Thursday 22 December 2016

What to watch December 2016 to Feburary 2017

Week 49: 2nd Dec
  • Bleed For This
  • Moana
  • Sully

Week 50: 9th Dec
  • Office Christmas Party
  • Birth of a Nation
  • Snowden
Week 51: 16th Dec
  • Star Wars: Rogue One

Week 52: 23rd Dec
  • Passengers

Week 53: 30th Dec
  • Collateral Beauty 
  • Monster Trucks
  • Why Him?
Week 1: 6th Jan
  • Assassins Creed
  • A Monster Calls
  • Silence
Week 2: 13th Jan
  • The Bye Bye Man
  • La La Land
  • Live By Night
  • Manchester By the Sea
  • Underworld: Blood Wars
Week 3: 20th Jan
  • Jackie
  • Lion
  • Split
Week 4: 27th Jan
  • Denial
  • Hacksaw Ridge
  • Sing
  • T2 Trainspotting
Week 5: 3rd Feb
  • Loving
  • Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Week 6: 10th Feb
  • 20th Century Women
  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
  • Fifty Shades Darker
  • The Space Between Us
Week 7: 17th Feb
  • Fences
  • The Founder
  • The Great Wall
  • Hidden Figures
  • John Wick: Chapter 2
Week 8: 24th Feb
  • Moonlight
  • Patriots Day
  • God Particle

Friday 16 September 2016

What to Watch September to December 2016 UK

Starting September

Week 36: 2nd
  • Sausage Party
  • Cafe Society
  • Morgan
  • Brotherhood

Week 37: 9th
  • Ben Hur
  • Don't Breath
  • Captain Fantastic
  • Kubo and The Two Strings
  • Hell or High Water

Week 38: 16th Sept
  • Bridget Jone's Baby
  • Hunt for the Wilder people
  • The Infiltrator
  • Blair Witch

Week 39: 23rd
  • The Girl With All The Gifts
  • The Magnificent Seven

Week 40: 30th
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children
  • Free State of Jones
  • Swiss Army Man

Week 41: 7th Oct
  • The Girl on the Train
  • Blood Farther
  • War on Everyone

Week 42: 14th 
  • Inferno 
  • Stalks

Week 43: 21st
  • Jack Reacher: Never go back
  • Ouiji 2
  • The Queen of Katwe
  • Trolls

Week 44: 28th
  • Dr Strange

Week 45: 4th Nov
  • The Accountant
  • Light Between Oceans 

Week 46: 11th
  • Kevin Hart: What Now?
  • 100 Streets
  • Arrival

Week 47: 18th
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Week 48: 25th
  • Bad Santa 2
  • A United Kingdom

Week 49: 2nd Dec
  • Bleed For This
  • Moana
  • Sully

Week 50: 9th 
  • The Bye Bye Man

Week 51: 16th
  • Star Wars: Rogue One

Week 52: 23rd
  • Passengers

Week 53: 30th 
  • Collateral Beauty 
  • Why Him?

Pushed to 2016: (From US Release)
Assassins Creed (6th Jan)
A Monster Calls (6th Jan)
La La Land (13th Jan)
Live By Night (13th Jan)
Manchester By the Sea (13th Jan)
Birth of a Nation (20th Jan)
Sing (27th Jan)
The Space Between Us (10th Feb)
The Founder (17th Feb)

Wednesday 29 June 2016

What to Watch July to September UK.

Here is your guide to movies released in the UK from July to September of 2016:

Week 25: 24th June
  • Independence Day: Resurgence
  • Secret Life of Pets
Week 26: 1st July
  • Absolutely Fabulous
  • Central Intelligence

Week 27: 8th July
  • Now You See Me 2
  • The Legend of Tarzan 
  • The Neon Demon

Week 28: 15th July
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ice Age: Collision Course
  • Keanu

Week 30: 22 ndJuly
  • The BFG
  • Star Trek Beyond

Week 31: 29th July
  • Finding Dory
  • Jason Bourne

Week 32: 5th August
  • Suicide Squad

Week 33: 12th
  • Nerve
  • Petes Dragon
  • The Shallows
  • Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Week 34: 19th
  • David Brent: Life On The Road
  • Lights Out
  • The Space Between Us

Week 35: 26th
  • Ben-Hur
  • Hell or High Water
  • Mechanic: Resurrection
  • War Dogs

Week 36: 2nd
  • Sausage Party
  • Bad Moms
  • Cafe Society
  • Morgan

Week 37: 9th 
  • Don't Breath
  • Free State of Jones
  • Kubo and The Two Strings

Week 38: 16th
  • Bridget Jone's Baby
  • Hunt for the Wilder people
  • The Infiltrator
  • The Woods

Week 39: 23rd
  • The Girl With All The Gifts
  • The Magnificent Seven

Week 40: 30th
  • Deepwater Horizon
  • Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children

Monday 2 May 2016

What to Watch May-July UK

Here is your guide to movies released in the UK from May to July of 2016:

Week 18: Now - 5 May
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Ratchet and Clank
  • Son of Saul

Week 19: 6 - 12 May
  • I Saw The Light
  • Knight of Cups
  • Bad Neighbours 2


Week 19: 13-19 May
  • Angry Birds
  • Everybody Wants Some
  • Green Room
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot


Week 20: 20-26 May
  • X-Men: Apocalypse

Week 21: 27 May-2 June
  • Alice Through The Looking Glass
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Warcraft: The Beginning
Week 22: 3 - 9 June
  • The Nice Guys
  • Race

Week 23: 10 - 16 June
  • The Boss

Week 24: 17 - 23 June
  • Barbershop 3
  • The Conjuring 2
  • Gods of Egypt
  • Tales of Tales

Week 25: 24 -30 June
  • Independence Day: Resurgence
  • Secret Life of Pets

Week 26: 1-7 July
  • Absolutely Fabulous
  • Central Intelligence

Week 27: 8 - 14 July
  • Now You See Me 2
  • Tarzan 

Week 28: 15 - 21 July
  • Ghostbusters
  • Ice Age: Collision Course

Week 30: 22 - 28 July
  • The BFG
  • Star Trek Beyond

Week 31: 29 July - 4 Aug
  • Finding Dory
  • Jason Bourne

Tuesday 8 March 2016

What to Watch Mar-May UK

Here is your guide to movies released in the uk from March to May of 2016. Although I have already covered march some film releases have changed so here they are again:

Week 10: 4 - 10 mar
New Releases:
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • London Has Fallen
  • Truth
This weekend has passed and non of these have had great reviews but if you like the coen brothers and many homages to early hollywood then Hail, Caesar is the one to go for.

Week 11: 11 - 17 mar
New Releases
  • Divergent: Allegiant
  • Fifty Shades of Black
  • Kung Fu Panda 3
  • The Witch
People rave about the witch, its a thriller set in the celtic middle ages. Kung Fu Panda opened to reviews concurrent with previous kung fu panda movies but the other two are probably utter trash.

Week 12: 18-24 mar
New Releases
  • High-Rise
  • 10 Cloverfield Lane
  • The Boy
  • Risen
  • Rock the Kasbah
10 Cloverfield Lane hopefully is the one to go for this week, the pseudo sequel to 2008's critically acclaimed Cloverfield should be ok, though it is a first time director. High-Rise is a Tom Hiddleston film set in a self contained fully functioning high rise tower and it looks good. The others all opened to poor to ok reviews.

Week 13: 25 -31 mar
New Releases
  • Batman v Superman
  • Zootropolis
A packed weekend but Batman v Superman should be great fun. But Zootropolis or Zootopia as is called everywhere else in the world just opened the highest ever opening weekend for an animated movie in america. And disney's new film is reviewed to be very good at 99% on rotten tomatoes.

Week 14: 1-7 apr
New Releases
  • Eddie The Eagle
This movie looks like great fun, although it opened in america to mediocre reviews, calling it fairly paint by numbers I but still a good fun ride 76% on RT.

Week 15: 8-14 apr
  • Hardcore Henry
  • The Huntsman Winters War
  • Midnight Special
Midnight special was shown at last years sundance film festival and was the talk of the show so hopefully it it the one to see this weekend.

Week 16: 15-21 apr
  • The Jungle Book
Jon Favreau's new film from disney looks great!

Week 17: 22-28 apr
  • Bastille Day
  • Jane Got A Gun
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
  • Miles Ahead
All these movies are probably going to be fine non are a stand out.

Week 18: 29 apr- 5 may
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Ratchet and Clank
  • Son of Saul
Captain America: Civil War will be the biggest film in april so definitely the one to see

Week 19: 6 - 12 may
  • I Saw The Light
  • Knight of Cups
  • Bad Neighbours 2
Bad Neighbours 2 might be good but I would go watch captain america again!

Week 19: 13-19 may
  • Angry Birds
  • Everybody Wants Some
  • Green Room
Angry Birds ! yes this should the one to see ! - not sarcasm

Week 20: 20-26 may
  • X-Men: Apocalypse
It is summer season now so the choices really start to thin out but also get much bigger and better!

Week 21: 27 may-2 june
  • Alice Through The Looking Glass
Well there are always exceptions to the rule I said on last week ... maybe give this a miss, review dependent

Friday 12 February 2016

Your 2014 Movie Marathon

Your Movie marathon order for 2014:

Captain America: The Winter Solder
The Lego Movie
Edge of Tomorrow
The Imitation Game
X-men: Days Of Future Past
The Guest
Nightcrawler
Big Hero 6
Gone Girl
22 Jump Street
Godzilla
Fury
The Fault in Our Stars
Dawn Of the Planet Of the Apes
Whiplash
Guardians of the Galaxy

Your 2015 Movie Marathon List

This list of 2015 movies that I have created to is the very best, and most relevant of 2015 ordered to be a movie marathon should be watched.
Some of the films on this list are not my favorite of the year but are on there to add genre to the list so you get less board. The list is spread out as to not induce depression or a CGI overload.
Movies in Bold are an abridged version of the list.

The Martian
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Room
Mission Impossible 5
What We Do In The Shadows
Ant-Man
Sicario
Inside Out
Brooklyn
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The Revenant
Spy
Ex Machina
Mad Max: Fury Road
Spotlight
Star Wars

Honorable mentions:
Creed
Jurassic World
Furious 7
Steve Jobs
Spectre (If your British)
The Hateful 8
Cinderella
Beasts of No Nation
The Gift
The Big Short

Monday 4 January 2016

My 30 Most Anticipated Movies 2016

My 30 Most Anticipated movies of 2016:
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Doctor Strange
  1. Doctor Strange
  2. Star Wars: Rouge One
  3. Captain America: Civil War
  4. Suicide Squad
  5. Batman v Superman
  6. X-Men Apocalypse
  7. Deadpool
  8. The Jungle Book
  9. Hail, Ceasar
  10. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Then
  11. Finding Dory
  12. The Borne Betrayal
  13. Star Trek Beyond
  14. Assassin's Creed
  15. The BFG
  16. Ghostbusters
  17. Eddie the Eagle
  18. Passengers
  19. Warcraft
  20. John Wick 2
  21. Zootropolis (US title: Zootopia) 
  22. The Secret Life of Pets
  23. The Nice Guys
  24. Triple Nine
  25. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  26. London Has Fallen
  27. La la Land
  28. The Finest Hours
  29. Tarzan
  30. Angry Birds
Honorable mentions
Silence - no UK release date
The Witch - no UK release date
Snowden
Midnight Special
Now You See Me: The Second Act

Sunday 3 January 2016

What to Watch Jan-Mar 2016

Now I know some people go to the cinema every week but what should you watch, Here is your breakdown for the UK Jan to March:
Week 1: 1-7 jan
Nothing is opening because of Star Wars so probably go see that again

Week 2: 8-14 jan
New Releases:
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  • Joy
  • The Danish Girl 
Personally I would go see The Danish Girl, The story of the first ever transsexual, but maybe that is just because I love Alicia Vikander. It is however the better reviewed of the 2.
Joy is the Jenifer Lawrence Oscar contender with Bradley Cooper and director David O Russell, It is however less well reviewed then their previous outings.

Week 3: 15-21 jan
New Releases:
  • Creed
  • Room
  • The Hateful 8
  • The Reverent
This is the most stacked week in here, all of these movies have a good shot at an Oscar nomination.
Creed - The a squeal to Rocky, and a worthy successor.
Room - A heartfelt mother and son story 
The Hateful 8 - The next Quentin Tarantino film, a suspense filled western drama, set like a stage play
The Reverent - The follow up for last years oscar wining director and best picture. Staring Leonardo Dicaprio during the western invasion of north america.

My personal pick is The Hateful 8 especially if you can find a cinema playing it in 70mm. However The Reverent is some peoples favorite film of last year. Creed is great too. But at some point you should see all four.

Week 4: 22-28 jan
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The Hateful 8
New Releases: 
  • Ride Along 2
  • The 5th Wave
  • The Big Short 
The Big short is good fun, enticing and interesting. However I would say watch one of last weeks films.

Week 5: 29 jan - 4 feb
New releases:
  • 13 Hours
  • Dirty Grandpa
  • Spotlight
Spotlight defiantly Spotlight go see Spotlight

Week 6: 5-11 feb
New Releases:
  • Dads Army
  • Goosebumps 
Add your spice of British good fun and go see Dad's Army or Goosbumps is good fun for the whole family.

Week 7: 12-18 feb
New Releases:
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  • Chipmunks 
  • Deadpool
  • Point Break
  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • Zoolander 2
Deadpool should be the film to see, though I do have hopes for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to be good. Steer clear of point break and chipmunks.

Week 8: 19 - 25 feb
New Releases:
  • The Finest Hours
  • Triple 9
Both these films look great, wait for reviews on these. Or just see both?

Week 9: 26 feb - 3 mar
New Releases:
  • Gods of Egypt
  • Grimsby
 Yer watch the one you didn't watch last week. But who knows one of these might be good, I wouldn't hold your breath.

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Week 10: 4 - 10 mar
New Releases:
  • Hail, Caesar!
  • London Has Fallen
  • Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Hail, Ceasar looks great, the next film form the Coen Brothers. But London Has Fallen, the sequal to Olympus has fallen could be ok and the last one ... I would watch anything with Margot Robbie in it, an Afgan war comedy is an interesting film choice.

Week 11: 11 - 17 mar
New Releases
  • Divergent
  • Kung Fu Panda 3 
Well out of the two, Kung Fu Panda.

Week 12: 18-24 mar
New Releases
  • High-Risen
Never heard of it who knows, maybe look back to week 10.

Week 13: 25 -31 mar
New Releases
  • Batman v Superman
  • Zootropolis
End the Winter ... Spring ?( well summer movie season stars in April now so who really knows.) End the Spring movie season with a bang and go see Batman v Superman, it will be great ... probably.
Zootropolis is then next film from Disney animation, a studio that is 3 for 3 since John Lasseter took over.

Saturday 2 January 2016

Was 2015 cinema sexist?

Top 30 box office films this year:
Colours by sex of lead actor (female actors are still actors have you ever heard of a doctoress for example):
Pink - Female
Blue - Male
Orange - Co Sex Lead
^ Is that sexist ... this is already getting ridiculous
This isn't the final box office of the year but whos got time to wait (2/1/16)
  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (predicted spot)
  2. Jurassic World
  3. Furious 7
  4. Avengers: Age of Ultron
  5. Minions
  6. Inside Out
  7. Spectre
  8. Mission: Impossible - Rouge Nation
  9. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
  10. The Martian
  11. Fifty Shade of Grey
  12. Cinderella
  13. Ant-Man
  14. San Andreas
  15. Hotel Transylvania 2
  16. Terminator Genisys
  17. Kingsman: The Secret Service
  18. Home
  19. Mad Max: Fury Road
  20. Taken 3
  21. The Spongebob Movie
  22. Maze Runner
  23. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
  24. Pitch Perfect
  25. Paddington
  26. Pixels
  27. Spy
  28. The Good Dinosaur 
  29. Ted 2
  30. Tomorrowland
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In all three orange cases the female lead is the main lead namely, Ray more then Finn, Furious more then Max and whoever Bryce Dallas Howard's character was over Chris Pratt. The tally comes to:

18 Male lead 
9 Female lead
3 Co-lead

or at the very best
18 Male lead 
12 Female lead

but that is still 2 thirds of films are male lead

Ok now that looks pretty bad, interestingly Terminator Genisys, Mission Impossible and Ant-Man all fail the Benchdel Test:
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man
However I would question how many of these movies would pass the opposite, not sure if Inside Out, Spy, Tomorrowland, Pitch Perfect or Fifty Shades of Grey would for example ( I don't know I haven't checked).

This all looks pretty damming however it could be that that Hollywood might not be sexist but simple a robot, could it be that there is little evidence of female lead films being successful at the box office so they simply aren't made, irrespective of how good the films were and so they will only make male lead films and if they thought that they would make more money only making female leads then they would only do that. But hopefully now that more big budget successful films with female leads are being made ... more will be made.





Some of those films are trash
2 are female lead
6 are male lead 
so that's something ? ...