How many films have you seen in the last 15 years?

Since our Awix has completed 450 film reviews, you might be forgiven if this quiz was a tough one. Let's see how you did in matching the pithy or hilarious quote to the film reviewed.

Here are the answers.

1. The pitch for this movie was probably along the lines of 'Gladiator meets Shakespeare in Love' – it has the martial pomposity of the former and the broad humour of the latter.
   A Knight's Tale
2. The researcher would like to thank the Lord Summerisle and the people of his island off the west coast of Scotland for this privileged insight into their religious practices and for their generous co-operation in the writing of this review.
   The Wicker Man
3. …it's as soppy and cosy as big soppy puppy with extra cosy fluffy puppy hair on it.
   My Big Fat Greek Wedding
4. Suffice to say that before all is done and dusted, there's time for sing-songs, iguana-spotting, the odd duet on violin and cello, grisly ad hoc brain surgery, cunning ruses, heroism, tragedy, and one really and truly shockingly bad pun (and as attentive masochists will know, that's an informed opinion).
   Master and Commander – the Far Side of the World
5. More evidence of the British Film Council's unerring instinct when it comes to investing millions of pounds in complete crap is provided with the release of _____________, which I unhesitatingly award the title of Worst Film I've Seen Since I Started Writing For The Post. It possesses all the wit, charm, and entertainment value of being harpooned in the scrotum.
   Sex Lives of the Potato Men
6. …our toothsome inch-high superspy has gone into semi-retirement as a trainer of other agents and is all set for domestic bliss with his fiancéé…. But then – wouldn't you know it! – one of Tom's trainees gets into trouble and he's sent in to rescue her. This does not go entirely to plan and Tom finds himself on the wrong side of lardy arms dealer Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose main hobby is putting bombs up peoples' noses.
   Mission Impossible 3
7. Friends, I have a confession to make. Mild mannered though I may appear, a terrible monster lurks inside me. I try to control it as best I can because I know the terrible suffering it can create when it runs out of control... but sometimes, no matter how I struggle, events conspire against me; a horrible mist obscures my vision, and I just... feel the urge... to REVIEW! Rarrgh! Awix review!!! Awix reviews everything in sight...!!! ...until the critical ire of the beast is exhausted and I can relax and watch a Milla Jovovich movie without fear of an aneurysm.
   
   Well, as luck would have it, today I found myself watching a film about a man with a similar problem…
   The Incredible Hulk
8. Statham gets a moment of glorious, characteristic nonsense when he beats up two men and jumps out of a window…
   Killer Elite [This question may have been unfair. After all, doesn't Statham do that in every movie?]
9. I Elected An Axe Murderer. (Review title)
   Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
10. Something really odd starts happening to the film at this point, although it has been on the cards since the start. As you can see, Stallone has run out of superannuated 80s action movie heroes to recruit for these movies…
    Expendables 3

We hope you got them all. We also hope Awix will be around to keep us entertained for a long time to come. Reading about movies I have no intention of watching is so much fun…

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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