* contains spoilers Name: CameronAge: 59 Occupation: Former Pay Clerk Favourite Movie: Psycho (1960) First Saw It: I was seventeen on tv at home Starring: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin and Martin Balsam Plot: Director Alfred Hitchcock adapts the novel by Robert Bloch which was based on the life of killer Ed…
Read more My Cult Movie: "… It's still got the power to shock"
*contains spoilers Name: AnneAge: 52 Occupation: Pet Sitter Favourite Movie: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) First Saw It: One television by myself one Christmas in my late 20s. Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell and Henry Travers Plot: Director Frank Capra’s sentimental tale of a man who has worked all his life…
Read more My Cult Movie: "…No life is trivial or insignificant"
*contains spoilers Name: GeoffAge: 71 Occupation: Retired Detective Sergeant Favourite Movie: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) First Saw: At a suburban cinema when I was in my early 20s. Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach Plot: The third in Leone’s Dollars Trilogy has three low-life types as they each…
*contains spoilers Name: PhilAge: 56 Occupation: Former Storeman Favourite Movie: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959)First Saw It: On television as a kid at home Starring: James Mason, Pat Boone, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker and Thayer David. Plot: Based on Jules Verne’s 19th Century novel about a daring expedition to the centre of…
Read more My Cult Movie: “It’s the kind of thing I treasure in my memory…”
*contains spoilers Name: Josie Age: 69 Occupation: Retired enrolled nurse Favourite Movie: The Sound of Music (1965)First Saw It: I’m pretty certain my mum took us to see it at the movies at the local theatre Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn and, of course, the children Plot: A Rodgers and Hammerstein…
Read more My Cult Movie: “I love everything about this movie…”
*contains spoilers Name: BronwynAge: 65 Occupation: Retired teacher Favorite movie: Thelma & Louise (1991) Saw it First: I saw it on tv and then I bought the VHS tape and then the DVD. Starring: Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel and Brad Pitt Plot: A road movie directed by Ridley Scott about a couple of…
Read more My Cult Movie: “There is a wonderful sense of moving on…”
*contains spoilers Name: AmandaAge: 34 Occupation: Marketing and Comms Consultant Favourite Movie: The Sound of Music (1965)First Saw It: When I was really little on tv. I must have been five with my mum at home one night and it went for hours Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn and, of course,…
Read more My Cult Movie: “It was the gift that kept on giving…”
*contains spoilers Name: Maliah Age: 17 Occupation: High School Student Favourite Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) First Saw It: When I was about ten with my mum at home on DVD Starring: Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Larisa Oleynik and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Plot: An overprotective father won’t let his younger daughter date unless…
Read more My Cult Movie: “I have seen this film about thirty times…”
*contains spoilers Name: JudiAge: 60Occupation: Public Servant Favourite Movie: Legally Blonde (2001) Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair and Matthew Davis. First Saw It: I don’t think I saw it at the movies, so it must have been on video cassette. Plot: A perky young woman goes to Harvard Law School to win her…
Read more My Cult Movie: “I like that it has shades of a revenge movie…”
*contains spoilers Name: MikeAge: 76 Occupation: Retired Executive Favourite Movie: Last of the Mohicans (1992) Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, and Jodhi May First Saw it: At one of the large theatres in Leicester Square in London when it was first released. Plot: Sweeping fiction and love story set against the backdrop of…
Read more My Cult Movie: “…it was very sweeping and rugged…”
