Julia Kukiewicz takes an entertaining look at the ten best Woody Allen films.

2002 saw Peter Jackson tackle the difficult second album with the release of Lord of the Rings part two “The Two Towers”. It was epic in scale, glorious in detail, and densely plotted. It also featured probably the finest battle sequence of the entire trilogy but yet it is widely considered the weakest of the three films.

Jackson’s film wasn’t the only ‘Number 2’ of a franchise to be released in 2002 – far from it. Harry Potter was also tackling part deux with an overlong and over-plotted sequel…

Okay, so we’re into March already and this list of the Top 10 Films of 2009 should have been up in January but, as they say, better late than never.

10. Avatar
Why James Cameron made us wait 12 years for “Avatar” only he knows. Perhaps its taken him that long to spend the money he made on “Titanic”. Anyway, thankfully he’s produced a fine adventure film that further proves he is the finest exponent of the science-fiction action genre. “Avatar” isn’t original, it’s only thought-provoking for teenagers, and its dialogue …

Sam Peckinpah’s notorious Straw Dogs was banned in the UK for many years. Finally released uncut in 2002 audiences could make up there own mind about the film’s hard-hitting and shocking violence that includes a protracted double rape of a young woman. Whatever way you perceive the film it is undoubtedly a thought-provoking and intense piece of work. Daniel Stephens attempts to pick apart the film’s underlying message.

Clint Eastwood may be to many casual filmgoers the gun-toting authoritarian Harry Callahan from the “Dirty Harry” movies, or perhaps the man with no name from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, or more recently Frankie Dunn in “Million Dollar Baby. He’s an iconic Hollywood figure who has embodied some of the world’s most recognisable characters in many of the most prominent films of the last fifty years. But he’s also as accomplished behind the camera as he is in front of it, directing such classics as “Play Misty For Me”, “The …