We’ve put all the personal torment of 2011′s top ten lists behind us now, which leaves only the mathematical precision of the overall DN top ten. I think this year has seen the least amount of crossover between our picks, which means the films below are as diverse as we could get and a nice [...]
Normally the final weeks of December find me frantically scrutinising the published top ten lists of my fellow film types, in a mad dash effort to fit in a few more last minute screeners for movies I’d somehow missed, which would endlessly haunt me due to their omission from my final ten. This time round [...]
Another year, another painful internal debate over the traditional end of year list and with an intimidating ten of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Guard, Sleeping Beauty, Terri, Drive, The Tree of Life, Bad Fever, Stake Land, Trolljegeren (Troll Hunter) and Involuntary not even making the final list it just goes to show what a great year for film [...]
2011 has been a funny old year. At the beginning I had just finished my documentary film Sound It Out and was getting ready to release it on DVD in the Stockton record shop I made the film in. In February I got the news we had got into SXSW for our world premiere and [...]
How does a year fly by so quickly? How come it only seems like yesterday I was being hassled by MarBelle to put together my 2010 list? I haven’t watched as many films as I would have liked to this year, mainly because I’ve been rewatching my favourites and Caleb and Gallo have been making [...]
It’s been a weird year for me. I’ve been spending so much time working on my doctorate it’s left less time for films, something I need to rectify in 2012 but even so, I loved a lot of movies this year and as ever, my top 3, I think, would stand up against any year’s [...]
I’m a big fan of top ten lists and their assorted brethren (best of this, top twenty that, pre-mortem 1001 something or other). They don’t have the best of reputations these days, thanks to cynical examples such as 1001 Golf Holes You Must Play Before You Die and the omnipresent TV fodder that counts ITV2’s [...]
Over the past week or so we here at DN have been listing our ten favourite films of last year, but with eight writers contributing there’s a chance it’d take you much of 2011 to catch up with all our picks. So, we’ve crunched the numbers on your behalf and come up with the definitive [...]
OK, so here it is the list of the best films of 2010. I say ‘the list’ because obviously my selection isn’t subjective, it’s just cold, hard fact. I still had my usual cry about the ones I had to miss off; Lemmy, Justice: A Cross the Universe, Sons of Cuba, The Freebie, and as [...]
I think my New Years resolution for 2011 will be to document every film I watch, I’ve compiled this list with the niggling feeling I’ve left something quite special out. Although I’ve attended Birds Eye View, Underwire and the London Film Festival this year, there are still several films I feel ashamed of not having [...]