George Bass

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Das Experiment

Less known but just as gripping as the bunker-set Downfall (2004), Hirschbiegel's debut shows what happens when blokes team up and wear the same uniform. As a security guard, I can assure you we're more like Gläser than Berus.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

The only life advice worth following: be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes. Still crossing fingers the film's future becomes a reality (except with Jim Bob and Fruitbat of Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine).

Kenny

The world needs more Kennys (film and person).

The Last Wave

Ghost story? Climate change parable? Disaster movie? Weir's third film is all of the above, and has an ending worthy of Don't Look Up (2021).

Heat

Meticulous and endlessly re-watchable, Mann's epic has the rare honour of featuring both in critics' lists like these and police gunfight training classes.

Get Carter

The greatest gangster movie ever made (that's secretly a whodunnit).

Back to the Future

Like RoboCop two years later, this is a "Swiss watch" movie: not one second wasted. Only in the '80s could a family film that skirts around incest and features time travel top the box office.

Black Dynamite

A passion project that shows through every grainy, ass-whoopin' frame. Quite possibly the funniest film of all time (sorry Withnail).

The Karate Kid

I defy anyone to not watch this film whenever it airs on TV even if you own it. The fact that the characters could be credibly resurrected 34 years later in Cobra Kai is proof of how relevant the story has stayed.

Lola rennt

Spoke to the cast once. A quote cut from the published interview: "For the casino scene, I screamed so loud that the extras around me were given earplugs. The crew had to bring me camomile tea between takes."