This will be news to precisely no one, but Simon Pegg is a man of impeccable taste. So why are we telling you this now? Because the writer, producer and star of Mission: Impossible – Fallout has chosen his 10 favourite films of the past decade and it’s an impressively eclectic list, taking in cerebral sci-fi, a foreign language comedy and zombies.
His picks are arranged in no particular order, so we’ve put them chronologically (trivia sidenote: January 2015 was a killer month for him, with three of the ten films coming out in the UK within a three-week period). Although he does call Ex Machina “one of my favourite films ever”, so perhaps we can make that his unofficial number one.
District 9
Inception
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Under The Skin
Birdman
Whiplash
Ex Machina
Train To Busan
Toni Erdmann
The Handmaiden
The list comes as Apple celebrates 10 years of iTunes Movies, with Andy Serkis and Matthew Vaughn also revealing their Top 10s. There are a few films that crop up twice — Serkis also chose Birdman and Whiplash, while Vaughn went for The Grand Budapest Hotel, District 9 and Inception.
Their full lists are below.
Andy Serkis:
Animal Kingdom
Birdman
Hunt For The Wilderpeople
Inglourious Basterds
The Master
Mustang
Tropic Thunder
Up
Whiplash
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Matthew Vaughn:
The Dark Knight
District 9
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Guardians Of The Galaxy
The Hangover
Inception
The King’s Speech
Lincoln
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Zero Dark Thirty
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