A to Z

I was really tempted to choose Zombieland for my final entry, but I’ve already featured zombies and not much comedy, so I thought I’d go instead for something silly that features a cameo by David Bowie – the one and only Zoolander (2001). Zoolander is named for Derek Zoolander (Ben Stiller), the egotistical and implausibly […]

I got even more stuck coming up with something for ‘Y’ than I did for ‘U’, so I’m going to totally cheat and pick 3:10 to Yuma so I have something I actually want to talk about! I should point out that I’m referring to the 2007 version starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, as […]

X was never going to be a difficult choice, and while I have four to choose from, I’ve opted for the most recent X-Men film, First Class. Released in 2011, the film took us back to the early days of the mutants, when Magneto (Michael Fassbender) and Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) were still on […]

Originally I was going to do Watchmen for W, but I couldn’t be bothered with the inevitable comparisons to the comic, so I decided to settle for The Woman in Black instead. It was one of my favourite films of 2012 (I reviewed it here on my film blog), and it was nice to see […]

You might think that I’d have chosen V for Vendetta for this letter, and I wanted to, but at the same time, one of the driving forces behind my choices has been picking films that people might have heard of but not seen, or which they had never heard of at all. I’m spreading the […]

I’ll be honest with you, I got really, really stuck to think of a film beginning with U. It wasn’t that there aren’t any – far from it – I just couldn’t think of any that I actually liked, or had seen. But I didn’t want to skip a day so I thought “To hell […]