100 Favourite Films

School time again, and a chance to reflect on a comedy favourite. This film has slightly been eclipsed in memory by the subsequent series of...

John Huston has always been the advocate of character and situation rather than over-stylization of cinema. Huston himself has the element o...

"You've read the book, you've seen the film, now eat the pie!", so read one soon-to-be-ex-butcher when he churlishly adver...

This, to put it simply and bluntly, is one of the greatest films ever made. Technically speaking it is also a minor miracle; this also, in a...

      Pearl Harbour aflame in 1941, and below, as depicted in  Tora! Tora! Tora! History, they say, is written by the victors. This one dare...

This comes under the category - of which there are many other candidates - of the "curiosity interest" film. Over the years that I...

Ironic, and yet perhaps appropriate, at the time of writing when the world is in shutdown from a pandemic, to cover a film that crosses the ...