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 ? ...