Sometimes in films, there is a scene that doesn't fit, but there is a reason for it being in there - usually to explain or foreshadow something that will occur later in the film.
When making a film, directors tend to stick to what they know, Quentin Tarantino throws in as much blood and feet as possible, while Terrance Malik makes sprawling, philosophical mumbo-jumbo.
We're over halfway through the year, but the high-quality films are still rolling in, with the second half of the year going to feature some incredibly cinema releases.
Here are ten films that could easily be amongst the candidates for the best film of the year...
These days book adaptations are being made left, right and centre. A whole Young Adult Fiction genre has sprung up in the last decade and films series like Insurgent, Hunger Games and Twilight are making millions of dollars at the box office.
Sometimes, when the role requires it, actors have to spend hours in the make up chair, getting prosthetics glued onto their skin, being daubed and prodded with make up brushes and even, just maybe, donning a fatsuit.
On the big screen, we've seen people careering through time, going back to into the past to interact with their relatives and try and make loads of money for their future selves and going into a inaccurate and usually dystopian future.
But what is the best vessel for a time machine? A DeLoreon? A psychedelic-coloured VW Beetle? A hot tub? Let's find out...
The amount of teen fiction and young adult novels turned into films in recent years is reaching superhero-levels of cinema releases.
Some have turned themselves into landmark film moments and left the books trailing in their wake, others have left fans wishing they'd never made the big screen conversion.
When it comes to most classic films, you simply can't imagine anyone else but that actor playing the characters.
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, Harrison Ford as Han Solo or Keanu Reeves as Neo seem like those actors were in mind when the film was being thought up, yet those weren't the first choices for those roles.
