Starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short this is one of the most overlooked films I've ever accidentally seen. I dare you not to cry laughing when Martin Short breaks into the bank and pulls the pin on the grenade. 

Seriously hilarious. An adorable addition by way of Sarah Rowland Doroff (possibly the most gorgeous small creature in a pleated skirt). The acting is great set off by the top cop James Earl Jones and his sidekick the cutie Alan Ruck. And we can't not mention the archetypal baddie Bruce McGill

Frank Langella is an aging, retired cat burglar whose grown kids are worried about his failing mental health. His son finally decides to bring him a robot trained to care for him physically and mentally.​

It's the slickest film I've seen, with racy lines, exciting action, improbably skilled aged agents and an explosive storyline. With the deliciously grumpy Karl Urban as the lead hunter, it promised and delivered, a fun and thrilling ride. I absolutely loved it.

Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock. I'm sorry, but what's not to love? I really shouldn't need to say any more. It's funny. I love them both and I loved the movie. His face in the office when the proposal is first mentioned- sublime. His lines when she is climbing down the ladder to the ferry- hysterical.  She is superb, the dialogue biting... watch it!

The Stephen King classic builds delicious anxiety as best selling novelist Sheldon (James Caan) is rescued from his carwreck by his number one fan, Annie (the perfect Kathy Bates). Taken back to her secluded ranch deep in the snow covered hills, Caan has little choice but to believe the nurse when she tells him severe storms have prevented help from coming and his serious injuries preclude him from being moved.

I loved this film. It was outside the box; something intriguing, beautifully filmed and entrancing. A strange tale of a young Indian boy's journey from his homeland to America with his father's zoo in tow.​

Limitless took me by surprise. It is a powerfully told story with brilliant directing, cinematography and editing. Starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish it whisks you away to where the impossible can become reality. It asks you to believe that anything can happen if you just 'open your mind'.

I'm not American so Abe Lincoln is really of little interest to me. The Yanks make such a fuss of their presidents and expect everyone to kowtow to the office... yada yada so going to see this movie with a low expectation, I was blown away.

Tom Hardy is superb as Forest Bondurant; a hard looking, fast acting, no talking hero with not a little sex appeal despite the grubby 1930's Depression wardrobe. Shia Labouf as always can do no wrong; the little brother that does his damnedest to bring down the bootlegging empire his brother's built. And as for Guy Pearce, can we love him any more? As a sleazy baddie in this drama he's right on the money; we just love to hate him.

Starring Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz and Olivier Gourmet it's a smorgasbord of brooding intensity and intrigue.

I liked the film, but I did spend a bit of time with my eyes shut tight, hence the R rating. It is a gangster movie and so pretty violent. But there is a star studded cast and wonderful performances from Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, Ben Mendelsohn, Scoot McNairy and Ray Liotta.

Apart from being a true story, it's a bloody good tale. Starring the yummy Colin Firth, delightful Geoffrey Rush and the incomparable Helena Bonham Carter, what I presumed would be a dull but informative film was one of the best I'd seen in long while.​

Thought this would be a dreary Foreign Film about a quadriplegic,  sad and moving as only a true story can be. It was nothing of the sort and now one of my favourite films of all time. Starring the dishy Francois Cluzet, the delicious Omar Sy and the gorgeous Anne Le Ny it's a must see movie for everyone. My kids all loved it too!

A sci fi thriller set in the future where human life is worth less than numbers tattooed on your arm. In coming to explain it, it seems absurd, but it works really. Somehow humans at the age of 25 become walking time bombs whereby a time countdown is activated on each person's wrist. Time thereby becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. And if you can't pay your bills and your countdown runs out? You die.​

Helen Mirren was superb and Antony Hopkins pure genius. In an interview she admitted that she was shocked by how effectively Hopkins  transformed himself into the movie mogul. It was such a beautifully rendered piece of the era that everyone was transported  back to 1960 and the time of the super stars and starlettes of whom Hitch was reportedly so fond.

I read the books by ​Suzanne Collins and was mesmerised from the start. It is an epic tale of deprivation, vast divides and death. To punish the revolting districts, the governing state decrees an annual game where pairs are taken from each district to the capital to participate in highly publicised games to the death. There can be only one winner. 

​Fast and loose with the bullets and witty dialogue.

My favourite film. I can't tell you how moving, how sweet, how funny... Before the Intouchables, there was Le Choriste. ​Set in the French countryside in the forties, this oscar nominated film follows the story of Clement Mathieu (Gerard Jugnot), a disenfranchised music teacher who must resort to teaching at a school of disturbed and disturbing boys.

The film takes you on an extraordinary journey through tears, pity, moments of great wisdom, and moments of hear-felt empathy, but mostly laugh out loud comedy. John Madden does a superb job as director in contrasting the glumness of retirement England with the vibrancy of rebirth India. Maggie's acerbic racism is breathtaking.

Nathan Lane is a genius. Robin Williams is an absolutely amazing human being to put his own genius somewhat under wraps in order to act as the straight man opposite the incredibly funny Lane. Hats off to him. Really. 

Also starring the incomparable Dianne Weist and Gene Hackman, a baby Calista Flockhart and Dan Futterman as well as a stellar performance by Hank Azaria (in incredible shape may I add- the thong was really flattering and that's hard to achieve really).

Ok so it's 'old' (1996) but I'm telling you it's comic genius at its best. Mike Nichols (the Graduate, Closer, Primary Colours, Postcards from the Edge...) puts together one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. 

Nathan Lane playing a gay man playing a straight man is simply staggeringly authentic acting.

I'm going to stop gushing now because it'll turn you off. But two of my 18/20 yo.s watched it and loved it too.