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'
Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
6.3/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Sal Mineo, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban
In the third ape film, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter and Sal Mineo are the chimps who flee through time to modern Los Angeles, only to find their journe... Read more
Ex Machina (2015)
7.1/10
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander
Novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach) makes a decisive directorial debut with this smart, sleekly designed and flawlessly performed sci-f... Read more
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
7.3/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack
In a future society all books are destroyed, so that hope for humanity resides in those few outcasts who have committed them to memory. Based on Ray B... Read more
Falling Down (1993)
7.6/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forres...
Los Angeles takes a blasting when life in the slow lane for one very angry defence worker (Michael Douglas) gets a bit too much and, taking road rage... Read more
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
7.3/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Horst Buchholz, Nastassja Kinski, Bruno Ganz, Willem Da...
The angelic protagonists of 'Wings of Desire' return: Bruno Ganz, the fallen angel now owns a pizza parlour, his erstwhile partner Otto Sander becomes... Read more
Fargo (1996)
8.1/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Peter Stormare, William H Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Frances McDormand
A lovingly mocking tale of a kidnapping scheme that goes horribly wrong in the snow-clad Mid-West. A pregnant Sheriff (Oscar-winning Frances McDormand... Read more
Fell (2014)
7.2/10
Director: Kasimir Burgess
Starring: Matt Nable, Daniel Henshall, Jacqueline McKenzie
While on a camping trip, Thomas' only daughter, Lara, is killed by a logging truck in a hit-and-run accident for which the driver, Luke, serves a pris... Read more
Female Trouble (1974)
7.3/10
Director: John Waters
Starring: Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey
Divine is Dawn Davenport, teenage delinquent, unwed mother, working girl and murderer. Follow her outrageous life of violence and learn why crime is b... Read more
Femme Fatale (2002)
6.3/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Peter Coyote, Gregg Henry
A $10-million diamond ripoff set against the Cannes Film Festival, a stolen identity, a new life married to a wealthy U.S. diplomat. Laure Ash has ris... Read more
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
7.8/10
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Alan Ruck
A charming teen comedy about a high school student who's not going to let a little thing like classes get in the way of his enjoying one fine spring d... Read more