My Favorite Movies

Vulcan Bombers, scuba diving in the Bahamas, hydrofoils, great gadgets and some great best practice suggestions on how to deal with underforming staff.

My favourite Bond. They don't come better than this!

I used to think "A Fistfull" was the best of the dollar westerns, because the action is tighter and more intense,but over the years I've got to appreciate the full grandeur of The Good The Bad & the Ugly much more and realise that it really is the pinacle of Leone's trilogy. Having re-watched it last night I was gob-smacked it was a UK certificate "18" though.

An absolutely brilliant film in its own right. That it mamanged to offend loads of people who didn't even bother to watch it to check if it WAS offensive gets it extra marks. So does its spin off, the classic Not the Nine O'Clock News "General Synod's Life Of Monty Python" sketch.

I read the book first. THAT had me howling in laughter with self-recognition. The film transfers surprisingly well to Chicago, but I've knocked a star off because the setting SHOULD have been left alone and in London.

Brilliantly observed satire on both modern politics and (to a lesser degree) "activist" folk music. That THIS Bob is protesting about people protesting and that his politics are to the conservative end of the spectrum is just delicious.

Pete (as Lucifer), Dud (as Faust) and Raquel Welch too (as Lust). Eleanor Bron provides the crumpet interest for the more interlectual. What more could you need?

Later remade with Liz Hurley in the Pete role. THAT film isn't a patch on this.

Great film and probably where my exploration of The Doors began in earnest, although it sort of started with the Apocalypse Now soundtrack.

Val Kilmer as Jim is brilliant

Absolutely wonderful NASA documentary about the Moon landings in the period 1969-1972. Stunning colour footage of the later landings, which given we didn't have a colour telly back then, makes the film all the more worthwhile

A brilliantly entertaining film. Tony Curtis' "Great Leslie" can annoy, but Jack Lemon's Professor Fate and his incompetent sidekick Max (Peter Falk) more than compensate!

The best Beatles film. Shame it was made in black and white, but that does give it a very authetic early 60s feel.

The best Bond for many years.

The difference between the original and the director's cut is not so marked as on Kingdom of Heaven, but again the longer running Director's Cut is a superior film

It takes a little while to adjust to the graphic novel stylisation, but this is an excellent and action packed telling of the story of the 300 Spartans taking on the whole Persian Army at Thermopylae, allowing the Greeks to turn things around in extra time and win at the Battles of Salamis and Plataea a year later.

Brilliant film and brilliant soundtrack!

I've always liked this movie, even when I people told me I wasn't supposed to. Watching the new (2007) TV series makes me realise just how good this is. Everyone is just camping it up for all its worth. Max von Sydow is a brilliant Ming the Merciless and Flash is, well, just so dumb. Plis there is the Queen sountrack and then to cap it all Timothy Dalton kills off the annoying Blue Peter presenter.

Could it be any better?

I liked the cinema version, but the longer Director's cut is so much better. Indeed, once you've seen the longer version you get the impression that the originl edit was done bysomeone from a rival studio trying to mess it up!

This one has everything: Great set pieces and some superb music. It even made me dig out the Neil Diamond original of "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon".

That you need to watch the film several times to work out quite waht happened when actually makes it better value than many DVDs.

It seems incredible that this film is over 25 years old, since in lots of ways it is still as fresh today as when it was made, despite (soon to be) 4 sequels.

Great film but I still prefer Casino Royale!

I don't really approve of someone trying to sell me the same film n times, but I managed to pick up Oliver Stone's 3rd attempt at the editing of Alexander, "Alexander Revisted - The Final Cut" in the sales.

I watched all 3.5 hours of the other night. It even comes with a formal intermission when you change disks after 2 hours! As with many of these recent longer re-releases (Kingdom of Heaven, Troy), I can again confirm that the longer version is superior. In the case of Alexander, I'd not seen the original cinema version, just the slightly shorter version called "Directors Cut" but which I think really should have been entitled the "panic cut".

I liked "The Director's Cut" anyway, and Colin Farrell's performance isn't as bad as some critics would have you believe, but it's now an even better film.

An entertaining game was spotting all the actors from The Tudors that I now know the faces of but didn't last time through.

Certainly worth seeing and probably worth hunting down this "Revisited-Final Cut" version.

An excellent and enjoyable shoot-em-up spaghetti western, with a body-count of Ramboesque proportions. That everyone is double and triple crosing everyone makes it even more fun. It's not a remake of "A Fistful of Dollars" as such, but are such a lot of similar themes and homages that I think we can say the film was at least inspired by Per Un Pugno Di Dollari; but then so was this whole genre!

Requiescant aka Kill and Pray is a superior Spaghetti Western. I first came across it via Alex Cox's Moviedrome season on BBC 2 late at night in the early 1990s. It's a good shoot-em-up in its own right, but its also got some unusual plot aspects that make it stand out too. Eg, I've never seen the hangman duel re-enacted anywhere else in a movie. The film deserves to be better known and more widely available than it is. There doesn't seem to be a DVD version and it is rarely on TV.