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Roughly a fortnight ago, the world's movie critics began to release their run-downs of what they considered to be the best feature films of 2010. I was not one of these people.

After the New Hollywood movement spent the '60s and '70s trying to culturally liberate us, it feels like we've reverted back to the Dark Ages. Cinema is as bland, idiotic and commercialised now as it was in the 1950s, with producers as clueless to our needs as they were back then. The only difference is producers today don't seem to care.

In the Summer of 1987, James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) graduates from College with his sights set on a road trip across Europe and a place at New York's prestigious Columbia University. However, difficulties arise when James' parents run into money troubles - in place of a once-in-a-lifetime European journey, James must spend his Summer working at Adventureland, a theme park in his home town of Pittsburgh. While there, he befriends his oft-eccentric fellow workers, including the pipe-smoking Joel (Martin Starr), aspiring rock star and maintenance guy Connell (Ryan Reynolds) and the troublesome Em (Kristen Stewart).

Picture the scene: a Parisian gangster, the sharp-suited Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo), is on the run from the French police.

Of all the great American director's work, Munich deserves a re-appraisal as the best Spielberg film ever made. It's an unconventional choice, perhaps, but probably only because it's one of his least-seen pictures. Plus, could a director responsible for so many happy childhood memories and famous for family fare like Jurassic Park, E.T., Close Encounters and Indiana Jones, really be any good at making a bleak, graphically violent, paranoid revenge drama centred on a character faced with an - by the credits - unresolved crisis of faith and identity?

This movie is iconic, and a cult classic among horror film fans. It is directed by Clive Barker the master of the horror novel

Brogan Morris and Karl Benecke are joined by film expert Thomas Bates to discuss what they think are the best comedy films of recent years. Hear the discussion below.

The French New wave or (Nouvelle Vague) came to fruition roughly between the dates (1958 - 1967). It began when a young group of filmmakers, unified in their ideas, came together.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was directed in 1974 by American Tobe Hooper. It is inspired by the true life story of American serial killer Ed Gein.

Listen to part 2 of the discussion here.