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'
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
7.4/10
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwrig...
When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking di... Read more
Life is Sweet (1990)
7.5/10
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Steadman, Jim Broadbent, Claire Skinner
Another slice of working-class life focusing on an endearing couple and their iconoclastic twin daughters - one of whom is waist-deep in self-loathing... 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
Santa Sangre (1989)
7.7/10
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring: Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
Unforgettable imagery is used to tell the story of two circus performers, an armless woman and her insane son who acts as his mother's hands. Jodorows... Read more
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
6.8/10
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring: Debra Winger, John Malkovich, Campbell Scott
The screen version of Paul Bowles' celebrated 1949 novel about a New York couple who embark on an unusual journey through post World War II North Afri... Read more
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
7.5/10
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Federico Luppi, Eduardo Noriega, Marisa Paredes
From Guillermo Del Toro comes this haunting ghost story set in a Spanish orphanage that houses children of left-wing families during the final days of... Read more
The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
Director: Carlos Carrera
Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancon, Sancho Gracia
Aka "The Crime of Padre Amaro". Recently ordained a priest, 24 year-old Father Amaro (Gael Garcia Bernal) is sent to a small parish church in Los Reye... Read more
A Field in England (2013)
6.3/10
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Reece Shearsmith, Julian Barratt, Michael Smiley, Peter Ferdinando, Richard Glov...
Fleeing from a battle in the English Civil War, a small group of deserters are captured by a mysterious alchemist and forced to aid him in his search... Read more
Point Blank (Copy) (1967)
7.4/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Betrayed by his partner and left for dead, a man who engineered a heist of mob money recovers and plans his revenge, but the mob is after both of them... Read more
Point Blank (Copy) (1967)
7.4/10
Director: John Boorman
Starring: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Betrayed by his partner and left for dead, a man who engineered a heist of mob money recovers and plans his revenge, but the mob is after both of them... Read more