I am not a fan of winter. I spend my days shuffling around the house in my bathrobe doing my best Howard Hughes impersonation waiting for spring to arrive. My winter activities are reduced to advanced hibernation, hiding from people as much as possible, eating lots of carbs and staring at the television until my mind is adequately numbed.

Here then are my top choices for temporarily melting a frozen winter-hating heart:

1. Almost anything involving Will Ferrell, especially Anchorman. I love love love Will Ferrell. He is shameless and I love him for that. I am proud to let my low brow humour flag fly.

2. Zoolander- Cheap laughs of the immature variety. (See Will Ferrell above.)

3. This is Spinal Tap, a classic.

4. Anything by Wes Anderson for the soundtracks alone. Where else can I hear Portuguese versions of David Bowie songs.

5. An Officer and a Gentleman - because a young Richard Gere can warm the loins and I never get tired of the final scene when he whisks Debra Winger away from her boring factory job and she gets to wear his hat. Way to go Paula!

6. Now Voyager with Betty Davis. I love how she is a frumpy downtrodden old maid with unkempt eyebrows, has a breakdown, gets a make over at the sanatorium and comes back with groomed brows, goes on a cruise and finds forbidden and tragic love. Bette Davis is the best.

7. Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwick, another feisty dame who has my utmost love and respect. Sometimes despite everything you have to give in and cry your eyes out and this heart breaker is guaranteed to deliver.

8. Team America, because I am a fourteen year old boy trapped in a woman’s body.

9. Flight of the Conchords. Not a movie, but a brilliant TV show, guaranteed to delight with its giddy goofiness.

10. Dr. Zhivago, because I could swim in Omar Sharif’s liquidy eyes forever and regardless of how cold and bleak the winter gets it’ll never look as cold and bleak as Russia during the Bolshevik revolution.

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