100 Favourite Films

Mel Gibson has often surprised me. The first occasion was when the news broke out, to the world's astonishment and (initial) incredulity...

For Valentine's Day a romantic choice is required, and for me it's a close run thing between Casablanca and Brief Encounter , but as...

Back in 1996, I was trying to carve out a proper future career for myself. Having stuck around in temporary employment for a time, and also ...

At around Christmas and New Year, a new tradition had started for film fans: the December fantasy movie, a trend begun in 2001 with the rele...

William Friese-Greene was a pioneer of the cinema, there's no doubt of that in my view; where exactly he lies in the pantheon of film h...

On a wet September evening, or thereabouts (research reveals it to have been sometime after the first week in July) in 1980, my father and I...