December 12, 2015

Top 10 Films of 2015

1. "Son Of Saul" (Laszlo Nemes, Hungary)

2. "The Hateful Eight" (Quentin Tarantino, USA)

3. "Youth" (Paolo Sorrentino, Italy)

4. "Steve Jobs" (Danny Boyle, USA)

5. "Inside Out" (Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Pixar)

6. "The Big Short" (Adam McKay, USA)

7. "Mad Max: Fury Road" (George Miller, Australia)

8. "Tangerine" (Sean Baker, USA)

9. "Beasts Of No Nation" (Cary Joji Fukunaga, USA)

10. "Theeb" (Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan)


Other great films:

11 minut (Poland)
Aferim (Romania)
L'Affaire SK1 (France)
Amy (UK)
Arianna (Italy)
Asphalte (France)
Brooklyn (Ireland)
Chorus (Canada)
Corbo (Canada)
Les Cowboys (France)
Les Demons (Canada)
Les Deux amis (France)
Dheepan (France)
Eadweard (Canada)
L'Hermine (France)
Love (France)
Marguerite (France)
Le Mirage (Canada)
Mon roi (France)
Much Loved (Morocco)
Mustang (Turkey)
Noir (Canada)
Las Plantas (Chile) 
Purpose Of Reunion (South Korea)
Les Revoltes (France)
Room (Canada)
Strangerland (Australia)
Taxi Tehran (Iran)
Utopians (Hong Kong)
Victoria (Germany)
Ville-Marie (Canada)
The Wanted 18 (Palestine)
Winter On Fire (Ukraine)
Zoom (Canada)

Short Top 3:

1. "Ave Maria" (Basil Khalil, Palestine)

2. "Shok" (Jamie Donoughue, Kosovo)

3. "Remerciements de Jean-Luc Godard à son Prix d'honneur du cinéma suisse" (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland)


Other great shorts:

Ahalya (India)
Body Team 12
Metro (Canada)
Skin (UK)
Stutterer (UK)

Top 3 Music Videos:

1. "Hello" (Xavier Dolan, Adele)

2. "Bad Blood" (Joseph Kahn, Taylor Swift)

3. "Borders" (M.I.A., M.I.A.)


Other great music videos:


Top Commercial:

"Clash Of Clans: Revenge" (Tom Kuntz, Supercell)


Other great commercials:

All-Natural Burger
Anna Kendrick In Super Bowl Commercial

TV Top 5:

1. "Game Of Thrones: Season 5" (HBO)



4. "Mr Robot: Season 1" (USA)



Other great TV shows:

The Americans: Season 3
BoJack Horseman: Season 2
Downton Abbey: Season 6 (UK)
Fargo: Season 2
Fear The Walking Dead: Season 1
The Jinx
Cartoon Top 3:

1. "World Of Tomorrow" (Don Hertzfeldt, USA)

2. "Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe" (Mike Thurmeier, Galen T. Chu, USA)

3. "Prologue" (Richard Williams, UK)


Other great cartoons:

Bacon And God's Wrath (Canada)
Bear Story (Chile)
The Ballad Of Immortal Joe (Canada)
Frozen Fever
Sonambulo (Canada)
We Can't Live Without Cosmos (Russia)

Top VR film:

"Help" (Justin Lin, Google Spotlight)

 
Other great VR films:

Henry
Jurassic World: Apatosaurus

Top Stand-Up Comedy Show:

Backcountry (Canada)
Xenia (Greece)

Weak shorts:

Bleu Tonnerre (Canada)
Chau Beyond The Lines (Vietnam)
Day One
Roberta (Canada)
She Stoops To Conquer (Canada)
Star (Canada)
Viaduct (Canada)
World Famous Gopher Hole Museum (Canada)

Weak cartoons:

Rebel (Canada)
Sanjay's Super Team

Weak TV shows:

Top Musical of 2015

"Straight Outta Compton" (F. Gary Gray, Universal)


November 11, 2015

Son Of Saul (2015) *****

October 10, 2015

Theeb (2015) ****

Excellent Jordanian film about a little boy caught in a bloody conflict.

Brooklyn (2015) ****

Touching film about a young woman torn between her native Ireland and her new life in America.

Aferim (2015) ****

Tangerine (2015) ****

Victoria (2015) ****

Beasts Of No Nation (2015) ****

Straight Outta Compton (2015) ****

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) ****

The Big Short (2015) ****

Inside Out (2015) ****

Youth (2015) ****

The Hateful Eight (2015) ****

Steve Jobs (2015) ****


Superlative drama about the founder of Apple.

Spotlight (2015) ****

Excellent newspaper drama about child abuse by Boston priests.

September 9, 2015

Sicario (2015) ***

"Traffic" meets "No Country For Old Men" meets "Heli" meets "Zero Dark Thirty" meets "Breaking Bad" in this drug dealers-meet-SWAT team-meet-CIA drama set on the Mexican border.

The Overnight (2015) ***

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) ***

Love And Mercy (2015) ***

Heaven Knows What (2015) ***

Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015) ***

Ex Machina (2015) ***

Dora Or The Sexual Neuroses Of Our Parents (2015) ***