I found that the flashback within flashback structure actually worked and distinguished the film from the other action/scifi/horror hybrids (Pitch Black, Doom, etc). Village of the Damned is by far his worst film because you could tell his heart was not it in and that was it a contractual obligation. There's enough…

Also a fan. I know it's trash but I find it compulsively watchable. Must be my Pam Grier fetish.

Still holding out hope for another feature from Carpenter. He would have crushed "Bone Tomahawk" with Kurt. The writer-director of that film has written a few other western-horror hybrids that would be ideal for Carpenter.

The Verve's Urban Hymns. Bittersweet Symphony remains one of the best songs of the 90s, if not the past 30 years, and the pinnacle of Britpop/Cool Britannia. Smarter than Be Here Now but more accessible than OK Computer (the other big British albums from summer 97), Urban Hymns should be recognized more often as one…

Despite being sent to DTV purgatory, Van Damme did some real acting in 2007 with Until Death. Is it a good film? Not really. But it is worth checking out to see the moment where JCVD decides he was going to truly act and not just cash a paycheck for silly action films anymore. For those of us who caught Until Death,…

Despite being a comedy, Hot Fuzz has held up so well and is so rewatchable that it deserves the crown for 2007. And putting it in the same paragraph as the shit sandwich known as Grindhouse is just cruel. The Urban Outfitter T shirt comparison is spot on.

Like a lot of late period James L. Brooks, no one in the film acts or speaks like a real human being.

Spot on assessment. I take it you grew up in the Boston area as well.

So many chill moments in this film. The last 30-45 minutes is perfection.

Can't argue with that Top 10. But sorry, LA Confidential is not only the best film of 1997 but Top 5 for the entire 90s. Cast, direction, costume design, production design, cinematography and screenplay are uniformly perfect.

From AV Club's We're No. 1 series:

Hartnett was woefully miscast by Hollywood. Anyone who saw The Faculty or O knows that he was a perfect antihero or villain. Also, he has a rare commodity in Hollywood: height. He's well over 6 feet.

Ghost Protocol - Just a perfect thrill machine
Rogue Nation - Ferguson rules
MI - Confiunding plot, but great DePalma set pieces
MI 3 - Peak Hoffman
MI 2 : The film that confirmed that John Woo had a finite number of good ideas when it came to action films.

Slevin is a far smarter film that it appears to be on the surface. Loved the ending as well, but Hartnett is a bit young for the twist to work.

Top the charts? Nope. Duran Duran has the distinction of having the only Bond chart topper. Great song but they were also the biggest band in the world in the summer of 1985, so their pop culture cache at the time probably had more to do with its hitting number 1.

I almost had a stroke after stumbling upon The Dreamers one night. This was well after I saw Casino Royale and became a massive Eva Green fan.

Please check out the How Did This Get Made episode on View to a Kill. One of their best ever.

Aside from Goldeneye, View has the best Bond theme song. Duran knocked it out of the park. Only Bond theme to ever top the charts.

Lucky Number Slevin is better than its reputation suggests. As far as Tarantino crime rip offs go, it has a great cast and enough twists to engage the viewer. Hartnett deserved a bigger career as an antihero instead of the pretty boy roles that Hollywood threw at him.

Casino Royale has the best Bond, best action sequence (construction site), the most heart (Bond falling in love with Vesper) and of course, the best Bond girl of all time: All hail Eva Green. Great choice for 2006.