Film #17 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Little Miss Sunshine Little Miss Sunshine is a quirky gem of an indie film from 2006 that whilst a favourite of mine and Oscar-nominated, has likely flown below the radar for many mainstream viewers. Which is a huge shame as this is such a fun, heartwarming and …
Film #16 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Monty Python’s Life of Brian Life of Brian (1979) is an old school comedy classic, and alongside Python’s take on the Holy Grail, were fairly revered comedies when I was growing up and I doubt there are many people over a certain age that haven’t seen these …
Film #15 on the 100 Movies List: The Departed The Departed is Martin Scorcese’s Oscar-winning Irish gangster film released in 2006, a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, and loosely based around the real-life Boston Hill Gang led by Whitey Bulger. It’s a film I remember watching when it was first released …
Film #14 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Saving Private Ryan When I think of war films, I immediately think of Saving Private Ryan. This is partly because I shamefully haven’t seen the majority of the older classic war films (but I may have done by the time I reach the end of this list), …
Film #13 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Titanic Titanic is a rather divisive film. There are many that absolutely love it, the creators of this list among them I don’t doubt. And then there are those that can’t stand it, despite it’s 11 Oscar wins. When it was first released, Titanic’s popularity was immense …
Film #12 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: The Terminator The Terminator is a sci-fi classic and responsible not only for helping propel Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron to the household names they are now but also for creating a movie franchise that is still going nearly 40 years later. Although admittedly the majority of …
Film(s) #11 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Film 11 is actually the three films that make up the Lord of the Rings trilogy: Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King. Whilst I can entirely understand featuring the trilogy as a whole, especially as …
Film #10 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: The Prestige The Prestige is one of 3 Christopher Nolan films on this bucket list (the others being Memento and The Dark Knight), and probably the one that has least recognition out of the three. In fact, I’d say it’s criminally underrated. It focuses on two rival …
Film #9 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Toy Story When Toy Story was first released in 1995, it was groundbreaking. The first-ever fully computer-animated film and the first released by Disney Pixar, this was also one of the first films I saw at the cinema as an 8-year-old child. Admittedly at that age, I …
Film #8 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Shaun of the Dead Shaun of the Dead (2004) is the first film in the Cornetto trilogy, a series of films directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. I have to admit I’m a little biased when it comes to Shaun and 2007’s …
Film #7 on the 100 Movies Bucket List: Snatch Snatch (2000) is Guy Ritchie’s second film following on from his hugely successful debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998). Critically, Snatch wasn’t quite as well-received as it’s predecessor, but the general movie-going public found it a lot more enjoyable, and personally, I agree with …
The Untouchables is a film that has garnered a great deal of acclaim over the years, and yet if I’ve ever seen it, I’m ashamed to admit that I don’t remember it. The Untouchables (1987) was directed by Brian De Palma and stars Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness, a treasury agent who recruits a group …
There are many things that make All About Eve stand out in cinematic history; having the most actresses nominated for an Academy Award (Davis, Baxter, Holm and Thelma Ritter were all nominated in both Best Actress and Supporting Actress categories). It is the first of only 2 films to ever be nominated for 14 Oscars …
Halloween has become one of the most famous and beloved horror films of all time. But how did a small independent picture with hardly any budget grow into one of the most popular films in its genre? Early in 1978 the young, little known director John Carpenter was hired to make a small independent movie …
I have been a fan of Deborah Kerr for many years, I greatly admire her work and The Innocents has long been one of my favourite in her catalogue of stunning performances (Kerr also regarded it as her finest performance). I had the pleasure to re-watch this film and enjoy again the superb acting, lighting, …
For as long as I can remember Ghost has been a special film. I have fond memories of watching it repeatedly, though I was drastically too young to see the film, but now I can look back and laugh at the years of nightmares its antagonists gave me. Ghost is considered a chick flick; one …
