Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
The hoary old bullfighting chestnut gets its first outing as a star-making vehicle for the legendary Rudolph Valentino. The guy certainly has charisma and the archaic scenes actually shot in the bull ring are interesting but the romantic dalliances – with bad gal Nita Naldi stealing the man off nice girl Lita Lee with ease – are corny in the extreme.
Silly comedy about the lengths some parents go to in order to stop their teenage daughters from losing their virginity on prom night. That it involves exploding cars, naked blindfolds and chugging beer out of your anus probably tells you everything you need to know. It's actually not quite as funny as it thinks it is (and even sometimes comes across as being a bit desperate) but the cast tackle it gamely – and who knew that John Cena would turn out to be such a great comedian?
It's taken 35 years but the sequel to Ridley Scott's mesmerising 1982 classic has finally arrived and it's just as gorgeous, just as bewildering and just as tantalising as its predecessor. Now Ryan Gosling is a blade runner but he knows he's a replicant and is starting to have moral quandaries about what he does. This ultimately involves a search for Rick Deckard and what became of him and Rachel but it conjures up such a sumptuous world, the plot…
Plenty of giggles to be had in this relentlessly silly comedy set in the world of professional ice skating with two discredited male champs discovering that they can make it back into championship play if they team up as the sport's first male duo. And with Will Ferrell as the sex addict heavy metal skater stacked up against Jon Heder's pristine angelic one, the scenario is ripe for laughs. Although not as many as you'd hope. The comic potential is…