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"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.

"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.

"I love you, and I need a piss."


Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen
Running time: 98 minutes
Country: USA


Closer is an amazing example of a film involving relationships, sexual education and also divorce, marriage and betrayal. This film was very inspiring to me because they are all four completely different kinds of people who have different professions but when each turns nasty or betrays they all become the same and it affects all four of them and relationships change and swap around quite regularly. By watching Closer it feels like watching a soap opera like EastEnders, Home And Away, Coronation Street etc. All four people are aiming to find what they would like to achieve in the future. It was very heartbreaking too because if one reveals something to someone then that could change not only their lives but hurt other peopleThe relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other people's feelings.

The cast is absolutely fantastic which is one of the reasons why I knew I was going to love it. Julia Roberts was good as professional photographer Anna. I love her performances in Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and Erin Brockovich but in my own personal opinion this is a performance that didn't bring very much force towards Anna's character. Jude Law has been in some crap apart from this and Cold Mountain and probably The Talented Mr. Ripley. Dan is a sweet man but is a bit of a slimeball. Dan lives with his girlfriend Alice but when he meets Anna twists and turns start to happen. Clive Owen's performance was fantastic as Dr. Larry. Clive has given the performance of his career. His character was very slimy because he acts nice at times but acts like a pervert and an abuser to women. His character was very powerful because he has a nasty side to his personality. It is bad especially because he's a doctor and a surgeon. He marries Anna and acts all nice but when she decides to leave him he changes back to who he was before. Natalie Portman was fantastic too in this masterpiece as Alice. Alice is a young girl who has a bit of a muddled and mixed up life but her life gets slightly worse after separating with Dan. She is a stripper in a strip club where Larry finds her.

Mike Nichols directs this film very well with trying to bring this story to life. The directing was very good with a lot of moving camera angles. The script is absolutely fantastic because it was very powerful with lots of bad language particularly with graphic sexual dialogue.

The reality of Closer is that this is how some relationships work. There are instant attractions, betrayals and going separate ways in the future. That happens with some relationships but not all of them.

The relationship between Anna and Larry was an inadvertent meeting because Larry was 'talking' to her on the internet the previous night but they are suddenly attracted to each other and they get married. She leaves him for Dan saying that she has always loved him but she did love Larry too. Alice loves Dan but it feels like she needs him to make her life easier. Dan and Larry first meet on the internet where Dan pretends to be Anna and he starts talking dirty to him. Larry hated him after that. Larry and Alice first met in one of Anna's galleries but they inadvertently met in the strip club where Alice works. There is a scene in that club which is very powerful with fantastic acting and was really well written and directed.

This film was nominated for two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen) but lost to Morgan Freeman in Million Dollar Baby and Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Portman) but lost to Cate Blanchett in The Aviator. This film won two Golden Globes too: Best Supporting Actor (Clive Owen) and Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Portman). Closer was nominated for Best Picture Drama but lost to The Aviator, Best Director (Mike Nichols) but lost to Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby and Best Screenplay but lost to Sideways.

This is my favourite film of 2004, my favourite Clive Owen film, my favourite Natalie Portman film. It isn't my favourite Julia Roberts film. She is better in Pretty Woman, Notting Hill and Erin Brockovich. Jude Law's best is still Cold Mountain. I have to say that this is the best film with a really excellent side to how relationships work in real life. Masterpiece!!

"My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flashes."


Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein
Running time: 125 minutes
Country: USA


Mrs. Doubtfire has proved itself to be one of the most beautiful, heartwarming and touching films to have ever hit the screen. This is a story that helps young children understand what sort of effect divorce could have on them and what the beauty outcome really is. It teaches no matter whether your parents are together or not, whoever you live with you will truly feel like family. This film is a massive inspiration to me for the main reason about divorce because my parents divorced when I was 13 and this is the one film that made me get over that and make me truly understand how to get over divorce. It made me really understand this. The quote at the very start of my review is that quote I am talking about. That just warms and melts my heart every time I see this film. Mrs. Doubtfire is a film that is full of comedy that you could just laugh at forever with all the awkward situations and the mistakes Daniel makes when he is Mrs. Doubtfire. Well, I could anyway. Mrs. Doubtfire became a sudden blockbuster in 1993. Mrs. Doubtfire is such a loving family phenomenon that could be watched again and again and again. It is a comedy with a lot of class and with a realistic life force that can make it so realistic.


Robin Williams' performance as Mrs. Doubtfire is very unforgettable because he makes both of the characters such inspirations to people just like they did to me. Robin's performance is one of the funniest performances of all time without a single doubt in my mind. His performance as Daniel is still hilarious as Daniel because he finds life really difficult especially when he is with his 2 daughters and son in an apartment only down the road from where his ex-wife lives. Daniel is a man who has a very stressful job and he wants to take his job one step higher but that leads him into a very awkward situation later in the film especially with Mrs. Doubtfire as well. The things that I loved the most about Robin's performance as Mrs. Doubtfire was that he made her really seem like a real person even though she really wasn't and also, when Robin is Daniel he teaches not only children who have a divorced father (like me) and teaches single fathers about what it's really about. Robin makes Daniel truly see how important his children are to him. Daniel was even crazy enough to disguise himself as a woman who is twice his age. Sally Field's performance was awesome as well. She is really awesome at playing a mother because she really acts and appears like a really loving one. Pierce Brosnan was good as Miranda's boyfriend because he was like a real slime ball as well as a caring person towards the three children. Daniel hates him and when he is Mrs. Doubtfire he/she tries to manipulate him and try and break down the relationship between him and Miranda. I really loved the three young children's performances: Lisa Jakub as Lydia, Matthew Lawrence as Chris and Mara Wilson as Natalie. They are all adults now with Lisa and Matthew in their 30s and Mara in her early 20s. Top-notch child acting that was funny and very heartfelt.


Chris Columbus has always had a talent at creating family films. He has created family phenomenons Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York and Harry Potter 1+2. Chris's directing was just amazing and that was because he made Mrs. Doubtfire such a hilarious, inspiring and very heartfelt story. The script was really fantastic as well that does touch people and make people laugh which is after all what Mrs. Doubtfire is meant to do.


Mrs. Doubtfire is definitely my favourite Robin Williams film. It is my favourite Sally Field film as well but I loved her performance in Forrest Gump just as much. Mrs. Doubtfire is one of my all-time favourite comedies with A Fish Called Wanda and Hot Fuzz. Mrs. Doubtfire is to me the comedy of the 1990s. This film is very similar to Tootsie but Mrs. Doubtfire is far better. This is one of my top 10 most inspiring films of all time and one of my top family films of all time as well. Mrs. Doubtfire is a loving film that I could watch over and over again.

"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!

"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.

"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.

"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.

"We take the Indian Trail to the Tree of the Dead."


Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson
Running time: 105 minutes
Country: USA, Germany


Before Sweeney Todd was released, Sleepy Hollow was the darkest Tim Burton film. Sleepy Hollow is a film that does look like a horror film but way I see it, it's just a fantasy thriller. A bit like what I could call I Am Legend as well. It is very action-packed but in a more horror-thriller sort of way. Sleepy Hollow is to me one of the most fun films ever despite it's very dark story. It is adapted from a novel that is rather scary, dark and mysterious. There was an animated film about Sleepy Hollow and that one was scarier than the live action adaptation. Sleepy Hollow is really tense because of what the Headless Horseman is capable of and who is going to be his next victim.


Ichabod Crane is Johnny Depp's most heroic character in a Tim Burton film. I loved Johnny's performance as Ichabod Crane because I really was interested in his character. His intentive technology was really cool, bizarre and creative. Ichabod has a past that comes back to haunt him during the Headless Horseman investigation. Christina Ricci was good and hot has Katrina Van Tassel. Michael Gambon was good as Baltus Van Tassel as well. This film has a lot of British actors and actresses in it including Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, Ian McDiarmid, Christopher Lee and Richard Griffiths.


Tim Burton has created a dark masterpiece as far as I'm concerned. Sleepy Hollow is the one Tim Burton film we have been waiting a long time for which makes it absolutely typical of Tim to direct a film like this. Because Ed Wood felt more like a comedy, Sleepy Hollow brought fantasy and more seriousness within his films.


Sleepy Hollow is my third favourite Tim Burton film after Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands. It is also my fifth favourite Johnny Depp film after Sweeney Todd, Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, Edward Scissorhands and Finding Neverland. It is my third favourite Depp-Burton collaboration too after Sweeney Todd and Edward Scissorhands. This is one of my favourite and one of the best films of 1999 which was a great year in cinema. Sleepy Hollow is a masterful mystery film in which not many films are. Sleepy Hollow is an amazing fantasy thriller that I could and have watched over and over again.

"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.

"I couldn't even kill myself the way I wanted to. I had power over nothing."


Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Semion Sudarikov, Geoffrey Blake
Running time: 143 minutes
Country: USA


Cast Away is a film that I thought was just an absolutely outstanding adventure with a real taste for cinema experience and experiences in life as well. Some people might not like Cast Away because they would find it boring or just really slow because Tom Hanks is the only person who actually talks in this film. In my opinion, Cast Away is a film that deserves to be watched not only because of the story but because of the cinematic experience it gives to the viewers. Cast Away is a film that is pretty unpredictable because you don't know what's going to happen to Chuck Noland on that island of whether he survives and escapes the island or whether he dies and starves to death. Cast Away doesn't totally focus on Chuck's business and why he was on the trip it just focuses on what the odds are for him to survive and what the odds are for him to die. This film is pretty intense because you really feel for Chuck and want him to return back normally but you will have to wait and see yourself.


Tom Hanks delivers one of his greatest performances ever! I could deeply feel sorry for Chuck after being the only person stranded on the island and with hardly anything to survive with. Chuck is a time-obsessed FedEx systems analyst who is called away for work while a holiday gathering with relatives. I loved Chuck's character a lot because he was desperate and needed to find every way he could to survive. Some people might find this quite ridiculous but Chuck had a 'friend' with him. It was a volleyball that he called Wilson to keep him company and someone that he could talk to. Tom Hanks creates another character with such a big heart filled with hope, courage and determination. Cast Away is definitely one of Tom Hanks' best performances to date. I liked Helen Hunt as well as Kelly Frears who is Chuck's girlfriend. She shows her deep heartfelt love for Chuck in this film and there are a lot of tears that come out of her eyes which can quite hard for an actor to do.


Robert Zemeckis has always been an amazing director about adventure and experiencing different things in life with different stories. Zemeckis' collaboration with Tom Hanks is another masterful one after Forrest Gump. Zemeckis' work on this film was so powerful it's untrue. I loved every single thing about this film and how it was filmed. Zemeckis' work with Tom Hanks in Cast Away made us really want to understand the character like he wanted us to understand Forrest Gump and what his personal problems are. The script is one I find to be more of an original screenplay than an adapted screenplay because it is a very simple story not a story that you have to dig yourself into to try and understand. The work on this film is phenomenal.


Cast Away is Robert Zemeckis' third best work after Forrest Gump and Back To The Future, it is Tom Hanks' fourth best film after Forrest Gump, The Green Mile and Saving Private Ryan. It is my second favourite film of 2000 after Gladiator. Cast Away is an absolutely amazing cinematic experience that I just loved from start to finish that is based on adventure, hope, bravery and courage. It's a bloody masterpiece!!

"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.

"You're a magician, not a wizard."


Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: USA, UK


The Prestige is an absolutely fantastic film! I was blown away by how extraordinary this film really was. The film is pure magic about magic. Magic + magic = almost perfection. The Prestige looks like a very magical and beautiful film on the cover and looking at the still pics but it isn't as bright and beautiful as it looks. This is one of the darkest films I think I've ever watched. The Prestige is a film that changes its course of plot every 20-30 minutes because there is an unexpected twist. Despite how many twists there are, I don't find it flawed. I was blown away by how many there was and how well worked out they were. It is a beautiful film on love but it is a heartbreaking story that beats down on friendship. There are a lot of different moments in the film that become very severe and drastic consequences. The Prestige is a film that I really do admire for it's artistic design and the way it was filmed. It has absolutely outstanding cinematography and costume design.


Hugh Jackman was absolutely incredible as Robert Angier. Robert Angier is the more experienced magician. Angier is a married man to a beautiful woman called Julia. Something tragically happens which effects him as well as the whole film. That was the very first deeply effective twist. Christian Bale is even better as Alfred Borden. He is a rather sinister, scheming yet rather twisted young man who becomes deeply jealous of Angier because of his talent. They always try and destroy each other by making them fail their tricks or worse by getting in their personal lives. Michael Caine is a fantastic actor who is really good at playing alongside Christian Bale particularly in Nolan films like he does in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Scarlett Johansson was another big star in this masterpiece! Her performance was good but it isn't one of her greatest performances. I think she could have improved a little bit more but she did fine in this film. I really liked Rebecca Hall in this film as Sarah Borden. She was the most emotional character I think because she worries for her husband Alfred and their daughter Jess. Andy Serkis was cool in this film as well as Mr. Alley.


Christopher Nolan is a masterful filmmaker! He proves himself to be once again in another masterpiece that he can add to his outstanding filmography. Despite how many Oscars this film was nominated for I think that it should have been nominated for some more like a script one, a directing one, a costume design or a music Oscar nomination. Nolan is a fantastic director and he always has been. I really like Nolan as a screenwriter too. He writes really well with his brother Jonathan Nolan.


The Prestige is a magical, depressing, heartracing, heartbreaking masterpiece that I was left speechless right at the end of it. This is Nolan's second best film after obviously The Dark Knight. The Prestige is one of the fantastic masterpieces of 2006 and that wasn't a brilliant year in cinema. The Prestige is a film that I think everybody should watch because people would love it for the beautiful filming but also the twists and turns that occur within the dialogue of the story.

"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 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.

"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.

"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.

"Together we will live forever."


Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis
Running time: 96 minutes
Country: USA


When I first saw this film, I really hated it because it was the single most bizzare and confusing film that I had ever witnessed. I went through the whole film without understanding one bit but after a second viewing I knew more about it because I had seen the film before and I remember the scenes. I understood it more too. Mostly because I could see this time about the intension of each of the characters particularly the three characters Hugh Jackman portrays. I can easily see now how beautiful this film really is. This film teaches us about love, death, spirituality and the fragility of our existence in this world. This film isnt just beautiful because of the characters but because of the beautiful and colourful sceneries particularly involving the Tomas in the book with the beard and long hair and mostly the bald Tomas with the Tree Of Life and the stars. Despite of how beautiful The Fountain is, it is really quite depressing because of Tomas and his wife Izzi. Izzi is dying from cancer and Tomas attempts to find a cure. It makes us think about whether there really is a cure of death somewhere in this world and because death is a so-called disease, life is our destiny and we do the best of what God gave us. This film is such an inspiration to a lot of people and it inspired me a lot. My really good friend Alex encouraged me to watch this again after I didnt like it at first. So thanks alot, Alex. I didnt realise how great this film really is.


Hugh Jackman delivers a really good performance as Tommy, Tom Creo and Tomas. They are all different characters and Jackman portrayed all three really accurately. He obviously looks different and all of the characters are completely different. The only thing they have in common is that they all try and achieve something even if it leads to anything drastic. Rachel Weisz delivers a really emotional and powerful performance mostly as Izzi but also as Queen Isabel. Izzi tries to teach Tom about immortality when he reads her book called The Fountain. Rachel makes Izzi a really loving and caring young woman and an easy person to get along with too.


The direction was simply amazing. The camera angles were awesome particularly on Tom Creo in the ball with the tree floating into the sky. I loved the absolutely awesome script. It is quite clever actually because it is really well written for such a complex and difficult film and hard plot. The script was very touching and was very beautiful too because I felt that all of the quotes that were said makes us think about two people in love forever. It is like Tomas and Izzi are in their own world in their own illusions.


This was my favourite Aronofsky film until I saw The Wrestler. The Fountain showed us how beautiful life can be and also how good death can be to us too. This people can teach people who to get over and move on from things that have involved their loved ones who has died. Also, like I said earlier in my review, it teaches us about what life is really like. The only little flaw in this film was that it only involved two people really where I think it would have been better if it were not just Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. I personally wished that Ellen Burstyn was in this film a bit more. For me, this film achieved a brand new style of science fiction films that we are hoping to see in the future.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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.

"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!

"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.

"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.

"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".

"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!!

"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.

"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!

" 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.

"Dr. Richard Kimble! There's no way out of here, Richard! The entire building is locked down! Give it up Richard, you don't have any time, Chicago police department thinks you're a cop killer, they WILL shoot you on sight!"

Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore
Running time: 130 minutes
Country: USA


The Fugitive is in my personal opinion one of the most fun action packed thrillers that have ever been made. This film has almost everything that a thriller should have. There are the tense action sequences with extremely tense music. But there isnt just tense music in the action scenes but through every scene in the film really. Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones race through this breathless manhunt movie inspired by one classic TV series and which in turn inspired yet another. Ford is prison escapee Dr. Richard Kimble, a Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife and determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who committed the crime. Jones (the 1993 Academy Award, Golden Globe and Los Angeles Film Critics Award winner as Best Supporting Actor) is Sam Gerard, an unrelented bloodhound of a U.S. marshal. They are hunted and hunter. And as directed by Andrew Davis, their nonstop chase has one exhilarating speed: all-out.



Harrison Ford was good as Richard Kimble but I personally believe that he could have been a bit better but he was still good though. If Harrison nor Tommy was in this film, this film wouldnt have turned out half as good as it really is. Tommy Lee Jones was absolutely outstanding in his Oscar nominated performance as Marshal Sam Gerard because Sam is like a stubborn and obsessive character who just wants to get what he wants and even will get what he needs like he needs to get Richard to get better at his job. As good as Tommy was in this film, I think that Leonardo DiCaprio should have won for Whats Eating Gilbert Grape?. I am not saying that because DiCaprio is my third favourite actor but because I thought he was better and stronger with his performance. This film shows about the difference between villains and heroes because everyone thinks Richard is a villain but he really isnt. He is innocent but Sam just does his job but acts a bit of a criminal because he states that he doesnt care about what happens to people in this world which is quite bad for a US Marshal. I could easily feel the chemistry between Richard and Sam because they are both completely different personalities and that they both try to achieve two different goals. Richard tries to mystify his wifes murder while he is fugitive and Sam just tries to find him and catch him. Also, I dont know why but I could feel that they somehow knew each other in the past, like in their childhood or something. When we first see Richard and Sam in a scene together when Richard says "I didnt kill my wife." and Sam said "I dont care". That quote shows that Sam only wants to get what he wants by getting him not by seeing Richard's guilt or innocence of the crime he committed.



Harrison and Tommys on screen partnership is one of my favourites because it is a total clash of characters. I simply love cat-and-mouse, fugitive and chasing films an awful lot because they are obviously tense but are a load of fun aswell. No Country For Old Men is similar because of the cat-and-mouse game that Anton plays against Llewelyn. This film has achieved a lot for me like one of my favourite thrillers, one of my favourite on-screen partnership, one of my favourite cat-and-mouse films, made Tommy Lee Jones one of my favourite actors (Harrison Ford already is) but mostly it has become one of my favourite films 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.

"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.

"Ladies, we're gonna have some fun."


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd
Running time: 109 minutes
Country: USA


To be absolutely fair here, I was unsure of what to expect with this film when I was going to see if for the first time. Well, first of all, it is a film from Quentin Tarantino and I love his work but it didn't really look like a typical Tarantino film. When I saw this film for the first time, I really enjoyed it but after a rewatch I found it pretty boring on occasions. The flaws it has are that the film lacks character development and very slow dialogue that took forever to get going. I really enjoyed the car crashing between the two cars around the end of the film. That almost kept me on the edge of my seat because I enjoyed it so much. The violence within this film was really gruesome especially with that blonde girl who was Stuntman Mike's first victim. If that scene wasn't on this film, I would have rated this film 2-stars instead of 3-stars so that scene made a big difference. This film reminds me of Steven Spielberg's Duel.


Kurt Russell's performance as Stuntman Mike wasn't so much bad but it was a rather weird performance because it's obvious that he does have some psychological problems by killing the passengers inside his car. Stuntman Mike is a an absolute psycho who just likes to have fun but takes things a little over the top. He is a bit of a serial killer because he kills women in the car numerously but he doesn't kill them with his bare hands; like he doesn't touch them or anything. It's really the car that kills them. Rosario Dawson is a cool actress but I think she lost the plot by starring in this one. I think she was chosen to be in this film because she is a black woman and she is really hot!


I personally think Quentin Tarantino sort of lost the plot with this film because it felt more like a Fast And Furious film. I don't really like racing films very much but Death Proof obviously caught my attention because of it being a Quentin Tarantino film. The directing in the action scene near the end was terrifically crafted but everything else became a bit of a mess. Quentin has always been a director of original scripts, cool characters and gory violence. He has that in Death Proof but this time they aren't half as good as they were in Kill Bill: Volumes 1+2, Jackie Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Inglourious Basterds and especially Pulp Fiction. I don't think that Quentin was the right director to make this film; maybe Robert Rodriguez would've done a better job at making this a good film.


Overall, Death Proof is a disappointing yet an explosive, intense mayhem that could've been a lot better.

"Take care, old frog, you croak too much against Moses."


Director: Cecil D. DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, John Derek
Running time: 220 minutes
Country: USA


After seeing The Prince Of Egypt as a child and hearing that it was a remake of The Ten Commandments, I realised that when watching it, it is no remake at all because both have the same story but the way the characters are with each other in each of the films are totally different. I had extremely high expectations for The Ten Commandments because of it being such a classic, all of the Oscar nominations it received and the cast within the film really caught my attention as well. One thing I was worried about were the visual effects but to be honest, they weren't half as cheesy as I was expecting. I mean, the visual effects were very cheesy in Fantastic Voyage but they were absolutely amazing in this one! The costumes, art direction and make-up was absolutely fantastic!


This film stars three legendary actors who really made names for themselves in the 1950s: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter. Charlton Heston's performance as Moses is in my opinion, the best performance of his career because it was the performance that was a breakthrough that expressed filmmakers interest to cast him in their films. For example, his role in Ben-Hur was 3 years after The Ten Commandments and he won the Oscar in that film so I think his performance as Moses was the start of a legendary career. It is also my favourite film starring Heston as well. 1956 was an amazing year for Yul Brynner because he starred in 3 of the 5 Best Picture nominees that year: The Ten Commandments, The King And I (which he won the Best Leading Actor Oscar for) and Anastasia. Yul's performance as Rameses was absolutely brilliant! To be honest, I thought he was as good in this one as Charlton Heston was because Yul really showed what kind of person Rameses really is like the evil and hatred towards Moses and towards the Hebrew slaves. He is probably more famous in The King And I but his performance as Rameses in this film is simply unforgettable. Anne Baxter made a name for herself starring alongside Bette Davis in All About Eve for which she received an Oscar nomination for that film. Her performance as Nefritiri was absolutely awesome as well. She is the love interest of both Moses and Rameses (until Moses marries Sephora in the desert and they have a child together).


Cecil D. DeMille remakes his own creation and in a huge way! The 1956 version that he directed is a lot more of a success than the 1923 version was. The reason for this was probably every single thing about it like the fact it had an amazing cast. The Ten Commandments was one of the earliest and still is one of the most famous epic films of all time. I really loved Cecil's introduction to the film on the DVD because he wanted to tell the audience who was watching it what to expect and how it is made. The script was absolutely fantastic! What I loved about the script of that film was that it had normal English and it had words from the Bible as well which is really good. I figured when watching it that it obviously showed its present reality but tried to prove that the story of Moses is history. The events in the Bible are neither history or myth; they are legend.


Overall, The Ten Commandments is an absolutely outstanding classic biblical film that I really enjoyed from start to finish. I absolutely adore and cherish it as a true classic and landmark of cinema. One of the best films of the 50s and of all time!

"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.

"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.

"Let me sleep."


Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: USA


Insomnia is in my opinion one of the most underrated films of all time. It is a film that has a very enjoyable, fate-deciding and twisted story that I found deeply interesting from start to finish. I think the reason why I loved this film so much was that it was one of my kinds of films: murder mystery without being too complex, twists, tense and dramatic and a great ensemble cast. Insomnia is one of those films that I wasn't expecting to love as much as I actually did. It is a film that you will get totally gripped with especially with a shocking twist that affects the whole film as well as the characters within the film. It isn't a complex murder mystery film like Zodiac but it is just a simple film that just entertains and thrills audiences all the way through. This is the sort of film that would keep you awake if you are falling asleep watching it which is another reason why I really love this film a lot.


This film features three outstanding actors who are all Oscar winners: Al Pacino, Robin Williams and Hilary Swank. Al Pacino's performance is one that some people would be disappointed by but I personally think it wasn't disappointing at all because I was gripped with Detective Will Dormer and what his fate and the fate of the rest of the film would be which is what attracted Pacino's performance to the character meant to me. It isn't Al Pacino's best performance but in my opinion it is one of my favourites from him. Robin Williams' performance as Walter Finch actually surprised me. He made a good impression of playing a villain in this film. One thing that was rather strange was that I personally believe Robin made Walter's character a pretty predictable one because I knew he was the villain even though he was denying it to begin with until he revealed he was in fact the murderer. Robin should consider in portraying some more villains in films because he is actually pretty good at doing that. Hilary Swank gives another awesome performance which is pretty predictable because she is one of those actresses who doesn't disappoint at all. Ellie Burr is like the rookie of the investigation so she learns from Will Dormer and his partner Hap Eckhart but when Eckhart is accidentally shot by Dormer and she slowly learns the truth she sees a darker side to being a detective than just seeing criminals in the outside world.


I love Nolan's work in all of his films because he hasn't done one bad film yet. It's the same thing with David Fincher too. Nolan's Insomnia is Fincher's Zodiac and it's that simple apart from Insomnia is better. Nolan's work on Insomnia wasn't like his work on Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Memento and The Prestige because he only directed Insomnia but he wrote and/or produced the other films. Chris Nolan has always been a director of creating visual dark stories but this is the only one that isn't so. The awesome cast, story and script were the things that didn't make this a disappointment to me at all. I didn't know George Clooney was one of the executive producers of Insomnia until writing this review now. I was surprised that he did produce it but to be fair he and other producers within the film actually did quite a good job. I know that some people might critisize me and have critisized me for saying that Insomnia is Nolan's second best film after The Dark Knight and Memento is his least best work even though that is still amazing but it is one's opinion.


Insomnia is a really fun film that I just loved for its entertaining story, interesting characters and the way it was filmed. Out of the three Oscar winning actors in Insomnia, Hilary Swank is the best out of them. Her performance is still obviously better in Boys Don't Cry. I find it to be one of the best films from Robin Williams and Al Pacino too. Insomnia is one of my favourite films for those reasons and other reasons in my review. It is one of my favourites of 2002 as well. I find it to be one of those rare intense, thrilling, murder mystery masterpieces that people can appreciate for being what it is: entertainment.

"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.

""Dear Lana, By the time you read this I'll be back home in Lincoln. I'm scared of what's ahead, but when I think of you I know I'll be able to go on. You were right, Memphis isn't that far off. I'll be taking that trip down the highway before too long. I'll be waiting for you. Love always and forever, Brandon." "


Director: Kimberly Peirce
Starring: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III
Running time: 118 minutes
Country: USA


This film totally blew me away. This is one of the single most powerful films that have ever been made. There are a lot of powerful films that I love but there aren't that many which I could probably watch over and over again. I am glad to say that this is one of them that I could. I knew I needed to have a clear mind of what to expect with this film but it was too horrific to not like. This was a massive anticipation for me because of the dialogue and also because it was a true story and I love bio-pics. I think it has to be one of the hardest films that I have evern watched. I was left speechless at the end of this film which is something that doesn't happen very often to me. It is a film that starts like it is going to have a very dangerous and hard-hitting conclusion especially Brandon's real identity. It is a film that is a rather disturbing experience that is quite good. It is a beautiful film at the same time because it shows love despite of how different a person is. It was made at a great year don't get me wrong but I think they might have filmed it a little too soon after the real-life event occurred. The film was made in 1999 but the the real-life events happened in 1993. It is like World Trade Center and United 93 because a true story is filmed too soon after the real-life event occurred. Boys Don't Cry is another masterpiece that has been made in the best year in cinema of all time: 1999. I think 1999 will always be my favourite year in cinema.


Hilary Swank delivers an absolutely perfect performance as Brandon Teena/Teena Brandon. I think it will always be Swank's best performance. She said herself that playing Brandon was the biggest challenge she's ever had and probably always will have. She earned a lot of great glory after her performance including an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Despite her Oscar and Golden Globe she did surprise me because there has never been an actress playing a real-life person of the opposite sex in a true story. Chloë Sevigny's performance as Lana was such a powerful performance just like Swank's. There was a lot of commitment Sevigny had to deal with in this one because of the lesbian sex scenes with Hilary Swank and especially having to pretend Hilary Swank and Brandon Teena is a boy but is really a girl biologically. It's weird because to Lana, it is heterosexual love and romance she has with Brandon but to Brandon and to the viewers of the film it is lesbian love.


This has an extremely underrated director. The director's debut was an absolutely mindblowing one. Also, it's underrated because the director is a woman: Kimberley Peirce. She also wrote the script for this masterpiece. I think it's weird because there aren't that many female directors who make such masterpieces of filmmaking. Kimberley Peirce for Boys Don't Cry and Sofia Coppola for Lost In Translation are the only two masterpieces that were made by women. I was blown away by how sexually graphic it was. There was a lot of crude nudity and sexual violence involved too especially with the rape scene.


Boys Don't Cry is one of the best films of 1999. It is Hilary Swank's best performance and probably always will be. Boys Don't Cry is one of the most powerful, gut-retching and mindblowing films that have ever been made. It is a favourite of mine and my review says it all.

"Mrs. Robinson, you?re trying to seduce me."


Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Moss
Running time: 101 minutes
Country:


I would probably say that The Graduate probably is the most famous romantic-comedy of all time and it deserves to be. I have seen a few things that have ripped off a few bits from this film especially the relationship between Finch and Stifler?s mum in the American Pie trilogy. The Graduate is filled with a lot of hilarious comedy, drama and romance. I think that most romantic comedies have drama in it as well as romance and comedy. Even though this film was made in 1967, I was quite surprised that a film like this hadnt been made before then. This film was nominated for Best Picture of the year but it didnt win. It is rare of a romantic comedy to earn Best Picture nominations of even wins.


Dustin Hoffmans proper on-screen debut was absolutely phenomenal! Dustin was only 29-30 years old at the time of this film. Hoffman as The Graduate caught not only the Academys attention but all film fans as well because he was then and still is one of the best actors of all time. He is very famous for this film but I believe that he is more famous in his two Oscar winning performances in Kramer Vs. Kramer and particularly Rain Man. What I think is so perfect about Dustin playing Benjamin is that he seems really innocent when with Mrs. Robinson. He feels like he is controlled by her and like she bullies him into sleeping with her because he is so shy. Benjamin is in love with Mrs. Robinsons daughter and Mrs. Robinson tries to seperate them. Anne Bancroft was amazing as Mrs. Robinson. Yes, Anne was hot as Mrs. Robinson but Mrs. Robinson is an absolute bitch to do this to Benjamin. Then again Benjamin should have the sense to not go through it because of how irresistable he finds her. Mrs. Robinson realises that this affair could effect Benjamins life but she doesnt care. I dont know what Mrs. Robinson true intention was with Benjamin. I?m unsure whether it was out of boredom, wanting control or to cheat on her husband purposely.


Mike Nichols amazing direction of The Graduate won him an Academy Award for Best Director. The camera angles in the romantic scenes with Benjamin and Mrs. Robinson were awesome especially the angle of the poster where you see Mrs. Robinsons leg and Benjamin standing there staring. This film was brilliantly written. The plot is very original but the way the layout of the script showed that it was thought-up very hard.


Overall, The Graduate is an absolutely fantastic and unforgettable classic that is an absolute masterpiece which makes it one of the best romantic comedies as well as one of the best classics ever!

"One day when my mother and father were singing together in the forest, a great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so passionate was their singing that they did not notice, nor did they stop as the rain began to fall, and when their voices rose for the final bars of the duet a great bolt of lighting came out of the sky and struck my father so that he lit up like a torch. And at the same moment my father was struck dead my mother was struck dumb! She never spoke another word."

Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Holly Hunter, Harvey Kietel, Anna Paquin, Sam Niell
Running time: 121 minutes
Country: New Zealand, Australia, France


This film really inspired me because obviously it is quite a disturbing film but it is really a beautiful film to that people can look at in different ways. I think the main inspiration for me of this film was that Ada used her piano to express herself and to show her beautiful colours but after she loves it so much, it sort of takes over her life. It made me feel really tense because of Adas affair with Baines and also more about Adas daughter Flora aswell. I think the one thing that I loved so much about this film was that everything about it was so powerful. What can I say? The acting was absolutely outstanding from the whole cast.


Holly Hunter delivers an absolutely phenomenonal performance as Ada McGrath. Her performance really inspired me an awful lot because her performance and her win of the Oscar proved an absolutely huge and also very true key point. That key point is: Acting isnt just words. Ada McGarth is a mute woman who does not speak at all. It is Hollys facial expressions and the emotions that she uses in this film that earned her the Oscar win. Holly was really good and really clever at sign language which was another excellent point of her performance in this film. Her performance is one of my new all time favourite leading actress performance of all time because it truly shows what acting really is. Also, Holly shows us something that not many actors have shown with their characters and that is to believe in the actor with the character and to try and believe that the character and actor is a real person. Harvey Keitel's performance as George Baines was another very powerful performance in this film but I have to say that Keitel made Baines like a total pervert and that he was using her for sex and first but then he truly fell in love with her. I liked Sam Niell in this film but I have never seen him play any character like this before. He made Alisdair Stewart a really powerful, emotional and quite sick and cold character to come across. I loved Anna Paquins performance too as Flora McGarth. Her character was very powerful, emotional and very clever character too because of being able to speak for her mother from sign language to actual English. She is like an interpreter so to speak. Anna's voice was totally different in The Piano compared to her real life voice. Flora is like a real hero because she tries to help her mother not only because of her not speaking and her having trouble with her husband but mostly because she is one of the very few close people to Ada who appreciate Adas love for her piano which makes Anna Paquins performance one of the best young actor/actress performances of all time.


I loved everything about the direction from Jane Campion because this film was really well filmed and adapted together to make a masterpiece. The writing of this film also makes it a masterpiece too because of the heartbreaking, touching and drastic lines that are spoken by the characters (apart from Ada). This film shows that female directors aswell as male directors can make excellent films too. Another brilliantly filmed masterpiece from a female director was Lost In Translation which was directed by awesome director but crap actress Sofia Coppola. I havent seen any of Jane Campion's other films before but I need to now. This film is a typical romantic film because there is a lot of love between the characters. This is Titanic like film as far as the romance is concerned. It is like a romantic-period and period-drama film.


I would probably say that probably is Holly Hunters best performance even though this is the only live action film I have seen her in. I have never heard her actually speak in a live action film after only seeing The Piano and The Incredibles. After seeing Anna Paquin in the X-Men trilogy, I have to say that this is probably her best film too. I dont think anything at all disappointed me with this film because everything about it was simply superb. I can only finish my review by saying that this film is a masterpiece and was a third of the five nominees of Best Picture 1993 that are all masterpieces including The Fugitive and Schindlers List aswell as The Piano.

"Is he always this funny, or only on days when he's wanted for murder?"


Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer
Running time: 104 minutes
Country: USA


This film is a quite good adventure for the whole family to enjoy. It had that funny story and cleverly written story too. It was the start of Space Jam and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. This film makes me laugh because Roger Rabbits character reminds me a lot like Daffy Ducks because they are both trouble makers but nice animals though, they are both heroic in a clumsy way, they are quite ridiculous characters but are just pure entertainment. The story in general is clumsy and quite silly but it is just family entertainment nothing more. It is a very witty story. It brings together all sorts of different types of characters. This film became big when it first came out because nobody has ever seen a film where there are real life people and animations that appear at the same time on the same film. This was like a classic blockbuster in the 1980s and early 1990s. This film lost its well known status until Space Jam was released in 1996. This film was extremely weird and really bizarre when it came out.


I did like Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant. Bob Hoskins truly makes Eddie like a grumpy old man who just wants to do his job nothing more. Eddie Valiant is a man who used to work with toons and doesnt like them anymore but until he is entwined with Roger Rabbit and the murder of Marvin Acme. When Roger confronts Eddie and asks for help, Eddie is torn because he doesnt want any trouble with the toons but he doesnt want anything to do with them either. Now he has no choice. He became a toon hater up until a toon hero who saved Roger and his wife Jessica. I thought the direction was descent with the clever scenes and the good actions that were used on each of the characters.


I love Robert Zemeckis work but I have to say that Who Framed Roger Rabbit is my least favourite from Zemeckis. I personally think that this film sort of set a level of comic book films even though this isnt a comic book. I cant explain why but I can just see it. I found the script quite lame to be honest because I found that most of the scenes were far too long and there were quite a lot of lame words involved in this film.


As I said this is my least favourite Zemeckis film because it is the weakest out of all of the films he has done. I thought this film was good but could have been a bit better. Also, it is an overrated family film. I think the main thing that disappointed me about it was it was just quite a weak story and poor characters. Apart from that, it was a good family film.

"You're in no position disagree with me, boy. I got a loaded .45 here. You got pimples."


Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar
Running time: 157 minutes
Country: USA


Scent Of A Woman is a very emotional story with a huge adventure and a huge impact on self discovery. That is where it is beautiful especially when Frank is driving a car, despite he is blind, he enjoys it and he tries his best to be like everyone else. Also, as he becomes closer to Charlie, he tries to help him and sort of behaves like his father. It is really emotional as Slade becomes close with Charlie, Slade cant seen Charlie and doesnt know what he looks like. Slade becomes quite angry with himself for being the way he is. It becomes from a hard going relationship to a very deep personal relationship. Both Slade and Charlie discover about themselves and they both a change of heart. Charlie goes from being a complete bad ass to a really nice hearted young guy after being with Colonel Slade. Because of Slades bitter attitude, he lost most of his family. He starts to get back with his family and meeting new people and because of this Slade becomes a whole new person again.


Al Pacinos performance is simply outstanding. It was his first and only Academy Award he won and this is probably one of his best that not many people might not have taken into consideration. He is mostly overrated for Godfather trilogy, Dog Day Afternoon, Scarface and Serpico. But in a way it is quite good. I love powerful characters who are very different who behave like normal people now. I love characters who are either retarded, deaf, blind, disabled, deformed etc. For example, Al Pacino as blind man Frank Slade, Dustin Hoffman as autistic Raymond Babbit, John Hurt as John Merrick and more. I mostly love it when characters like that are portrayed by such powerful actors and the greatest actors of all time. As far as the Frank Slade character is concerned, Slade is quite hard on the outside where he has that part of the army within him still but inside he is a really nice man with a big heart. Al Pacino very much deserved his Oscar in this film. Not his best performance though. His best performance is Michael Corleone particularly in The Godfather: Part II. Chris O Donnell delivers another outstanding performance as Charlie Simms. Charlie is a lonely young man who has no family. Chris portrays Charlie with such powerful emotion and with a lot of laughter too. I found it quite funny when he saw that beautiful woman in the restaurant and Pacino danced with her and he was quite shy. He is the one character in the film that made me laugh. He deserved his Golden Globe but should have had an Oscar nomination.


The direction from Martin Brest was really good. I could tell that Pacino and O Donnell needed to do a lot of hard work with all the different actions that were going on. I thought the script was simply outstanding because as I said it is an extremely emotional and powerful script but at the same time it is quite a funny script too. This film can help people with learning about who they really are.


I have only seen three of the five 1992 Academy Award Best Picture nominees and after seeing Scent Of A Woman, Howards End and Unforgiven it is my favourite one of those five so far. It has achieved Al Pacinos most powerful performance but not his most famous performance though. It is one of the best of 1992 and one of Al Pacinos best as I have said repeatedly. The one thing that disappointed me about Scent Of A Woman was that I thought it was a bit too long. Despite of how long it was, it was still a really well written film that deserves its place as one of the most beautiful films based on self discovery and friendship.

"I'm having a blast! This is the most fun I've had without lubricant!"


Director: James Wan
Starring: Cary Elwes, Leigh Whannell, Danny Glover, Ken Leung
Running time: 103 minutes
Country: USA


Saw truly is one of the smartest horror films ever made. One of the reasons why I loved this film was because it was really clever and it didnt screw up at all. It all adapted really well not only to see how scary it is but also to see the extremely psychological side to it to what some human beings on Earth are really like. It is a real teaser because the audience arent sure whether the victims are going to kill themeslves or each other. It shows real horror and a really gut wretching exciting story but unlike some of the horror films today they are just random horrors that arent really thought about properly. They are just randomly thought of but without thinking about a plot. But this unfortunately happens to Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V and probably Saw VI. It is a film that I have been told is a really scary horror film but it is a horror film still but I would refer it more of a psychological thriller.


The acting was so crap it made me laugh but that wasnt really the point. It is more about the psychological horror that is used in this film rather than the characters involved. The acting didnt really need to be good in a film like this. This film as I said focused more on the story than the acting and directing involved which made this film a great success.


I thought that the direction was really good because there was a close point of view of living in hell and of the psychological side of things within the film. There were some awesome camera angles that havent really been used that often in a horror film before. The script was so spine chilling and gut wrenching that probably makes you feel a bit sick but makes you feel really good because of its clever storytelling and screenplay.


After seeing this one, I am going to see Saw II but not Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V or Saw VI at all because it will spoil my liking to Saw. I love films like this (psychological thrillers) because they are films that can stay in your mind for a long time and can be films that you would watch again but wouldnt want to watch again for a while like me. Saw is one of those films that a lot of teenagers would watch because of the gore, violence and the horror and that. That is where I find this film extremely overrated but for good reason though: entertainment. As far as I am concerned Saw is a masterpiece of horror films!!

"If you want to understand me, watch my movies."


Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Dan Akyroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Anthony Hopkins
Running time: 143 minutes
Country: UK


Chaplin is a film that is a lot like biorgaphy films because they are emotional films. It is a film about a man who became a legend in his days. This film was absolutely fantastic. It was really inspiring this film was because there were a lot of emotional years for Chaplin especially during WWII and also because of his personal life with women too. This film made me feel good because Charlie Chaplin is one of my favourite actors and I am really inspired by his work because he makes me laugh. This was a biography film I was so looking forward to because Chaplin and his films are eternal and will always live on. This film was really inspiring aswell because when Chaplin (Downey Jr.) is watching the films that he is directing, the film that he directed is the actual real life film with the real Charlie Chaplin in it. That is just amazing! That inspired me a lot! I find this film an extremely underrated biography film that should be watched by everyone. Not only because it is about the life of the late and great Charlie Chaplin but also the highly acclaimed performance from Robert Downey Jr. as Chaplin.


Robert Downey Jr. delivers one of the best performances that I have ever seen. Downey Jr was almost like a clone of Chaplin because of every single way he was performing especially as the Tramp. Downey Jr. walked a lot like Chaplin did as the Tramp and he especially did the humorous stupid slapstick that Charlie used to do in this film. Downey Jr. almost did that perfectly. I think that was the reason why he earned his Oscar nomination not only the acting performance as far as words are concerned. I don't think that Downey Jr. looks like Chaplin at all really but I think the reason why he was cast as Chaplin was because he has that loopy hyper style to his characters, he is quite a small man as Chaplin was and also Downey Jr. is an emotional actor aswell. I was deeply fascinated by Geraldine Chaplin's performance as Hannah Chaplin because Geraldine Chaplins is Charlie Chaplin's real life daughter. It must have been a great honour for Geraldine to portray her own grandmother with the story about her father. Her performance as Hannah Chaplin was absolutely superb and she should have earned Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Kevin Kline made me laugh a lot in this film as he does anyway particularly in his Oscar winning performance A Fish Called Wanda. Anthony Hopkins was good aswell. His character in this film was the only character in the film that is fictional.


The direction from Richard Attenborough was awesome. I personally think that Attenborough is an expert of making biography movies especially after the success of the true life story of Mahatma Gandhi. That film is just called Gandhi. Attenborough won an Academy Award for Best Director for that film but I feel he should have been close for Chaplin. The script was good but I do personally think that it could have been better in some of the scenes. This film was very similar compared to biography films but the one biography film that I have seen and really like that I have seen is Gandhi because they are true stories about heroes and their slight downfalls and uprises within their lives. That is where I do find Mahatma Gandhi and Charlie Chaplin quite similar. The only difference is that Chaplin was an comedian, actor and director and Gandhi was a leader of followers of Asia to lead his people into freedom. That is another reason why I find Chaplin similar to Gandhi because it is directed by same person. The only thing that I did find quite disappointing for me was that I don't think it went into great detail with Chaplin's personal life. I did love this film despite that.


This film is probably Robert Downey Jr's most famous performance and is probably favourite performance from him. I do love Downey Jr. in Iron Man. This is my second favourite Richard Attenborough film after Gandhi. Chaplin is an amazing film that deserves to be remembered. I find Chaplin very underrated though.

"This is Lex Luthor. Only one thing alive with less than four legs can hear this frequency, Superman, and that's you."


Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty
Running time: 143 minutes
Country: Canada, UK, USA


This was really thrilling. It is the first official superhero film and that is why it is called the classic superhero film. I did really like this film but I dont really like Superman/Clark Kents character because he isnt only a hero but he doesnt really have a personal slide in his personality like heroes like Batman and Spider-Man have. I dont think the name nor costume are catchy at all but I did like this film though.


Christopher Reeve delivers a descent performance as Clark Kent/Superman. After seeing this and Superman Returns, I do think that Christopher Reeve is better than Brandon Routh as Superman. He was a really big man with a heroic style which was almost perfect for Superman. Gene Hackman certainly makes a better portrayal of Lex Luthor than Kevin Spacey does because Hackman is really good at playing that sort of character. Spacey is good as a villain aswell. I think that both of their villainous characters in the past have been really evil. It was a battle of two different characters in two different films played by those two actors but as villains: Gene Hackman in his Oscar winning performance in Unforgiven and Kevin Spacey in his Oscar winning performance in The Usual Suspects. Marlon Brando made me laugh in this film because I have never seen him before with white hair and also I have seen him looking really old (The Godfather), really young (A Streetcar Named Desire, On The Waterfront) and bald (Apocalypse Now). It is quite strange to see Marlon Brando in a superhero film but he will be remembered really well for being in this first ever superhero film along with his other previous films. Margot Kidder was a better Lois Lane than Kate Bosworth was.


Richard Donner wasn't really a well known director before he directed this film. He was well known after doing the first two Superman films and the four Lethal Weapon films and The Goonies too. I personally thought that Bryan Singers direction in Superman Returns. The script was good. It is like the Batman (1989) of Superman films. This disappointed me a bit because I thought it was quite a slow story and went on for a bit too long just like Superman Returns did.


I think it is the late Christopher Reeves best film of the ones I have seen from him so far. An awesome Gene Hackman film but liked his acting more in Unforgiven. I really liked the late Marlon Brando in this one but my least favourite performance of the ones I have seen of him so far. I dont really like Superman but this is the best of the franchise of the ones I have seen so far and will probably be the best of them all.

"Why must fireflies die so young?"


Director: Isao Takahata
Starring: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Yoshiko Shinohara, Akemi Yamaguchi
Running time: 89 minutes
Country: Japan


Grave Of The Fireflies truly is one of the most powerful animated films ever made. It is a film that shows us all what love really is. It tells an heroic and yet tragic tale of a young teenage boy who looks after his little sister during World War II. There havent been that many animated films that havent been half as emotional as this film was. This is the second most emotional non-Disney animated film after Shrek. This film made me feel really proud of myself because I have a little sister who is only 3 years old and it showed me how I can look after her. So, I have to say that this is one of the biggest inspirations to me. It is a story that a lot of people love because of the story and also of how affective it can be to peoples lives in general. Also, it is a film that can break peoples hearts because of the atmosphere of the film and what actually happens within it. This film was well directed but I was hoping that it would be directed by Hayao Miyazaki. But it was still a good direction from Isao Takahata. The script was good aswell because it truly seemed like a very heartfelt and epic animated fairy tale aswell. I would say that this is very similar to Miyazakis animated films because they are obviously animés. As far as live aciton war films are concerned, this one is quite similar to Life Is Beautiful because of an older close relative looking after a child apart from that it is brother looking after sister in Grave Of The Fireflies and father looking after son in Life Is Beautiful but they have quite a similar sort of meaning to it.

The chemistry between Sensuko and Senita was adorable because obviously all brothers and sister argue in real life but in this one, it shows that they can get along really well at times. It sort of helped me with my relationship with my 15 year old sister which is great. This was just so heartwarming without any violence, sex nor bad language. It shows us beauty aswell as the horror of WWII that is really was. It shows beauty of discovering about themselves. The animated effects were superb indeed which reached over my expectations because there werent really any animé films in the 1980s. This is like the start of great animated films. This is my second favourite animé film after Miyazakis Spirited Away. Masterpiece!!

"I don't like you. You're weird and unattractive."


Director: Fred Schepisi & Robert Young
Starring: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: UK, USA


Fierce Creatures is a really funny film featuring the same cast as A Fish Called Wanda. This film isn 't a sequel of that because of the completely different story and characters within it. It was a funny film but wasnt as clever as A Fish Called Wanda. It still has that typical clumsy slapstick comedy involved in the film. It was the original comedy style that made me laugh so much. But the things that were a little disappointing was I dont think the characters were as clever as A Fish Called Wanda. The story seems a bit like a family type. I honestly think that not many people like it is because of the weaker story and not as funny story and trys to rip-off a great film like A Fish Called Wanda.


John Cleese was hilarious again. He looks a lot older now than he does in A Fish Called Wanda. I know there is a 9 year different between the two films but the rest of the cast apart from Cleese don't look any different as far as looks of age is concerned. Jamie Lee Curtis is once again as hot as anything. She is obviously a different character but she does have that hot irresistable character to it which is where it is quite similar. Jamies hair is really long brown hair in Fierce Creatures but really short brown in A Fish Called Wanda. Kevin Kline is really hilarious again as both Vince and Rod McCain. It is clever because obviously they are both same actor but both look like Kevin Kline even though I know it is. I do think that both characters do seem a bit different from Kevin Kline in a slight way. Michael Palin has a mild appearance in this film which did slightly disappoint me but he was still funny though. Ronnie Corbett is pretty damn funny in it too.


The direction was fair enough from Fred Schepisi and Robert Young in this film. The script was original again what comedies are like really. There were some flaws involved but I did adore the screenplay in A Fish Called Wanda.There were some very long extended scenes involved but that didnt really effect the film because it adapted together really well which really impressed me.


I do have to say that this film was hilarious but I did like A Fish Called Wanda way more though. The acting was awesome again but not as good as A Fish Called Wanda. That beats Fierce Creatures in every single way. It is on the list of one of the best films of 1997. It is an underrated film that should be considered by more people about it being a loving comedy.

"This isn't a race; it's a showdown."


Director: Andy & Larry Wachowski
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon
Running time: 135 minutes
Country: USA, Germany


I have to say that I think that Speed Racer is one of the worst films of the year so far if not of all time and there are many reasons for this. Reason number one: the acting was absolutely dreadful apart from John Goodman. Reason number two: The direction was really bad but was quite decent in racing scenes, the plot was appauling and so was the writing of the film. I have to say that this film has one of the weakest plots that I have ever seen and reason number three: because it felt like it didnt mean anything to anyone involved in it. I was really hoping that this film would be great but I was disappointed with it. In fact, I was devestated because I was really hoping to like it but I didnt at all. I mean, what a stupid name Speed Racer is! Who would call their son that? It is embarassing for him to have a name like that and also because of the names of his parents: Pop Racer and Mom Racer. How pathetic is that! Its like being named Brill Player or something like that in football haha! Pathetic I know but needed to say it.


I cant believe Emile Hirsch was in a masterpiece like Into The Wild and was then in a terrible film like this. I have always admired Christina Ricci in her films but I dont really like her as much now because she was in this film. I loved her performances in Sleepy Hollow and Monster but she is being in some rubbish films. I am presuming that Penelopé will be awful too even though I havent seen it yet. John Goodman was quite funny in a slight way but was quite a stupid character. But mostly I cant believe an Oscar winning actress and a great actress like Susan Sarandon was in a film like this. She wasnt really very good either. She acted like she had no clue what she was doing.


The direction from the Wachowski Brothers was pretty bad really because after doing The Matrix trilogy, they are losing their taste in the films that they are doing. I think the only films that they have directed are The Matrix films, Speed Racer and a film called Bound. On the other hand, I did think the directing during the action scenes were quite good. It was badly written by the Wachowski Brothers. I was really hoping that it will be well written just like The Matrix films are but was greatly disappointed. There are a few believeable qualities that this film does have and that is because of the racing car moments. It is obviously a fantasy film but can be a loving film for little kids because of this. I mean, I love kids films but this one was too kiddie and comical for me. Also, kids will love it too because of its comic uses with cars and their fast speed and what type and colour they are. The visual effects were realistic indeed which I was certainly expecting. I couldnt feel any love between Speed and Trixie at all because both acting was terrible. Even though the words were love, it felt like they were brother and sister more than anything and also because Trixie was in a lot of scenes with Speeds parents, I got the impression that Speeds girlfriend lived with them.The sound effects are absolutely amazing in this film which is one of the few things that I loved and pretty much sums up the one star in this film along with the visual effects.


I could not believe it is directed by the two guys who created one of the most popular franchises of all time that is The Matrix. It makes the Matrix seem quite bad because the people who made it is the same as the awful film that is Speed Racer. Almost hit one of the worst films of all time list.

"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.

"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.

"Don't stand in the way of my actualization as a man."

Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: USA


Being John Malkovich is one of the weirdest films that I have ever seen. It has a very weird story which is a very heard thinking plot in a motion picture because of how effective it can be if one enters another person's mind and how it can work. On the weird side to the story, it is both sick and weird that a portal is invented and can control a person's mind. Actually, it is also pretty insane. This is a very imaginative film that people can just think of out of their heads. I have to say that Being John Malkovich is, yes, one of the weirdest but it is the best weird film that has adapted together the best. I ws confused and puzzled what was with the small offices in the film and the low roofs. A question that I have asked myself alot before and after I watched the film and that I still don't know the answer to. Why is it John Malkovich as himself? Why him? There can be any actor in the world who can portray themself but John Malkovich was chosen.


I have never been a strong admirer of John Cusack at all. After watching this film, I don't like him at all now. Just think he should just give up acting just like his sister Joan Cusack. He isn't as bad as her though. I haven't seen many films from John but I have to say that he is one of the weakest actors. I was really impressed with Cameron Diaz's performance because it was absolutely fantastic which is very rare froim her. She had that absolutely nuts side to her personality as far as her sexuality is concerned. Also, her transgender side aswell. Cameron's appearance was a real fascination to me because she looked like a 70-80 year old bag but Cameron is really a young, hot and very attractive actress. She should have had an Oscar nomination either instead of or alongside Catherine Keener in this film. Catherine's performance was even better than Cameron Diaz's because not so much that the character was more powerful but because she made a slightly better impression of the character she was portraying. John Malkovich was the best because he was only portraying his normal self. In the scenes where Malkovich is questioned by a fan, it seems like an ordinary interview or walking into the public in real life either in front or not in front of the screen. He made me laugh a lot as he has always done.


I have now started to become very admired by Spike Jonze's work for quite a few reasons. Those reasons include he hasn't done a bad film yet for me, he was married to great director but terrible actress Sofia Coppola. Most importantly, he has done very bizarre films that truly have become masterpieces just like Stanley Kubrick and especially David Lynch which is where I find Jonze's work so fascinating. The script was very well adapted and is a mixture between genres comedy, drama and fantasy.


I loved Cameron Diaz in this film but liked her more in Gangs Of New York and Shrek. This is my second favourite film from John Malkovich. I do still love him in Johnny English though. I loved both Being John Malkovich and Adaptation so can't say what my favourite is from Spike Jonze. It will probably be Being John Malkovich. I think it should have been a contender for Best Picture. Masterpiece! Bring us more masterpieces, Jonze.

"Make me feel good."


Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Peter Boyle
Running time: 111 minutes
Country: USA


I was really hoping that I would like this film but when I saw it, I was disappointed. I thought that the story was very dull and very slow. It was like it needed to be really good for me because it had an Oscar winning performance from an actress who has been in some rather crap films over the years like Catwoman. I had high expectations at first because when I read the story of a few websites, it sounded very powerful and just a fantastic film. One scene which was very powerful which had a long duration and was very realistic. That was the sex scene. It must have lasted about five minutes at least. I didn't really know what to make of that scene because I don't think I've ever seen a sex scene that looks so realistic.


I wouldn't be surprised if either Halle Berry and/or Billy Bob Thornton were nervous about it but it is only acting after all. Billy Bob Thornton's performance is really brilliant which is very good from a leading male actor. He seemed like an abusive bastard at the start but changed throughout the film. Halle Berry's performance was absolutely fantastic. Leiticia is a mother who's husband is about to be executed and she is raising her obese son. Things start taking drastic turns for her especially when, where and how she met Han Grotowski. Halle Berry was awesome in it but I do honestly think that it was luck that she won her Academy Award. Nicole Kidman was robbed for Moulin Rouge!. Heath Ledger's appearance really disappointed me because he wasn't in it for very long.


The direction from Marc Forster was good but I do think that he is a rather weak director especially after seeing Quantum Of Solace but I did love Finding Neverland that he did. The writing was very long. It was very hard to follow and easy in other ways because it was an original plot.


This is probably Halle Berry's best acting performance but not my favourite film from her. I liked her more in X-Men 2 and Swordfish. I didn't like this film because as I already said, it was very boring and dull. I didn't fully understand it either. One of my most disappointing films but I have seen films that are more disappointing than Monster's Ball.

"What's good for man isn't good for God!"


Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Vera Bloom
Running time: 164 minutes
Country: USA


I had high expectations for this film because it is a film from Martin Scorsese and it is one of the few Scorsese films that is a non-crime film and has drama within it. This film disappointed me quite a bit. The best things about this film were that it did show how horrifying Jesus' crucifixion really was to endure and to witness. The disappointments for me were that it dragged on a bit and went a bit boring. Also, I know the story of Jesus but i got a bit confused at times because there were an awful lot of events that occurred at around the same time. I was confused on the scene where Jesus was crucified and then his guardian angel came to him and she took him off the cross and he was alive but in the Bible he never came off the cross alive but the screen flashed to Jesus on the cross and he died at the end of it which was a bit weird. I will give this film credit for being underrated because i think most people choose to watch Mel Gibson's Passion Of The Christ over this one.


I have mixed feelings about Willem Dafoe as Jesus because he was powerful enough for the character but I could see him unfortunately as the Green Goblin/Norman Osborn. In this film he was very heroic and it showed how good Willem can be as a hero as well as a villain. If not Jesus in a biblical story then i think that he would have made a good Moses. I did still like him as Jesus though. Harvey Keitel was pretty crap as Judas because he didn't completely show how powerful Judas really was with Jesus and how badly he betrayed Jesus.


As I said, this is one of the few if not the only non-crime film that Martin Scorsese has directed. Scorsese goes drama just like he went comedy in King Of Comedy and like he went epic in Gangs Of New York. He directed this film really well which surprised me a lot. I was blown away by how Scorsese directed Jesus crucifixion. The script was adapted from the Bible which must have been really hard because the Bible is written in Latin which is like the old British language. It was still really good for that.


This is the underrated Scorsese film but it is my least favourite film from him not because it is the weakest but because it is a film that isn't typical Scorsese. There were some scenes within the film that were very confusing and was a bit too much in your face so to speak. Apart from that, a good film to watch.

Director: Paul Weiland
Starring: Eddie Marsan, Helena Bonham Carter, Gregg Sulkin, Thomas Drewson
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: UK


I wanted to watch this film mostly because it stars my favourite actress Helena Bonham Carter and the story sounded rather interesting. For the first hour I felt rather bored but I wanted to try and stick with the rest of it and see if it makes a difference in which I did. I am actually glad because it had a good heartfelt ending that sends a very important message: always notice your children and notice what their biggest dreams and ambitions are. This emotional story relives what England fans must have felt when we won the World Cup in 1966. There was quite a few disappointments in this film but the ending made a difference by drifting up an extra star from it being 2-stars up to 3 stars.


I found Eddie Marsan to be a rather stupid actor to be in a film like this especially with a ridiculous and weak character to portray. I did really like him a lot in Happy-Go-Lucky which could lead him to an Oscar nomination this year. Manny Reubens is a really weak character that I didn't get to grips with at all. As much as I love Helena Bonham Carter, her acting in Sixty Six was good but wasn't brilliant but there was some quite emotional moments that occurred in this film which is both common and rare (if you get what I mean) from an actress like Helena Bonham Carter. This is one of her most civil characters she has ever portrayed but it is one of her weakest performances as well. Gregg Sulkin was ok as Bernie Reubens but he sort of irritated me a lot because of the way he speaks when he plays the character and the facial expressions he pulls as well.


The directing was good involving the World Cup final with England and West Germany. There was quite a lot of well conceived directing used from Paul Weiland involving the message this film tries to send to people all around the world. It doesn't seem to do that very well because it is a very underrated film that wasn't released properly. The script was good involving the World Cup final 1966 but the rest of the script involving the young boy with his passion was rather lame I thought. This isn't a good film and it isn't a bad film either.


I have said this many times about films with a similar sort of rating and thoughts about it, it is just a piece of entertainment. It is nothing serious that could effect new ways of cinema and it isn't a stupid waste of your times. I wouldn't really recommend the film but if people want to watch it, I wouldn't be able to complete persuade them not to.

"Baby wants to fuck! Baby wants to fuck Blue Velvet!"


Director: David Lynch
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Running time: 120 minutes
Country: USA


Blue Velvet is a story that is very bizarre indeed but a story that I think everybody would really like because of how dark the story is. It is a very disturbing film because an ear is found in a field. The ear is a very deep effect on not just the murder investigation but also the characters. It deeply affects their lives as well. The classic scene is definitely the scene where Jeffrey was going to a woman called Dorothy's flat and he found her there. She makes him strip naked and performs an act of fellatio on him while sticking a knife at him. That is a very crude scene but a very realistic scene. The way this film was made was very well done because it is a really dark, mind-blowing thriller that is probably one of Lynch's darkest films so far. It was a very hard film to understand at first but once I got into the film after about 30 minutes I started to really enjoy it. The way the opening credits rolled was the same way the ending credits rolled with blue velvet curtains. That was an introduction to what the two words mean put together. It shows actual blue velvets to start with but when curtains opened the Blue Velvet film began and it did the same with the end. The curtains closed and it finished. Isabella Rossellini was really good as Dorothy Vallens because she was obviously a very mixed up woman with a few problems. Isabella made her quite weird looking even though that is part of the character anyway. Her performance as Dorothy was really weird as well as powerful.


Kyle MacLaughan's performance as Jeffery Beaumont was awesome as well because he was like an innocent victim until he spotted the ear in the field and he is suddenly part of the case. He takes the ear to the police which leads to his scenes with Dorothy. He is like a rookie and a trainee in the case of the murdered person. Dennis Hopper's performance as Frank Booth was the best out of all of them because he was really good at playing that cold, foul-mouthed, violent and sociopath to his personality. He is a very fearful villain. He is also sexually screwed up because he had different types of sex with Dorothy whenever he wanted to. The acts are all very crude which is very dark of course. He even has orgasms with rage and pleasure at the same time which is very weird. I haven't seen Dennis Hopper in any film at all yet but he was really good as Frank though.


David Lynch directed this film like it was very important for the audience as well as himself because his previous film Dune which turned out to be a critical failure. He wanted it to be a more personal story which a somewhat type of characters to his 1977 film Eraserhead which was his first film. This is a very typical Lynch film for quite a few different reasons and they are because it is dark, rather bizarre and a story with a powerful development of characters. Those three facts are the main reasons why I turned out to love this one and can I be blamed? No! The script was really awesome. Lynch had two different drafts of the script before filming but he finally concluded to write an absolutely amazing script that didn't have one single flaw. This is probably the most creative script he has ever written.


David Lynch has created another modern piece of art. Unfortunately Blue Velvet isn't my favourite Lynch film but it is one of his best and is certainly one of the best crime thrillers ever. I prefer The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive of the ones I have seen from Lynch thus far. Blue Velvet is definitely one of the best films of the 1980s. Also, Blue Velvet has one of the greatest scripts I have ever listened to as well.

"You'd be killing a horse - that's not first degree murder, in fact it's not murder at all, in fact I don't know what it is."


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Running time: 85 minutes
Country: USA


The Killing is a film that has a very dark story and is a story with a very slow dialogue. It starts off really slowly within the first 30 minutes at least and then it just suddenly starts all over again. To be perfectly honest, I thought this film was rather thrilling and was quite impactful but I don't really refer it as a classic crime film as I don't as a classic Kubrick film.


The acting was good from Sterling Hayden as Johnny Clay. Johnny Clay is a veteran criminal planning one last heist before settling down and marrying Fay. His plan is to rob the money-counting room of a racetrack of two million dollars during a featured race, and to do this he assembles a team consisting of a corrupt cop; George Peatty, a betting window teller at the track to give access to the backroom; a sharpshooter to shoot the favorite horse during the race, distracting the crowd; a wrestler to provide another distraction by provoking a fight at the track bar, and the bartender.


I wouldn't call The Killing Kubrick's classic debut film to start with. I do still think Paths Of Glory takes that place. That is a better film than The Killing. Kubrick directs this one in a slight way how Scorsese directed GoodFellas. I will give Kubrick's work on The Killing credit that it is extremely underrated and wasn't taken into consideration by Hollywood until he made his later works most notably Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.


This isn't one of Kubrick's best works and it isn't Kubrick's worst film either but it is as I said one of his most underrated works along side Paths Of Glory and Lolita. I think if I give Barry Lyndon a re-watch in the future then The Killing could be but for the moment it isn't. This is a good film but it was too slow and it was well put together again until it actually got the hang of the storyline. The Killing should be watched if anyone is a fan of Kubrick's films. I wouldn't recommend just anybody to watch it, just a fan of Kubrick. The Killing is a classic crime film that sends through a crook's adventure into a robbery. Good film but wouldn't watch again.

"Men know how to kill, women how to survive."


Director: Dolph Lungdren
Starring: Dolph Lungdren, Ben Cross, Ivan Petrushinov, Olivia Lee
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: Germany, USA


First of all, this is the sort of film where I would obviously know what it's like. It is a real kick-ass action film but with a lame story that does remind me a lot of Taken and Shoot 'Em Up. To be perfectly honest, I was predicting this film to be a bit like Rambo IV because the outlooks of both of the posters look similar. The Mechanik is an absolutely ridiculous story but with the extremely intense and graphic action sequences that make it fun to watch. I would have rated this film a tiny bit higher but I personally think it has a lack of character development. I thought of Taken almost the same as The Mechanik. The blood was very realistic and with quite a lot of intense gore used as well. That is another reason why I was predicting this to be like Rambo IV.


I have never seen Dolph Lungdren in any film before until now. I find him the same as Sylvester Stallone: pretty lame actor but an actor with a load of fun entertainment. I prefer Stallone to Lungdren. I have actually become quite interested in watching some more Dolph Lungdren films including The Expendables in which both Stallone and Lungdren are appearing in together in 2010.


Dolph Lungdren directs this film almost precisely the same as Sylvester Stallone did in Rambo IV. Dolph makes his own character Nikolai Cherenko be like a modern times action hero which would make a decent franchise. The script was obviously lame like Rambo but, what the hell, it's fun. The Mechanik is a bad film but with good intense action so it's going to have to be middle rating. I have before more interested in intense action films more now after seeing The Mechanik.

"Just, don't let them take me back to the institution."


Director: Richard Franklin
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia
Running time: 113 minutes
Country: USA


Psycho II is a fairly good sequel to the classic thriller Psycho. It is a sequel that is basically the first film all over again because Norman plays the innocent and "mother" kills. The only difference is that we know that Norman is the killer whereas we didn't in the first film. Psycho II is the sequel of a classic that not many people seem to fully appreciate. No, it isn't good and it isn't bad neither but this was made like it was more for scares and entertainment not to relive the reputation of the classic that was Psycho. I found it almost as tense as the first film was especially when we see Norman holding a kitchen knife, when people enter his house or live with him whether it's in the Bates house or inside the motel. It is weird seeing the actual Bates house in a colour effect whereas it was black and white in the original and first adaptation. I don't think Psycho is a franchise really. Yes, it does have more than one film with it but maybe it is a bit like a spoof to the first film and spoofs don't make good trilogies at all.


Anthony Perkins shows once again that he is the only actor who can portray Norman Bates properly. Maybe Christian Bale would have been a good Norman Bates in modern days after seeing him in American Psycho. Perkins is 23 years older in the sequel. He was 26 in the first film but he is 49 in the sequel. Norman is back to no good again especially having Mary living with him who is the daughter of Lila Loomis previously known as Lila Crane who was the sister of Norman's shower victim Marion Crane. Vera Miles brings a really good return after 23 years portraying Lila. She seems to want revenge on Norman for her sister's murder. She tries to warn her daughter from Mary from getting too close to Norman and to not live with him because of what he did in the past and how crazy he really is. The directing wasn't very good and I am ever so glad that Hitchcock wasn't here to see it. I feel the same thing about the remake that neither Anthony Perkins nor Alfred Hitchcock were able to see that and how awful it was and both would have been angry and embarrassed because of the film they made together.


The director makes this film like the first one all over again but in a bad way with bad filmmaking. It would have been better to have just left the first one but I am still glad I got the opportunity to see this film. I am now curious about Psycho IV: The Beginning because I want to know the truth of why Norman is the way he is regarding his psychotic ways and his split personality between himself and his mother. This is a film that sort of rips off Hitchcock's classic and memorable work of Psycho and also Anthony Perkins' previous performance as Norman even though he was still involved in this film. Psycho II is a mediocre sequel to its classic previous film that is neither good nor bad. The story is fairly interesting but has too much about the first film in it. So to me, I will now feel that there is only one film about Norman Bates. To be fair this one was far more predictable than the first one was because the first one had two twists which is very rare of a film to do so.


Psycho II is a sequel that I would prefer to not watch again but one that I wouldn't call bad nor good. It is a flawed sequel that wasn't greatly filmed and didn't have as many interesting characters apart from Norman of course. The first film is one of my 10 favourite films of all time and Psycho II is an average sequel to such a classic film!

"Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third; that's a story."


Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman
Running time: 110 minutes
Country: Germany, USA


I knew I was going to like this film but not half as much as I actually did. It totally surprised me. I absolutely loved it. It kicks some serious ass which is what I love about some films. It is a very violent film with a lot of blood but it is very realistic in a sexual way especially when Slevin caught his girlfriend having sex with another man. It is a film that you get totally gripped with all the way through. I find it to be a totally amazing film that is just a really cool film as well. This film has a really powerful and unexpected twist that left me reeled in shock. This film now has one of the best ensemble cast of all time in my opinion. I really love all 5 actors within it. Two of them are Oscar winners and the other three are really famous actors with different talents.


Josh Hartnett has yet to disappoint me in any film. He probably isn't the perfect actor to portray Slevin but is the closest to that rank. Hartnett is an actor who is really good at playing hard-hitting characters in hard, aggressive films as well as being a heart throb. He is one of the young actors who I could see earning an Oscar or two in the future. Another actor around that age Heath Ledger is another after earning a posthumous Oscar only for the second time in cinema history for acting. Hartnett has been in very dark films and has played characters that are very cool in my mind. Bruce Willis was awesome as Mr. Goodkat. He reminds me a bit of Léon in the 1994 film Léon: The Professional. Both Willis and Hartnett appeared in Sin City together one year before. Lucy Liu was absolutely brilliant as Lindsey who is a doctor and the girlfriend of Slevin. She is an actress of being in action films such as Kill Bill and Charlie's Angels but her role as Lindsey is a new kind of role for her. I don't think I've ever seen her portray a character like Lindsey before. I think it is the first time that Liu has portrayed such a simple and ordinary modern day character. The two Oscar winners Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley portray two criminals that enemies. Both of their characters names are like names from Sin City: The Boss (Freeman) and The Rabbi (Kingsley). I love both actors and the films they have been in together but they added a lot of awesome realistic moments between the characters.


The director has created a masterpiece in my mind. It is one of the best cult films of the decade or maybe even of all time. The way the characters were named and in some ways of the way it was filmed reminded me quite a bit of Sin City. I know obviously that Lucky Number Slevin isn't in that same kind of colour as Sin City but those reasons that I said about the characters reminded me of Sin City. I would have suggested that this would have been a good film from directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez or David Fincher.


Lucky Number Slevin is now in my opinion one of the best films of 2006 and one of the most underrated films of that year as well as of all time. It has a very underrated ensemble cast as well. It isn't the best from any of the cast members but they are all solid performances. It is a film of pure entertainment as well as excellent filmmaking. In my mind, Lucky Number Slevin is a film that you would enjoy time and time again.

"Don't look at me with that tone of voice or I will punch you in the shirt!"


Director: Marco Schnabel
Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Verne Troyer, Justin Timberlake
Running time: 87 minutes
Country: USA, UK, Germany


What an absolutely dreadful film! I did the same with this as I did with Meet The Spartans: gave up on it within 30 minutes because couldn't stand it any longer. There's one thing that this film didn't do but Meet The Spartans did was make me laugh on one scene but I laughed AT Meet The Spartans though. The Love Guru has good settings but they don't have a purpose at all because it was like a waste. So, basically, every single thing about this fim was absolutely awful! It had absolutely nothing which does and doesn't surprise me.


Mike Myers, what the f*** were you thinking?!?! He delivers his worst performance yet and is one of the worst leading male performances ever if not the worst. I think Mike tries to make audiences seriously laugh like with Wayne's World, Shrek and especially Austin Powers but it ends up ruining his talent. If he makes another awful performance whether it's just as bad or even worse, his career will be going downfall just like Nicolas Cage's is now. Mike Myers deserved the Worst Actor Razzie win to make him wake up for how awful this film is. Everything else should have gone to Meet The Spartans instead. Jessica Alba is a shit actress and deserved to be in this film. Verne Troyer or Justin Timberlake didn't make it any better either.


Awfully directed and written! Why bother making such crap?!?! Whatever likes this is absolutely mad and should be locked up in an asylum. Stupid story, stupid characters, stupid EVERYTHING. This is one of the worst films of all time as well as of 2008. Totally regret watching this!

"No mayo? This is bullshit!"


Director: Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer
Starring: Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo
Running time: 84 minutes
Country: USA


I sort of felt guilty about watching this film. I wanted to turn this film off within only 5 minutes but I left it a bit longer to see how crap it was going to get. I didn't even watch the whole film. I turned it off after 30 minutes especially with the dancing battle instead of the fighting one. Meet The Spartans is so hilarious because it is so crap!! It is one of those films that you would want to beat the living life out of. I was laughing AT the film not with it. I was holding my head in shame most of the time because it was so embarassing. I love 300 and I can't believe it was ripped off so badly. I felt like gagging a few times too. There was one bit that I did like though. People who love or even like this film aren't even alive or human at all. I wanted to watch this film to see how crap it was even though I knew it was going to be anyway.


The "acting" in this film is worst than painful. It's "acting" where all the "actors" need to be shot for the good of cinema. I can't believe I even saw bits of it in which I did let alone the whole film.


The directing was awful! It is probably the worst directed film I think I've ever seen. It mocks Zack Snyder's great work on 300. The script was pretty much the same as 300 that follows the same story but there are a lot of moments where there are spoofs and ridiculous moments. How this film didn't win Worst Picture instead of The Love Guru I don't think I'll ever know. Mind you, The Love Guru was just as awful.


Meet The Spartans is an absolutely appaling "film" that serves no purpose in being made at all. It is the worst film of 2008 but not quite worst film of all time but it does deserve to be ONE of the worst ever. Fact: Meet The Spartans is a disgrace to be called a "film" and it should have had everybody who made it and who were in it be killed immediately.

"Pay attention, pay attention to everything, everything you see. Notice what no one else notice, and you'll see what no one else knows, What you get is what you get, what you do with what you get, that's more the point."


Director: Gil Kenan
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook
Running time: 95 minutes
Country: USA


To be perfectly honest, I was unsure of what to expect out of this film. All I could say is that it would be a bit like The Golden Compass which is what it did turn out to be. The only difference is that The Golden Compass was a lot better. City Of Ember is one of those films that are visually amazing but doesn't greatly focus on the plot and characters. I enjoyed it for its effects but as far as the story and characters are concerned it isn't good. It is a really fun film for the family but nothing else. The visual effects are absolutely amazing!! As far as I'm concerned, it is The Golden Compass of 2008.


Despite it only been 1 year after Atonement, Saoirse Ronan seems almost like a totally different person because she has grown so much. She was good in this film but it seems a little out of her league so to speak because I prefer her in dramas. She was outstanding in Atonement which lead to her first Oscar nomination and I am excited about seeing her in Peter Jackson's upcoming film The Lovely Bones. Bill Murray is a fantastic actor and I think he was miscast in this one too. Tim Robbins made an appearance in this film. Despite he wasn't in that many scenes of the film he still was miscast just like everybody in this film was.


Gil Kenan is a director of extraordinary visual effects in his own way. His work in Monster House is awesome! However, his work in City Of Ember wasn't as good this time because the film was way more focused on the effects more than the actual story and characters within the film. Sometimes, this kind of thing works but it doesn't quite work in this film. For example, it did in The Golden Compass because the story was very interesting and kept me going all the way through whereas this one didn't very much at all.


Overall, City Of Ember is an average film that I loved for the effects but hated for the story and characters within it. It isn't a bad film and it isn't a good film either. It is a good film for the family but I don't think everyone within it will like this one. I wouldn't recommend it and I wouldn't say it's a film you should avoid either.

"It's Halloween, everyone's entitled to one good scare."


Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
Running time: 91 minutes
Country: USA


Holy shit! What an absolutely amazing suspensful, non-stop, scary thrill ride this was! At first I didn't really want to watch Halloween because I am not a big horror fan but after hearing that Jamie Lee Curtis was in it and also a few people have recommended it to me, I decided to see what it was like. I wasn't surprised that it was good because I think that's what most horror films are like. This film really scared me but that is what I loved about this one! Also, what I love the most about horror films is that they never stop. Halloween is one of the early horror films that received a lot of glory and credit. This is no The Exorcist or The Shining but it is still a classic horror film nevertheless. Halloween is the first of a series of horror films that go worst and worst as they go on. I haven't seen all of them but after seeing what most horror franchises are like; for example, the Saw franchise. For these reasons, I am NOT going to watch anymore of the Halloween films (same with the Saw films.


Jamie Lee Curtis made a very famous debut in almost her very first feature film. This is probably the one film that she is most remembered for but I do still love her performances in True Lies and especially the comedy of all time A Fish Called Wanda. Her performance as Laurie Strode was really awesome! She gets herself into a really awkward and very hard situation on Halloween night because she has to babysit Tommy Doyle. The problem that they have is there is serial killer Michael Myers on the loose who is going around killing people. At the beginning of the film we witness Myers as a 6-year-old murder his 15-year-old sister with a kitchen knife. After seeing this moment, it is so gripping you feels like you're in the situation with Laurie especially when Myers starts to stalk her. When you see Michael Myers in a mask, I sort of recall him as an original villain compared to Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films.


The directing was absolutely awesome! This wouldn't have been good for a director like Stanley Kubrick to direct but it would have been good for someone like M. Night Shyamalan. However, if he directed it I don't think it would have been half as good as it really was. John Carpenter is a genius at directing this masterpiece! This film was perfectly written because I think it wanted the audience to feel chills down their back or for them to keep their eyes open through the film without falling asleep which both things did happen to me when I was watching this film.


Halloween is one of my favourite horror films of all time! It doesn't quite beat The Shining, Saw or 28 Days Later. This is probably the classic horror franchise alongside Nightmare On Elm Street but there is absolutely no chance that I'm going to be watching that! Halloween is a horrific, terrifying, tense, scary, non-stop thrill ride that thrilled me from start to finish as it should thrill everybody who watches this film!

"Okay cocksucker. Fuck with me, and we'll see who shits on the sidewalk."


Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, Tyrese Gibson
Running time: 98 minutes
Country: USA, Germany, UK



I was expecting this film to be pure entertainment and that is what it was. Death Race is definitely an explosive, intense thrill ride that kept me gripped from start to finish. Watching Death Race was like watching video games like Burnout and Need For Speed but on the TV. The visual design in this film were absolutely brilliant with amazing CGI effects, great art direction and awesome cinematography. One thing that did surprise me a lot about Death Race and that was how emotional it turned out to be.


Jason Statham's performance as Jensen Ames was absolutely awesome! Jason is an amazing actor for that particular genre and I thought he was perfectly cast in this one because it didn't only show how good Jason is in action but also how emotional he can be when playing a character. Jensen is a family man who is framed for his wife's murder and his daughter has been taken away from him. He has been forced to participate in five Death Races to replace someone who died and if he completes the task, he is free out of the prison. Joan Allen's performance as Hennessey was really good as well. She is the sadistic prison warden. Only having to look at the character, I could easily tell that she is evil and is a scheming woman who always has something up her sleeve. She pretends to try to help Jensen but she's only using him for ratings which is wrong and he eventually realises this and it has severe consequences.


Overall, Death Race is a really good, intense, action-packed, explosive thrill ride that looked like you were watching a video game on DVD but a lot more explosive and realistic. One of the most entertaining films of 2008.

"We're still falling!"


Director: Eric Brevig
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers
Running time: 93 minutes
Country: USA


I only wanted to see this film because it just looked so entertaining. The title of this film explains, basically, the whole plot of the film. I didnt know that this was a remake at first but I have to say that is a really fun film to watch. Journey To The Center Of The Earth has absolutely awesome visual effects but there were some that seemed unrealistic such as the dinosaur. It seemed like a very different kind of T-Rex. The visual effects and camera work was really good in this film. The make-up and art direction was awesome inside the center of the Earth. Entering the center of the Earth was like Davy Jones' Locker in Pirates Of The Caribbean.


Brendan Fraser is an actor who you either love or hate. He's good when it comes to entertainment and being funny but when playing a serious character, he is really bad at it. So, I would say that his performance in this film was average because Professor Trevor Anderson was a serious and funny character. I am not a fan of Brendan Fraser but I do like him in some entertaining films though. Josh Hutcherson is one of my favourite child actors and Journey To The Center Of The Earth proves this once again. He was awesome in Zathura and Bridge To Terabithia too. Hutcherson as Sean is a typical character because he is arrogant and rude yet funny and dramatic as well which is what Josh was like in Zathura. Anita Briem was hot in this film obviously but I don't think her acting was very good. I was actually surprised at how emotional this film did become. I would feel sorry for the characters but not cry because of the drama especially for Sean.


The directing was good in this film but it did flaw a few times because it focused more on the entertaining side of things rather than the way the actors were playing the characters. I mean, most entertaining films are like that. If you want to make an entertaining film the acting on the film should be focused on as well. The script was good but there were some scenes that there didn't even need to be a scene like when they were falling through the massive hole and they were talking. That was irrelevant in my opinion.


Journey To The Center Of The Earth is one of the most entertaining films of 2008 that has one of the best visual effects and make-up despite some of the visual effects weren't very good. Brendan Fraser gives another entertaining performance as does Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Overall, Journey To The Center Of The Earth is just another fun film to watch and that's it.

"Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York."


Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson
Running time: 162 minutes
Country: USA


When I first saw Watchmen at the cinema, I absolutely hated it! I think I expected too much of it at the time. Despite that I have seen it before, I was anticipating it and was looking forward to rewatching it. When I did rewatch it, I really enjoyed it. I was lost when I first saw it but I understood the film a lot more than before. The visual effects are amazing and so were the production design, costumes and sound effects. The effects on the blood and gore within this film were awesome which is typical for a graphic novel. I think the complex plot is the main reason why people wouldn't like this film, like I didn't first time I saw Watchmen.


Malin Akerman was extremely hot in this film but as far as acting is concerned, she is almost talent less. The character is obviously very interesting still. Billy Crudup was excellent as Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman. He is the most powerful character of this film but not my favourite. The effects on him were unbelievable. Matthew Goode was crap as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias. I didn't find him villainous at all. Jackie Earle Haley was the best from the film as Rorschach. He is my favourite and is the most serious character. He reminds me a lot of Marv from Sin City because of how he kills criminals and also sounds a bit like him too. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was good as Edward Blake/Comedian. He is a very effective character even though he is murdered at the very beginning. We only see Comedian when he's younger as a part of flashbacks. Patrick Wilson was neither good nor bad as Dan Drieberg/Nite Owl. Driegberg is one of the seven members of the Watchmen. Because Laurie's relationship with Jon is failing, Laurie and Dan start one.


Zack Snyder is a good director but there are some areas where he can do better. His work on 300 was excellent but his work on Watchmen wasn't as good. He focused a lot on effects and stuff but lacked focus on acting. The script was good but had some extremely soppy moments especially the romance between Dan and Laurie.


Overall, Watchmen is a very enjoyable film that is very complex and must focus really hard on. It is better than The Spirit but it isn't as good as 300 and Sin City. I figured out that after a rewatch Watchmen is a very dark story that is just entertainment and nothing to take seriously.

"We just get the one life, you know. Just one. You can't live someone else's or think it's more important just because it's more dramatic. What happens matters. May be only to us, but it matters."


Director: David Koepp
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni
Running time: 102 minutes
Country: USA


This film seemed like an absolutely delightful film to start with when I saw the DVD cover and when I read the plot of the film and it seemed like a right laugh but when I watched it, I was greatly disappointed. I didn't even think this film was funny at all which is why I found Ghost Town to be very dull and boring. Another thing that I thought was disappointing is that I didn't find it emotional in any way whatsoever.


Ricky Gervais is an actor as well as a comedian that I cannot stand because I don't find him funny and he really irritates me. He can't even act at all. His performance was absolutely dreadful! At the beginning of the film, when ? showed his true colours of what kind of person he is, I think that tried to introduce how funny Gervais can get in this film but I didn't even find any of that funny which is why it is a bad film. Greg Kinnear's performance was bad as well. I like him as an actor especially in Little Miss Sunshine but I think he was totally miscast in this film. Téa Leoni didn't make this film any better either.


The directing was really flat and lacked pretty much every kind of feeling you could get in a film especially the drama and the comedy within. I feel that it tries to compare itself a lot to Ghost. The script wasn't very good either.


Overall, Ghost Town is an extremely disappointing film that I thought was absolutely rubbish. It isn't one of the worst films I have ever watched but to be perfectly honest, it isn't that far off. Everything about this film was disappointing but not plain awful.

"I am young, but I am willing to learn, and I mean to devote my life to the service of my country and my people. I look for your help in this. I know I shall not be disappointed. Thank you."


Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Starring: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson
Running time: 100 minutes
Country: UK, USA


After seeing the trailer of The Young Victoria I was really looking forward to seeing it because I love films based on history especially about Kings And Queens of Britain. After seeing it on DVD, there were some things about The Young Victoria that slightly disappointed me. They were that as I was watching it, it didn't really feel like history, it was too short as well, and I thought that the film ended unfinished. The costume design within the film was absolutely phenomenal as well as the art direction like most history films are. I don't get what is so underrated about history films based on Kings, Queens, Princes and Princesses. I suppose it could be there is no modern day settings, action, stunning visual effects or tense or scary moments within them.


Emily Blunt was actually pretty good as Queen Victoria. I do personally think there should be a bio-pic about Victoria's whole life rather than when she was young because it seems unfinished and the audience would request more which is why I was slightly disappointed even though it was a good film that I enjoyed. Rupert Friend's performance as Prince Albert was absolutely dreadful! He can't believe that Friend was playing him! He made Prince Albert like a charmer who doesn't fit in the style of the film at all which is the most disappointing thing about this film. Albert is the cousin of Victoria. Personally, I think cousins getting married and having children together is almost as disgusting as brothers and sisters, mums and sons and fathers and daughters.


The directing of this film was good but could have improved to make it feel more like history. It wasn't so much the actors but it was the way they were playing them that lacked the believability of it all being history. In cases of production and the way the camera was moving around was handled really well in my opinion. The script was really good. I bet it must have been hard writing a script for a film based on history because Victoria's early life isn't based on a novel or a play.


Overall, The Young Victoria is a good history film that does have its disappointments. It is neither one of the best nor one of the worst of 2009 and I think that there could have been a bigger improvement of this film. There should be an actress who can portray a full-life bio-pic about Victoria's life.

"I think about you all the time. I think about you even when you're with me. I look at you, I can't stop looking at you. I look at you, and I think, "That woman... That woman knows who I am and loves me anyway." "


Director: Tony Gilroy
Starring: Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Paul Giamatti, Tom Wilkinson
Running time: 122 minutes
Country: USA, Germany


Personally, my expectations of Duplicity were neither high nor low. I think I liked it as much as I thought I would. Duplicity is a film that does have a very complex story that does become a mess on occasions but makes sense towards the conclusion. Duplicity is a film that teaches a very important lesson: make sure you know who you can truly trust. Duplicity is a film that isnt a thriller but has some moments where it does become tense. It has quite a lot of drama within it.


Julia Roberts and Clive Owen did a fine job in masterpiece Closer. They work alongside each other once again. Clive Owen is one of my all-time favourite actors and his performance as Ray in this film is another brilliant one! He has yet to disappoint me in any of his films. Ray is a con man who along with Claire try and double-cross each others bosses for a large sum of money. The only problem they have is that they lack trust in each other despite them sleeping with each other. Julia Roberts was even better as Claire. Seeing her in Duplicity made her look a lot younger than she actually is. She looks about 34-35 in this film when she is really 41-years-old at the time of the film. I personally think that they should be in a Oscar romantic-drama film. Paul Giamatti and Tom Wilkinson were good in this film too.


After Tony Gilroys large success on Michael Clayton, he decides to make a film that is in a similar sort of genre but has different actors and different plot. I didnt like Michael Clayton at all when I saw it but I did enjoy this one more because I understood it more, I love Clive and Julia and also the characters and the way it was filmed was fascinating.


Duplicity isnt one of the best films from neither Julia Roberts nor Clive Owen but its still a good film to watch. It is a pretty underrated film in my opinion. Overall, Duplicity is a good film that I enjoyed but plot became a bit of a mess.

"I haven't had a drink in a lotta years, but now I'm gonna have me a cold beer."


Director: David Lynch
Starring: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Jane Galloway
Running time: 107 minutes
Country: France, UK, USA


I had high expectations with this film because of it being a film from an odd yet terrific filmmaker. One thing I was a bit worried about was its complete difference compared to the films he has done in the past. When I did see it, I was very disappointed with it because it seemed a very dull, plain and meaningless film. As the film ended, I was so annoyed with it because didnt show what he was setting out to do other than just seeing his brother. Yes, it was very inspiring and courageous travelling across America on a lawnmower and I understand that it was a true story but I just thought that the ending didn't conclude with such beauty and drama.


Richard Farnsworth's performance as Alvin was absolutely brilliant. I think that Farnsworth's performance was pretty much the only thing that was worth watching in this film. Alvin is an aging man who lives with his daughter and soon finds out that his brother is dying. One problem: he hasn't spoken to or even seen his brother for a very long time. He decides to go and see him to spend some last time with his brother to brother. His performance and character is a bit like Chris McCandleless in Into The Wild because they both travel and meet different people during their journey. Sissy Spacek's performance as Alvin's daughter Rose was absolutely awesome as well. She is a very troubled woman due to a past tragedy.


This truly is pretty much the only straight story of the films that David Lynch has done throughout his career. As I have said, The Straight Story being a David Lynch film is the only reason why I expressed interest in this film but unfortunately came out disappointed with it. The script was well written in some ways but towards the end of the film it went really flat and dull. I have to confess that the ending of this film is the most disappointing endings that I think I've ever seen in a film.


Overall, The Straight Story is a disappointing, dull film but had little decent qualities which was the good acting from Farnsworth and Spacek and the good directing from Lynch.

"I may not have a brain, but I have an idea."


Director: Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon
Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett
Running time: 94 minutes
Country: USA



I was actually expecting quite a lot going into this film because it is a DreamWorks film and they do a lot of great films yet they do some rather bad ones too. I was both disappointed and un-surprised when I finished this film because it did seem like a very silly film but it was an animated film and I admit it did look fun for the family. Monsters Vs. Aliens is created by creators of Shrek, Madagascar, The Prince Of Egypt, Over The Hedge and many more. It probably is one of the worst DreamWorks animated films so far.


Actors like Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogen, Hugh Laurie, Will Arnett and Kiefer Sutherland provide the voices within Monsters Vs. Aliens. Susan Murphy (Witherspoon) is hit by a meteorite on the day of her wedding, absorbing a substance called quantonium and growing into a giantess. Alerted to the meteorite crash, the military arrive and capture Susan. She is labeled a monster, renamed "Ginormica" by the government, and sent to a top-secret prison facility headed by General W.R. Monger (Sutherland) and containing other monsters: B.O.B. (Rogen), a brainless, indestructible gelatinous blob; Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (Laurie), a mad scientist with the head and abilities of a cockroach; the Missing Link (Arnett), an amphibious fish-ape hybrid; and Insectosaurus, a colossal grub that is 300 feet larger than Susan. The monsters are forbidden to have any contact with the outside world; while the other monsters have been living contentedly with this lifestyle for the past 50 years, Susan feels incredibly isolated and wishes to return to her old life.


Overall, I didn't find Monsters Vs. Aliens really bad, I just didn't find it a very good film to watch and I thought it was more bad than good. I wouldn't recommend it but it wasn't awful. Won't succeed at getting any Oscar nominations. Hope DreamWorks do better next time.

"You ask me one more question and I'm beating the shit out of you."


Director: John Hughes
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
Running time: 97 minutes
Country: USA


This is a classic teenage film that I have wanted to watch for quite a while because I have heard and read so many positive reviews. This is probably the oldest film aimed at teenagers as well as adults; like before all of the American Pie films, Juno, Knocked Up etc. The Breakfast Club is a very funny film that does teach a lot about people and their differences regarding appearance but shows how much people have in common when discussing their personal lives regarding their family. It was quite an emotional film which did actually surprise me! I really love films that are set in one single day like this one was. The Breakfast Club is one of the very first films that are aimed at teenagers as well as adults.


The Breakfast Club tells the story of five teenagers in high school who are all very different regarding interests and behaviour. The acting from all five actors was all absolutely fantastic!! Judd Nelson's performance is definitely the best out of the five actors because he was the most emotional, the funniest actor as well as playing the most fascinating character within the film. I thought that the message that was sent out was absolutely terrific! Everybody does have their differences but they do have their similarities too.


Overall, The Breakfast Club is a very enjoyable film that always will be remembered as a classic for many generations to come.