Movies - let me see now - so far this year, at the cinema, I've seen
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Watchmen
Monsters vs Aliens
Angels and Demons
Wolverine
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers2 (hilariously bad)
Public Enemies
- nothing so far really standout -
Benjamin Button and
Star Trek were probably best, but I'm really looking forward to James Cameron's
Avatarand in 2008 I saw:
21
Cloverfield
Hancock
Hellboy2
Indiana Jones 4
Iron Man
Jumper
Quantum of Solace
The Dark Knight
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Incredible Hulk
WALL-E
Wanted
I thought The Dark Knight was the best film of last year, closely followed by Pixar's WALL-E
I'm a big movie nut, as you'll gather, get to all the blockbusters, and many others too - directors I love:
Hitchcock - especially the late 50's/early 60's ones - Vertigo, North by Northwest, Marnie, Psycho
Sergio Leone - Once Upon a Time in the West, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good the Bad and the Ugly
David Lean - Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryans Daughter
Roman Polanski - Chinatown, Tess, The Pianist
Martin Scorsese - Gangs of New York, Kundun, The Age of Innocence, Casino (Scorsese's famous for his gangster movies, but there's a lot more to him than that - I think he is still very under-appreciated)
Ridley Scott - Bladerunner, Alien, Gladiator
Stanley Kubrick - the greatest filmmaker of all - I'm a
huge Kubrick fan -
all of his films, but especially 2001 and Barry Lyndon (a very underappreciated and misunderstood film - often said to to be emotionless and dispassionate, but actually very powerfully emotional, it repays repeated rewatching, as does all Kubrick's work to see his endless attention to nuance and implication, as well as enormous numbers of subtle cross-references between the films)
Steven Spielberg - particularly Minority Report, Artificial Intelligence (a very misunderstood and complex, multilayered brilliant film, which I hope will be more widely appreciated in years to come), Amistad, The Empire of the Sun (which, like AI and Minority Report, if watched attentively, shows he's a much tricksier filmmaker than he's often credited as being).
Other movies - Pan's Labyrinth, Donnie Darko, Kill Bill 1&2, Carlito's Way, Dark City, The Man Who Wasn't There, Hero, Excalibur...
I could go on and on...

Dave