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Julia's Favourites

My hopefully always changing, forever incomplete list of films I love. For I wish to always be watching and enjoying new films till the day I die. Or I get square eyes or something. I heard that can happen.

I'm Not There (2007)

7/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger...

From co-writer/director Todd Haynes comes this sublime and surreal examination of the life of Bob Dylan. As such diverse actors as Christian Bale, Cat... Read more

I'm Not There ( Blu-ray ) (2007)

7/10
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Cate Blanchett, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Bale, Heath Led...

From co-writer/director Todd Haynes comes this sublime and surreal examination of the life of Bob Dylan. As such diverse actors as Christian Bale, Cat... Read more

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 1 & 2 (2005)

8.8/10
Starring: Charlie Day, Kaitlin Olson, Glenn Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Danny DeVito

Four self-centred friends run an Irish pub together in the City of Brotherly Love. Dennis, self-described ladies' man and spoilt brat, believes in rem... Read more

Keeping Mum (2005)

6.8/10
Director: Niall Johnson
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith

Walter Goodfellow (Rowan Atkinson), the well meaning vicar of Little Wallop, is so obsessed with writing the perfect sermon that he is oblivious to hi... Read more

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, David Carradi...

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." - Old Klingon proverb. Uma Thurman is The Bride, left for dead after a wedding day massacre kills everyone in at... Read more

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ( Blu-ray ) (2003)

8.1/10
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, David Carradi...

"Revenge is a dish best served cold." - Old Klingon proverb. Uma Thurman is The Bride, left for dead after a wedding day massacre kills everyone in at... Read more

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Craig Gillespie
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson

A delightful, sweet-natured, Capra-esque story about the affection painfully shy Lars (Ryan Gosling) bestows on his new girlfriend. This still comes... Read more

Let the Right One In (2008)

7.9/10
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Pete...

12-year-old Oskar is a bit of a social misfit and the target for all the local bullies when someone new moves in next door. He is soon besotted by the... Read more

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)

8.3/10
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Starring: Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Eric Idl...

King Arthur meets Monty Python in this irreverent, insane, funny film with Graham Chapman as King Arthur convening his knights to seek the Holy Grail.... Read more

Moon (2009)

7.9/10
Director: Duncan Jones
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Kay...

Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is nearing the end of a three-year tour as the lone inhabitant of a lunar outpost that harvests a clean fuel source to send ba... Read more