Nick's Favourites
Through the musty halls of the old Harbour Light Picture theatre Lyttelton and where the old merchant crusty sea captains checked their hand held compasses with the metallic 'star' inbuilt in the foyer floor I knew i had a passion till life's end. Contained therein is my retina's wink of approval with no one genre favoured. Ladies and Gentleman "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war'
The Long Goodbye (Blu-ray) (1973)
7.6/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden
A quirky, semi-satiric, updating of Raymond Chandler stars Elliott Gould as laid-back gumshoe Philip Marlowe, investigating the murder of his friend's... Read more
The Look of Silence (2015)
8.3/10
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Joshua Oppenheimer's groundbreaking documentary The Act of Killing confronted viewers with a moral vacuum in which the perpetrators of the politicall... Read more
The Lost Weekend (1945)
8/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Ray Milland, Phillip Terry, Jane Wyman
Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning social drama stars Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer who falls into a maelstrom of delusion and dementia and winds up in... Read more
The Lost Weekend (Blu-ray) (1945)
7.9/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Ray Milland, Phillip Terry, Jane Wyman
Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning social drama stars Ray Milland as an alcoholic writer who falls into a maelstrom of delusion and dementia and winds up in... Read more
The Man From Laramie (1955)
7.4/10
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: Arthur Kennedy, James Stewart, Donald Crisp
James Stewart is determined to get frontier justice in this action-packed drama of a man bent on revenge on those who killed his brother. With Donald... Read more
The Man Without A Past (2002)
7.7/10
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Starring: Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Juhani Niemela, Kaija Pakarinen
The second part of Aki Kaurismaki's "Finland" trilogy (coming after "Drifting Clouds"), the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten... Read more
The Minister (2011)
6.7/10
Director: Pierre Schoeller
Starring: Michel Blanc, Olivier Gourmet, Zabou Breitman
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no... Read more
The Next Three Days (2010)
7.4/10
Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Liam Neeson, Russell Crowe, Olivia Wilde
Convinced that wife Elizabeth Banks is innocent of the murder for which she was convicted and jailed, Pittsburgh college instructor Russell Crowe figh... Read more
The Night Of The Iguana (1964)
7.8/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
John Huston directs this gripping Tennessee Williams' adaptation chronicling a former preacher's (Richard Burton) dalliances with three women--a nymph... Read more
The Office: Series 1 (2001)
8.5/10
Director: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis
BAFTA-winning comedy about the Slough paper-merchant where life is stationery... David Brent (Ricky Gervais) is a petty, pompous boss who thinks he's... Read more