Film Favourites

Welcome to my lunatic ravings on what I believe are the greatest movies ever made. Beware, these reviews are 100% biased!

My All-Time Top Ten Favourites

Well, they're just so utterly amazingly cool, I couldn't choose between them. So these 2 are joint number 1. The first is a visual masterpiece in sci-fi terror, making space seem incredibly vast and lonely and inhospitable. The second brilliantly reverses that, making your palms sweat with claustrophobic tension and balls-to-the-wall action. The best a man can get.

The original and best. No matter how many times you see it or hear about it, you can't help enjoying the hell out of it. The very definition of Perfect Escapism.

Amazing. Impenetrable. Stunning. A load of pretentious crap. All these words have described Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, but no matter what your opinion, there's no doubt it knocks you for six every time you see it. The ultimate intelligent sci-fi film.

Classic piece of sci-fi adventure, with Charlton Heston as the astronaut flung into time and space, winding up on a desolate planet where apes, not humans, have become the dominant species. Brilliant story, with jaw-dropping ending.

Harrison Ford IS Indiana Jones in the first and best of the trilogy. Superb boy's own yarn, full of adventure, romance, mysteries, globe trotting and evil plots.

Harrison Ford again, except this time in the most influential sci-fi film of the last 20 years. The look of this film is genius, pure and simple, and the world it creates is one of awe and terror. A classic of design.

James Cameron's second entry in my top 10 (behind Aliens) is nearly as gripping as the first. Arnie is perfect in this film as the cyborg chasing Linda Hamilton. Better than its sequel because of its pure simplicity - the thrill of the chase.

Speilberg again, with his brilliantly made fantasy fairy-tale. Touching upon numerous themes, especially loneliness and the ups and downs of childhood, it has easily stood the test of time.

The oldest film here, but no less amazing after all these years. Based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, it follows a military mission to discover the fate of a planet's colonists. Only two have survived - a father and daughter. What is their secret?

Paul Verhoeven, that flawed genius, serves up his best sci-fi film (others being RoboCop and Total Recall) with this action-packed, violent, intergalactic warfare picture. Based on the 50s novel, it also satirises gung-ho Amercianism. Only see on a big screen!