Tie a Yellow Ribbon...

I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted here, but this is one of the greatest films ever made. I watched it again recently, and yes it seems pretty weak and less cutting than it did on my first viewing. Mind you, that was 15 years ago now. Some of it still hits the spot perfectly. The ID check on a hopeful Steve Guttenburg is almost prescient. The B movie send-ups never tire. And the cast is just phenomenal. Have a look at the cast list on IMDB, and then try and imagine what the modern equivalent would be. I know what the modern equivalent is, and it's Ocean's 11/12/13/14/15, which is a great shame. This is the last breath of Hollywood's sense of humour, and should be preserved as such.

If you have never seen this film, do so immediately. It might seem very dated, but come on, everyone knows someone that makes you want to donate to "Black men Without Soul".

You can grab "Amazon Women on the Moon" off Amazon easily enough. It's not so easy to get through other channels, but if you really need to see it comment or send me an e-mail. Because I read loads of those.

The Top Ten of Top Tens of Top Tens, Ever!

I've been asked to do a kind of top ten films that everyone should see. I'm loathe to do this at first because these things are notoriously hard to do. If someone asks you to list your top ten albums/films/mass murderers it's almost impossible to do because your taste changes so quickly. I've tried it in the past and my taste has changed before I've got to item no. 7, and I already want to dump item no.2 from the list.

However, I like the idea that it'll give me some focus in the next few weeks so I'm going to do something very slightly different and do a "Top 10 films you might well not have seen but which i quite like". Many of you will have seen most of these. Some of you will have seen all of them. If you have seen all of them, you're officially as sad as me, so well done.

I'm going to kick this off wih a little "top ten" of things that will NOT appear in this top 10, just so you don't keep hanging around for your favourite to turn up.

1. Anything to do with Star Wars
2. Anything to do with Back to the Future
3. Anything to do with Superman
4. Donnie Darko
5. Anything directed by Tim Burton
6. Anything to do with Indiana jones
7. Anything to do with The Godfather
8. Anything directed by Stanley Cubrick
9. Ghostbusters
10. Busty Brenda's Bollock Bonanza

Ok. Now we have some ground rules. Let's go.