1 | Spring Breakers - Harmony Korine | Best Maelström | | Neon glow arthouse version ov breakers breaking - dealin: James Franco (nasty) - best |
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2 | Red Riding Hood (2011) - Catherine Hardwicke | Best Cape | | Amanda Seyfried - excellent - 'Red Riding Hood' & the let's not forget 'The Wolf' |
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3 | Best F(r)iends (2017) - Justin MacGregor | Best Gold Collector | | Tommy Wiseau & Greg Sestero (both from 'The Room') star in this truly gritty arty raw film |
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4 | The Neon Demon - Nicolas Winding Refn | Best LA Modeling Scene | | Outrageous, slow, dark, vivid, subdued, Alt, Great Clubland, unreal, experimental, we liked it |
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5 | Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang | Best Silent Movie | | Futuristic extreme overdone macabre way ahead prophecy (off reality - right octive) |
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6 | The Man Who Fell to Earth - Nicolas Roeg | Best Prophetic | | Very close prophecy - an alien loaded with industrial designs, rad camera & fitting end... |
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7 | The Beach - Danny Boyle | Best Beach | | Very surprisingly edgy, isolated tropical island, dope, people, death, tragedy, survival |
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8 | Animal Farm (1954) - John Halas & Joy Batchelor | Best Farm | | Said by many to be the 'most avant garde' movie ever made - still unseen by rad maximus |
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9 | Kill Your Darlings (2013) - John Krokidas | Best Cause and Effect | | Beat generation came from here - Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac and tragedy |
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10 | Zoolander - Ben Stiller | Best Showstopping Stare | | Rad, great scenes and clubs, model shows, indecision, looks, stares, the whole damn show |
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11 | Elysium - Neill Blomkamp | Best Dystopian LA | | Ott out there future ground LA scenery continually |
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12 | Velvet Goldmine - Todd Haynes | Best Glam Rock | | Great fashion - including the best 30 seconds ov film ever - rad, vivid, wild and free |
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13 | Johnny Mnemonic - Robert Longo | Best Cyberpunk | | Adaptions from book 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson - rad, dark, underground |
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14 | Edge Of Tomorrow - Doug Liman | Best Angel | | Sci-fi rad quick paced with Tom and Emily mmmmm.... |
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15 | Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) - George Miller | Best Dystopian Desert | | Non stop gritty war on the run with cyber desert vehicles ov dark pre-Valhalla |
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16 | This Is the End - Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg | Best Apocalypse Party | | Party at the end ov the road ov civilisation - rad exteme funny and altogether possible |
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17 | Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray | Best Not A Lot Happening | | James Dean - this movie is exceedingly famous - great to see - he's a rebel - against what? |
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18 | Bohemian Rhapsody - Bryan Singer | Best Sheer Fame | | Outstanding movie ov Freddie Mercury's life with Queen - quite overwhelming direct to fame |
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19 | Suburbicon - George Clooney | Best Decent into the Maelström | | Where people help each other, attend your home for assistance & really love their neigborhood |
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20 | True Romance - Quentin Tarantino | Best Art Suitcase | | Quite a find - the chic and the stuff - let's go to the retro - great fun - lookout |
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21 | Beirut - Brad Anderson | Best Trade Off | | A very good Beirut in the eighties, rubble warzone with an American presence |
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22 | Exit Through The Gift Shop - Banksy | Best Graffiti | | Arthouse, doco/film graffiti, extreme, rad, color, stencils, show, vibrant ott |
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23 | The Happening - M. Night Shyamalan | Best Enemy Within | | Prophecy - natural ground, global-sharing - group objection & sameness causes 'will to die' |
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24 | A Star Is Born (2018) - Bradley Cooper | Best C&W Rock Star | | Outstanding immersion into the story - big concerts with actual people & the moment ov fame |
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25 | Æon Flux - Karyn Kasuma | Best Cyberdome | | Hot future fashion - everything ott, people disappear, escape to what |
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27 | Johnny Suede - Tom Dicillo | Best Quiff | | Great styling simple plot - Brad in the best sweetheart movie |
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28 | Dirty Harry - Don Siegel | Best Dirt | | Extreme un-western with Clint Eastwood - mad bad and rad (if you feel lucky) |
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30 | Mulholand Drive - David Lynch | Best Welcome To Hollywood | | Everyone wants to be a movie star - welcome to the unhinged side - it's all ok or is it |
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31 | Barbarella - Roger Vadim | Best Space Chic | | Rad vivid exciting adventurous space chic type stuff |
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32 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Simon West | Best Cyber Chic | | Rad extreme costumes home adventure chic style ott clothes very very |
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33 | Mood Indigo - Michel Gondry | Best Ringing Ov The Bell | | Wack French arthouse complete with cloud chairs, sunshine and rain (at the same time) |
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35 | BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee | Best Afro | | Out there apparently derived from a true story - the 70's movie itself is very good |
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37 | Mission: Impossible – Fallout - Cristopher McQuarrie | Best Helicopter Crash | | Tom Cruise does'nt appear to be ageing at all - good spy stuff with ott helicpoter tangles |
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38 | Blow - Ted Demme | Best Sunnies | | Cocain and more cocain - don't cross them - on the run - from who |
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39 | 12 Monkeys - Terry Gilliam | Best Wall Graffiti | | Like Brazil with a twist and Brad the doper - unforgettable off-net graffiti |
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40 | Apocalypse Now - Francis Ford Coppola | Best Mornings | | The other poster (one ov the best) with the helicopters in the morning sun says most - |
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41 | Chappie - Neil Blomkamp | Best In Bed With A Robot | | Out ov the blue, robots that think with Die Antwoord as the rebel team/music - arthouse |
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42 | Antitrust - Peter Howitt | Best Garage Programmers | | Our idea ov Nirvana - large garage - few computers pizza & writing software 24/7 |
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43 | Frank - Lenny Abrahamson | Best Head Start | | Frank is insane, he just wants to keep the band together, perform and record |
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44 | Two-Lane Blacktop - Monte Hellman | Best Street Rod | | A street rod needs somewhere to drag other rods - bleak 70's rad cult |
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45 | Isle of Dogs - Wes Anderson | Best Dogs Life | | Very entertaining - this film is just not like another - so it's great |
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46 | Putney Swope - Robert Downey Snr. | Best CEO by Avoidance | | From Shepard Fairey (OBEY) - outstanding stuff - maybe dystopian - read title from Juxtapoz |
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47 | Ex Machina (2015) - Alex Graland | Best Nude Robot Chics | | Scientist makes nude cyber sexual robots chics ott rad out there - they want to live |
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48 | Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarentino | Best Disposal | | Surprisingy full on, ultraviolent and actually very good |
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49 | Camille (1936) - George Cukor | Best Swoon | | Oscar best actress in a leading role, Greta Garbo; 1938 |
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50 | Wild Wild West - Barry Sonnenfeld | Best Spider | | Way wacko steam punk gone crazy with the penultimate giant desert spider |
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51 | They Live - John Carpenter | Best Propaganda | | Source: 'OBEY' used with 'André the Giant' in Shepard Fairey Russian based Art/Propaganda |
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52 | Taking Woodstock - Ang Lee | Best Hippie Freakout | | Rad, full on, Jimi Hendrix, behind the scenes as an actual movie - exceptional |
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53 | Cosmopolis - David Cronenberg | Best Limo Ride | | Dystopian to say the least - life perceived by Robert in the limo right in the thick ov things |
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54 | Beautiful Noise - Eric Green | Best Shoegazer | | Doco film with many shoegazer bands - rad - ott - great - a treat in sound |
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55 | A Dangerous Method - David Cronenberg | Best Spanking | | Keira Knightley aka 'spank me nightly' with some insight into Freud and Jung |
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56 | Bicycle Thieves (1948) - Vittorio De Sica | Best Neo-Realism | | Quintessential Italian classic were some ov the 'New Yorker's descriptions |
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57 | Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino | Best Arthouse Gangsters | | Very grainy Arthouse gang stuff - a robbery that does'nt quite go as planned - that'd be right |
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59 | T2 Trainspotting - Danny Boyle | Best Coat Hanger Job | | Very enjoyable - people just living the best way they can - rad style - out there |
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60 | Clueless - Amy Heckerling | Best 'Up And In' in Beverly Hills | | Alicia is so divine - for any fans this is great - life and all it's stuff - just is |
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62 | Sucker Punch - Zack Snyder | Best Baby Doll | | Way out there psychiatric institution dance dream battle rad |
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63 | CaptainSpaceman - CaptainSpaceman | Best Neo Culture Film Making | | BabylonScreen's first break-away movie - 30 YouTube videos strung together - the razor |
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64 | Unfriended - Tim Bekmambetov, Jason Blum, Nelson Greaves | Best Horror Computer | | Aka 'Cybernatural' - Social Media goes terribly wrong - great - especially for computer geeks |
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65 | My Week With Marilyn - Simon Curtis | Best Film About Marilyn | | Michelle does such an excellent wonderful part , it seems to actually be Marilyn |
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66 | Ready Player One (2018) - Stephen Spielberg | Best VR with Evil | | Actually really enjoyed this - Ben Mendelsohn is rad as the Evil One |
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67 | Bulworth - Warren Beatty | Best Stoner Candidate | | Great points Free Trade, Black Market trade, gunja energised people real and funny |
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69 | Savages (2012) - Oliver Stone | Best Cartels | | The best way for the DEA is to play wholeheartedly on both sides ov the drug game |
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71 | Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) - Sam Taylor-Johnson | Best Saucy | | It's a bit saucy - great to see some humans going at it - the old S&M routine - rad |
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72 | Electric Dreams - Steve Barron | Best Rogue Computer | | Comedy - his AI computer get's into the phone network and does things to him - bad things |
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73 | Groundhog Day - Harold Ramis | Best Yesterday Today | | Great to see why everyone uses this term - quite funny - interesting how he works it out |
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74 | Lolita (1997) - Adrian Lyne | Best Bad | | Classic badness - all the traits ov a banned movie however not banned |
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75 | El Monstro Del Mar! - Stuart Simpson | Best Blood Squirts | | Excessive schlock - ultra trimmed production - rubber monster - off with the head |
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76 | Gainsbourg (Vie Héroïque) - Joann Sfar | Best Smoker | | Great insight into Serge's life, girlfriends, smoking and ov course music |
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77 | Last Days (2005) - Gus Van Sant | Best Kurt | | Last days ov Kurt Cobain in the countryside - bleak and bare - extremely good |
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78 | Eden (2013) - Mia Hansen-Love | Best French 90's Clubland | | Indie arthouse set in French underground clubland - just great - for clubbers to enjoy |
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79 | Escape from New York - John Carpenter | Best Island Maelström | | Rad dark bleak desperate out there type happenings as Manhattan Island jail |
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81 | Killing Them Softly - Andrew Dominik | Best Soft Kill | | Strangely out there - just is - Brad in his best killing mode with Tony Soprano (JG) |
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82 | Lawless - John Hillcoat - writer: Nick Cave | Best Bad Good Guy | | Absolute badness from Guy Pearce - outstanding dirty Fed Agent among Prohibition |
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83 | Easy Rider - Dennis Hopper | Best Bikers | | Bleak nowhere ride rad bikes drugs ultraviolent |
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84 | Spaceballs - Mel Brooks | Best Evil Overlord | | See Dark Helmet and one ov the funiest scenes ever |
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85 | Go (1999) - Doug Liman | Best Party Venture | | To the rave and all it's fantasy (with Katie) mmm.. great and wack - on drugs |
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87 | Pusher (2012) - Luis Prieto | Best Drug Orbital | | Coke - where's the Coke - clubbing - Agyness Deyn - time - rad in the night - music |
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88 | 8 Mile - Curtis Hanson | Best Gritty Rap | | Eminem (acting) doin' his bit as a freestyle rapper in Detroit - enjoyable |
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89 | Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson | Best Dress Designer | | Dashing and enchanted - fashion and fun doing it - steady - rad - slightly ott |
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90 | Red Sparrow - Francis Lawrence | Best Double / Double Agent | | Spies on spies trained and ready - out there in Russia - may be disturbing for some |
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92 | All This Mayhem - Eddie Martin | Best Skater Peak | | Out there - World Champion - the waves man - oh the waves |
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93 | Predestination - Michael Spierig / Peter Spierig | Best Something From Very Little | | Way wack set in past America outstanding complexity ov the script - unfold after unfold |
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94 | Tangerine - Sean S. Baker | Best Avant Garde iPhone Movie | | Great gritty rad out there L.A. downtown doing stuff man - all filmed on iPhone 5s |
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95 | American Honey - Andrea Arnold | Best Road Group | | Something just arty road type stuff without appearing to be - Young Americans just survivimg |
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96 | The Internship - Shaun Levy | Best Net House | | Google - why they lead and others are way way behind - fun fun fun and then some fun |
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97 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For - Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller | Best Gritty Grit | | Outrageous film production ov comic slash ultraviolence - a cinematic treat |
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98 | Oasis: Supersonic - Mat Whitecross & Asif Kapadia | Best Champagne Supernova | | Oasis - the story of the rise & rise ov the band & their memorable songs |
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99 | Amadeus (1984) - Milo Forman | Best Harpsicord | | Great seeing Mozart playing and performing, he loved making it a comedy as well |
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100 | Birdman - Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Best Actor Playing An Actor | | Some magical - some hallucinatory - some acting - some theater - inside the inside - rad |
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101 | Atomic Blonde - David Leitch | Best Spy On Spy | | Great 80's club soundtrack, Berlin is rad, for some reason we just liked it a lot |
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102 | The Panic in Needle Park - Jerry Schatzberg | Best Distortion | | Unseen by radmaximus - hailed as a masterpiece ov drug addiction, violence and park life |
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103 | Jean de Florette - Claude Berri | Best Heartbreak | | A sweet tragedy - unforgettable for some reason - so innocent so tragic so evil |
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104 | Sid And Nancy - Alex Cox | Best Sid | | Great story albeit not quite true featuring Sid in his last days |
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105 | Tomb Raider (2018) - Roar Uthuag | Best Adventure Chic | | Alicia Vikander is great as Lara Croft: lots ov fun and impossible stunts - rad |
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106 | Endless Love - Shana Feste | Best Creaminess | | So ott beauty all the way through - well done all concrened |
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107 | Delicatessen - Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Best Vivid | | Dark arthouse black macabre |
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108 | Star Trek Into Darkness - J. J. Abrams | Best Cyber Underwear | | Well made - just to see Alice Eve as Doctor Marcus is such a standout |
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109 | The Disaster Artist (2017) - James Franco | Best Film About The Worst Film | | Life making 'The Room (written by it's disabled star) - the best 'worst movie' ever |
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110 | Rogue Trader - James Dearden | Best Call Margin | | For those who like stockmarkets - how he crashed the world |
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111 | New Rose Hotel - Abel Ferrara | Best New Rose | | Cyberpunk movie based on a story by William Gibson - keeps coming up - worth a look at |
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112 | Angel Heart - Alan Parker | Best Devil | | The Devil goes to Georgia, dark, moody, sensual, rad |
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113 | Morgan (2016) - Luke Scott | Best Cyber Gene | | Genetics and humans - a dangerous mix - what have they done - gone rogue |
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114 | True Stories - David Byrne | Best Wack Cowboy Hat | | Cult classic for 'Talking Heads' - recommended by 'Yen' mag - may have acid induced parts |
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115 | The Talented Mr. Rippley - Anthony Minghella | Best Idle Rich | | Not what Rippley did but how the 'others' all lived - a great relaxing fun filled joyous life |
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116 | Good Vibrations - Lisa Barros D'Sa & Glen Layburn | Best Belfast Record Shop | | Music industry film - Set up a record shop & recorded early punk bands in Belfast - historic |
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117 | Logan's Run - Michael Anderson | Best Dystopian Break | | Eerie wacko pleasure filled Utopia with just one catch, and what happens going beyond it |
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118 | Inside Llewyn Davis - Joel Cohen & Ehtan Cohen | Best Gaslight | | Arthouse arts staying in the arthouse arts singing & playing folk songs - gritty |
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