100. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Fun high school movie that helped launch Matthew Broderick's career. Memorable for an attempt to take miles off the clock of a classic car my driving it in reverse.

99. The Night Porter. Disturbing film starring Charlotte Rampling, who recognizes hotel doorman Dirk Bogarde as a former Nazi POW camp commandant.

98. Tremors. Amusing low budget dessert movie about huge underground worms that suck people under the soil and consume them. Outwitted by locals Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward.

97. Halloween. The original stalk and slash movie. Jamie Lee Curtis is terrorized by Michael Myers. Good performance from Donald Pleasance and quality directing from John Carpenter.

96. Red Rock West. A modern film noir complete with mistaken identity and a mix of intriguing characters led by Nicolas Cage's stranger and Dennis Hopper as a psycho, again.

95. Let Him Have It. The story of Derek Bently who was tried for a crime someone else committed but he took the fall for because he was over 18. British gangster movie as well.

94. Planet Of The Apes. Man goes into space. Finds strange planet run by monkeys. Discovers to his horror the planet is earth as he finds the wrecked statue of liberty. Powerful stuff. Sequels were awful.

93. Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery. Mike Myers very funny story of a spoof bond and the villainous Doctor Evil. Both are played by Myers superbly, the sharks with lasers tied to their heads is pure evil genius baby.

92. El Mariachi. Robert Rodriguez's debut picture is lacking in plot and characterization and is brilliant. Blood everywhere, guns being fired, knifes thrown and in the end who knows who'll be left standing, Remade to a degree as Desperado with Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek.

91. Repo Man. Alex Cox directed Emilio Estevez to a fine performance here in a bizarre story about the contents of a car's trunk. Also notable for Harry Dean Stanton.

90. Mean Streets. 2 words for you all, Martin Scorsese. He's directed some of the most well made films there are. I even liked The Last Temptation Of Christ.

89. Mad Max. Mel Gibson complete with Australian accent hunts down scum in a post WWW III world without structure. Handcuffing suspects to burning cars isn't Mel's style anymore.

88. Predator. A seemingly indestructible alien creature follows, imitates and kills Arnold Schwarzenegger's group of soldiers that include Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Carl Weathers. Director John McTiernan went on to make Die Hard.

87. The Hudsucker Proxy. I like watching Tim Robbins movies. I like them even better if they're directed by the excellent Joel Coen. Includes superb shot of Paul Newman jumping out of a very high up window.

86. Muriel's Wedding. Feel good, Australian movie about a girl who's not popular and tries her hardest to get married and be a success. Lots of ABBA.

85. True Romance. Tarantino scripted and directed by Tony Scott this could never be a bad movie. Christian Slater is superb and there is a huge quality supporting cast. Gary Oldman's drug dealer Drexl and Brad Pitt's stoner layabout are my favorites.

84. Fargo. The Coen brothers oscar winner. Memorable for bleak snow, northern accents and extreme violence.

83. The Magnificent Seven. One of my favorite westerns. A host of talent led by Yul Brynner. He recruits 6 of the best gunmen in the west to protect a mexican village. Every spaghetti western was made because this film was so good. Based on Japanese movie The Seven Samurai.

82. Manhunter. The Hannibal Lecter movie people haven't seen and they should. If Jodie Foster was in this movie it would totally erase Silence Of The Lambs from history.

81. Shallow Grave. Danny Boyle's movie before Trainspotting has the breakdown of human decency on screen. Ewen McGregor is excellent as a journalist in a crisis of conscience after 3 flatmates new lodger dies leaving a case full of cash for them to do what they want with. They choose a morally suspicious choice "you didn't have to saw his feet off".

80. Seven (or Se7en). Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman have to track down a psychopath who has been killing according to people breaking the seven deadly sins. Memorable for the Barton Fink rip off ending and the dismal view of the world, always raining, people are all nasty with unpleasant desires.

79. Boyz N The Hood. Modern gang tale in Los Angeles. A young Cuba Gooding Junior seeks to escape the life that everyone else in his neighbourhood has fallen into. Rapper Ice Cube turns in a great performance.

78. Bad Lieutenant. Harvey Keitel as a drug taking corrupt cop. In one scene he loses a bet and shoots the radio in his car because a baseball team lost. Scenes of drug taking are frequent as Keitel's character slips further into an abyss.

77. Wayne's World. It's party time, it's excellent. Saturday Night Live spinoff starring Mike Myers and Dana Carvey as two TV presenters doing a show from Wayne's basement. Rob Lowe was in it too. Tia Carrere launched her career here.

76. The Fly. David Cronenbourg is a great director. This is his least sick film. He's done things on screen that are unpleasant in the extreme. Here Jeff Goldblum invents a transporter only to share an early trip of his own with a fly. Their DNA combines and he is taken over by the Fly. Nasty.

75. The Good The Bad and The Ugly. As much as I love Clint Eastwood movies this is the only one in here. His westerns were great. The Dirty Harry movies, great. The directing work - fantasic (esp. A Perfect World) but I only have so much room. This film is just a great western story.

74. Dumb and Dumber. Now I feel really bad for Clint. Beaten down by a Jim Carrey movie. So is life. Dumb and Dumber is a great movie though. Carrey and Jeff Daniels head out to Aspen "hmmm California", "the beer runs like wine". To find Jim's lost love Lauren Holly. Funny for Jeff Daniels setting fire to himself "are those your skies?, Both of em?", "just gimme the damn number" and countless other scenes. "Why would she meet you in a bar at 8.30 in the morning?, I just figured she was a raging alcoholic" "We landed on the moon!!!" Oh and the laxative scene.

73. Ghostbusters. It had Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd and a huge Stay Puffed Marshmallow man. It couldn't have gone wrong. Unfortunately Rick Moranis is in it as well.

72. The Quiet Earth. Australian version of The Omega Man or Night Of The Comet only with no freakish mutants. Well acted as the remaining survivors of earth go crazy trying to bring back humanity.

71. Casino. Martin Scorsese again. Robert De Niro is great and Joe Pesci is just perfect as he stabs someone to death with a pen. Sharon Stone's best ever performance as De Niro's drug crazed wife.

70. Sleeper. Woody Allen movie where he travels through time to the future. A man is recreated using only his nose for the DNA and smoking is good for you. Less neurosis than his other movies and that’s surely a good thing.

69. Bull Durham. Baseball's greatest movie. Susan Sarandon and Kevin Costner give close to their best ever. Amusing as Tim Robbins wears womens underwear because he's on a winning streak.

68. Return Of The Jedi. Wherever I put the star wars movies there will be argument as to the order they should go in. Jedi is the worst SW movie. End of story. It just is.

67. Empire Strikes Back. Better movie because of the nicely open ending. Han Solo is carried away and the others have to track him down. In a way it's more upbeat than the other 2 because there is so much hope left for all of them. There are also some nice shots of Cloud City if you have the new version.

66. Casablanca. The greatest love story ever told? The choice for Ingrid Bergman is to whether to stay with Humphrey Bogart who she loves or help her husband who's a good man. Plus Bogart has to make decisions too. "Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life". He tells Bergman to get on the plane and go knowing he'll never see her again even though he loves her because at the end of the day it's better for her.

65. Short Cuts. Robert Altman's greatest film. 3 hours of complexity. Tim Robbins dumps a dog out of his police motorbike, Lily Tomlin runs over a child, Chris Penn hears his wife on a telephone sex line as the operator, Lyle Lovett goes completely insane. A cast of thousands and a plot ending in earthquake and murder. Superb.

64. Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks best movie. Cowboy/Western spoof about a black sheriff and a hot shot played by Gene Wilder. A bunch of cowboys farting around a fire, a fight so big it breaks into the set of a musical next stage over. None stop gags. Funny as anything out there.

63. Lethal Weapon. Cop, buddy movie with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover on excellent form. The best part for me being Riggs(Gibson) handcuffing myself to a jumper and then jumping off himself once the fire crew are ready. Unique police work indeed. The bomb on the toilet may have been in the 2^nd movie so I won't talk about that.

62. Carlito's Way. Al Pacino as a gangster just out of jail trying to sort his life out and go straight. Meanwhile lawyer Sean Penn(complete with curly wig) goes the other way. In the end does Carlito escape the life? You'll have to watch and see. The best part is his gun battle in the pool hall which seems so real.

61. The Crow. Alex Proyas made his name here. Brandon Lee was shot dead in a stunt and the movie is dark and depressing. Why so good? It's a comic adaptation that's not bad and the dark mood feels so right for the plot. Henry Rollins is in it briefly. The Crow (Lee) comes back from the grave to kill those who threw him out of the window of his apartment. Great Jesus Christ walks into a bar joke that I won't repeat here.

60. Rabid. Another piece of Cronenbourg. Starred Marilyn Chambers as someone carrying a deadly virus that turns people ,well, rabid when she has sexual contact with them. Montreal is brought to it's knees and martial law imposed to remove the rabid and dying people from the streets. Dark in the extreme.

59. Live And Let Die. My favourite bond movie. Although I like Goldeneye and Sean Connery's Goldfinger. Roger Moore delivers a good performance. Alligators, street funerals and voodoo galore this has to be up there on everyone's favorite bond list.

58. Dark Star. Ropy special FX and only ok acting didn't make a difference. John Carpenter shattered the clean astronaut space illusion and replaced it with dirty hippies wanting to blow planets up while chasing beach ball shaped aliens and talking to 'self aware' smart bombs.

57. The Birds. Alfred Hitchcock terrified me when I saw this movie. Thousands of birds attacking people with no reason behind it all. The final shot has so many birds in it it's scary. Tippi Hedren is suitably frightened in the main part. The scene outside the school with birds slowly appearing to land on the monkey bars and then just sit there looking at Hedren was pure class.

56. No Way Out. Brilliant Kevin Costner movie. Everyone is searching for a spy while it seems Costner is the main subject of the hunt he knows there is another man to be hunted down. Or so it seems. Shocking ending.

55. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. (1978 version). Donald Sutherland is convinced his city is being taken over by strange people who emerge from pods. Turns out he's right. Watch him go slowly insane as all his friends are taken away and replaced by alien pod people one at a time. Save one. Final scene is utterly terrifying.

54. Hellraiser. From the master of horror. Or the British master of horror anyway. Clive Barker tells his tale of a box not unlike Pandora's.

53. Rain Man. The Cruiser move's from place to place with his brother who's autistic and played by Dustin Hoffman who stops to watch Jeopardy every day. Interesting link between family and love for your own flesh and blood. Hoffman was academy award good and Cruise supports well.

52. Donnie Brasco. Excellent undercover gangster movie with Johnny Depp (an undercover FBI agent) befriending first mobster lowlife Al Pacino then the more important Sonny Black played by Michael Madsen. Soon the lines between undercover and real life become so blurred his family don't recognize him. Based on the true story of Joe Pistone.

51. The Game. Michael Douglas is given a birthday present by his brother Sean Penn. It's a game. There are no rules. Anything goes. Is it really a game? Penn reappears to tell his brother it's all for real. The bizarre game continues with the disappearance of the company responsible. Is Sean Penn really being chased? Is Michael Douglas in danger of being killed at any given moment. So many plot twists at the end you'll be amazed.

50. HALFWAY THERE, STAY WITH ME.

50. Love And Death. Woody Allen's best picture in my opinion. Diane Keaton plays the leading lady superbly asking "what's death like?" Woody's response? "You know the chicken at Arby's?, It's worse."

49. Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick's view of Vietnam. Mainly brilliant for the training in which Kevin Spacey, Matthew Modine and others are put through their paces by the drill sergeant who makes them sing happy birthday to Jesus on December 25^th. They also sing the Mickey Mouse Club music as the end credits role. Not your typical Vietnam movie but very well made nevertheless.

48. Die Hard. John McTiernan and a vest wearing Bruce Willis team up for the movie that changed action thrillers from there on in. Alan Rickman is superb as the villain. Willis plays the "fly in the ointment" of a takeover of Nakatomi Plaza for the gold and bonds in the vault. Just a brilliant action movie. Die Hard With A Vengeance is even better some say. It spawned Die Hard 2(in an airport) and Under Siege (die hard on a boat).

47. The Godfather Part II. Superior sequel featuring Al Pacino being attacked from all sides as the Corleone family is being brought down and Robert De Niro as the original Corleone as he seeks revenge for the death of his parents and starts the family business that is disintegrating in the future.

46. Apocalypse Now. Martin Sheen sits on a boat as it goes down a river to seek out Marlon Brando. He gradually goes more and more crazy until he finds Brando who's even crazier. War rages all around them and the Doors play the music. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning".

45. 12 Monkeys. Bruce Willis is sent back to the 1990's to prevent a plague that will destroy mankind almost completely. Is Brad Pitt behind the Army Of the 12 Monkeys? Why does Bruce keep having flashbacks to a childhood trip to the airport? Madeleine Stowe is good in a supporting role. The future and past merge into one for the time travelling Willis as he seeks the cause of the plague.

44. Leon. Known as The Professional in America. Jean Reno takes on a little girl as his assistant assassin after cop Gary Oldman has killed her whole family. Oldman continues to be psychotic as the film progresses. The girl and Reno end up having to wipe out half the NYPD. A bloody conclusion in a well filmed movie made by Fifth Element director Luc Besson.

43. The Usual Suspects. Who is Kaiser Sose? Only Kevin Spacey as Verbal Kint has any leads for detective Chazz Palmintieri. Kint retells the events as Gabriel Byrne looks to be the bad guy who's faked his own death. Benicio Del Toro mumbles happily through the whole movie and Stephen Baldwin fills in some support. Excellent movie well told by Brian Singer. Spacey is the star of the show playing a cripple with a great plan. "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist and then like that, he's gone."

42. The Deer Hunter. Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken hunt deer on their home town's nearby mountain until they're called away to Vietnam. Where they are forced by their captors to point guns with one bullet in at their own heads and pull the triggers. Walken gets so good at it he does it for money when the war is over and he loses his mind. De Niro goes back to Nam to try and save his buddy.

41. Taxi Driver. "one day I believe a rain will come and wash all the scum of the streets". Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese work together on an excellent character. He falls in love with his dream girl Cybil Sheppard and takes her to a porn movie as a date. He then takes Jodie Foster a teenage hooker under his wing before he tries to assassinate a politian. He wears his hair in a mohawk and talks to the mirror. " are you talking to me? You gotta be talking to me. I don't see anyone else here". Copied in every spoof film since.

40. Saving Private Ryan. 1998's best offering to date. Spielberg's film is about war. Not like any other war film is. It's hard hitting. The first 25 or so minutes are the best of any war movie ever made. It's harrowing and depressing and after seeing this no one will want to go to war ever again. Tom Hanks is superb in the leading role of the captain of a company searching for missing private James Ryan who's 3 brothers have all died in a week. Matt Damon is good as the Ryan and Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns are excellent too.

39. Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Another Spielberg film here for it's sheer enjoyment factor. Wonderous 1930's style adventure. Indiana Jones became a household hero name overnight. Harrison Ford was great. Everyone had so much fun and it's just a fun movie to watch. 2 sequels followed this. The Temple Of Doom and The Last Crusade both in which Indiana is chasing something valuable to a museum. The first remains the best. My favorite part- a sword wielding local approaches Indiana and threatens him with an impressive display of swordsmanship. Indy shoots him.

38. Good Will Hunting. The story of a gifted janitor who can't stay out of trouble. Matt Damon made his name here with an excellent performance as the troubled Will Hunting. Ben Affleck does well as his buddy. Robin Williams won an oscar for his role as the psychiatrist. Minnie Driver is great too as Damon's girlfriend Skyla. Her joke in the bar with all of Damon's friends is still the funniest I've seen in a movie. "you like apples? I got her number how'd you like them apples?"

37. Clerks. There was only one film I could out at number 37. Kevin Smith's debut film about 2 clerks and their average day is just fantastic. "My girlfriend sucked 37 dicks.". "What? In a row?". Coffins are knocked over. Relationships end and begin anew. Jay and Silent Bob hang out in front of the store selling drugs and dancing. Dante's day in the grocery store goes from bad to worse as he sells cigarettes to a 4 year old girl and then his ex-girlfriend does something suspicious with a dead guy. All in all a film classic. "Man goes into cage, cage goes into salsa, sharks in salsa. Our shark ".

36. Akira. Possibly the best cartoon ever made. Tetsuo gains super powers like those of legend Akira which destroyed Tokyo. Now Tetsuo's powers threaten Neo Tokyo. The army and everyone try to stop him including his girl, his best friend and a huge laser in space.

35. Blue Velvet. Ignore every scene Dennis Hopper isn't in. When Hopper is on the screen never look away. David Lynch's tale of what goes on behind closed doors in a small white picket fence town is disturbing. Hopper's a drug taking psychopath, again. This is his best though. "What's your favorite beer?" "Heineken" "Heineken? F*ck that shit, Pabst Blue Ribbon". Hopper goes nuts at Kyle MacLachlan's choice of beverage.

34. The Terminator. Arnold Scharzenegger can't act. This character requires someone to stand still and have no emotion or personality. Perfect for Arnold. The Terminator is from the future he's come for Linda Hamilton. Her child will be valuable in a future where machines have taken over. Michael Biehn is sent back to protect her. The chase continues to a conclusion where everyone could die. The sequel made more money. Also contained more lines for Arnold hence this movie is included here.

33. Soylent Green. In the future the world is over crowded and you have to ride a bicycle to power the lights in your house. Everyone is crazy about the new food stuff, Soylent Green that tastes like meat used to. People wonder what the ingredient is. Charlton Heston decides to find out. When he discovers it's actually….aww I can't tell you watch the movie.

32. Henry : Portrait of a Serial Killer. Very disturbing movie in which Michael Rooker shows his friend how to kill people at random and shows him the fun of killing. Henry and his friend start videotaping themselves at their murderous bests. Very sick film but has to be seen once. If you think more than one person is going to survive this you're wrong.

31. The Shawshank Redemption. Tim Robbins is sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit. He befriends the popular Morgan Freeman, who can get 'things'. His first order is a rock hammer and a poster of a girl from a film. It's an interesting tale of prison life and how some can't adapt to any other way of life. Robbins and Freeman are both superb. My favorite part. Either the escape or when they win a round of beers from the prison warders. It’s a victory, only a small one a victory nonetheless.

30. The Abyss. James Cameron's underwater epic about initially there being something wrong under the ocean and ends up about aliens, death, life, war and losing your mind. Looks amazing, well acted by Ed Harris and Mary Elisabeth Mastrantonio. 40% of the movie was filmed underwater, Cameron continued his fascination with water when he went on to make Titanic. Which is also good.

29. Reservoir Dogs. Quentin Tarantino's first film was a mix of different genres resulting in a gangster type movie about a robbery gone wrong with mentions to classic music and what Madonna's "like a virgin" is really about. The best part falls to Michael Madsen cutting an ear from a cop before dousing him in gasoline and dancing to "stuck in the middle with you". Steve Buscemi is also good as Mr Pink. "You're Mr Pink because you're a faggot". Tarantino was in the film himself as Mr Brown. He did not survive.

28. Scarface. Al Pacino / Brian De Palma version. Pacino is from central america he comes to the USA in search of the american dream and finds organised crime to his liking. Soon he's a big shot. Michelle Pfeiffer is his girl. He snorts enormous amounts of cocaine and refuses to be taken over by anyone. Dies in a hail of bullets. "Say hello to my lil friend."

27. Psycho. Hitchcock's classic. Anthony Perkins is a healthy boy who runs Bates motel and loves his mother. Except his mother is long dead and his guests are heading the same way. Janet Leigh does a nice striptease before she's stabbed to death in the most famous movie scene ever. The shower scene is all you need to say. "Yes, mother."

26. Escape From New York. I really hate John Carpenter films. Oh who am I kidding. This is a corker. It's 1997 and Manhatten Island is a prison for the scum of the planet. The president has crashed air force one in there. How careless of him. Kurt Russell is sent in to retrieve him. Only he can't get away or he dies. Snake Plisken was the character. Corny in some respects. Very poor sequel followed.

25. This Is Spinal Tap. Rockumentary or so called. The bass player is stopped going through customs and ordered to remove a cucumber from his underwear, the amps go to 11 (why not make 10 louder?), because we've got 11 see, an attempt for the band to harmonise over Elvis Presley's grave, midgets dancing around an 18 inch high model of Stonehenge, a totally black album, songs like Big Bottom and Sex Farm, a new direction for the band and exploding drummers. I can't say anymore.

24. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Funniest of the Python movies. Michael Palin is rescued from a tower full of virgins by John Cleese. " No really I'll be ok". "No I'm afraid you're in terrible danger". "Bet you're gay". Crazy animation. The dredded beast of Argh. Cows being catapulted over walls. The French. A fight where the Knight opposing King Arthur loses all his limbs. Eventually the police break the film up.

23. Chasing Amy. Kevin Smith's 3^rd film. Ben Affleck wants Joey Lauren Adams as his girlfriend. She's gay. Cue the hilarity. There's so much in this movie to laugh about and yet it's still a serious romance and drama with good acting and great dialogue. Superb gags about Black Power, oral sex and pornography, "and then Black Beauty decided he wanted to do a little mounting of his own."

22. Aliens. No Ridley Scott here he was replaced by James Cameron who took the suspense of the original movie and turned it into an action flick. More fun than the original film. Sigourney Weaver has grown up considerably since Alien. "Get away from her you bitch!". Supporting cast does it's job of being fodder (no Yaphet Kotto, Ian Holm, Harry Dean Stanton or John Hurt here). Lance Henrickson does well as the android Bishop, Michael Biehn looks like a hero as Hicks, and Bill Paxton is off the wall at times. Newt is plain irritating though but the nature of the deaths of the cast remains impressively creative considering we already saw most of this stuff in Alien. The idea behind this was that there was more firepower and more people and the same thing happened.

21. Easy Rider. Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda had an idea for a movie. They'd drive their motorbikes across america and film the lives of two drug users on the road. It developed into a statement. Jack Nicholson in his part allayed superstition about pot. America's backward culture at the time has a big swipe taken at it and it's really about free thinking. Freedom of choice. It's about drugs too but that’s all part of the issue. Still relevant today except some of the circumstances have changed.

20. Westworld. Before Jurassic Park came along Michael Crichton wrote a book about a theme park where things went wrong. He directed it himself and made one of the best movies ever made. You never knew what was going to happen. Who was real and who wasn't. Whether Yul Brynner's robotic sheriff really held a grudge against those who shot him. It was all about technology gone wrong. He wrote it again with dinosaurs instead of robots as the attractions and Steven Spielberg made it into a moralistic pile of crap.

19. Natural Born Killers. Oliver Stone's take on Quentin Tarantino's love story. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play a couple who kill their way across America and become famous because of it. "If I were a serial killer I'd be Mickey and Mallory". Good supporting cast including Robert Downey Jr as an Australian born journalist. Woody's best performance except maybe The People Vs Larry Flynt. "I don't want to have to kill someone on our wedding day."

18. RoboCop. Paul Verhoeven's view of the near future where a corporation has taken over the Detroit police department and sends a prototype police officer onto the beat. Made from the remnants of dead cop Alex J Murphy RoboCop has trouble adapting to the world in which is thrown and discovers the gang that killed him are all part of the company that owns him. ED 209 another creation of the company steals some of limelight but cannot walk down stairs. Effects look a little dated now but at the time this was the best. Verhoeven went on to make Showgirls and Starship Troopers.

17. Mallrats. Kevin Smith's 2^nd movie is about a couple of guys who lose their girlfriends and spend the day hanging around a mall thinking of ways to get them back. "I love the smell of commerce in the morning." Jason Lee made his film debut here and is the star of the show. The many stop off's of the day are far to frequent to mention. Safe to say it's on of the funniest films I've ever seen and Shannon Doherty's in it too.

16. Trainspotting. Danny Boyle's story of Scottish drug addicts based on Irvine Welsh's novel. Renton wants to kick the habit and he and his friends Sick Boy, Begbie and Ewen Bremner played Spud get themselves into all kinds of situations. Funny and tragic also has a great soundtrack. "He's always been lacking in moral fibre. "He knows a lot about Sean Connery". "That’s hardly a substitute." Renton's picking up of teenage Diane in a bar is a great scenario. The sad downward spiral of Tommy is near depressing to watch and the flinging of excretion over a family at breakfast is downright disgusting as is Renton visit to the worst toilet in Scotland. Fantastic must see film.

15. Pulp Fiction. When Quentin Tarantino first burst onto the scene people said he was ripping other films off and that he'd be a one hit wonder. This film silenced them all. John Travolta deserved an oscar for his performance as a hitman who is forced to take his boss's wife out on a date as well as put up with partner Samuel L Jackson wanting to change careers and "walk the earth like Kane out of Kung Fu". Bruce Willis also appears as a washed up boxer in his final fight and missing his daddy's war watch. Quentin Tarantino's acting got better and so did his characters. Great support from all concerned including Eric Stoltz as a drug dealer, Ving Rhames as the boss, Harvey Keitel as Mr Wolf and especially Uma Thurman in her career best performance as the boss's wife.

14. Dazed And Confused. A movie about a day in the life of high school kids in 1976 in Austin Texas. A huge cast. Lots of weird school ritual initiation ceremony's. Aerosmith and Kiss playing in the background. Kids making bongs in wood shop. Girls talking about the sexual backdrop to Gilligan's Island. Abraham Lincoln dreams, a fat Ben Affleck being threatened with a shotgun, lots of beer drinking, pot smoking and conversation about George Washington growing weed. The greatest school movie ever made. The film never really ends just drifts into the next day as life goes on an "Free Ride" by Foghat plays in the background.

13. (La Femme) Nikita. Anne Parillaud stars in Luc Besson's first professional killer film. A french movie about a drug addict girl who is declared dead by the government and recruited to a secret french organisation that kills people. She restarts her life again but continues to kill for a living. Great shoot out scenes. Was remade for an American audience as The Assassin staring Bridget Fonda but was nowhere near as good although it was made almost shot for shot the same.

12. A Bullet In The Head. A film from John Woo in his earlier days in Hong Kong cinema. A tale of friendship gone wrong which jumps from Hong Kong to Vietnam and back again with people being shot and action sequences of almost unparalleled excellence. Woo includes many morals in this tale. About how you should never desert your friends and betrayal is bad. It's still superb. Woo has now come to America to show the world his slow balladic shoot out sequences with everyone carrying to guns. He most recently made the Cage/Travolta movie Face/Off.

11. Leaving Las Vegas. Nicolas Cage won an oscar for his portrayal of a drunk who's dying from drinking. He sells everything and moves to Vegas to kill himself with alcohol. Hooker Elisabeth Shue takes him in and watches his decline. Very sad ending even more so than Old Yella. Cage is absolutely fantastic. He learnt how to act drunk by getting drunk and taping himself doing so. He was shocked with what he saw but he learnt from it and put it on screen. You'll never drink again after this.

10. Schindler's List. The multi oscar winning and harrowing tale of Oscar Schindler who saved Jewish people during the holocaust by giving them jobs in a factory. Well made film from Steven Spielberg. The camera work is the best I've seen save one film, I'll come to that later. It's shot in black and white and the effect is disturbing. Liam Neeson is just sensational in the role of Schindler. It's a disturbing film. Following it there is a tribute to the real life Oscar Schindler from the descendants of those he saved. Touching.

9. LA Confidential. Best film of 1997. Robbed by Titanic at the academy awards. Kevin Spacey is suave. James Cromwell(from Babe) reinvents himself as serious to the extreme. Russell Crowe is brilliant as a tough cop. The main characters pursue a mysterious set of crimes. First some black guys are framed for murder but there is more to it than that. Throughout Danny De Vito follows the cops around getting sleazy pictures of the rich and famous under arrest. You'll never guess what's going on. No one and nothing is safe. The sets, and props are all superb. Kim Basinger won an oscar for her seductive side character.

8. Alien. Ridley Scott's film about what might be out there. Sigourney Weaver and her crew are stopped from going home by company policy. They have to check out a planet for life first. They find life alright as an alien attaches itself to John Hurt's face then falls off and dies. They leave the planet only to discover that the creature laid eggs inside Hurt's body and they're about to hatch. At the time it was the scariest movie ever made. You don't know what's going to happen. What the alien can do. The tag line for the film was "In space no one can hear you scream."

7. Star Wars. Just a fun movie all round. Mark Hamill plays Luke Skywalker, a young man who wants to learn 'the force' like his missing father. Alec Guinness plays Obi Wan Kenobi his guide to the evil heart of the empire and the rescue of Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher). Harrison Ford also had a major part playing Han Solo, a smuggler who gives Luke and Owi Wan a ride. The film came in 3 parts. All the characters were developed as things went on. It redefined Science Fiction. It made movies about the future look hopelessly off the mark. After this film everyone knew about light sabre's and the force. The evil Darth Vader, voiced by James Earl Jones provided Luke with a nemesis.

6. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Milos Forman's greatest movie about life in a mental institution for the relatively sane Jack Nicholson. Jack delivers a great performance as always. The best scene is left for last with Jack being lobotomised and the indian chief escaping through a self made hole in the wall.

5. Platoon. Oliver Stone directed Charlie Sheen to his best performance as a fresh faced young kid in Vietnam. He gradually gets more and more adjusted to his surroundings and the fight between Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe. Platoon was written by Dale A Dye a Vietnam vet himself and Stone also went there and it shows. The soldiers go through every negative emotion there is. Anger, despair, madness and terror. Soon Sheen is left not knowing what is morally right and wrong and like everyone else just wants to go home. Brilliant film which won best movie oscar in 1987. The score is terrific and instantly brings back memories of a boy lost in a man's war. A place of horror's.

4. The Blues Brothers. A definite contender for my favorite film. Great cars chases, good music, lots of laughs. John Belushi is outstanding as Jake Blues. His brother Elwood played by Dan Ackroyd picks him up from prison in an old police car after he traded the 'Bluesmobile' for a microphone. They then embark on a mission from God. Put the band back together for one last show to pay the taxes of an orphanage they grew up in. It's more than a movie it's an institution. "Shit". "What?". "Rollers". "no" "yeah" "shit". Driving in Malls, dining in fancy restaurants, playing country and western covers with glass breaking all around them the Blues Brothers do it all. Hard to imagine a world without this film. 2^nd biggest car pile up in film history. The biggest is in the sequel.

3. The Shining. Stanley Kubrick's story about one man's cabin fever. Jack Nicholson slowly goes mad in a bizarre hotel he's the winter janitor of. He starts imagining people. He's told by an imaginery person to kill his wife and child. "Here's Johnny!" Only his child's gift of the Shining can protect he and his mother from the crazy man who was once his father.

2. 2001: A Space Odyssey. The greatest piece of Sci-Fi ever made. HAL 9000 the computer on board a ship on a mission to deep space decides the mission is to important for humans to screw up and takes over the ship. "Open the pod bay doors HAL." When HAL is disconnected he sings "Daisy, Daisy" until he ceases to think anymore. Visually stunning film which begins with primates and ends with the rebirth of humanity. Images are important to the film; a giant circular space station moving to the works of Strauss, and astronaut Dave Bowman's trip into the monolith which featured an kaleidoscopic range of images to dizzy the mind. Directed by Stanley Kubrick it came out in 1968. When the crew of Apollo 11 asked what the moon was like they said Stanley Kubrick had already been there.

Now onto the other selections, those of all you nice people out there on ICQ and elsewhere who answered the question -

WHAT'S YOUR FAVOURITE MOVIE ?

Terrie- While you were sleeping. (you just never know what's going to happen in life)

Nikki- The Lion King (it's just the best)

Angeleyes- Pretty Woman

Escape- The Pirate Movie (it cost him $60!!)

aAngel- Pure Country (cuz,,,,, in the end.... true love wins..... and even though...the girl had her heartaches....... She got swept off her feet in the end.... and that's what every women dreams of!!!)

JW- Unforgiven and Dances With Wolves

Blastie- Saving Private Ryan, The Rock and the animated Jungle Book

Renee- love and war (to love someone so intensely, be loved so passionately, and not get to be together for all eternity... hanging onto a love that's lost forever in your heart)

Tourette- Drop Dead Fred ("Wake up snot face!")

Twobanger- Easy Rider [# 21.]

Tayllor- Good Will Hunting [#38]

Llarissa- Officer and a Gentleman and Pretty Woman (She likes to see the underdog win)

Candie- Basic Instinct

Buni- Ghost (shows the true meaning of love)

Cash- The American President

Lox- Clockwork Orange (it's about as f'd up as me)

Mastak K- Top Gun

Piglet- The Saint (or anything with Val Kilmer in)

Jasmine- Beauty and the Beast (love Disney)

Tessel- Titanic

Only AJ- Gone With The Wind and The Pirate Movie

Ctec- Mission Impossible

Hook- Armageddon and Solider staring Kurt Russell

North- Summer Holiday

Shannon- Christine (it's a great car movie)

KK- Titanic

Getit- Boys N The Hood [#79] and Steel Magnolias

Bbstar- The Crow [#61]

Ladyblue- Top Gun

Floyd- Blade Runner

Eggplant- Leaving Las Vegas [#11]

Crimpson- The Labyrinth

Andy- The Crow [#61] and Swingers

Gandalf- Forbidden Planet (cos it was a ground breaker in that it was the first film ever to use synthesised music for sound effects .also it is a darn good story .and fun too .lol.)

Barb- Gone With The Wind

Chili- Dirty Dancing (good girl meets bad boy and falls in love. Also the excitement of the type of dancing they do. I love to dance and would like to learn how to do a lot of that kind of dancing.)

Hook- Jeremiah Johnson with Robert Redford [he changed his mind and he's allowed to because I'm a big believer in freedom of speech and choice lol]

DEL- Judgement Night

Aria- Gone With The Wind

Shortcake- A River Runs Through It or Pulp Fiction [#15]

Industrial Skies (formally Junkie)- Star Wars Trilogy [#7,67 and 68]

Shaun 508- Austin Powers [#93] or Bringing Up Baby with Carey Grant

Blacktip- Scent Of a Woman

Sallyanna- Pretty Woman

Hippy Chick- Forest Gump or Monty Python and the Holy Grail [#24]

Verity- New Jersey Drive

Leets- Muppet Christmas Carol (lol)

TamiJo- Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse (pretty much any Patrick Swayze film)

Nike- Room With A View

Thank you all for taking part. If anyone else wants to add their choice to here please icq me @12228336 or Email me @ kreese@waverider.co.uk