127 Hours

An indelible physical experience with a bit of spiritual glop ladled onto it to help the bitter medicine go down.

'127 Hours' is as much a character study as a survival thriller, the story of a man who isn’t alienated from the world so much as purposefully disconnected.

Boyle made what we all came to experience retain a sense of horrible surprise. You know Ralston survives, you know he gets the arm off, and yet those final few minutes of the film really truly got me.

You'll laugh, you'll barf, you'll probably be a bit bored in places. But if you can make it through all this you'll find a film that'll probably make your heart skip a beat too.