Gary Collinson's Desert Island Collection

Continuing our Desert Island Collection feature here at FlickeringMyth, Gary Collinson presents his choices...


MOVIES

1) Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back – the peak of the Saga
2) Psycho – the Master’s masterpiece
3) Commando – the ultimate macho action experience
4) Unforgiven – Clint redefines the Western
5) The Lost Boys – the 80s are still cool
6) The Shining – Jack Nicholson’s finest performance
7) The Terminator – James Cameron makes Arnold a star
8) Raiders of the Lost Ark – one of the greatest action adventures
9) To Kill a Mockingbird – Gregory Peck is Atticus Finch
10) The Transformers: The Movie – one shall stand, one shall fall

TELEVISION

1) The World at War – the greatest documentary series of all time
2) Band of Brothers – ‘like Saving Private Ryan, but better’
3) The Shield – police procedural, gangland-style
4) Batman: The Animated Series – the pinnacle of the DC Universe
5) Blackadder Goes Forth – humour from the hell of the trenches
6) The Beatles Anthology – the definitive story of the Fab Four
7) Married… with Children – the dysfunctional American family
8) The Simpsons – the other dysfunctional American family
9) Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends – American subcultures exposed
10) Tribe – Bruce Parry ventures to the far corners of the world

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Gary Collinson