If you've been following this column, you've probably realised that I'll watch almost anything with sprocket-holes or tracking lines.

I've long-since abandoned any idea of seeing everything - since it's impossible to keep up with the flow of movies coming out, let alone catch up with every single obscurity from the past.

I still think of myself as a completist in my fields of special interest, but I no longer lose any sleep because of the alarming gaps in my knowledge of the films of Steven Seagal or Sergei Parajanov.

Besides mainstream Hollywood and arthouse cinema, I'm generally willing and even interested in TV movies, animation, exploitation, documentary, adult, children's, indie, skid-row, silent, archive, underground, and any other branch of the cinema.

I'll watch, for pleasure, films other people would have to be paid to see - last night I saw "The Driller Killer" again on DVD and listened to the Abel Ferrara commentary for the second time.

But I have to draw the line somewhere. Below is a list of films I not only haven't seen but have avoided.

In some cases, I let the magazine reviews editors know that sending me to see them might well be a resignation issue. In others, I've had easy access to titles but never found two hours of my life I could spare on them. And some just give off that you'd-hate-this vibe...

1 "The Next Best Thing" aka the one where Madonna has Rupert Everett's baby. Stars I don't want to see individually, let alone together, in a genre I despise (rich people having babies), directed by someone talented (John Schlesinger) well off his patch.

2 "Keeping the Faith". Directed by and starring the talented Edward Norton (as the priest) and with Ben Stiller (whose "The Cable Guy" I think is underrated) as the rabbi, and people I respect have told me it's good. But the trailer and the premise just make my insides tauten into a knot of hatred.

3 "Faces of Death". I've seen 99% of the films once listed as video nasties, and I even once borrowed a cassette of this compilation documentary of real-death deaths from around the world. It sat on a pile of to-be-viewed videos for months until I realised that, given a choice between this and something else, something else would always get watched. I feel guilty about not seeing "Shoah", but I've never had a twinge about this or its many sequels, which I also haven't seen.

4 "Free Willy", or any of the sequels.

5 "Driving Miss Daisy" There was a whole streak (broken by "Platoon") when I could always predict which film would win the Best Picture Oscar because it was the nominee I least wanted to see. Cute racist old lady, played by Jessica Tandy with a Southern accent, direction from the horribly overrated (except for "Black Robe") Bruce Beresford, odour of life-affirming positivism. Admittedly, it's the film on this list I'm most likely to cave in and watch (after grumbling, I quite liked "Terms of Endearment"). But for the moment I'll make do with that parody in "Stay Tuned", "Driving Over Miss Daisy".

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