My Favorite Movies

A huge film that could have so easily gone off the rails but didn't. Transcends genres, effortlessly being really light and extremely dark. Too many great performances to mention just one, but I will anyway: Julianne Moore. Amazingly shot. Great soundtrack. An epic, brilliant film.

First watching it, all the way through, I thought it was just a collection of really great scenes that didn't entirely fit together, and then the ending comes and everything seems to fit... even though, even now, I'm still not one hundred percent sure. Such a great mindfuck, but also such a great watch. Often mindfucks have characters and scenes that, while watching them, are unrelatable or boring or seemingly meaningles, and it's a struggle to get to, and you only persevere so you can see what the movie is on about, but not here! It rules all the way through. If you don't think so, you can go suck a fuck.

Wow. Long, sad, and intense. Great score by Jon Brion, great songs by Aimee Mann, and Julianne Moore gives what I think is her best performance. So does everyone, though, even Tom Cruise, career best, and it's usually difficult with him to see the character he plays beneath his celebrity. Not here, though. And did I mention Julianne Moore? A breathtaking movie.

This movie turns me into a huge girl, but why should I be ashamed of that? WHY? Fantastic soundtrack, too.

Perfick! Such a great little movie. Also one of the most brilliantly paced movies ever. Hilarious (until it gets all sad), and more relatable than your average zombie movie. Also: watch Spaced, the TV show that precedes this movie, if at all possible. Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright (and Jessica Stevenson, even though she only acted in this one, and briefly) are all geniuses. How's that for a slice of fried gold?

Improves on every viewing. Not an film that is easily categorised, just a great one; one of the best of the nineties, in fact.

Pretty spectacular. Very well acted, terrifyingly pertinent story, and Alfonso Cuaron has an absolutely amazing eye. Perhaps the most intense movie of the year, as well.

Fantastic. Another mindfuck with a point. I'm a sucker for an American Indie, I'll admit that, but this one really is worth it. Also contains one of my very favourite scenes of all time. Hint: it's the one with the word "retard".

Beautiful on all levels. Career bests from pretty much everyone on both sides of the camera.

Nick Hornby's best book; the best movie based on a Nick Hornby book. It all fits! John Cusack does good work, Jack Black's obnoxiousness actually serves this movie well, and it has Darlene from Roseanne. Darlene from Roseanne!

Watching one man's attempt to cheat his way up in life has never been so thrilling or so humourously dark. Frances McDormand is great and lovable, and Steve Buscemi is brilliantly Steve Buscemi. Also: funny, funny accents. Go bears!

Very few movies manage to have effectively frightening scenes set in broad daylight, but this is one of them. And the rest! Has quite a legacy to apologise for, but this one is top notch.

Specifically, 4/5 for Planet Terror and 5/5 for Death Proof.

Planet Terror is just a hell of a lot of bloody, messed up fun. Perhaps not as authentic as it could be- a real low budget movie wouldn't be able to fake a girl walking around with one leg so well... but I guess that was worth it to have Rose McGowan with a machine gun for a leg, because that's eighteen levels of awesome.

Death Proof... Death Proof. It takes its time, and I don't mean that in a bad way. It switches halfway through really nastily and impressively, and then the amazing climactic double chase... and then... that ending. Wow. Wow. I challenge you not to applaud that ending. Brilliant.

Fantastic. My favourite movie of 2005. It's been a long time since I've seen a horror movie where you CARE if the characters live or die, so it's pretty upsetting to watch.