LOVEFiLM Staff Valentine's Picks

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. They had great chemistry in Romancing the Stone and in War Of The Roses.

Q: The best date movie?

A: Depends on the date but personally if someone put on Big Trouble In Little China I would likely love them forever.

Q: Actor/actress you’d love to take on a date?

A: Jeff Bridges – he’s bound to be funny, he’ll have great stories and he’s one cool Dude.

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: True Lies – Funny, action packed and with a really neat sub-plot about a married couple getting to know each other again – while dodging bullets.

Q: Your favourite film quote about love?

A: Princess Bride, Westley: “This is true love - you think this happens every day?”

Q: First date movie you went on?

First date movie with my wife was The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. Bad idea really because it’s far too long.

Q: The best date movie?

A: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Q: A film you definitely should not watch with your parents?

A: Sexy Beast

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: Lost in Translation

Q: Most depressing romantic movie?

A: Annie Hall. Somebody told me it was a great movie but it was so awful it made me depressed

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn

Q: A film you definitely should not watch with your parents?

The Ugly Truth – I made this mistake thinking it was a Katherine Heigl rom-com along the lines of 27 Dresses. Talk about not knowing where to look!

Q: Actor/actress you’d love to take on a date?

A: Justin Hartley – no one should be allowed to be that good looking!

Q: The most romantic movie?

A: An Affair To Remember

Q: Most depressing romantic movie?

A: City of Angels – so sad!

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Zach Braff and Natalie Portman in Garden State.

Q: The best movie kiss?

A: Jamal and Latika, at the end of Slumdog Millionaire.

Q: The best date movie?

A: Knocked Up. A pleasant new take on the classic ‘opposites attract’ rom-com.

Q: The most romantic movie?

A: Stranger Than Fiction – Slightly odd premise, but really works. Will Ferrell, playing a slightly different character for once, is fantastic.

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: Anchorman – Good way to show my date that “I’m kind of a big deal.”

Q: First date movie you went on?

A:Payback. A rubbish Mel Gibson movie and a rubbish date too.

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio

Q: The best movie kiss?

A: Clueless – Alicia Silverstone and Paul Rudd

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: Inception

Q: Your favourite film quote about love?

A: "The greatest thing you’ll ever learn…" (Moulin Rouge)

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: As much as I hate Friends, it has to be Vince Vaughn & Jennifer Aniston in The Break-Up. What a great temper she has.

Q: The best date movie?

A: 127 Hours? Maybe not. 40 Year Old Virgin - it had me in stitches

Q: A film you definitely should not watch with your parents?

A: Mulholland Drive

Q: Actor/actress you’d love to take on a date??

A: Where to start? Jessica...Thandie... Scarlett...

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: Up

Q: First date movie you went on?

A: Aliens. Sounds weird but I spent a fair chunk of time hiding my face in his shoulder.

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Meg Ryan & Billy Crystal

Q: A film you definitely should not watch with your parents?

A: Last Tango In Paris. The butter scene? Awkward!

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: Donnie Darko will get you talking...

Q: Your favourite film quote about love?

A: "I would rather be a ghost drifting by your side as a condemned soul than enter heaven without you... because of your love, I will never be a lonely spirit" (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: King Kong and Naomi Watts.

Q: The best movie kiss?

A: Christian Bale seducing two prostitutes, whilst checking himself out in the mirror (American Psycho).

Q: The best date movie?

A: True Romance

Q: Actor/actress you’d love to take on a date?

A: Thandie Newton (I think it’s a mutual thing though).

Q: Most depressing romantic movie?

A: The Wrestler

Q: First date movie you went on?

A: It was Liar Liar. We were 12, the relationship lasted about two weeks.

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in Overboard. Best. Couple. Ever.

Q: The best movie kiss?

A: Ryan Gosling & Rachel McAdams in The Notebook. And then they recreated it for the MTV movie awards...

Q: A film you definitely should not watch with your parents?

A: Monster’s Ball. Seriously, don’t do it.

Q: Most depressing romantic movie?

A: Either House of Flying Daggers or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Beautiful filmmaking but absolutely heartbreaking.

Q: Your favourite on-screen couple?

A: Elliot and ET

Q: The best movie kiss?

A: The spaghetti kiss from Disney’s Lady And The Tramp. I saw it when I was little and subsequently tried to emulate it between me and our pet dog Sally.

Q: The best date movie?

A: Best recent one Heartbreaker. Best all time would have to be a rom-com with universal appeal and general-awesomeness… Groundhog Day

Q: A film you definitely should not watch with your parents?

A: I would not want to watch Requiem for a Dream with my mother.

Q: Best alternative date movie?

A: It’s a closely run thing, but Amelie would just pip-it ahead of Little Miss Sunshine with Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind in third