Pick of the flicks

IT’S one of the oldest kickstarters of a dull dinner party: ‘What’s your favourite film, and why?’

Pick of the flicks

As the Fastnet Film Festival swings into action tomorrow, we took the chance to rewind our thoughts to the films that inspired in our youth.

Actor Chris O’Dowd’s favourite is Dirty Dancing. “I think I saw the movie, for the first time, when I was around five. I grew up with three older sisters, who, first of all, forced me to watch it, and later I enjoyed watching it with them. They brought me over to the dark side of chick-flick-dom,” he said. “If you can’t watch a girl in a beautiful lake jump into a man’s outstretched hands and understand romance, then I just don’t get you.”

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