Should've at least won Best Director at the Oscars this year. Not mawkish or melodramatic, just honest.

Much under-rated successor to Ballard's earlier 'High-Rise'. Admittedly not as innovative as 'Crash' or 'The Atrocity Exhibition', but then what is?

The darling of Private Eye's 'Pseud's Corner' proves once more he's more than the sum of his thesaurus.

One of the Great American Movies: a powerful tale of opportunity, ownership and freedom.

Terence Malick's beautiful retelling of the Pocahontas story strips away the Disneyfied romanticism of the tale and replaces it with a genuine mysticism. This is GROWN-UP cinema at its finest.

Filthy tales of suburban life set to sublime pop melodies. Who could ask for more?

The DVD case says this comedy features the stories that celebrities would never dare show. Rubbish. These are the stories that celebrities would definitely have printed about themselves if they could.

Easily the best retelling of 'Alice in Wonderland' without being a direct adaptation. Remarkable.

Mr Self proves once more that behind that arch, at times arrogant, exterior he's capable of engaging his audience on an emotional level. Quite possibly the best satirist since Jonathan Swift.

My favourite film of 2006 (and quite possibly the decade); an intensely powerful thriller that packs a real emotional wallop.

It's not exactly 'The Singing Detective', but 'Life On Mars' was arguably the most inventive television drama of the last ten years. If I were you I'd avoid 'Ashes to Ashes' like the plague, though.

When I first heard them I thought "God, that's all we need- another pale-faced indie band", but once I warmed to Luke Pritchard's rather whiney vocals I recognised what great songsmiths they are.