Author: Dave Franklin

Despite being a much derided actress, I’ve somehow grown fond of Brooke Shields. I quite like her early work

Although the likes of De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Burt Lancaster are faves, I’ve always been a bit disappointed with myself for never getting around to Bernardo Bertolucci’s two-part historical drama.

Cruise and his elderly mentor Bryan Brown are such cash-chasing, monumental twats in this massive box-office hit that it’s nigh on impossible to look away.

Lady Macbeth (Annis) starts off as the leading force in Polanski’s visceral, demon-confronting box-office bomb.

Having not long completed a turn as a zombified bitch in 1981’s atmospheric horror flick Dead & Buried, Blount snagged herself a Golden Globe for another death-causing turn in this tremendous romantic drama

I like a bitch in the movies. There’s something fascinating about a woman being nasty and doing evil stuff. I prefer my spiteful sheilas to be sane, though.

Averaging nearly three swear words a minute, this is a proper bloke movie that captures masculinity in all its sharp-minded verve and horny, knuckle-dragging contradictions