106. American Hustle

Great cast. Some glorious singing moments. It feels a little light on the real grit and details you expect from a film of this stature...

No denying though, it looks amazing and if they hand out oscars for hair and suits then it would win hands down...

35. The Dark Knight Rises

Just got back from seeing The Dark Knight Rises and WOW! It's great! As I predicted not up there with TDK but pretty damn good all the same.

So much detail, style and precision as usual from Sir Christopher Nolan and Anna Hathaway is knockout as Catwoman. It's a fitting end to a fantastic trilogy.

If your a fan of the comics you'll probably guess 'the twist', but it's really a blinding bit of film making and excellent value for money at 2 and half hours long! And unlike Haywire the wife enjoyed it. WIN!

34. The Dark Knight

As the second part of my preparation for the forthcoming The Dark Knight Rises I have sat down to watch, what I think, is the best super hero film of all time (and I loved The Avengers).

So The Dark Knight is just so amazing on all levels. It's the best action movie, chase movie, horror movie, suspense movie or well... generally the best movie of 2008 without a shadow of a doubt. I never thought I would ever see the Batman realised on screen in such an darkly impressive, serious (as it can be) and inventive manner.

The bank heist in the first few minutes has more ideas crammed into it than most Hollywood blockbusters cram into two and half hours! Up to this point it was Christopher Nolans best film - although I think Inception bettered it...

Will TDKR better that? I doubt it, but really CANNOT WAIT to find out!

Hopefully MGM will hand the Bond franchise over to Nolan next and he can give that the kick up the arse it needs. That would be epic.

32. Batman Begins

I must admit that when watching Batman Begins for the first time I found I had a similar reaction to the first Burton Batman. It was 'great' but overall, a tad bit dull.

I should quantify this by saying I'm a massive Bat fan and my expectations could never be reached by either film; However, watching Sir Christopher Nolan's (it's only a matter of time) first effort again I have to say I really, really, really enjoyed it.

It still doesn't hold up as an action movie (neither did Burton's) but the amount of ideas and inventiveness is a joy to behold!

Even after this great start I would never have even begun to have expected a blockbuster of The Dark Knights magnitude to follow it...