch it you notice that there is more to notice and there is more that they need to do to be able to defend themselves.


Takashi Shimura was awesome as Kambei Shimada who is the leader of the samurais within the village. I find him to be like the leader of the whole village not only due to the situation they are in but in general. He seemed like a very powerful man who would do anything to stop the bandits terrorizing their village and stealing their food. Toshiro Mifune was amazing as Kikuchiyo. He made me laugh in this one because he is the wanna-be samurai but he is drunk quite regularly and causes a lot of problems but he does make himself useful by helping the villagers.


Akira Kurosawa was a legendary director who had a very rare talent who can make films in his own way. It is one of those extremely rare films that have very simple plots but have a long running time that actually works. Most of the time the running time of the film overlaps the simple plot of other films. This was the first Kurosawa film that I saw and I think it is his most famous film which makes me think that it could always be my favourite Kurosawa film. This film took a lot of hard work for the directing of the film and especially the screenplay.


Overall, The Seven Samurai is an ultimate classic that is probably known as the most famous foreign language film of all time and it is! I look forward to watching more Akira Kurosawa films. In my opinion, I find Kurosawa to be the best non-English/American filmmaker ever. The Seven Samurai is now one of my all-time favourite classics as well as one of my favourite films of all time.

"Either I'm dead right, or I'm crazy!"


Director: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
Running time: 129 minutes
Country: USA


I am not really a great admirer of politics because I don't really understand them at all. This film was a real helping hand to me because I understand a bit more of what politics really are. I also understood what other things involving politics such as the government, laws and making decisions about things around the world. This is probably the feel-good political film because Capra is probably the best director who can make feel-good films. This film ends with a similar sort of feeling It's A Wonderful Life ended. This was very dramatic and it was very inspiring to watch. It is a film that is just a classic that could be definitely be watched more than once.


James Stewart's performance as Jefferson Smith was really awesome because he showed that he is a strong hero in the world of politics despite most of them are out to destroy him. He was rather similar to George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life. Jefferson came from a small town and was then elected as a senator by replacing the previous senator who died. Jefferson doesn't have any children but when you see him in the political business and in the courts he might remind you of Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird. Stewart was an actor who would always play characters that are either inspirations (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, It's A Wonderful Life) or are just really entertaining with suspense (Rear Window, Vertigo, The Man Who Knew Too Much).


Frank Capra's direction of Mr. Smith Goes To Washington was a lot like It's A Wonderful Life but was different as well (if you get what I mean) because they are both very different stories but with similar sort of feelings between them. He also brought that awesome feel-good feeling towards It Happened One Night as well. He is the legend for inspiring films and it is that simple and nobody will be able to take that away from him. After Hitchcock and Kubrick as favourite directors of the past, Capra comes along and takes that spot.


This isn't my favourite Frank Capra film. Out of the three I have seen so far, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington is the least best from Capra. I prefer It's A Wonderful Life and It Happened One Night more. This is another legendary performance from Jimmy Stewart but his best performance is still It's A Wonderful Life. I would probably call this film my favourite political film so far and is one of the top films of the early days of cinema that were the 1930s. Masterpiece!! It is a story that a lot of people would understand and a story that a lot of people wouldn't because of the political theme of the film and the events that occur and the consequences that the characters come across. Mr. Smith Goes To Washington is a certain recommended film to people who love classics.

"Nobody ever listens to me, then when they do... we're gonna die..."

Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Lizzy Caplan, Jessica Lucas, T.J. Miller, Michael Stahl-David
Running time: 85 minutes
Country: USA


Cloverfield is one of the silliest films that I have ever seen in my whole life but it is one of the best filmed films of all time. I think it is only the visual effects that are good in this film and that are it. The story is very stupid and very badly thought film but it was amazingly filmed which is why I have an average rating and review for this film. I found this film hard to watch because of the way it was filmed. Don't get me wrong, it is filmed brilliantly but I think it is a film that can make some people feel quite sick particularly in the cinema because it is like watching a video from a video camera. I did like how the actors, director and producers wanted the audience to approach it. It was like they wanted the audience to feel thrilled to feel like they were really there. It is a good film but is bad as well. The ending of this film seems like there is going to be a sequel.


The acting was pretty bad to be honest because I found some of them so annoying I wanted them to be killed off by the monster. Not knowing what the monster is and what it looks like is a terrifying mystery but problem is that the character never added any spice to the quality of the story. Yes, it is a pretty stupid film but the acting should be good at least but this film failed at the acting.


This film was brilliantly directed which was the best quality of this film. It was directed like it was really happening but I think the lack of believability within the film was the biggest flaw within the film due to its realistic filmmaking. The script was pretty lame and that was another thing that made Cloverfield a very unrealistic film.


The visual effects on the film were the only good thing in this film and the filmmaking itself was good too but wasn't a very realistic film to watch. Cloverfield was a film that received 5-stars only because of the filmmaking but not on the actual story, acting and screenplay of the film which is where this film is overrated. I don't like it any less because of that. I neither hated nor liked this film really. I would only recommend it to people who look films that are tense and scary but if you're looking for a masterpiece with fantastic filmmaking and fine qualities you might not be in luck because the acting and screenplay doesn't mix with the excellent direction at all. It is one of the most disappointing films of 2008.

"I see dead people."

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Running time: 107 minutes
Country: USA


Wow!! What an absolutely outstanding film The Sixth Sense really is. It is a very dark, tense and psychological but not scary masterpiece that blew me away more second time round than first time. I saw this film for the first time in January 2008 and I hadn't seen it since then. It is a film that I am really fond of because it is one of those films that don?t try too hard to be a scary film that people would freak out by and also it didn't try too hard to impress the suspense of the film. It was a very suspensful film anyway because of the very depressing, psychological plot. The Sixth Sense is a film that can sort of play with your mind because it shows how a person can start to lose their mind especially when it is almost impossible to get out of. This film has one of the most powerful endings as well as one of the best twists in cinema history. The twist in this film is the whole film's best quality. It is a haunting film but it isn't a horror film. It's like The Silence Of The Lambs: a psychological thriller rather than a horror.


Bruce Willis' performance as Dr. Malcolm Crowe was a fantastic one. He sort of surprised me in a way because Bruce stars in action/crime films but he was actually fantastic in this film. Malcolm Crowe is a prominent child psychologist but when he returns home one night with his wife and is shot by an former patient of his who broke into the house. It suddenly changes to Crowe becoming close to Cole but all doesn't go to plan and all isn't as it seems. Haley Joel Osment delivers the single most amazing child performance of all time. Most child performances are fantastic but nothing like Osment as Cole Sear. Cole is a 9-year-old young boy who has a lot of deep psychological problems. Osment was the perfect choice because he is a scary lad when he goes a bit mad but he is awesome at playing that innocent young lad like they're possessing over him. Haley cried a lot in this film but even in moments of the film especially the famous "I see dead people" scene when tears weren't coming down his eyes but could see the tears in them. I could see the fright in his eyes which is why Osment's performance is one of the best acting roles of all time. Toni Collette's performance as Lynn Sear was amazing too but doesn't beat Bruce or Haley in this masterpiece. Lynn is worried for her son because of his amazingly bizarre behaviour with those around him and towards her too.


M. Night Shyamalan has created a masterpiece of thrillers. This was one of his very early films in his career and it is his breakthrough film and his most famous film and probably his best ever too because of what I've heard about the others he has done are said to be really crap. M. Night Shyamalan probably didn't expect the critical reaction that the film got including six Oscar nominations: Best Picture 1999, Best Supporting Actor (Haley Joel Osment), Best Supporting Actress (Toni Collette), Best Director, Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay. The script was almost perfect because it was mixed with horror and with tension but it's a funny feeling because I didn't find this film scary. As I said, it's more of a psychological thriller.


The Sixth Sense and The Silence Of The Lambs and that is a fact. The Sixth Sense is a haunting thriller that I absolutely loved from start to finish and was blown away by it by more viewings of the film. The Sixth Sense is another reason why 1999 is my favourite year in film. I now have seven 5-star 1999 films. Haley Joel Osment's performance is the best child performance of all time and it totally deserves to be. The Sixth Sense is a very disturbing psychological thriller that is an absolute masterpiece and is one of its kind and can hardly be compared to anything else.

"Please! This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who."


Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Michael Palin
Running time: 91 minutes
Country: UK


This is a film that quite a lot of people would call a classic but I don't think it is that much of a classic but a really good film. There are reasons for this. The story was funny but was in a little bit of a mess. Yes, I do realise it is a silly slapstick film but I feel it was a bit too silly if you get what I mean. It was really funny don't get me wrong but I think that there were some scenes within the film that I personally think weren't relevant. The characters were very funny as I said. The story is fun and adventurous with a clever comedy experience especially from us British. I was unsure about Holy Grail to start with because it seemed like a film with sketches. Basically, like a TV British comedy show. When I think that mostly adults of this generation in our world love it more than teens and young adults do now because the adults nowadays would have grown up with that sort of comedy which could become childhood favourites to them.


John Cleese was funny as Sir Lancelot. John is the best British comedy actor ever. This is one of John's earliest works and as far as films are concerned, he will be best remembered for Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and particularly A Fish Called Wanda (in my opinion). John's crude slapstick led him to Fawlty Towers which is in my opinion the greatest comedy show of all time. Watching Cleese portray Lancelot was like watching a character from a fictional story. Michael Palin was pretty funny as Sir Galahad but doesn't sum up to watching Archie and Ken in A Fish Called Wanda. This film was made up by the whole team of Monty Python.


Terry Gilliam directed this film pretty well with a lot of hilarious yet utterly stupid moments. The script was awful but I am laughing because of that and it is part of the story. This is a short review because I find it hard to describe. Overall, Monty Python And The Holy Grail is a hilarious and stupid comedy that is a load of fun but no classic.

"I'm gonna let ya' in on a little secret, Ray. K-Mart sucks."


Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Running time: 133 minutes
Country: USA


Wow! My heart broke and melted at the same time at this fantastic phenomenon. This is such a powerful film that I absolutely loved from start to finish. I almost cried at how beautiful this film is and how much I love it. I am a big follower of autism and the meaning of what it is was told in the best way. I know someone very close who suffers from it. I love films involving a man/woman with a disability that reveals how beautiful life can be for someone despite of the disorders they have which is why Forrest Gump and Rain Man are very close to my heart. Rain Man is a masterpiece that I knew I was going to love because the story is beautiful, cast is awesome and all of the glory it has earned regarding Oscars. This film teaches us that a person can change for someone that are close to them.


Dustin Hoffman's performance as Raymond Babbit was absolutely phenomenal. It is a one-of-a-kind performance which makes Rain Man Hoffman's best film. Dustin Hoffman gave us a performance that truly did make us believe that he really did have autism but obviously in real-life he doesn't. It is something very easy to recognize when you see Raymond behave around people. I think Hoffman must have read really hard on autism or watched documentaries about the disability. As I said in my Kramer Vs. Kramer review, Dustin Hoffman is really good at playing friendly, innocent and rather sweet characters. If he plays another character like it in the future, we could be seeing a third Oscar for Dustin Hoffman. Tom Cruise delivers in my personal opinion his best performance because he plays Charlie Babbit with such arrogance which is what Tom Cruise can be like in real-life on occasions. He can also show the pure beauty of helping his brother. I can't believe Tom Cruise wasn't nominated for an Oscar in this film.


Barry Levinson's work on Rain Man was such an inspiration and fascination to me because me being a deep follower of autism was inspired by how well filmed this was. I think that the director had great commitment with autism to want to do this film and was interested in the condition. The script was very original like some of the ways Charlie and Raymond were around each other and were so different from each other, it seemed like it needed some deep research on the internet to write such a fantastic script.


Rain Man is one of my most loving films ever! I was blown away by it with it's heartbreak and it's beauty as well. It is the best performance from both Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Rain Man and Forrest Gump are the two best films about a person with a disability. Rain Man is one of the best films of the 1980s as well as one of the best films ever made! I have to say it is one of the biggest inspirations to me. People who haven't seen this masterpiece or don't like it aren't even living. You will be alive when you see this and will appreciate how fantastic this film really is.

"The Phooey has just referred to the Jewish people."


Director: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Running time: 124 minutes
Country: USA


This is definately the most serious film from Charles Chaplin of the ones that I have seen so far from him. This film is very serious obviously because it is a war film. It was a rather serious film too because of how the story was written especially when it was made. It was funny that Chaplin was ripping off Adolf Hitler with all the speeches, walks, impressions etc. It was probably scary aswell because Hitler was alive at the time and was a dark time because it was almost like the start of the Holocaust. Apparently, Hitler really admired Chaplin after The Great Dictator. There have been alot of piss-takes of Hitler but this one tops them all.


Charlie Chaplin's acting in this film as both Adenoid Hynkel who is the Dictator Of Tomania and who takes the piss out of Hitler with this character. His acting was funny as the Jewish Barber aswell but was funnier as his other character. As far as Adenoid Hynkel is concerned, Chaplin shows the comedy side to who is probably the coldest and most evil person that ever lived. Chaplin was a man who could always see through the comedy side of things no matter what happens which is what I love about him. His performance as the Jewish Barber was like another piss-take with Hitler aswell because how Hitler or any of his men would treat a Jew. It was funny because he was mocking Hitler but wasn't funny because it really happened. Chaplin's most serious performance and because of this, he did deserve his first and only acting Oscar nomination.


The direction from Chaplin was almost the same as the films that he has done before The Great Dictator with very similar selections of camera angles, very similar sorts of characters and also the way it was filmed as far as things like music is concerned. The screenplay was very original which isn't what most war films are like. They are either true stories or books. Chaplin just thought of how he was going to write it. One thing that slightly disappointed me about The Great Dictator was that the two characters Chaplin was portraying were switching really quickly. It took quite a long while for it to get into both characters and their storylines.


It is the first non-silent Chaplin film that I have seen so far. It is my third favourite Chaplin film of the ones I have seen. I liked The Gold Rush and especially Modern Times more. The Great Dictator is the masterpiece of comedy-war films and of a masterful piss-take of the cold-blooded human that was Adolf Hitler.

"That was the best vacation ever! I love our family."


Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Sarah Vowell
Running time: 115 minutes
Country: USA


This is a very different animated film that has ever been done. The Incredibles is a film that is just an absolute masterpiece with such unbelievable action for an animated film which I don't think has ever happened before. It is one of the very few animated epics. Others with it are Aladdin and The Lion King. It is an absolutely incredible story with such beautiful characters, hilarious humour and really thrilling scenes. I think The Incredibles is the superhero film that almost every family have been waiting a lot time for. I saw The Incredibles at the cinema when I was 13 years old and I was literally obsessed with it but it wasn't my favourite film at the time. Two of the back-to-back PIXAR films have been the most cleverly humorous ones: Finding Nemo and The Incredibles. It is such a phenomenal film that I would call almost a perfect action animated film. It was about time there was an animated film like The Incredibles because it is like a little boy's dream to be a superhero and The Incredibles shows the reality of that ambition. The cast was really awesome.


It stars Craig T. Nelson as voice of Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible, Holly Hunter as voice of Helen Parr/Elastigirl, Samuel L. Jackson as voice of Lucius Best/Frozone, Jason Lee as voice of Buddy Pine/Syndrome, Wallace Shawn as voice of Gilbert Huph, director Brad Bird as voice of Edna Mode and more. I loved all of the different sets of characters within this masterpiece. Mr. Incredible/Bob Parr is a man who has unlimited strength. He marries Elastigirl/Helen Parr (her maiden name is unknown) and their marriage affects the other superheros and the whole town they live in. They try and keep undercover of their true identity. Helen is a woman who can stretch any part of her body in any possible way she could. For example, like messing around with chewing gum (just a figure of speech and example). Helen and Bob have three children but all three of them are diagnosed with superpowers. The eldest child Violet Parr is a young teenage girl who has two powers. She has invisibility and can create force and protection fields around her or anyone around her. The middle child Dash Parr is the most like Bob because he is a young blond haired arrogant little child. He has unlimited speed and can run as fast as a plane can fly or in easier terms can run like a bolt of lightning. The youngest child and baby Jack-Jack Parr is a little boy that none of his family thought had any powers at all but he does. Jack-Jack can turn himself into metal iron and can control temperature levels by turning himself into flames and also into little red devils. Bob's best friend and fellow superhero Frozone/Lucius Best is an American-African man who can use snow/ice in any way he could apart from actually turning himself into it. I loved Bob's boss Gilbert Huph because he is a tiny little arrogant man who has a big man like Bob as his employee who he can push around but on one scene Bob loses his cool with him and throws him through five walls of the building. That was bloody hilarious! I was in hysterics for about 15 minutes. My favourite character from the whole film is definitely Edna 'E' Mode because she is hilarious. She has a hilarious voice, wacky personality and a stubborn attitude. Her voice was just constantly hilarious every single time I heard a word come out of her mouth.


Brad Bird's direction of The Incredibles is incredible. He has created PIXAR's most hard-hitting film to date. Bird is my favourite animated filmmaker because he has created really clever films with deeply interesting characters even though they are totally different films. Bird's work in The Incredibles is beyond any other filmmaker because he makes a film that is an action film but made it clever, hilarious and quite deep in drama for the genre it is mainly part of: animation. There has never been and probably never will be any other animated film like The Incredibles. It is as simple as that and nothing/nobody can take that away from The Incredibles. It is a one-of-a-kind family, action-comedy-sci fi film. Most superhero films have pretty lame scripts but the script in The Incredibles is beyond any other superhero film other than The Dark Knight.


The Incredibles is one of the smartest animated films ever. It is my third favourite superhero film ever after The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 2. I am a massive PIXAR fan and I love pretty much all of the films they have done. The Incredibles is my fifth favourite PIXAR so far after Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc.. Bird's work on this and Ratatouille are absolutely awesome but I love Ratatouille more. The Incredibles has the best ending ever from an animated film too. The Incredibles is an absolutely amazing one-of-a-kind masterpiece that is one of the best action films of the decade. It is a film that I will definitely love for the rest of your life.

"She must suffer to her last breath."


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Running time: 131 minutes
Country: USA


As soon as I saw Volume 1 film on DVD, I immediately put the disc in for Volume 2 because I was so excited about what was going to happen. However, when I watched the sequel, I really enjoyed it almost as much as the first film but I don?t think it needed to be as long as it was. I personally think that the second one could have been cut by about 10 minutes because the scenes with the Bride and Bill dragged on a bit for quite some time until the fight between them. I thought that Bills explanation of why he did what he did was a bit too much. Also when the Bride was learning the martial arts, that sort of went a bit slow as well and had a few silly moments but despite that, I was still gripped with the film. There was more and more violence within this film which is absolutely typical Tarantino. There was a lot more drama in this film as well which is something I really enjoyed. I figure that Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Volume 2 are mixtures of different genres because there is action, drama, crime, tension and even some romance involved too. Kill Bill: Volume 2 is another absolutely brilliant Quentin Tarantino film but I still preferred Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Inglourious Basterds.


Uma Thurmans reprises her role as the Bride. I think that in the first film we see how brutal and how deadly the Bride really is but in the second one, we see that the character has a heart and has feelings which is something that, to be fair, wasn?t really expecting going into this film and that is the point. Obviously, the Bride was still on her dark and deadly path of revenge for what happened to her but along the way, she comes across a lot of awkward situations and hard things to get out of; such as the buried alive scene. David Carradine was absolutely terrific as Bill! I think David played the character not only as an evil man but also played the really good ladies man as well especially when he is scenes with the Bride and their daughter. He acts like he is charming the Bride not to kill him. The rest of the cast were absolutely terrific as well as their reprised characters.


Quentin Tarantino directs this film pretty much the same as he does with the first film. He obviously adds crime and coolness into it and he tests out adding drama too which worked really well with the way it was filmed, written and acted. Both Kill Bill films show how graphic and hardcore Quentin Tarantino wants the violence to be in his films which is something that I really appreciate out of Quentin because his films are so cool and so dark and you cant see a cool film without violence or swearing in them. Quentin Tarantino just writes original scripts from stories that just come out of his own mind. As far as I?m concerned, he is a genius screenwriter!


Overall, Kill Bill: Volume 2 is an extremely violent, tense, action-packed and comic-book like thrill ride that kept me glued from start to finish. I think that Kill Bill (meaning both) is one of the best action films in a long time and will be very hard to top.

"No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now. Sweeney Todd... and he will have his revenge."


Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: USA, UK



Sweeney Todd was definitely the most anticipating film of 2007 for me because I was looking forward to it so much and I knew it was going to be a very close favourite of mine even before I watched it. It is a very dark musical that in my opinion didn't disappoint at all. It was a bit of a risk because it is a dark film with a lot of blood and brutal killings and it is part of the light hearted genre: musicals. There have been very dark musicals in the past that haven't even been compared to Sweeney Todd; not even 2002 Oscar Best Picture winner Chicago. Before I saw Sweeney Todd I wasn't a massive Tim Burton film because I hadn't really been into his films until I saw Sweeney Todd. This film not only inspired me to watch more film from Tim Burton but also to watch dark films with dark stories and visual designs in which Sweeney Todd has. It is a kick-ass film in my opinion because it is just a deeply interesting story that follows through Sweeney's dark and brutal path of revenge. It is also the characters within the film that made it really special. This film is very dark and really tense but despite that it is quite a very thought provoking and emotional story as well. Sweeney Todd is a film that I have watched over and over again (about 100 times) and have loved it every single time I've watched it. It wasn't only how it was filmed that I really loved about it, it was also the songs and how they flowed with the film. I have always done and still do sing to the songs of Sweeney Todd even though I do consider myself to be a pretty bad singer. My favourite songs from the film are "A Little Priest", "Epiphany", "My Friends", "No Place Like London" and "Pretty Women". I bought the soundtrack for the film and I even bought the book about how the film was made and the possible history of Sweeney Todd himself. There is a twist in this film. Some people don't really think it's a twist, that its more like a revelation but it affects the story so, yes, it is a twist. It left me in great shock for hours and I couldn't believe it because it was so unexpected.

Johnny Depp's performance as Sweeney Todd/Benjamin Barker is a performance that only he can portray because he portrays the character in a very sinster, menacing, deadly and yet rather emotional way. The way Johnny expresses the audience's attention for the films he's in are always the same. For example "Wow! What a great film! He was bloody gorgeous!" I find that to be obviously understandable but rather silly in some places. Sweeney Todd's character was really interesting and very hard to watch on occasions because he always has something up his sleeve but sometimes suffers in silence while doing so especially when he's around Mrs. Lovett. Johnny's performance as Sweeney Todd is a slight taste of the types of characters in his other films in the past. For example, cool and entertaining: Captain Jack Sparrow and Ed Wood, emotional: Edward Scissorhands and Finding Neverland, villainous: Secret Window and Public Enemies. We see Johnny's darkest side towards his acting talent which is I think that everybody can appreciate because who doesn't love Johnny Depp? Johnny's singing in the songs was absolutely incredible! To be honest, I was actually surprised about how good he was. Now onto the character, before he became Sweeney Todd, a London barber called Benjamin Barker is married to his wife Lucy with whom he has a baby daughter Johanna. While out in the markets they are spotted by the evil Judge Turpin and because Barker's wife is blonde and beautiful, he gets Barker arrested and sent into exile across the other side of the world. After his 15 years in prison, he mysteriously comes back to London and becomes a whole new person again with the name of Sweeney Todd instead of Benjamin Barker. He doesn't say how he ends up back in London but he does. He goes back to Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop with whom he was a neighbour of hers once with his wife and daughter. He learns the truth of what happened to his wife and daughter when he was away so he and Mrs. Lovett take their journey through Sweeney's path of revenge by him killing his victims and Mrs. Lovett stuffing their meat into the pies in her shop. Helena Bonham Carter's performance as Mrs. Lovett is a very unique and really cool performance. Both her and Depp are the only two actors who could have pulled off Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett and it is that simple. Helena looked too cool in this film. She made Mrs. Lovett like a gothic sort of character with the make-up, costumes, hair and even her voice as does Johnny as Sweeney Todd. Mrs. Lovett is a very mysterious woman because I think that she says she has love feelings for Todd even though he doesn't have any for her. Helena Bonham Carter has always be an actress portraying really unusual and odd characters but Mrs. Lovett is the oddest character she has played so far. Alan Rickman's performance as Judge Turpin was another incredible performance because he is typical Alan Rickman because Turpin is a really slimy, scheming character just like Snape but is a bit of a criminal and paedophile. Alan's performance should have earned him an Oscar nomination. Timothy Spall was really good alongside Alan Rickman in Sweeney Todd because those two are probably the only actors who can play really slimy, scheming and sinister characters in the films. Sacha Baron Cohen is really quite funny in this film but he is rather serious as well because he fakes his identity. His name isn't really Adolfo Pirelli and he isn't Italian either. Sacha's singing of "The Contest" was beyond me because Sacha is a British man and he has a great Italian accent. Him singing that song sort of brought Borat back again.

Tim Burton's work on Sweeney Todd is a massive inspiration to me because he has created a dark story that I don't think he or anyone has made before. The one Tim Burton film that Sweeney Todd is slightly similar to is Sleepy Hollow because of the blood, dark settings, costumes and because they're both thrillers but Sweeney Todd is a musical and Sleepy Hollow is a fantasy. I always watched the exclusive interviews that Tim had about Sweeney Todd (the same with Johnny and Helena). By seeing Burton's artistic drawings of Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett, I thought and Burton said himself that "that is them. Johnny and Helena fit that couple for certain because they are so odd and unique." I was so fascinated by this film and Tim Burton's work towards it I couldn't stop watching how they made the film and the trailers and video clips. The script is adapted from the previous musical so it is the same as the musical play but that doesn't bother me in the slightest. Tim Burton has created his most creative film, his darkest film and his coolest film yet. Sweeney Todd is a film that we would be expecting Tim to do because its really dark just like Sleepy Hollow.

Sweeney Todd won 1 Oscar out of 3 nominations. It won Best Art Direction but was nominated for Best Leading Actor (Johnny Depp) but lost to Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood and Best Costume Design but lost to Elizabeth: The Golden Age. It won 2 out 4 Golden Globes. It won Best Picture Musical/Comedy and Best Actor Musical/Comedy (Johnny Depp). It was nominated for Best Actress Musical/Comedy (Helena Bonham Carter) but lost to Marion Cotillard in La Vie En Rose and Best Director (Tim Burton) but lost to Julian Schnabel in The Diving Bell And The Butterfly.

Sweeney Todd is one of the best films of all time in my opinion. Sweeney Todd is my favourite musical and probably always will be. It is both Johnny Depp's and Helena Bonham Carter's best film. Sweeney Todd has a confirmed and firmly sealed place at the best Tim Burton film. 2007 was a great year for cinema. It is probably the best year in cinema of the decade and I am proud to say that this is the best film of 2007 and I knew it even before I saw the film. It is an absolutely perfect film that I love in every single way. Masterpiece!!

"Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!"


Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Catherine McCormack, Patrick McGoohan
Running time: 175 minutes
Country: USA


This film really touched me because of the upsetting twist that occurs with William Wallace and his wife when his wife is murdered by a group of English soldiers. This affects Wallace's life forever and he sort of becomes like obsessed with war and wanting to get like revenge on the English for what happened to his wife and also to the Scots people too. This film taught me a lot that some wars are for a ridiculous and a heartless reason which is what WWII was like. It's like Adolf Hitler was killing innocent people who had done nothing wrong at all. Well, I am English but in 14th century, I admit the English were cold hearted bastards. This film sort of made me feel ashamed in slight ways that I am British but there are some other reasons why I am proud to be British. This film really inspired me because it teaches us about freedom and not to treat people with such disrespect.


Mel Gibson delivers a satisfactory performance as William Wallace. I personally believe that Mel Gibson is better as a director rather than an actor. Mel Gibson really looked great as William Wallace but I wish his acting was better. He did act a very fierce and deadly man but I personally dont think he acted very emotional to his character. William Wallace's character is very similar to Gladiator's Maximus Decimus Meridius. I liked Sophie Marceau too as Princess Isabelle.


Mel Gibson has become a really good filmmaker after he has made two amazing epic films. I loved Braveheart and Apocalypto. I find the make-up in this film very similar to the make-up in Apocalypto. I find that the action was quite similar apart from that this is a war film and that Apocalypto isnt.


This film has become one of the greatest epic and war films of all time as well as one of the greatest history/biography films of all time. It is certainly on my list of that. This film shows us how some people may react to losing someone/something that you love so dearly that you could die for. This film achieved a lot of things for me that every epic film must need but the only disappointing thing for me was the acting. Braveheart will always have its rightful place as one of the greatest epic and war films of all time just like other similar epics like Gladiator, Troy and 300.

"Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true king. Remember..."


Director: Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones, Nathan Lane
Running time: 90 minutes
Country: USA


I dont really know how to explain how much I loved this film. Well, I can say that this film is such an inspiration to me and makes me feel really great. It is a film with a great big heart. It is a very heartbreaking film but it is such a beautiful story that can inspire people in quite a few different ways. It is the most emotional film of all the Disney Classics that there have been which is one of the main reasons why I have to say that this film is one of the best animated films out there. It is a pure adventure about courage, hope, betrayal, tragedy and most importantly self discovery. I would probably say that this is the only Disney Classic with the genre drama used in it because of what happens and everything. I think everything about it inspires me an hell of a lot. I feel that this is one of the particular four films that Walt Disney would have been proud of if he was still here. Others are The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin.


The voices were all fantastic in this film. I didnt really like Matthew Brodericks voice for Simba (adult) because he doesnt really make Simba a very heroic character because of his soft voice but Simba is still a heroic character though because he truly discovers about who he really is. I loved James Earl Jones voice as Mufasa because after doing the voice of legendary character Darth Vader, his voice was prefect for Mufasa. His voice is obviously extremely deep which is really rare for a man to have a voice that deep. It is perfect for Mufasa because Mufasa is a big heroic lion and looks a lot bigger compared to other animals within the kingdom. His voice was a bizarre one really for Mufasa because not only is Mufasa a hero and Darth Vader is a villain but because Mufasa is a completely different character compared to Darth Vader. I loved Jeremy Irons voice as Scar in this one because his voice is a real sinister and scheming voice which is just like Scars character. I think that Scar isnt just the coldest Disney villain but I also think that he is one of the greatest film villains of all time because he killed his own brother and then blamed his nephew for it. I really liked the voices of Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Niketa Calame, Moira Kelly, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Madge Sinclair, Robert Guillaume, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin and Jim Cummings as the voices of the rest of the cast within this animated classic.


The direction from Rob Minkoff was awesome which makes The Lion King was like an epic animated film which is probably the first of all animated films that have been made. The script was outstanding too with a lot of quotes with big meanings and with a big heart as I have said. There are a lot of scenes within this film that are taken almost to complete perfection.


The Lion King has its rightful place on my all time favourite animated films list. It is on my favourite films list to. There's no question about that. It is one of the best animated musicals of all time. It is one of the best films of 1994. 1994 was an outstanding year for films as it brought out some of the greatest films of all time including The Lion King, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, The Shawshank Redemption, Léon: The Professional and many more. I always have and certainly always will adore the Disney Classics but The Lion King is my fifth favourite Disney Classic after Pinocchio, Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Aladdin and Lady And The Tramp. The Lion King is the third highest grossing film of all time (both worldwide and domestically) behind Shrek 2 and Finding Nemo. It truly is a family phenomenon that I can guarentee that everybody loves to bits and will remain in your heart for the rest of your life.

"Buck up - never say die. We'll get along."


Director: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: USA


When I was going to watch this film on DVD for the first time, I had absolutely no idea what I was going to make of it but when I did see I thought it was a lovely, romantic and hilarious silent masterpiece! Modern Times takes you through a series of hilarious disasters regarding the factory worker's journey getting back involved in life after he ended up in prison. It is a very beautiful story on friendship and it makes it better that it's silent because I personally think it would have been crap if it was speaking. For example, it was a bit of a risk of Chaplin doing a speaking film which was called The Great Dictator but that turned out a great success. There is one scene where Chaplin does speak in the film and that's where the factory worker is asked to sing in a hall where he is working. I don't really laugh at old black-and-white films out loud but I think only Modern Times, City Lights, The Gold Rush and Some Like It Hot are the ones that have made me laugh out loud.

Charlie Chaplin brings back the Tramp character again in this film but once again the character doesn't have a proper name. He has a name in the outside world but not in the films the same character stars in. For example in City Lights he is called just 'a tramp', in The Gold Rush as 'The lone prospector' and Modern Times as 'the factory worker'. Chaplin was a director with an extremely rare talent for acting, dancing and also charm (in his personal life) because of what his abilities are. Chaplin has created my favourite character of my favourite character (if you get what I mean) because his character is the same in every silent film but has a different name.

Chaplin directs this film really well which isn't a big surprise to me because it is in the very early days of cinema and we cannot expect top notch filmmaking like we sometimes do see now. To be honest the old films are better but there are a lot of masterful new ones as well. There obviously isn't a script to it because it's a silent film but Chaplin just follows with the flow so to speak on what he wants himself to do and the rest of the cast within the motion picture.

Modern Times is one of my favourite comedy films of all time. It is and probably always will be my favourite Charlie Chaplin film of all time because it is just too beautiful and too hilarious to replace with another Chaplin. Modern Times is one of my ultimate films of all time as well as one of the best films of the 1930s. It is a film that named Charlie Chaplin one of my all time favourite actors too which probably won't make me name another Chaplin film better than Modern Times.

"Archaeology is the search for fact... not truth. If it's truth you're looking for, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall."


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliott, Alison Doody
Running time: 127 minutes
Country: USA


This is an absolutely terrific masterpiece! The third film in the Indiana Jones series is more explosive than all the others. One thing that The Last Crusade has over Raiders Of The Lost Ark is that there is more action; not better just more. To be honest, this one gave me a few surprises because I was worried incase Henry Jones Sr.'s involvement might ruin it but it didn't at all which really pleased me. The Last Crusade is quite humourous in some ways because of the relationship between Dr. Jones Sr. and Dr. Jones Jr. It is amazingly told at the beginning of the film with Indy as a young man and the action scenes at that moment. There aren't many third films in a trilogy that are good but this one certainly is. It isn't a threequal because if it was Indy 1-3 would all flow with the same sort of dialogue.


Harrison Ford proves once again he IS Indiana Jones. What I liked most about Indy in this film was he had that cool sort of behaviour around his enemies as well as his partners and colleagues. In The Last Crusade we do sort of see him as a soft guy as well as a cool one which shows he does have sensitive feelings for people. Harrison is remembered for Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy but he is better in the Indiana Jones quadrilogy. Sean Connery was an outstanding Henry Jones Sr. He was really cool and really funny as well. When I hear him call Indy "junior" I just cringe at that because it's just so cool! Personally, I think that in Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull, Lucas and Spielberg try to relive Indy's original relationships with a close relative in a cool manner. They tried to do that in Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull between Indy and Mutt Williams (later revealed as his son) but it didn't quite work. River Phoenix was cool as young Indy. Despite the fact River wasn't in it very long, he is probably best remembered for playing young Indy. Dr. Else Schneider was a good female villain in this film. She was far better than female villain Irina Spalko in Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.


Steven Spielberg is a genius once again in directing The Last Crusade. He directs all four Indiana Jones films in almost the exact same way which is so amazing and original especailly for a series like Indiana Jones. The whole series are like epics which is pretty typical from Spielberg because no matter the genre, he would always turn them into epics.


Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade is an absolutely phenomenal film that deserves to be one of the best films ever alongside Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Despite how much I loved The Last Crusade it isn't quite as good as Raiders Of The Lost Ark but it is better than Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull and Temple Of Doom. It is one of the best films of the 1980s and is the best of 1989. One of my favourites alongside Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Both those films have made Indiana Jones my third favourite film series after The Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars.

"We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I'm making waffles!"

Director: Andrew Adamson
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow
Running time: 91 minutes
Country: USA, Canada


This film truly is a feel good film because of its beautiful story and hilarious characters. This film made me feel really good because I love the Shrek character because he is quite a mean ogre on the outside but when you get to know Shrek, he is like a really good friend. His character is really powerful. It has a story that is quite odd but it combines together really well as it goes on and it turns into a family classic. This film had that typical family style that some animated films dont have. For example, it has quite crude humour which makes young kids understand what they mean. Shrek truly has loving characters that arent just for kids but are for adults too. They are all emotional characters aswell as absolutely hilarious ones. I love the scene where Shrek and Donkey confront Lord Farquaad about the swamp. When there was a wrestling tournament, Shrek and Donkey sort of take the mick out of professional wrestlers like Hulk Hogan, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam and Chris Masters but obviously in an absolutely hilarious way though of course. This film was quite thrilling as well because of when Shrek and Donkey were in the castle where they had to go and rescue Fiona from the dragon. It was tense how they got in and how they made their escape. In that scene, I thought the scene involving Donkey and the dragon was tense because the dragon is a lot bigger than Donkey. I had a feeling that the dragon was taking Donkey to eat him but it doesnt. I think the dragon falls for Donkey. It can be such an inspiration to thousands of people in this world and I am certainly one of those people.



Mike Myers delivers an absolutely awesome voice acting performance as Shrek. Mikes voice is simply perfect for Shrek because the type of character that Shrek is fits perfectly with Mike Myers Scottish accent. The voice that Mike uses in Shrek is the exact same voice as Fat Bastard in the Austin Powers trilogy. His voice as Shrek is both hilarious and heartwarming too which makes Shrek one of the most friendly and lovely characters that has ever been put to the screen. Eddie Murphys voice as Donkey is absolutely awesome too. Murphy has that sort of croaking and typical American accent which unusually fits absolutely perfectly for Donkey. His acting was superb. Cameron Diaz was good as Princess Fiona. I wish that there was a better actress for the voice of Fiona. She was still good though. I liked John Lithgow too as Lord Farquaad even though there werent that many scenes involving Farquaad. All four speak very differently. Not because of different actors but because they all try different sorts of accents.



The directional debut of Andrew Adamson was absolutely outstanding. He directed this film really well. He has done four really good films as director so far. Others like Shrek 2, The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion And The Wardrobe and The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian. The written screenplay in Shrek was absolutely outstanding. It was really clever and all of the lines in the certain scenes were absolutely perfect indeed.



This film along with Toy Story and Spirited Away set a whole new level of animation because they are very different and unusual and sometimes teaches us all about things in life. This film is my favourite Andrew Adamson film. For me, he has not done one bad film yet. This one is the best of the trilogy. The second one is awesome too but the third one is crap. I was extremely disappointed in Shrek The Third because of its lame story. This film didnt disappoint me at all. This film has become one of my favourite animated films of all time. It is one of the most pleasureable, inspiring and most delightful family films of all time. Shrek is a masterpiece of animation and deserves its rightful place there.

"You're an actor. Act, motherfucker."

Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer
Running time: 121 minutes
Country: USA


True Romance is a film that is really cleverly adapted together and is a really cool film with such great characters. This is a cat-and-mouse sort of film and I love films like that a lot. The story is pretty simple and just takes us on a journey through lots of different events. This film is very violent and breathtaking which is what I really like in films. True Romance is a bit like a black comedy because that is what Tarantino's crime films are like. I loved this film a hell of a lot because it was really entertaining, it was cool, it had very interesting characters and there were a lot of absolutely amazing scenes. My favourite scene is with that drug dealer and with Alabama. That is intense, graphic and very effective as well. True Romance is a film that starts in a rather bizarre way but as it carries on it just gets better and better. It didn't disappoint me in any way whatsoever. I just loved this film so much and is almost on my favourite films list. It is rare when we see a film of entertainment that is well filmed, well thought of regarding story and how they were going to film it and mixed with quite a serious cast. Watching True Romance all the way through was like it was going to have a twist or a shocking event.



The cast of True Romance is absolutely incredible. I liked Christian Slater as Clarence Worley. Clarence is a man who just goes to the cinema to watch a Sonny Chiba triple feature. It is rather weird that Clarence meets and has a one-night-stand with Alabama who is a young woman who is payed on a job. She isn't a whore, she is a woman on a job in which you will have to listen to yourself. They end up getting married and they become a really cute couple and makes them perfect for each other but they did meet in an awkward situation where Alabama 'accidentally' knocked her popcorn bag all over Clarence's lap and that leads to things in a deeper and more personal level. I couldn't believe how stunning Patricia Arquette really was as Alabama Whitman. Watching Patricia was like watching Monica Bellucci in Shoot 'Em Up. I had always had suspicions that she was really up to something very impactful and possibly heartbreaking which you might have to see yourself. Dennis Hopper was good as Clifford Worley who is the father of Clarence Worley. Other top-notch cast members Gary Oldman, Val Kilmer, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken and Samuel L. Jackson deliver all good performances. True Romances has one of the best ensemble casts of all time in my opinion.



The brother of great director Ridley Scott, Tony Scott directs True Romance like it was a piece of work that is like a dream come true. Scott would've directed this film better than Quentin Tarantino despite the fact that he wrote the script for the film. The script was absolutely fantastic which is typical of Tarantino. I find that Tarantino just taught himself how to write scripts by watching lots of films and actually thinking of the scripts himself out of the top of his head. True Romance is one of Tarantino's best written work. I loved the script in Pulp Fiction which is the best script ever written. I love his Kill Bill script as well. I would call this a Quentin Tarantino film. No, he didn't direct it but he did one of the three main jobs of the film. Saying that is like saying that The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Tim Burton even though Tim didn't direct it himself.



To me, True Romance is a really amazing kick-ass action, crime, romantic thriller that deserves to be watched every now and again. I knew I was going to like True Romance but had no clue I was going to love it as much as I did. One of the best films of 1993 definitely and it is takes an almost complete spot on my favourite films of all time list.

"Do you know what she did, your cunting daughter?"


Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max Von Sydow, Linda Blair, Lee J. Cobb
Running time: 117 minutes
Country: USA


The Exorcist was a major hit not just within the horror genre but also cinema itself because there has never been any terror within a film that is so believable and realistic. It is a landmark of horror/thriller films alongside others such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Steven Spielberg's Jaws and Jonathan Demme's The Silence Of The Lambs. It does have some science fiction parts about it but it isn't officially a science fiction film. The film was a huge success by receiving 2 Academy Awards and other nominations including Best Picture, Best Leading Actress (Ellen Burstyn) and Best Supporting Actress (Linda Blair). I could easily feel the terror of the characters especially Regan. It is a very special horror film because even after over 25 years of when it was released, it scares now and some horror films die out but this one never will because it will give you nightmares for a long time. Personally, I think horror films that are extremely scary and more psychological are better that way because they are very effective and powerful and it shows how good it is expressing at toying with your mind. Because of how scary it was around the time it was released, it was delayed for quite a while despite the Oscars and Golden Globes it won and was nominated for.


Ellen Burstyn's performance as Chris McNeil was absolutely terrific! Ellen is the mother of young girl Regan McNeil. Her performance was often terrifying in some scenes especially when with the possessed Regan. It is a shame because Chris and Regan are innocent mother and daughter but are overcome by a demon trying to control an innocent girl. Well, Linda Blair's performance; what can I say? First of all, it is without a doubt the best performance from a child in film history! I figure that the best child performances are either actors playing cute characters or scary ones. She was the perfect choice for Regan because she can play her innocent and cute side but can play her very evil side as well even though it isn't her doing it. I was terrified by the transformation from a sweet, caring and loving girl to a girl possessed by a demon but what scared me the most was the demon voice that Linda was pulling off during Regan's possession. The make-up on Linda during those possession scenes was absolutely outstanding! Also, during her transformation before it is complete, her acting is absolutely amazing!!


William Friedkin directed this film absolutely amazingly! I don't think it could've been better directed. It wanted to express true horror that will toy with your mind in a very deep psychological way. The camera work was brilliantly handled and there were a lot of awesome eerie camera angles. The scene were Regan turns her neck around completely like an owl is the most powerful scene because it shows the ultimate power that the demon has over Regan and it is a very unusual and disturbing scene. There is a lot of swearing in this film especially said from Regan under the possession of the demon. I think it was very vulgar regarding sex and sexually violent because the possessed Regan was masturbating with a crucifix. I mean, that is very powerful and it seemed realistic watching it but was violently disturbing to watch which makes it better. This was another reason why the script in this film was so damn good as well. It was very powerful regarding how emotional it was and also how tense and horrifying it is to watch. The main keyword to describe the script is "gripping".


Overall, The Exorcist is one of the most shocking, spellbinding, heart-racing and gut-retching films that have ever been released. It is one of the best thrillers and, horrors and rightly so one of the best films of all time too!