17. Mai 2026

International production with different accents throughout. Buy it here! https://amzn.to/4ulSAIF Up to now, Mission Impossible aside, all my recommendations on this blog have been older movies. And for good reason, given my age and the breadth of films I have to choose from. But F1 The Movie changes that. It's so entertaining that not only am I including it here but it is also very close to my all time favourites film list. I LOVED it. F1 stars Brad Pitt as an aging (it actually suggests he's...

10. Mai 2026

American English throughout with easy to follow accents and dialects. Buy the film, here! https://amzn.to/4dE6KyD An all time favourite of mine, Road House is one of those films that strikes the right balance between "guilty pleasure" and outright classic. It's an action film and a drama with some very funny parts too, and a standout lead performance from Patrick Swayze at the height if his star power. Swayze plays Dalton, a cooler (head bouncer) who is persuaded by a small town club owner to...

08. März 2026

Clear British accents throughout. A must for all intermediate speakers and above! If you have been reading my blogs the last few years, you will know that the films I write about are, on average, between thirty and forty years old. Black Bag was released in March this year. It is phenomenal. Every year I have a little tradition where I share my favourite movies of the year. This year almost all my favourites appeared late in the year; One BAttle After Another, Black Bag, The Lost Bus and The...

13. Dezember 2025

American accents throughout with some strong Italian accents. Intermediate speakers and above only. The "Guilty Pleasure" is a film that, under usual circumstances, is not considered very good. Bad script, miscast actors, poor pacing, all reasons not to enjoy the film experience. But for some, that never matters. They love it anyway. And for me, one of those movies is Striking Distance. An early 90s thriller starring Bruce Willis, Striking Distance took an intriguing idea and threw some money...

23. November 2025

This film contains straightforward American accents and should be okay for intermediate students and above. Clint Eastwood is one of the greatest actor/directors that has ever lived. His resume is absolutely stellar, including as it does Dirty Harry, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, The Man with No Name trilogy and Play Misty for Me as actor, while his directorial work is even more impressive, including Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River. My pick though is an acting-only one, In The...

03. Oktober 2025

Challenging English with strong local accents and language. You can order the film here! https://amzn.to/4o0hmv1 Quentin Tarantino is synonymous with cult films. He has , to date, made 9 films from different genres, including westerns (Django Unchained, Hateful Eight) war films (Inglorious Basterds) and even East Asian action (Kill BIll Vol. 1). But for me, the genre Tarantino nailed perfectly was crime. Hard boiled crime, to be exact. Reservoir Dogs also happens to be Tarantinos first film,...

24. August 2025

Irish American accents might be challenging for pre-intermediate speakers. Order the movie here! https://amzn.to/4lHp5wo I really started getting interested in going to the cinema to watch films in 1989. Batman had come out and had been such a phenomenal success that I went not once, but twice. Id been to the cinema before of course, having seen Superman 2, Indiana Jones and at least 2 Bond films along the way, but it was Batman that confirmed my passion for all things cinema. A birthday...

20. Juli 2025

Perfect for all English levels, subtitles helpful at times. Get it here! https://amzn.to/4kU42Xb Alfred Hitchcock is one of cinema's truly great directors. He is famous for many films of course, including The 39 Steps, Vertigo, North By Northwest, To Catch a Thief, the list goes on. But Psycho remains the greatest of all. Starring Anthony Perkins as Norman and Janet Leigh in the pivotal role of Marion Crane, what begins as a supposed crime thriller descends into something much more horrifying,...

07. Juni 2025

Sometimes a film comes out of nowhere. It arrives often unannounced, with very little marketing and not much expectation, either. But its (usually) very good, and through fierce and The sleeper hit is a film that, despite the lack of marketing, big stars and budget, makes bank. Real bank. It comes out of nowhere and has such an impact that everyone talks about it. Ghost, Sister Act, The Sixth Sense, the list goes on. Crocodile Dundee was one of those films. Released in 1985, nobody outside of...

05. April 2025

Strong New York-based American and French accents throughout. Intermediate speakers and up. Get it here! https://amzn.to/45e9XS8 This film is on the list for a couple of reasons but the most important is Gene Hackman, who died a short while ago. Hackman was an absolute giant of cinema throughout his career, which spanned 5 decades and included some of the greatest performances ever seen on screen. Starting with his star making turn in Bonnie nd Clyde, his powerhouse performances in The...