Watching films, making films, photography, art and design.
Umm ....... Bruce Parry! Legend!
Soundtracks, original scores, classical music, Black Jackson, Massive Attack, Arcade Fire, Green Day, Manic Street Preachers, Daft Punk, New Order, The Prodigy, Rilo Kiley, !!!, Cut Copy, bit of the old Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens, Billy Joel, INXS, Blondie and plenty of other random stuff that's been absorbed over the years.
Cinema is KING!
Favourite films to name but a few: Aliens, Predator, Terminator 1 & 2, Commando, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Goonies, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Donnie Darko, Billy Elliot, Sleepers, Gladiator, Titanic, Nightmare on Elm Street 1 & 3, Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Elizabeth, Sense & Sensibility, Dirty Dancing, Lion King, Lord of the Rings, Brokeback Mountain, Karate Kid 1, Grease, National Lampoons Vacation, Romancing the Stone, The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Overboard, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, This Boys Life, Stand by Me, Running on Empty, Dogfight, Mosquito Coast, Witness, Buffalo Soldiers, Black Hawk Down, High Fidelity, Fight Club, Seven, Rear Window, Vertigo, Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, The Shining, Blade 1 & 2, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Cider House Rules, The Notebook, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Shakespeare In Love, American Beauty, American Pie, Point Break, Good Will Hunting, Moulin Rouge, Anne of a Thousand Days, Working Girl, Erin Brockovich, Star Wars, Walk The Line, Primal Fear, Power of One, Jaws, Grosse Point Blank, The Lost Boys, The Departed, Bood Diamond, Dodgeball....Favourite actors include: Jake Gyllenhaal (Oh Aye ;-O), Emile Hirsch, James McAvoy, Robert DeNiro, John Cusack, Edward Norton, Joaquin Phoenix, Jim Carrey, Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Russell Crowe, Djimon Hounsou, Tobey Maguire, Robert Downey Jr, Morgan Freeman, Kurt Russell, Harrison Ford, Kevin Bacon, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Patrick Swayze, River Phoenix....
Favourite actresses include: Kate Winslet, Julia Roberts, Emma Thompson, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Judi Dench, Jodie Foster, Sigourney Weaver, Goldie Hawn, Laura Linney, Hilary Swank, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Minnie Driver....
Favourite directors include: Spielberg, Lucas, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Ang Lee, Peter Weir, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Lasse Hallstrom, Kevin Smith, Richard Kelly, Shekhar Kapur, Quentin Tarantino....
The Simpsons, Red Dwarf, I'm Alan Partridge, 24, The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley, The F Word, Sex and The City, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Mock The Week, Who Do You Think You Are?, The BBC2 Tribe documentary series with Bruce Parry - that guy rocks! Oh, and The Antiques Roadshow! Heh heh
EMPIRE - Technically not a book but a film magazine, but since I've been subscribed for 10 years I'd say I've got enough to create something of a library. Lots of Historical Fiction. Everything by Philippa Gregory! Elizabeth Chadwick, Adriana Trigiani, Michel Faber for the delicious Crimson Petal and the White. Time for Bed by David Baddiel. We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.