Greatest film plot twists

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


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


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


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


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


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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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

"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.

"For some people, money is... money is a foreign film without subtitles."


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Alison Lohman, Sam Rockwell, Bruce Altman
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: USA


I had mixed average expectations for this film but it blew me away completely far more than I expected. It was a very powerful film and the amount of power that was in the film surprised me a lot too. Matchstick Men is a powerful film that was almost like a thriller. What I reall love about this film is it's a life-teaching film like being a con man/woman or being a victim of being conned. Matchstick Men is a film that does have quite a complex dialogue but it kept me glued to the screen all the way through it. Matchstick Men becomes more and more personal as it goes on because it teaches how to fix a man's relationship with his daughter especially if he is either a bad father or an inexperienced father.


Nicolas Cage is a crap actor now but Matchstick Men is a film that proves he used to be absolutely fantastic. Adaptation, The Weather Man and Leaving Las Vegas are others that proved him as a fantastic actor. His acting as Roy made me think "you bastard!" for being a con artist yet I felt sorry for him too because of his medical condition and with his relationship with his daughter Angela. Sam Rockwell is an actor I am really starting to like. He was awesome as Frank. Frank is an very kind and helpful protége to Roy but all isn't all as it seems. It's weird seeing Sam play a character like Frank only when 4 years before he was in The Green Mile playing William 'Wild Bill' Wharton. How in the hell is Alison Lohman 23 years old in real life to play a 14 year old? She really does look like a young kid in this one. Her age fooled me in this film because I didn't know she was 23 before I saw this film but when I looked about her on Wikipedia, I couldn't believe her age! However, about her performance as Angela: she was absolutely fantastic! It is by far the best performance of the film. She reminds me a lot of Emma Watson. 2003 was a great breakthrough year for Alison not only for Matchstick Men but for starring in Tim Burton's masterpiece Big Fish. Angela is a very beautiful character but there is something about her that is a bit off and can be quite threatening at times especially when she's helping her father Roy con people.


Ridley Scott goes to a different kind of film after his epics Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. He directs this really well in a very new kind of way. Ridley Scott is a pure genius at this film. He directs this film like no other film he has ever done which at first became a bit of a risk to do a film like this. After watching this, I found it to be a great success from Ridley Scott and he has now achieved one of his best films.


Overall, Matchstick Men is one of the best films of 2003 and that was an awesome year for film. It is Ridley Scott's third best film after Gladiator and Thelma & Louise. Matchstick Men has one of the most underrated yet one of the best, most powerful and most unexpected film plot twists of all time that will leave you totally shocked at the end. It is a masterpiece that I could watch a lot! Love it!

"This is not my beautiful house. This is not my beautiful wife. Anymore."


Director: David Koepp
Starring: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton
Running time: 96 minutes
Country: USA


I have read lots of mixed reviews about Secret Window being a pile of crap and being a really brilliant scary story. This film really surprised me the first time I saw it and it surprised me even more second time round because I had actually forgotten what had happened in the film. Secret Window is a chillingly frightening story that is very dark and is a rather psychological story. After all, Secret Window is a Stephen King novel and he is an expert on writing novels about horror, fantasy and suspense so where can he disappoint with Secret Window? This film left me in great shock because there is a twist that becomes really effective to the story so this film isn't as predictable as you may think it is. Personally, I think this is a really enjoyable film. It is a very scary story but that is what I was expecting anyway because that's what King is amazing at creating.


It was very weird seeing Johnny Depp in a film like this because I don't think I've seen him in a psychological thriller before. His acting as Mort was pretty good to be fair because he is good at playing that charming guy in which Johnny is anyway. Mort is a single man who is about to get divorced and lives with his dog Chico in a cottage near a river in a forest. The location of the house makes it a rather haunting film as well. I read a review once and it said that only Johnny Depp's presence within the film with draw people's attention. I see what they mean but it is an entertaining film after all nothing dead serious worthy of Oscars and Golden Globes etc. Maria Bello has never been a good actress at all to be honest and has never made her characters very realistic and heartfelt but this film didn't make any difference because I couldn't feel any sympathy Amy had for Mort at all. I didn't really like Bello in World Trade Center either. She rather annoyed me in that. Timothy Hutton for some reason made me laugh because he is a real slimeball especially when he and Mort point fists at each other. John Turturro made John Shooter a very mysterious, threatening and terrifying character to cross because he was haunting and stalking Mort for "stealing his story".


The director did a good job I think for entertainment but I wouldn't call David Koepp's directing and script absolutely masterful that deserves to be remembered as a landmark of cinema. I think Frank Darabont would have done a good job at directing Secret Window because he has directed two Stephen King novel adapted films previously: The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. That is something that I would have wished for this film but it was still good enough with David Koepp as director anyway.


Overall, Secret Window is a spine-chilling piece of entertainment that I find slightly underrated. It isn't a masterpiece but it does have one of the best and most underrated film plot twists of all time. Johnny Depp's performance obviously isn't top-notch but is an entertaining performance from Depp which I was expecting anyway. So, lastly it is a film that didn't go over or under my expectations. It hit exactly where I was expecting which is why I really like this film.

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


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



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



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



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



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

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



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

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


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



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

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

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

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

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

"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!!

"Life is like a movie. Only you can't pick your genre."


Director: Wes Craven
Starring: Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich
Running time: 106 minutes
Country: USA


At first, I had no interest whatsoever in seeing this film because I didn't like the look of the killer but when I saw it, I was blown away by it! Scream is a horror film that is already a classic even though it was released just over 10 years ago. It is a very suspenseful film that is very jumpy and is very terrifying to watch because of the violence within it. What I loved the most about this film is that the killer plays mind games with the audience as much as the characters within the film because it?s not why he's there, who it is but where he is because it makes you think he?s there but incase he'll catch that someone by surprise which is what he does do in the film. There are a lot of twists and turns involved within the film. I liked the involvement of scary films in this film which are inspired by the killer to do those things to his victims. The main question of the film is: whodunit?


Neve Campbell's performance as Sidney Prescott was absolutely fantastic!! Her performance was a lot like Jamie Lee Curtis's in Halloween. Sidney is a very emotional character because her mum was mysteriously raped and murdered one year before. This has ruined her childhood and made her feel a bit messed up in the head. Skeet Ulrich's performance as Billy Loomis was absolutely fantastic! His character is a very charming one that is very mysterious as well that has a lot of twists and turns. Matthew Lillard was awesome as well as Stu who is Billy's best friend. Courteney Cox's performance was awesome as well!!


Wes Craven made a big name for himself after his horror classic A Nightmare On Elm Street and his work on Scream was absolutely terrific! The opening scene within the film was very powerful and wanted the audience to experience her terror and for us to be prepared of what's coming up in the film. I found the filming of that scene very similar to the 'Here's Johnny!' scene in Stanley Kubrick?s The Shining because of the eerie filmmaking and the music too.


Overall, Scream is one of the best horror films of all time that will stick in your mind for a very long time because it is that suspenseful and it does toy with your mind very easily! Highly recommended!!

"There are two kinds of people in this world, winners and losers."


Director: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano
Running time: 103 minutes
Country: USA


By viewing the title and the poster of this film it seemed like a girly film but when you watch the film it isn't one whatsoever. Little Miss Sunshine is a very clever, original, dramatic and hilarious film with a very powerful message. Little Miss Sunshine teaches us all a lesson and that lesson is that we should always love our family not hate it. What I love the most about Little Miss Sunshine is that all six members of the Hoover family have different personalities and set on a trip all miserable but when a twist occurs they all bond together to form a proper family and all have a change of heart. It is the ultimate determination for the family that bonded them so well. Also, they all finally understood each other. There is a lot of comedy involved with sarcastic jokes and dark comedy. This is a really fun adventure that is deeply experiencing and pleasurable. This film has one of the best ensemble casts ever. All of the performances are just amazing and don't disappoint.


Greg Kinnear was awesome as Richard Hoover. Richard is a Type A personality striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. He is very strict and is very awkward and difficult towards his daughter Olive and also Dwayne and particularly his brother-in-law Frank. Despite that attitude he has with most of the family, he is rather funny. Toni Collette's performance as Sheryl Hoover was even better than Greg's. Toni brought a lot of power and realistic force to Sheryl's personality. Sheryl is an overworked mother of two children Dwayne and Olive. She argues with her husband Richard quite a lot even though she isn't the one who causes them in the first place. She is just an ordinary mother who just wants what is best for her family. Steve Carell was good as Frank Ginsberg. Frank is a messed-up middle aged man who is a homosexual and is a scholar of French author Proust. He is temporarily living with his family after attempting to commit suicide. Steve was really good but an actor like Robin Williams would have been better. Paul Dano was amazing as Dwayne. He is the son of Sheryl and stepson of Richard. Dano is only 11 years younger than Toni Collette who plays his mother in the film. Dwayne is a Nietzsche-reading teenager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of becoming a test pilot. Richard's foul-mouthed father is a man who recently got evicted out of a retirement home for snorting heroin. He also temporarily lives with the family having nowhere else to go. He is very close to his seven-year-old granddaughter Olive. Alan Arkin was really good as Edwin. He is very rude and funny but very lovely towards Olive especially by teaching her to dance for the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant. Abigail Breslin's performance is a tie for best child star performance alongside Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense. She was just so cute for the character. On that one scene where she was really crying I thought to myself "Awww bless her". She was an amazing choice for Olive Hoover.


Husband and wife Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris directed this film really well with that heartwarming and inspiring feeling to it. It teaches a lot about family and what it really means. The script was an amazing debut from Michael Arndt after earning the Oscar win. The script truly is one of my favourite scripts ever. It is perfect! It's funny, emotional and really clever.


Little Miss Sunshine is my favourite adventure film, my favourite road film and my favourite film of 2006. Little Miss Sunshine truly has one of the best ensemble cast. After Pulp Fiction and The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King this film has one of the best scripts of all time. I think everybody would love this film. It's a masterpiece with a big twist and a powerful and thoughtful message.

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


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



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


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


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


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

"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.

"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.

"Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!"


Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans
Running time: 112 minutes
Country: USA


This is an absolutely brilliant sci fi classic! Planet Of The Apes was released in the same year as 2001: A Space Odyssey and together they have become two of the greatest films of it's genre. Personally, I prefer Planet Of The Apes but I still really like 2001: A Space Odyssey. I find most science fiction films have very effective and shocking endings and twists. Planet Of The Apes has one of those things. I loved it first time and still love it after a rewatch. There is one thing that I do have a problem with in this film and that is that it takes far too long to get into what's going on within the film. It took 33 minutes until Taylor ended up in the apes' hands. Planet Of The Apes has absolutely outstanding make-up especially on the apes. It is a very extraordinary film that does make sense and does feel very realistic when you watch it. I thought that there is one way where Planet Of The Apes might not a science fiction film and that is because the Earth was once ruled by apes millions of years ago. However, where it is science fiction is obviously where apes had their own costumes and cages whereas in the old history of the Earth, they had none of that.


Charlton Heston is most famous for his Oscar winning performance in Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments but I remember him better for Planet Of The Apes. His performance as George Taylor was far better than his performance in both of those other films because I believe he showed real power, force and reality towards the character. Taylor is an astronaut who is in deep hibernation with fellow astronauts Landon, Stewart and Dodge while their spaceship lands on an unknown planet. This unknown planet is ruled by apes and is set in the year 3978. Kim Hunter was awesome as Zira. Just like all of the actors behind the ape costumes and make-up, you can't tell that it's that person but the voice you can. I could tell it was Kim Hunter as Zira because I have watched A Streetcar Named Desire numerous times and can recognize her voice.


Franklin J. Schaffner is a really good director who has done some amazing classics! This is his most famous one in my opinion. He directed Papillon and Patton. This feels like a sci fi epic when watching this film. Planet Of The Apes is a film that took a lot of work because of the date of when it was made. Nowadays, it is quite easy for filmmakers to make science fiction films but back then it was really hard. It had three months of filming which I would have predicted at least 1 year of filming just like I was predicting with 2001: A Space Odyssey. I have never read the novel but I have heard from some people I've met that it is a good book but the film is better.


Planet Of The Apes is a classic science fiction film that is absolutely brilliant yet quite slow. It is the best sci fi film of the 1960s ahead of 2001: A Space Odyssey. This film has one of the most shocking and most powerful film twists ever! Planet Of The Apes is Charlton Heston's best film in my opinion even ahead of Ben-Hur. Planet Of The Apes is quite a dark film is some ways but is quite good for anybody because it is hardly a violent film. Love this film and is just too good to despise.

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


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


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


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


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


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

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


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


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


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


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


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

"The name's Bond... James Bond."

Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench
Running time: 144 minutes
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Czech Republic


I knew I was going to really like Casino Royale but I had no idea I was going to love it that much. To me, Casino Royale is the best Bond film of all time and I have many reasons for this. It is the most intense one with the best action, it has the best storyline, it has a deeply effective twist which is very rare of a Bond film and also it has that feeling to it that makes us feel that Bond is back after the Die Another Day disappointment but all that dashed all over again when Quantum Of Solace was released. Casino Royale is a very cool James Bond that I loved from start to finish. The best scene is definitely the poker game scene because it was so tense and despite that neither man could touch each other you were really keen to know who was going to be the victorious one between the two. This is also the most violent Bond so far as well. Some Bond films have complex storylines and this is one of them. I understood how the film was structured and who the characters really are. Casino Royale might seem a remake to the previous James Bond 1967 film Casino Royale for two reasons. One: because the 1967 adaptation isn't an official James Bond film. Two: the stories are different.



I really underestimated Daniel Craig as James Bond as probably everybody did before I saw Casino Royale but when I did see it, I wasn't disappointed at all and it turned out to be a performance that is just memorable. He was my favourite Bond until I saw the sequel Quantum Of Solace. Daniel Craig is what some people like to call him James 'Blond' because he is the first and only blonde haired man to portray James Bond. What I loved about James Bond in Casino Royale was that not only did we see the usual typical deadly and cold side to his heroic character but we also saw the vulnerable and sensitive side of things within Bond's personality especially when it comes to women. I do not understand why some people don't like Daniel Craig in this one. He was bloody amazing!! His James Bond is a new Bond regarding looks but personality is exactly the same. Despite of how good Daniel Craig is as James Bond, I do still think the James Bond role should have gone to Clive Owen instead. I think it would have been him if not Craig. Daniel Craig was a good actor before Casino Royale but wasn't as popular before as he is now. None of the 6 actors who have portrayed James Bond have made Bond his own character because they have all given different kinds of Bonds in different varieties of ways. There is one thing that all 6 actors have in common playing James Bond and that is that they all are really charming with women no matter what they look like and also they are really deadly when it comes to action scenes to rescue someone, blow something up, kill anyone etc. I underestimated Eva Green as well as Vesper Lynd. She did actually surprise me with her performance. She is in my opinion one of the ultimate Bond girls. Best Bond girl for me is Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough even though she is actually a villain. Green's role in Casino Royale was almost like a breakthrough performance for her. She did appear in Ridley Scott's Kingdom Of Heaven previously but that wasn't exactly a major role for her. She isn't a bloody amazing actress but she was amazing enough to portray Vesper and I think she is the only actress who would have been good enough or young enough to do so. Vesper is a young woman who is sent by the Treasury to help James Bond beat Le Chiffre in the poker game at Casino Royale. As she gradually gets to know Bond and gets closer to him, they fall in love. That is unlike Bond to do so but it does happen and it does have severe and dramatic consequences in which you would have to see for yourself. Judi Dench pleases me as always as M. M was portrayed by a man when Roger Moore, Sean Connery and George Lazenby were James Bond. I think that Dench is the only person who can portray M. M is strict, rude, determined and can be very serious in a lot of ways but always in her own way. I liked Dench's on-screen partnership with Daniel Craig more than Pierce Brosnan because I could see the frustration and the slight hate in both Craig and Dench's eyes when they are in scenes together. Mads Mikkelsen was good as Le Chiffre. He was a very scary character to watch and I can imagine that the actual actor might be a rather strange actor to meet as well. There was one light flaw about his performance and that was the complete seriousness and determination to win the poker game against Bond. I couldn't really see how serious he was being. It slightly made it feel like he is playing a poker game with fake money and with cheap poker chips but the tension between him and Bond added the spice to his character in another way.



Martin Campbell returns as director of Casino Royale like he did of previous Bond film and first Pierce Brosnan Bond film GoldenEye. Campbell has made Craig's Casino Royale like Brosnan's GoldenEye. Martin Campbell has made Casino Royale the most intense and most action packed Bond film so far. The story is really interesting. Yes, it is rather complex at times but you can't help but get totally gripped by it. What I was gripped with the most about the storyline of this film was like the way the world is today especially when it comes to terrorism. Like in the poker game, if Bond doesn't win the poker game, Le Chiffre will be paying more criminals to perform more terrorist attacks.



This film is a lot better than its sequel Quantum Of Solace which was the biggest disappointment of 2008. I just refer Casino Royale on its own now without Quantum Of Solace involved at all. Casino Royale always has been since it was released Daniel Craig's best acting performance and now it might always be in my case. Eva Green's performance as Vesper Lynd is one of the biggest breakthrough performances of all time without a doubt. Casino Royale is the best James Bond film ever! It is the Goldfinger of this generation and of this century (hopefully). Casino Royale is the action film of 2006 and one of the best of that genre let alone one of the best of 2006. I am now going to pretend like Quantum Of Solace never existed. Casino Royale is to me one of the rare action thriller films that has a long duration and has a lot of deep feelings to it as well as a twist which unfortunately leads to the sequel and in a bad way.

"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.

"This is going to sound sick, but something in me felt... entitled. You know, I've been good all my adult life. I've been a decent wife, a dutiful mother coping with Ben. This voice inside me kept saying "why shouldn't you be bad, why shouldn't you transgress? I mean, you've earned the right." "

Director: Richard Eyre
Starring: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy, Andrew Simpson
Running time: 98 minutes
Country: UK



This film made me feel really quite depressed because it was obviously a depressing and very personal storyline. It is a very dark film because it mostly features about obsession, commitment and love. It is like a pedophile story too because a female teacher is having a love affair with a student. He leads her on but she cant resist him so that is where she becomes torn between the young lad and her family. It is a very emotional as well as a disturbing thriller. The acting was absolutely fantastic from the whole cast. They were all very powerful and very emotional which fitted perfectly with the character.



Judi Dench delivers a really powerful performance as Barbara Covett. Judi makes Barbara more of a lonely, bitter and selfish cow than she already is. She makes Barbara quite a destranged and fearful character too. Cate Blanchett delivers an even more powerful performance as young teacher Sheba Hart and is in my opinion, the greatest supporting actress performance of all time. She was truly torn between a young boy she couldnt resist and her family life with her husband, son and daughter. I really liked Cate and Judis partnership together in this film. The scene where Sheba discovers something drastic, that scene was really powerful from Cate and Judi which became my favourite scene of the film. I wasn't that keen on Bill Nighy in this film really but I did like Andrew Simpson as Steven Connolly because he truly did look like an irresistable young man who anyone can fall for as Sheba did.



I thought the direction was excellent from Richard Eyre but mostly was impressed with the script of the film. It was a very powerful script that the lines were said at the correct scenes at the exact right time. This film affects anybody who is torn in a relationship.



This film became one of the best British films of 2006 after Casino Royale. It shows how powerful a lot of British films can be. I was only a little bit disappointed with that I didnt quite feel the love between Sheba and Steven. Apart from that light flaw I thought this film was amazing and is one of the best films of 2006 and maybe even of all time too.

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"We bury our sins here, Dave. We wash them clean."


Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden
Running time: 137 minutes
Country: USA


I love this film!!! Mystic River is a fantastic murder mystery that is filmed with a lot of events occuring. The dialogue is something that I found quite disturbing because of the way the characters were around each other. It is one of those films that shocks you at the beginning and shocks you at the end of it too. I love films like this that keeps you interested all the way through it. Finding out who Katie Markum's killer was almost excitement to me because I really wanted to know. As the story went on, it fell a bit obvious but on other occasions it became a real mystery. It is a breakdown film of not only heartbreak but also of love and friendship.

Sean Penn was amazing as Jimmy Markum. Before his daughter was killed, he seemed like a grumpy middle-aged man but he became a very caring father after his daughter was murdered. However, he ended up having something in him that I don't think he was anticipating. He ended up being filled with rage when he found out who killed his daughter. His performance is memorable but his best is definitely Milk. Tim Robbins surprised me a lot in this one as Dave. Dave and Jimmy were childhood friends. Dave was a victim of abuse by paedophiles as a child. After an average performance in The Shawshank Redemption, Robbins has now proved he can perform something that is filled with emotion, heartbreak and with very interesting character. Robbins was the best of the film. Marcia Gay Harden was awesome as well as Celeste Boyle who is Dave's wife.

Clint Eastwood has crafted a masterpiece! Clint is a fantastic director of making different kinds of films but in adult ways. One thing that all of his films have in common for me is that they are all ordinary dramas. This is probably the one Clint Eastwood film that is mixed on how to live life carefully and to always be certain of things.

This is my favourite Clint Eastwood film as a director and I think it will be for a long time. The Human Factor looks pretty good so that might be a tough challenge. I love Million Dollar Baby and Changeling too. Sean Penn's performance is fantastic after an Oscar win for this film but his best is his other and more recent Oscar-winning performance as Harvey Milk in bio-pic Milk. Mystic River won Tim Robbins an Oscar as well. A good performance is rare from Tim Robbins. I think that this will be his best performance forever! 2003 was a great year in cinema but I prefered films like Return Of The King, Lost In Translation, Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Finding Nemo that year. Mystic River is a fantastic film that has become very close to hitting my main favourite films list.

"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.

"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 saw your last fight, Shawrelle. Spent so much time face down I thought the canvas had titties."


Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Jay Baruchel
Running time: 132 minutes
Country: USA


Million Dollar Baby is an absolutely fantastic masterpiece that actually did surprised me in a few ways mostly because it is about a female boxer but now I wish I hadn't underestimated it now because I figured after I watched it, there was nothing to discriminate. Million Dollar Baby is a fantastic masterpiece that is probably the most emotional boxing film ever made. Cinderella Man trails just behind it. Most sport films are emotional but Million Dollar Baby is the one sport film which I didn't expect all the heartbreak to come together so sadly. The main keywords to describe Million Dollar Baby are friendship, commitment and love. Million Dollar Baby is a film that I thought to be rather extraordinary at first because there has never been a film about a female boxer before. I absolutely loved this film from start to finish and I am glad to say this. I loved this the second most of the 5 Best Picture nominees but I think it took the Best Picture Oscar from Finding Neverland.


Clint Eastwood's performance as Frankie Dunn was absolutely brilliant. I could see two new different kinds of Eastwood and the way he was playing the character. He was a bitter old man which was typical but I wasn't used to seeing Clint play that emotional and heartfelt kind of actor but he did absolutely fantasticly in this one. Hilary Swank's performance was absolutely fantastic. She is a fantastic actress especially that she has earned two Oscars within 6 years. Her performance as Maggie Fitzgerald was absolutely brilliant because she made Maggie really look like a poor young woman who was desperate for a breakthrough in her life and boxing was her solution. However, something happens and the whole course of the story becomes twisty and will become deeply effective of your viewing. Morgan Freeman's performance as Eddie "Scrap Iron" Dupris was absolutely phenomenal. It was typical Freeman because he has always been good at playing soft-hearted characters who are friendly people. He did deliver an Oscar winning performance but I think Clive Owen should have won instead for Closer.


Clint Eastwood is a fine filmmaker. Mystic River made me love his films but Million Dollar Baby makes me love his films even more now. Clint is a really well known actor but I would remember him better as a director because to be honest that's what I prefer him to be. The Human Factor seems an awesome film about sport but Million Dollar Baby is his ultimate sport film. The script was absolutely brilliant and was written with a little taste of originality. I don't know why but I just saw it that way at times as I was watching it.


Million Dollar Baby is Clint Eastwood's (as director) second best film after Mystic River. It is Clint Eastwood's (as actor) second best after The Good, The Bad And The Ugly. Hilary Swank's best performance is still phenomenal masterpiece Boys Don't Cry and Morgan Freeman's best performance is still The Shawshank Redemption but this is his second best after it. Million Dollar Baby is one of the best sport films ever made. It is one of the best films of 2004 as well. Million Dollar Baby is a fantastic masterpiece that I have watched quite a few times and have loved every time I've watched it. Such a fantastic masterpiece! It is a highly recommendable film to anybody even non-sport fans.

"Harry! I'd almost forgotten you were here, standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you, but rumor has it you're almost as famous as me these days."


Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Michael Gambon
Running time: 157 minutes
Country: UK, USA


I knew that I was going to love this one because it seemed a really fun film to watch and we get into the more personal side of things within the franchise. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire is probably the only Harry Potter film with an unexpected twist. Actually, it has two twists. This one is darker than the first, second and third one but is better than all three of them because the story, the characters and the way it is filmed is much better. Goblet Of Fire is my favourite Harry Potter novel but not my favourite Harry Potter film. Goblet Of Fire leads to seeing darker sides of magic as well as Order Of The Phoenix because we learn about what happens with the killing, torture and control spells do. This one is the most imaginitive ones out of all 5 of the ones that have been released thus far especially with the three tasks of the Triwizard Tournament. I loved seeing this one at the cinema because it became a new experience of Harry Potter because it was the first one of the franchise to have a certificate of 12A/PG-13 at the cinema and I am sure now that the rest of the franchise will be 12A.


As I am seeing Dan, Rupert and Emma as the three main characters I think that I am starting to see what sort of people they are in real life now just as themselves. It is like I grew up with them and watched them grow as well as myself. Despite how good the cast of Harry Potter is, the cast expands a lot more now with stars like two-time Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes, Brandon Gleeson, David Tennant, Robert Pattinson and Miranda Richardon. Daniel Radcliffe's performance as Harry Potter was in some people's opinion really bad but I thought it wasn't bad and it wasn't good either. I could see where Dan went a bit over the top and overreacts at times in which he does in some scenes but he made us see a much braver side to Harry especially when he entered the Triwizard Tournament. Dan's performance as Harry is lame in Philosopher's Stone, alright in Chamber Of Secrets, a lot better in Prisoner Of Azkaban, good in Goblet Of Fire and amazing in Order Of The Phoenix. Harry goes through a lot in this film and a lot of hard events come in front of him. Harry is unwillingly entered into the Triwizard Tournament and is 3 years underage to compete. Harry has no idea who entered him in so he has no choice but to actually compete in those three tasks with support from only Professor Alastor Moody. Harry has fall outs with his close friends Ron and Hermione in this one because they are annoyed at him for entering and especially for not telling them that he entered even though he didn't enter himself into it. He becomes the most hated person in school but he always tries to put on a brave face and to carry on with it. Rupert Grint is really good as Ron once again. He is hilarious and an idiot which is obviously part of Ron's personality. He falls out with Harry but they eventually make up after Harry completes the first task. We start to see the romantic side of things with the kids of Hogwarts because of the Yule Ball which does lead Ron to slight feelings for Hermoine and Harry for Ravenclaw seeker Cho Chang. Emma Watson proves once again that she is the best out of the three actors. She is the only one who can portray their character with real enthusiasm and the most realistically interesting. Hermione falls out with Harry as well as Harry's other friends do but when the Yule Ball comes along she goes with Harry's co-champion in the Triwizard Tournament, Durmstrang champion Victor Krum which makes Ron jealous as it makes Harry jealous of watching Cho dance with co-Hogwarts champion and friend Cedric Diggory. Michael Gambon is a good Dumbledore but isn't a brilliant one. He will never be better than the late Richard Harris. Dumbledore should have gone to either Ian McKellen or Christopher Lee instead because they are both far more talented. Ralph Fiennes was really good and scary as Voldemort (not going to say because spoiler). He portrayed this man with such fear. He wore such amazing make-up and the costumes he wore were like rags but made the character even more fearful than he already was.


Mike Newell's directing in The Goblet Of Fire was really good which sort of surprised me because the directing in the first three was pretty good. As far as I'm concerned, Newell would have been a good choice for directing Prisoner Of Azkaban then there would have been a joint directing: Chris Colombus for Philosopher's Stone and Chamber Of Secrets, Mike Newell for Prisoner Of Azkaban and Goblet Of Fire and David Yates for Order Of The Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and both parts of the final one Deathly Hallows. The script was a tiny flawed but the main thing was that some of the flawed scenes such as when Harry went in the bath where he saw Moaning Myrtle again. I thought that was a bit of an inappropriate scene even though it did become effective with the egg revealing what the second task is.


The Goblet Of Fire is my favourite Harry Potter novel but my favourite Harry Potter film is Order Of The Phoenix. The Goblet Of Fire is the start of making the Harry Potter films more enjoyable for adults as well as kids because they are getting darker and darker every time one is released. The Goblet Of Fire is one of my favourite blockbusters of 2005 and is one of the best of 2005 in my honest opinion. The Goblet Of Fire is the one Harry Potter film that catches your imagination the most and you will see why when you watch or if you have already watched it.

"You're a fucking ugly bitch. I want to stab you to death, and then play around with your blood."

Director: Mary Harron
Starring: Christian Bale, Chloë Sevigny, Willem Dafoe, Josh Lucas
Running time: 101 minutes
Country: USA



I think this has to be one of the greatest psychological thrillers out there. I wouldn't call this film a horror because it isn't scary. It is just a tense thrill ride with a lot of suspenseful moments where, when, who, how and what he kills people. Yes, Patrick Bateman is a very horrifying character indeed which is where I can't really describe what sort of character he is similar to let alone what type of character he actually is. This is revealed towards the end of the film (not saying what happens because I'm not a spoiler teller). Some would refer this as a horror film because it is a guy who treats killing people at night like a hobby and is like the present generation of film of Norman Bates. This is a film that a lot of people would be scared of because of the thrilling suspense that went on. I felt the suspense really hard but it didn't exactly terrify me. I could tell that this film was going to be a psychological thriller because you only have to notice the title of the film t o notice. Especially with the word "Psycho" in it. That shouldn't put you off it. It is definitely worth seeing.



Christian Bale delivers one of the most terrifying performances that I have ever laid my eyes on. I have always been used to seeing Christian as a man that is a hero or a manipulating villain but never a psycho. Bale has always been a heart-throb and probably always will be. That is one of the main reasons where I think he fits almost perfectly into Patrick Bateman's character. He is a guy who even prostitutes can fall for but can be fooled by aswell because sex is his intention with them but something more serious is his ambition aswell. He is two-faced!! He acts like those monsters on horror movies where you are nice on one part of the day but a complete cold-blooded killer on the evening. One thing that puzzled me a bit about the way Bateman was killing his victims was that his house was always white and very bright. I mean, how does he get away with it? That's the question and there are questions aswell about whether he killed those people or not at all. I think that Patrick Bateman is seriously one of the best and most powerful film villains of all time. He is a very destructive and impactful character who doesn't care who or how he kills as long as it is enjoyable for him which is what is so sick about his character.



I found the direction in American Psycho quite similar to the way Stanley Kubrick directed The Shining because of the eerie, very different and slow camera angles. In a slight way, it takes a lot of the direction from The Shining but in a good way. The script was really well adapted together because it wanted to focus on the character Patrick Bateman and wanted to show that he is really sick in the head and what he is capable of. Again, that is like The Shining. It was so gruesome and very psychotic because of how Bateman killed his victims. He killed two prostitutes with a chainsaw while he was naked and having sex with them. It shows that nobody can be trusted and nobody knows what is inside a person's true intentions are for someone. The reality of that was because it needed a bit of notification from the audience because it was obvious that he was going to kill someone but doesn't know how. Personally, I found that Patrick Bateman was in a fighting relationship with himself because it was like a split personality. He was really good at his work but then he was killing innocent people every night. One thing that confuses me is that he sometimes spares people but then kills someone else. It is just a bizarre film. I personally believe all of the kills are fantasies inside his head.



I have to say that this is one of the single most terrifying films of all time let alone one of the most terrifying characters and one of the best villains of all time too. I loved Christian Bale in this one! Prefer him in The Dark Knight, Batman Begins and The Prestige. I wouldn't call American Psycho a masterpiece but I would call it a film that does deserve to be watched and can thrill everybody in the same way.

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village."


Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton
Running time: 110 minutes
Country: UK


I saw the trailer of his film at the cinema and I thought it looked an absolutely fantastic film. When I saw it, I wasnt disappointed. Hot Fuzz is an extremely violent, hilarious and tense film that proves itself worthy to be one of the best British films of all time. The violence fits well within this film because the plot would make a good comic book and also we have seen the filmmaker create that sort of violence in the past with the same actors. We saw that in Shaun Of The Dead. It is rather weird because there are some sequences of violence that was unrealistic and then there were some that were very realistic. I think that is something that was purposely done. Hot Fuzz is a film that cracked me up with laughter and the action within the film made me sit so tight in my seat because it was absolute kickass! Hot Fuzz has an underrated twist that left me in shock. It is one of my favourite twists ever. This film was robbed from a lot of awards in my opinion. It should have had Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture (Musical/Comedy) and Best Actor (Musical/Comedy) for both Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.


This film has a lot of very talented British actors in it that all deliver great performances. Simon Pegg is one of my favourite British actors ever and this is the one film that made me think that. His performance as Sergeant Nicholas Angel was really hilarious and very serious which is why I think his performance was absolute top-class. In fact, I think it is one of the best leading male performances of 2007 and that was an amazing year for cinema. Simons performance in Shaun Of The Dead was absolutely brilliant too but I prefered him in this film. Nicholas Angel is an ordinary cop in London who is the greatest in the city. Because of him improving his arrest record by 400% more than any other officer in London, he is reassigned to a peaceful village called Sandford. As you watch it, Sandford isnt all that peaceful as it is supposed to be. Nick Frost was absolutely fantastic as well as Danny Butterman. I love Dannys character because he is a massive film fan particularly of action films and he dreams to be in a proper action crime scene which is where film is his inspiration. Only one problem he has: hes lazy and hes overweight. Danny is the son of Inspector Frank Butterman who lost his wife and Danny lost his mother 20 years ago. Simon and Nicks partnership in Hot Fuzz was crazier, funnier and more serious than when they were together in Shaun Of The Dead. Jim Broadbent was really good as Frank Butterman. There is a deep dark secret in the Butterman family that is about to be revealed. What I love about Jim Broadbent is that he is a serious actor who can play wacky, funny or crazy characters. Timothy Dalton was awesome as Simon Skinner who is the main suspect of the murders in Sandford. Paddy Considine and Rafe Spall were amazing as Detective Sergeant Wainwright and Detective Constable Cartwright. They were my favourite characters within the film.


Edgar Wright is one amazing filmmaker and he totally deserves to be. The camera movements were mindblowing and were unbelievably filmed. Simon Pegg worked hard on this film as well as Edgar did. I loved Edgar and Simons work in Shaun Of The Dead but even more in Hot Fuzz. I cannot wait to see their next film The Worlds End which is the final film in what Edgar and Simon like to tall the "Blood And Ice Cream" trilogy alongside Hot Fuzz and Shaun Of The Dead. The script was absolutely amazing! There are a lot of British films that have very original plots and scripts. I think it?s mostly comedy when that is the case and also films with a lot of swearing and crude language. Hot Fuzz has all of that which is why it is a brilliantly written film. Scripts and plots like this inspire me because they arent adapted from novels, plays or true stories; like they come straight out of a persons mind.


Overall, Hot Fuzz is one of my favourite comedies ever and is one of the best films of 2007 and that was a famous year for cinema. Hot Fuzz is a violent, hilarious, explosive and intense thrill ride that keptme gripped to it from start to finish.

"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.