My Favorite Movies

Perfection. Believeable and tense. clearly one of the best.

The original slasher flick, and of course a classic masterpiece

Akira Kurosawa´s most prominent masterpiece. Toshiro Mfune is a riot.

An epic tale about a man becoming a legend. Not many adventure movies reach the peak of cinematic elegance of this masterpiece. Actors Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn make utterly believable arabs though they are english and american respectively. Peter O´Toole makes one of the best movie performance debuts ever if not the best.

Total Brilliance. A group of criminals are rounded up by a mysterious man called Keyser Söze. And who exactly is Keyser Söze.?

A study in psyhology.

One of the greats, the first ever blockbuster signed Steven Spielberg. That theme tune. That Shark. Chomp Chomp

A serial killer using unusual killing methods. An ending which truly chills you to the bone and is one of the most creative. A cut above most thrillers. Class Act.

Michael Mann´s intriguing cops and robbers opus masterpiece. Expect the big guns to come out. Includes a dream cast.

The sci-fi horror movie to rule them all. A b-movie done in an a- movie way

One of the best sequels ever made

The fellowship is Broken up in three, still the adventure moves on. More action that the first one. A few new and nicely developed characters. And walking trees.

Great finish to the trilogy, though the many endings brings it down a peg

Very faithful to the comics, suitably dark, excellent cast though Holmes is out of place.

One of the best actioners with a great premise of a terrorist and an FBI agent swapping faces to deadly results. John Woo´s best Hollywood creation, with blistering acting and pulse pounding action.

So much action it could have filled two movies.

John Woo´s masterpiece.

The best X-Men movie, clever plotting and great characterisation. Stylish and classy.

Better than the first one, better villain, bigger action, higher stakes. Let´s see how the third movie does.

A brilliant debut.

Now how did that quote really go?
Many have said "Play it again Sam" but that is not really right, check out the movie to find out. And oh yeah, great film by the way.

The definitive movie about the origin of Superman, with tongue in cheek. Gotta love that music theme from John Williams.

Not quite The Exorcist, but great nonetheless

Once of Willis´ best, this is a template for how action movies should be done. Alan Rickman´s villain is exemplary.

The perfect slasher movie.

My favorite Bond adventure. The train fight is outstanding

The classic recipe for what´s to come in later Bond films.

There can only be one good Highlander movie, this is it, the rest are crap.

Second best movie of the Monthy Pythons. The Knights of Ni scene is pricess

Dare to listen in?

The best movie in the series

The best Harrison Ford thriller

This is one cool movie. Adapted from a book by Elmore Leonard.

Fun nerdery

Bill Murray´s stuck in time, with very funny consequnces. Like you thought your days went the same?.

Steven Spielberg´s biggest movie. thought provoking stuff

Great What If movie, a true favorite, the effects are great considering it was released in 1993

The hard edged sci-fi original.

A masterful adaptation of the Stephen King book.

One of the defining Gangster-Crime movies. Classic, See it if you already haven´t, the see it again....

Even better than the first one

Diaz´s first movie appearance with a crazy, goofy Carrey in a green, mean mask. This comic book to movie adaptation delivers the goods with Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey) finding a Mask and transforms in to a yellow suited green faced maniac who will stop at nothing to have a great time. His philosophy being
"P.A.R.T.-Y? because I gotta"

The best gangster movie there is

Robert De Niro as the psycho cabbie. A Classic and one of Marty´s and Bobby´s best collaboration.

One of the greatest compsers of all time gets a worthy epic movietreatment

One of the best and most beautiful martial arts adventure yet seen.

A complicated mindbending noirish thriller about memory, the movie starts where it usually ends as a man tries topiece together what has happened to him.

Peter Sellers plays 3 characters and is brilliant.

Mr Raimi does it again, blending a very human story midst all the comic-book action and freaks. Okay so the new villains Sandman and Venom are not as charismatic as Doctor Octopus in the 2nd movie, but still gives Spidey a good challenge, Sandman is the more sympathetic than Eddie Brock. And Harry Osborn carries his querst even further by becoming the new Goblin, who this time is black and is more accessible than the robot-alike green suit his father had in the first one. Things are more complicated for Peter Parker when some black goo from space clings onto him and makes him fight his darker side putting a damp on his relationship with Mary Jane who he is trying to woe in marriage, things are complicated as Gwen Stacy (beaut Bryce Dallas Howard)comes into the mix. It is a great ride but takes care of its characters, the ending has its chunky parts, and well does run a recurring theme from the first two, yeah you´ll know when you see it. And of course Bruce Campbell shows up in another scene stealing cameo, which seems to be another doppelganger. This is one movie I will see again and again this summer.

Wow what a knockout, Del Toro´s best to date. A perfect horror fantasy

To say this is a thriller is a bit off the mark, I would rather say this is a suspense comedy, it isn´t a full blown com,edy of course but it is one of Hitchcock´s funniest he ever did and it is also one filled with alot of effortless class. Cary Grant and the beautiful Grace Kelly spark off eachother. Cary Grant plays a retired thief John "The Cat" Robie but is immedietely blamed when jewellery is stolen and has to catch the copycat to clear himself, cat and mouse games ensue. To Catch a Thief is Hitchcock at his best and one of his most beautiful movies.

Finally saw this, I know there has been aton of hype about this movie and I can plainly say that is deserves all of it. It is satisfying from beginning with a brilliant and hilarious bank heist (worth ticketprice alone) to end in which...well I won´t tell but I can say it will rattle some cages. The cast is grat, and blah blah, I know you really want to hear about the Joker at this point... right? Well Heath Ledger (may he RIP) did a great job with the character, bringing many nuances and ticks, but I won´t compare this Joker to the Nicholson one as they are tweo completly different ones, as Jac´s was and older version. The movie has lots of style and class but doesn´t overthrow the depth and nuance of the movie as every facet is catered for, you might even discover new things with repeat viewings. And then of course we got the action, and that is very skilfully made and pretty realisty based, this is after all Batman in about as real as... well I guess the word I am looking for is realism, and it feels as though these things really could occur. The new batsuit is alot more advanced than the old one, and the other new gadgetry are really nice additions which I will not get into more about here, but sure would give Bond a run for his money. This is the best action movie so far this year and a contender to the best-ever comic book to screen adaptation which is, yup Batman Begins...

Alot better than The Flags of Our Fathers. This is a true War masterpiece.

What, another masterpiece by Clint Eastwood? No can´t be, but yes this is another to add to Unforgiven, Mystic River, The Outlaw Josie Wales, etc. I was a bit sceptical when Angelina Jolie was going to be in it, but this is her best effort yet, she really puts herself out there and makes a very consistent characterisation. John Malkovich is superb too who last worked with Eastwood in In the Line of Fire. also the supporting cast is spot on. But the real star is Eastwood who directs with such richness and on top of his game in recreating a very believable late 1920´s with incredible eye for detail. He truly makes each scene memorable, not forgetting all the crew giving him all their best to bring an already classic film to screen. This really screams Oscar-contender.

Saw at the Stockholm Filmfestival.