Film choice
It’s 1971, and we’re spying on President Richard Nixon in Steven Spielberg’s tremendous Watergate thriller about the media holding a corrupt administration to account. Tom Hanks takes on the role of Ben Bradlee, the editor of The Washington Post, while Meryl Streep is publisher Katharine Graham, whose life on the genteel DC social circuit is worlds away from the newsroom’s clatter.
Sean Connery’s third outing with the Walther PPK is an unapologetic romp focusing on an entertaining plot to steal gold from Fort Knox. Connery very nearly suffered lasting damage during the crotch laser scene; what did he expect? In Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), the film has the very best of Bond villains, goons and girls.
Based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, this gripping film directed by David Fincher includes one of Brad Pitt’s most mesmerising performances. He plays the enigmatic Tyler Durden, who, along with Ed Norton’s nameless insomniac, establishes an anticapitalist network around an underground fight club – the first rule of which is easy to remember. Helena Bonham Carter co-stars.