• Borat: Okay he's not the first to poke fun at American conservatives, but it was funny. My kind of political prejudices. And that little bit in Kazakhastan was great.



• Little Miss Sunshine: Funny, bonkers family road-trip. Side-stepped all the clichés. Best child actors I've seen in ages.



• X-Men: The Last Stand: Tight costumes, misfits with super-powers, a big old super-punch up at the end. Ticked all the boxes.



• Babel: Three continents, one gun shot, a whole lot of consequences.



• Pan's Labyrinth: Blood, evil, fairytales. It hurt bad, but what a film.



• Severance: A comic British slasher movie about an office team-building trip to Eastern Europe. Hilarious and slashy.



• Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas: Pretty-but-gritty French film about a teenager with beautiful eyes looking for her lost twin brother. The sub-plot is crap, but the main character was great.



• Volver: Rich 'n' gorgeous. Loved it.



• Shortbus: So I was expecting something a bit edgier, but this was warm and honest and life-affirming and all that. Some pleasant kooky sex-scenes between really nice people. Free love guys!



• Hidden: Terribly, terribly slow, but I was positively itching to get an explanation at the end. 'course, there isn't one. But I liked it alright.

Films which I couldn't work out and gave me a headache:

Brick - was it funny or a parody of something? I sure didn't think it was funny.
A Scanner Darkly - liked the semi-animation thing (rotoscoping?) but couldn't hack the plot. What? Alright, there was something about drugs and something about CCTV cameras and probably terrorism but what the hell.

Should have seen:

Renaissance - it looked so stylish and yet I missed it.

A Bit Too Long and Complicated, Also a Bit Sick:

The Black Dahlia. Each plot twist was the same as the last plot twist, and the result was... well... twisted.

Most elaborate sexual intercourse:

That gay male threesome in Shortbus.

Uh she's really hot:

Scarlett. In Scoop, The Prestige, and aforementioned Black Dahlia. And Match Point, though that was last year.

Most quoted by my friends, by the media, and most pirated on YouTube:

Borat. I reckon I probably knew about 50% of the script before I got into the cinema.

Most emotionally-charged toilet scene:

Babel, where Brad Pitt helps Cate Blanchett (half-dead from blood loss) urinate in a basin in a Moroccan hovel. Really moving.

Trend that I hope sticks around:

Melodrama. Where little ordinary things swarm up to a big terrible tragic climax. Pan's Labyrinth, and also Babel.