Category: Film

From modern day flops to the classics you missed.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Six films, more money than I count and a running time that goes over 1000 minutes (that’s not even talking about the extended editions) and Peter Jackson’s time in Middle Earth comes to an end with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies.  It has been one of cinema’s most ambitious projects and has seen the wonderful world that Tolkin created enter the mainstream in a way it had never done before.  However, there is no denying that there are still question marks over The Hobbit.  Particularly, as to whether it ever needed to be three films at all.

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

It is Oscar season, meaning every second film hitting cinemas has its eyes on one of those shiny little men.  One of this years front contenders comes in the form of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Michael Keaton in a role that in many ways mirrors his real life career.

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Top Ten Films of the Year: Number 10 to Number 6

The end of the year is neigh and with the likes of Birdman and Whiplash not making their way to UK cinemas until next year, I think it is a safe time to start my top ten movies of the year.  As usual, this is completely subjective and I’m not even claiming the movies that make this list are the best ones, but rather the ones I enjoyed the most.  I also obviously didn’t see every single film released this year.    Basically, please don’t waste your time telling me I’m wrong.

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St Vincent

If there is one thing that can always be said about Bill Murray films, it is that they contain Bill Murray, a fact that instantly improves them by around 50%.  His most recent role, as the Vincent in Theodore Melfi’s St Vincent, see’s him being particularly wonderfully Bill Murray, as the gruff, prone to a drink elderly gentlemen, who takes up the role of father figure to the young protagonist Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher).

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Paddington

The film industry is not against destroying childhood loves.  This years Postman Pat Movie, saw Pat replaced by an army of Terminators and the Transformers series is so far removed from its toy based past, that it may as well be a different concept entirely.  Therefore, it is no surprise that a few people were a bit worried about Paddington.  Paddington Bear has played a part in nearly every British child’s life at some point and the idea of a soulless Hollywood take on the marmalade loving fellow is heartbreaking.  Thankfully, this is far from that.

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Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

It has become Hollywood’s signature move to split the final film of a franchise into two parts.  It has become as predictable as a Hulk Hogan hulk up and frankly, it has begun to wear a bit thin.  However, it is still no surprise that The Hunger Games part 3, better known as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, is actually the first half of the final book in The Hunger Games series.  Unfortunately, it is also widely considered the weakest book in the trilogy, making the decision to split it into two seem even more baffling.

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What We Do In The Shadows

To say vampires have been popular in recent years is a bit of an understatement.  The success of franchises like Twilight, have seen our pointy toothed friends reappear on the big screen with a vengeance, although many would argue they lack the bite of old.  Of course, cinema has always faced these trends, whether it be zombies, werewolves or vampires, it always feels like one mythical beastie is on the top of the pile.  However, vampires seem to have been a bit under served in their current ascent of the mountain.  While I don’t harbour the dislike for Twilight that many others have, there is no denying Edward Cullen was hardly scary.  They have also yet to be spoofed in a successful way.  While zombies have been parodied so well that the RomZomCom is a recognised genre, vampires have seen themselves taken the mick out of in incredibly unimaginative ways, that were more likely to induce groans than laughter.  That is until What We Do in the Shadows came along.

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Mr Turner

Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner tells the story, perhaps unsurprisingly, of the life and career of J.M.W. Turner, the British painter, whom many consider as the man who elevated landscape painting to previously unseen heights.  I should say from the outset that I have little knowledge of Turner, I could not tell you of his life and only know the most basic of facts about his body of work.  However, I still went along to the film with great expectations.  It has been critically praised and Timothy Spall took the prize for Best Actor at Cannes.

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