I was at the cinema watching Live By Night, and after what seemed like several days emerged blinking into the sunlight, feeling let down and deflated. Then I saw the Oscar nominations and felt let down and deflated. Oscar nomination day means the usual wailing about expected shoo-ins being left out, or under appreciated indies being ignored… Those Oscar Nominations From B-Z Read More
2016 – The Year We Didn’t Know If A “Best Of” Film List Was Numerical or Alphabetical
Ah yes, Arrival. Anyway I can assure you this is an in-order, 1st to 10th best, numerical list which by chance happens to be almost… ALMOST, alphabetical. 1. Arrival What “best of” film list this end-of-year won’t have Arrival at the top? Maybe one written by Cillian Murphy. It’s really hard to talk about Arrival without spoiler-ing – so… 2016 – The Year We Didn’t Know If A “Best Of” Film List Was Numerical or Alphabetical Read More
Hell or High Water 4.5 stars
Hell or High Water is a film about a criminal (Ben Foster) who commits the ultimate offence of putting his gorgeous and much nicer brother (Chris Pine – we know he’s nice as he’s so handsome) in a ski mask for several minutes of this film. Okay actually it’s about a career criminal brother and his… Hell or High Water Read More