My Favorite Movies

On the face of it, this film has no likeable characters and a black humour that is often sick. But the lead characters, Durango and Dolorossa, are treated sympathetically and their characters do develop as the film progresses so that you find yourself really caring what happens and, at the end of the day, that's what matters.

Rollerball is an interesting and thought-provoking film with a truly unforgettable climax, and one that deserves to be seen. It is also a genuine science fiction film in that it attempts to extrapolate a future from present trends as opposed to the flashy CGI driven drivel that gives the genre such a bad name.

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Tears of a Black Tiger manages to simultaneously pay homage to and parody both western and romantic films. It?s also one of the funniest and freshest I?ve seen in a long time. So much so that, as soon as I saw the film, I ordered the DVD - what more can I add?

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It's a fun, silly film that manages to retain the anarchic atmosphere of the original comic strips.

There have been many attempts to turn HP Lovecraft?s stories into films and many films that claim to have been inspired by him (63 according to the IMDb) and many of these have been less than successful. In that light, Elias deserves a great deal of credit for managing to bring together a well crafted and generally entertaining collection of films ? even the misses aren?t that bad ? that successfully celebrate both the writer and the spirit of independent cinema.

I?m not sure how well this film will go down with the purists, but for the rest of us it?s a fine collection of films and one that really does include something for everyone.

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And then someone made a film just for me! The plot may leave a lot to be desired but it's a hell of a lot of fun to watch. And even after having seen it several times, the film still manages to bring me to the edge of my seat every time.

Jude Law makes a perfect square jawed hero and he and Gwyneth Paltrow have a great on-screen chemistry that perfectly matches the 1930s feel of the film.

Sky Captain is a huge amount of fun, especially if you've ever enjoyed any sort of pulp science fiction.

Pervert! is packed with jokes, which are linked together with a series of sight gags. And breasts. Not every joke works, but they come so thick and fast that for every gag that falls flat, there are always several more on the way. And breasts.

It?s a wonderfully silly sex comedy and a glorious tribute to the exploitation films of Russ Meyer that not only understands Meyer?s sense of fun, his disregard for authority and his sly subversiveness but brings it all, fully formed, into the 21st century.

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As a genuinely funny farce of a spy thriller, Fay Grim is a unique film. The sprawling plot is driven forward by the sharp and witty ? if occasionally exposition heavy ? dialogue and the film is held together by Parker Posey?s superb performance.

Fay Grim is smart, sexy, stylish and funny. And so is the film.

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V for Vendetta is, unashamedly, an action film. But it's an action film with something to say, about moral panics, creeping authoritarianism, about the power of symbols and about individual resistance.

The film throws up questions rather than answers, but these are questions that need to be asked and for this reason, if no other, it is a film that is well worth seeing.

It helps, of course, that the action parts of the film are all suitably spectacular.