Posts Tagged Under 2009
Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.1
And so the end is here and I unveil my final movie. Imagine that sentence with Sinatra singing and you’ll get what I was aiming at. 25 days of counting down the top movies of 2009 has led us somewhat circuitously to this day. Only one remains, the final one, the best movie of 2009. [...]
Posted in Advent Movies, Movies & TV, The CulchBy Niall
Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.2
Okay technically today’s choice is a 2008 movie but for the sake of clarity it meets the criteria having being released in January 2009 in Ireland. A great heart-warming master-class in cinema it deservedly walked away with many of the top honours in last years awards season. The second best movie of 2009 is…
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.3
I’m a sci-fi nut, love it to bits, and yet in my list of top films ever sci-fi fares poorly. Whether I’m just too picky or whether there are genuinely few epic sci-fi movies I don’t know. What I do know is that 2009 was a great year for sci-fi and today’s choice reflects just [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.4
It pains me greatly to put today’s choice at four instead of one. As soon as I saw it I felt about 10 again and realised why I love cinema so much. It brought me back to when I saw Jurassic Park, Star wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time and [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.5
And so we reach the Top 5, and in all honesty any of these would be worthy of the top spot as there is next to nothing to choose between them. I relegated today’s choice to the bottom of the Top 5 simply because I feel more strongly about the others. That is not to [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.6
Today’s movie is not quite the masterpiece everyone was waiting for but it was a truly brilliant, truelly delightful piece of cinema. Deeply flawed but equally charming it heralded a fine return to form for one of cinema’s favourite sons. Number 6 is…
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.7
Today’s movie was an unexpected treasure on it’s release earlier this year. A fresh and inventive comedy it stood head and shoulders above the rest and it gave us simply the greatest cameo of this or any other year. My choice for the 7th best movie of 2009 is…
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.8
Exactly one week to Christmas and one week till my number one movie of 2009 is unveiled. Today sees another American movie made in 2008 but released in Ireland in 2009 enter the countdown. A critics and awards favourite this could prove to be the final swansong of a legend. The 8th best movie of [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.9
Today brings us to my one and only foreign language film in the Top 25, well I say one and only but there is another yet to come that has large parts not in English. This film proves that great cinema, strong story-telling and indeed good old-fashioned scares are not subject to the constraints of [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.10
And now the games can begin. At last we have reached the top ten, the ten movies that I believe best reflect the raw power and visual majesty that was cinema in 2009. Not all of these will be critic’s darlings, but then many times what we like and what “professionals” think is best does [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.11
Today’s choice misses out on Top 10 status by the narrowest of margins. An epic tale of conflict, both external and internal, today’s movie will be high on the honours list when the Oscars come calling in February. Number 11 is…
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.12
We’re past the half-way stage in this countdown and we’re getting down to the nitty-gritty. Each one of the movies left is cinema at it’s absolute finest. Today brings us to another of the movies to score big nominations in the last Oscar ceremony. A monumental story and a superb film it absolutely deserves inclusion [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.13
The top ten are fast approaching and today brings me to the second of the animated movies that feature on this list. A little different from most and from a director unfamiliar with animation it was a brave and risky move that paid off, when it had no right to. The 13th best movie of [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.14
Number fourteen brings me to the first of the last batch of Oscar winners. A movie that has moved up and down this list every time I tried to sort this thing out, I absolutely had to have it in here. Right now I’m inclined to place it higher but the list was finalised 2 [...]
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Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.15
14 days till Christmas and we reach my 15th favourite movie of 2009. I was profoundly moved by this film last month, and seeing one of Britain’s finest actors ever re-capture his staggering brilliance was an event worth shouting from the rooftops. Number 15 on my list is…
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