Most of the films that first came to mind to watch on Brexit Day were too bleak for a Friday night: Children of Men popped into my head or perhaps Battle Royale?

But I settled on this glorious Ealing comedy instead: an unexploded bomb presents a small London community with the opportunity to declare independence from the austerity of rationing and many of the frictions of life in post-war Blighty.

But the bliss of temporary isolation and freedom from a…

Remains a real wow film no matter how many times I've seen it.

A compelling and thrilling mystery, as well as a thematically dense, philosophical experience.

No doubt part of its attraction to the Sight & Sound crowd is how open to interpretation this film is. It offers up so much to write about. So much space to discuss narrative, psychology, feminism, semiotics, history - it has room for every academic school to get involved in the glamour of 50's Hollywood.…

I am so pleased this holds up. My feeling is Dennis Potter's reputation is in decline a little. He certainly doesn't seem to be talked about as often as he once was.

This remains one of the landmarks of British television. Potter would actually get better. The Singing Detective is his zenith - that's as ambitious, clever and brilliant as British television has ever been.

But still in Pennies, the blend of drama and fantasy is pretty close to perfection.…

'Heil myself' - honestly, one of the funniest gags ever in film.

An absolute perfect blend of comedy, drama and war propaganda.

This was made in '42. Such a perceptive and daring idea for a movie at that time....the jokes about the winning side have a genuine edge - who knew at this point which way the war would turn; and to get such humour and plot progession out of one of the greatest speeches in theatre. Superb! Indeed, this…

I lost it at the movies too.

So many, maybe too many hours lost in celluloid dream. But cinema heightens and condenses time and emotion - it cuts out the boring and the mundane - life edited and accelerated. Pain and sadness are but stopping points to love everlasting - the offer of the fairy tale Hollywood dream.

Cinema is an ever pleasant place to be: our own cinephile matrix - plugged into how we want life to be rather…

Gets better with every viewing.

Such a desperate, scrambling rat race of a film. Dark, sleazy, threatening.  Power as publication of nasty whispers in the dark.  All human relationship is transactional - you scratch my back, I tear at yours. The holy grail is a search for an angle. The good guys are there to be used. Even family exists only to be controlled.

Such poetic and rhythmic dialogue. One of the most quotable movies we have. Rat-at-tat: you're dead.…

This was a bit of a YouTube rabbit hole discovery. I never knew this footage existed.

The Prince Charming Revue was my first ever gig! I was 9 years old and skipped school to go see Adam and the Ants at Deeside Leisure Centre in Wales. I had full parental permission - I had grown up with stories of the mischief my mother got up to in her efforts to follow Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart - so it was…

Final cut.

One of cinema's greatest pieces of art. It's up there with the best: Hitchcock, Hawks, Dreyer etc. maybe even Shakespeare - although Melville is a better comparison.....

Beautiful, profound....ugly, definitely ugly. Ambitious - a testosterone napalmed nightmare. As human as film as ever been. Warts and all.

The thinnest of lines separates the best and worst of us and the madness within. War makes it impossible to distinguish between them.

70's Coppola was a cinematic genius. And this…

A near perfect ghost story. Moody, atmospheric - has the intelligence to maintain the novel's ambiguity. Such a confident visualisation of a wonderful story.

Imagination is so often celebrated in art. But here is creativity as horror, as terror. An ability to see things that may not be there is a staple of the cinema - the detective who sees the separate strands, and with a leap of eureka solves the crime. An innovative temperament is a virtue, a human…

Nostalgia is a powerful emotion.....

But I'm sometimes reluctant to revisit the movies from my childhood. They often disappoint when put in front of a cynical adult gaze. Despite best intentions, the bastards do grind you down. Innocence and naivety fade. Adult eyes find it harder to ignore the flaws.

But this is a good movie - whether viewed through adult or childish eyes. It's just so God damned fun! I'm sure the big names were only there for the…

An iconic movie for people of a certain age.

This perhaps hasn't left the same level of emotional trauma on the psyche as Jaws - but this film certainly scarred many children brought up in the late 70s. The birth of the VHS video market brought many a film into the home that wouldn't have made it onto television sets uncut at tea-time.

And to see slightly inappropriate films in those early years was an important rites of age. It…