February 2, 2016

Miss Sloane (2016) **

Political drama starring Jessica Chastain as a hard-boiled lobbyist trying to pass a gun-control legislation.
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Trolls (2016) **

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Hell Or High Water (2016) **

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Star Trek Beyond (2016) **

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Gold (2016) **

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Kubo And The Two Strings (2016) **


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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) **

Meryl Streep plays a very bad singer.
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Doctor Strange (2016) **

An average action movie starring Tilda Swinton and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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Rules Don't Apply (2016) **

Another film about Howard Hughes, but nowhere nearly as good as "Melvin And Howard" or "The Aviator".
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The Lobster (2016) **

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Demolition (2016) **

Jake Gyllenhaal looses his wife and suffers from a nervous breakdown.
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Eye In The Sky (2016) **

Tense drama about a drone mission. Manipulative, but effective.
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The Prison In Twelve Landscapes (2016) **

A film about the prison and its life in the American landscape: from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs.
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Jean Of The Joneses (2016) **

The lives of 25-year-old Jean Jones and her multi-generational, middle-class Jamaican-American family of strong-minded, stubborn yet loving women, come to an arresting stop when an estranged grandfather dies on the doorstep of the family’s brownstone. Tensions rise and old conflicts come to a boil as Jean uncovers the family’s buried secrets.
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Gods Of Egypt (2016) **

Moderately entertaining action movie about Egyptian gods battling it out to control the world. As good a lesson in Egyptian mythology as Disney's "Hecules" was in Greek mythology, but otherwise a routine effort.
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January 1, 2016

Inferno (2016) *

Very disappointing adaptation of Dan Brown's novel.
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Batman Vs Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016) *

The worst Batman movie of all times.
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Hidden Figures (2016) *

The mission of this film: to whitewash NASA's reputation by highlighting the contributions of African-American women, while sweeping those of a certain infamous Nazi scientist under the carpet.
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The Angry Birds Movie (2016) *


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Loving (2016) *

Good cause. Weak movie.
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Arrival (2016) *

Another clone of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Contact".
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The Birth Of A Nation (2016) *

Disappointing film about a slave rebellion.
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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (2016) *

A "Harry Potter" spin-off. Boring mess.
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Suicide Squad (2016) *

Worthless trash masquarading as an action movie.
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Jackie (2016) *

Awful movie about Jackie Kennedy's last days in the White House.
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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)
Asphalte (France)
Brooklyn (Ireland)
Chorus (Canada)
Corbo (Canada)
Les Cowboys (France)
Les Demons (Canada)
Les Deux amis (France)
Dheepan (France)
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)


Top 10 Guilty Pleasures of 2015:

1. "Le Tout Nouveau Testament" (Jaco Van Dormael, Belgium)

2. "The Danish Girl" (Tom Hooper, Focus)

3. "Jupiter Ascending" (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, Warner)

4. "Ex Machina" (Alex Garland, A24)

5. "Arianna" (Carlo Lavagna, Italy)

6. "The Overnight" (Patrick Brice, USA)

7. "Comme un avion" (Bruno Podalydès, France)

8. "La Belle saison" (Catherine Corsini, France)

9. "Eadweard" (Kyle Rideout, Canada)

10. "The Dawns Here Are Quiet" (Renat Davletyarov, Russia)


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:



Other great TV shows:

Banshee: Season 3
BoJack Horseman: Season 2
Downton Abbey: Season 6 (UK)
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)
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