Nov-Dec-Jan-Feb Calendar

2nd Nov
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

9th Nov
Widows
Outlaw King (Netflix)
The Grinch

16th Nov
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

23rd Nov
Robin Hood
The Girl In the Spiders Web
Assassination Nation

30th Nov
Creed 2
Ralph Breaks the Internet

7th Dec
Sorry To Bother You
The Old Man and The Gun
White Boy Rick

14th Dec
Aquaman
Mortal Engines
The house that Jack Built

21st Dec
Mary Poppins Returns
Papillion

28th Dec
Bumblebee
Holmes and Watson

4th Jan
The Favourite
Welcome to Marwen

11th Jan
Colette
Stan and Ollie
The Front Runner
The Upside

18th Jan
Beautiful Boy
Glass
Mary Queen of Scots

25th Jan
Vice

1st Feb
A Private War
Can You Ever Forgive Me
Escape Room
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

8th Feb
Alita: Battle Angel
Boy Erased
If Beale Street Could Talk
On The Basis Of Sex
The Lego Movie 2

15th Feb
The Kid Who Would be King
The Queens Corgi

22nd Feb

July-Aug-Sept-Oct 2018 UK Movie Calendar

Week 27: 6th July

• The First Purge
• Mary Shelly
• Swimming with Men
• Terminal

Week 28: 13th July

• Skyscraper
• Incredibles 2

Week 29: 20th July

• Escape Plan 2
• Hotel Artemis
• Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! 

Week 30: 27th July

• Mission Impossible: Fallout
• Hotel Transylvania 3

Week 31: 3rd August

• Ant-Man and The Wasp
• Teen Titans Go! To The Movies

Week 32: 10th August

• The Meg
• Unfriended: The Dark Web

Week 33: 17th August

• Christopher Robin
• The Equalizer 2

Week 34: 24th August

• The Spy Who Dumped Me
• Alpha
• Blackkklansman
• Slenderman

Week 35: 31st August

• The Happytime Murders
• Upgrade

Week 36: 7th September

• The Nun
• The SeaGull

Week 37: 14th September

• The Predator
• King of Thieves

Week 38: 21st September

• Mile 22
• Peppermint

Week 39: 28th September

• Night School

Week 40: 5th October

• A Star is Born
• Jonny English Strikes Again
• Venom

Week 41: 12th October

• First Man
• Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
• Smallfoot

Week 42: 19th October

• Halloween
• Mowgli

Week 43: 26th October

• Bohemian Rapsody

Apr-May-Jun 2018 UK Movie Calendar

Week 12: 23rd Mar

• Pacific Rim Uprising
• A Wrinkle In Time
• Proud Mary
• Unsane

Week 13: 30th Mar

• Ready Player One
• Isle Of Dogs
• Midnight Sun

Week 14: 6th April

• A Quiet Place
• Death Wish
• Ghost Stories
• I Kill Giants
• Love, Simon
• Thoroughbreds
• Wonderstruck

Week 15: 13th April

• Rampage
• Truth or Dare

Week 16: 20th April

• Every Day
• The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society
• The Leisure Seeker

Week 17: 27th April

• Avengers: Infinity War

Week 18: 4th May

• Mary And The Witch's Flower
• The Strangers: Prey at Night
• Tully

Week 19: 11th May

• Entebbe
• How To Talk To Girls At Parties
• Sherlock Gnomes
• Life Of The Party

Week 20: 18th May

• Deadpool 2
• On Chesil Beach
• Submergence

Week 21: 25th May

• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• The Breadwinner
• Show Dogs

Week 22: 1st June

• Adrift
• Book Club

Week 23: 8th June

• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• McQueen

Week 24: 15th June

• The Bookshop
• Super Troopers 2

Week 25: 22nd June

• Ocean's 8

Week 26: 29th June

• Sicario 2: Soldado
• Zoo

Jan-Feb-Mar 2018 UK Movie Calendar

Week 1: 5th Jan

• All The Money in The World 
• Mollys Game
• Renegades 

Week 2: 12th Jan

• Darkest Hour 
• Insidious: The Last Key 
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 

Week 3: 19th Jan

• Coco 
• The Commuter 
• The Post 

Week 4: 26th Jan

• Early Man 
• Downsizing 
• White Boy Rick 
• 12 Strong
• Last Flag Flying

Week 5: 2nd Feb

• Phantom Thread
• Winchester

Week 6: 9th Feb

• Fifty Shades Freed
• The 15:17 to Paris
• The Mercy
• Cloverfield: The God Particle

Week 7: 16th Feb

• Black Panther
• The Shape of Water
• Farther Figures
• Lady Bird

Week 8: 23rd Feb

• I, Tonya
• Annihilation 
• Dark River
• Finding Your Feet

Week 9: 2nd Mar

• Red Sparrow

Week 10: 9th Mar

• Alpha
• Thoroughbreads 

Week 11: 16th Mar

• Peter Rabbit
• Mary Magdalene
• Tomb raider

Week 12: 23rd Mar

• Pacific Rim Uprising
• Proud Mary

Week 13:

• Ready Player One
• Isle Of Dogs

Nov-Dec-Jan 2017/8 Movie Calendar

Week 44: 27th Oct

• Thor: Ragnarok 
• Breath 

Week 45: 3rd Nov

• A Bad Moms Christmas 
• Murder on The Orient Express 
• Killing of a Sacred Deer 

Week 46: 10th Nov

• Paddington 2 
• Professor Marston and The Wonder Woman 
• Only The Brave 

Week 47: 17th Nov

• Justice League 
• Ingrid Goes West 
• Mudbound (Netflix) 

Week 48: 24th Nov

• Battle of The Sexes 
• Suburbicon 

Week 49: 1st Dec

• The Disaster Artist 
• The Man Who Invented Christmas 
• Wonder (Wonderstruck) 

Week 50: 8th Dec

• Stronger 

Week 51: 15th Dec

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi 

Week 52: 22nd Dec

• Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle 
• Pitch Perfect 3 

Week 53: 29th Dec

• Mollys Game 

Week 1: 5th Jan

• The Greatest Showman 
• All The Money in The World 
• The Current War 

Week 2: 12th Jan

• Darkest Hour 
• Insidious: The Last Chapter 
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri 

Week 3: 19th Jan

• Coco 
• Downsizing 
• The Commuter 
• The Post 

Week 4: 26th Jan

• Early Man 
• White Boy Rick 

Sept-Nov UK Movie Calander

Week 35: 1st Sept

• The Limehouse Golem

Week 36: 8th Sept

• IT
• Wind River

Week 37: 15th Sept

• American Assassin
• Mother!
• Victoria and Abdul

Week 38: 22nd Sept

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle
• Borg vs MacEnroe

Week 39: 29th Sept

• Flatliners
• Home Again
• Goodbye Christopher Robin

Week 40: 6th Oct

• Bladerunner 2049
• The Glass Castle
• The Mountain Between Us

Week 42: 13th Oct

• The Lego Ninjago Movie
• The Snowman

Week 43: 20th Oct

• Geostorm
• Jungle
• The Death of Stalin

Week 44: 27th Oct

• Thor: Ragnarok
• Breath

Week 45: 3rd Nov

• A Bad Moms Christmas
• Murder on The Orient Express

Week 46: 10th Nov

• Paddington 2
• Professor Marston and The Wonder Woman

Week 47: 17th Nov

• Justice League

Week 48: 24th Nov

• Battle of The Sexes
• Suburbicon

July - Sept UK Movie Calander

Week 27: 7th July

• Spiderman: Homecoming
• It Comes At Night

Week 28: 14th July

• War For The Planet Of The Apes
• Cars 3
• The Beguiled

Week 29: 21st July

• Dunkirk

Week 30: 28th July

• Captain Underpants
• 47 Meters Down

Week 31: 4th

• Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets
• The Emoji Movie

Week 32: 11th

• Atomic Blonde
• Annabelle: Creation
• Nut Job 2

Week 33: 18th

• The Dark Tower
• The Hitman's Bodyguard
• Whos Your Daddy?

Week 34: 25th

• Detroit
• American Made
• Logan Lucky
• Rough Night

Week 35: 1st

Week 36: 8th

• IT

Week 37: 15th

• American Assassin

Week 38: 22nd

• Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Week 39: 29th

• Flatliners
• Home Again

What To Watch May to July 2017

Week 18: 5th May

• A Dogs Purpose
• Mindhorn

Week 19: 12th May

• Alien: Covenant

Week 20: 19th May

• Snatched
• King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword
• Colossal

Week 21: 26th May

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
• Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

Week 22: 2nd June

• Baywatch
• Wonder Woman

Week 23: 9th June

• The Mummy

Week 24: 16th June

• Churchill

Week 25: 23rd June

• The Book of Henry
• Transformers: The Last Knight

Week 26: 30th June 

• Baby Driver
• Despicable Me 3

Week 27: 7th July

• Spiderman: Homecoming

Week 28: 14th July

• Cars 3
• The Beguiled

Week 29: 21st July

• Dunkirk

Week 30: 28th July

• Captain Underpants

What to Watch March 2017 to May 2017

Week 9: 3rd March

• Logan
• A cure for wellness
• Fist Fight

Week 10: 10th March

• Kong Skull Island
• The Love Witch

Week 11: 17th March

• Beauty and the Beast
• Get Out

Week 12: 24th March

• CHiPs
• Life
• Power Rangers
• The Lost City of Z

Week 13: 31st March

• Free Fire
• Ghost in the Shell

Week 14: 7th April

• Athermath
• The Boss Baby
• Going in Style
• Table 19
• Raw

Week 15: 14th April

• Fast and Furious 8
• The Handmaiden

Week 16: 21st April

• Colossal
• Rules don't apply
• The Belko Experiment
• Their Finest
• Unforgettable

Week 17: 28th April

• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2

Week 18: 5th May

• A Dogs Purpose
• The Zookeepers Wife

Week 19: 12th May

• Alien: Covenant
• King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword

Week 20: 19th May

• Snatched

Week 21: 26th May

• Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
• Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul

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

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)

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

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

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

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

My 30 Most Anticipated Movies 2016

My 30 Most Anticipated movies of 2016:

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

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:

• 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

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:

• 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.

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.

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

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 ? ...

Box Office and Oscar Predictions

Box office estimate for 2016:
Estimates of box office for 2016 comment when you inevitably disagree, and of course box office varies depending on how good the films are, when they come out, how much the studio advertises it and more movies may be in 2016 that haven't been announced and some of these movies will be pushed back to later years or cancelled all together.

Estimate Rank	Name	Previous or Similar Earnings	Estimate Earnings K	Estimate Earnings T	Info/Synopsis
1	Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice	MOS:$668, DNR:$1,085	$1,200.00	$1,150.00
2	Captain America: Civil War	WS:$715, AOU:$1,401	$1,200.00	$1,200.00
3	Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them	HPDHpt2:$1,342	$1,000	$900
4	Star Wars: Rogue One	Ep3:$849	$1,000	$900
5	Finding Dory	FN:$937, TS3: $1,063, MU: $744	$1,000	$800
6	Ice Age: Collision Course	IACD:$877	$900	$700
7	X-Men Apocalypse	DOFP:$748	$800	$700
8	Alice Through the Looking Glass	AIWL:$1,025	$800	$500
9	The Jungle Book	C:$542, M:$758	$700
10	Independence Day: Resurgence	ID:$817	$600
11	Kung Fu Panda 3	KFP2:$666	$600
12	Moana	F:$1,274	$600
13	Zootopia	BH6:$658, WIR:$471	$600
14	The Secret Life of Pets	M:$1,004, DM:$543	$600
15	Suicide Squad	DNR:$1,085	$600
16	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Half Shell	TMNT:$485	$500
17	The Bourne Betrayal	BU:$443	$500
18	Star Trek Beyond	STID:$467	$500
19	Doctor Strange	AM:$518, AOU:$1,401	$400
20	Gambit	DOFP:$748, TW:$415	$400
21	Ghostbusters	G:$295	$400
22	Deadpool	Kingsman:$407	$400
23	Now You See Me: The Second Act	NYSM:$352	$400
24	Warcraft	HBotFA:$956	$400
25	Pete's Dragon	C:$542	$400
26	The BFG	C:$542, M:$758	$400		Spielberg
27	Tarzan	C:$542, M:$758	$400
28	Big Trouble in Little China	SA:$469, H:$243	$400
29	The 5th wave	WorldWZ:$540	$300
30	Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur	RH(2010):$322	$300
31	Book of Henry		$300
32	Central Intelligence	SA:$469, H:$243	$300
33	Bad Neighbors 2	N:$268	$300
34	The Huntsman	SWatH:$397	$300
35	Allegiant Part 1	I:$295	$300
36	Angry Birds	Lego:$469 Rio$485	$300
37	The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist	tC:$318	$300
38	Collateral Beauty		$300		Will smith, Rooney Mara
39	Hail, Caesar	Argo: $232	$200
40	London has Fallen	OHF:$161	$200
41	Passengers	tM:$573, Grav:$723	$200
42	Assassin's Creed	Hitman(2015):$82	$200
43	Trolls	Lego:$469	$200
44	Sausage Party	South Park: $83			Seph rogan, R rated animated comedy
45	Ben-Hur	Noah:$362	$200		(1959)When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
46	Ride Along 2	RA:$154	$200
47	Triple Nine		$200
48	Grimsby	Spy:$236	$200		Spy Comedy
49	Risen	Noah:$362 Exodus:$268	$200
50	Gods of Egypt	Exodus:$268	$200
51	Going in Style		$200		Morgan Freeman, Three retirees plan a bank heist.
52	The Big Short		$200
53	Mile 22		$200
54	Jhon wick 2
55	The Nice Guys	KissKBangB:$16	$200
56	Queen of Katwe		$150
57	Geostorm		$100		As a man heads into space to prevent climate-controlling satellites from creating a storm of epic proportions, his brother discovers a plot to assassinate the president.
58	Underworld: Next Generation	UA:$160	$100
59	Inferno	CapPhil:$219	$100		After waking up in a hospital room in Florence, Italy, with no memory of what has occurred for the last few days, Robert Langdon suddenly finds himself the target of a manhunt. With the help of Dr. Sienna Brooks and his knowledge of symbology, Langdon will try to escape whilst solving the most intricate riddle he's ever faced.
60	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies	WarmBodies:$117	$100		Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in 19th century England is faced with a new challenge -- an army of undead zombies.
61	Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children				Tim Burton
62	Sly Cooper	NutJob: $120	$100
63	Kubo and the two strings		$100		Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armor once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior.
64	The Accountant		$100		Affleck, Kendrick small movie
65	The Purge: Origins	tPA:$111	$100
66	How to Be Single	tOtherWoman:$197	$100		New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, and what Alice, Robin, Lucy, Meg, Tom and David all have in common is the need to learn how to be single in a world filled with ever-evolving definitions of love.
67	The Lake		$100		A team of Navy SEALs discover an underwater treasure in a Bosnian lake.
68	Michelle Darnell	Tammy:$100	$100		Melissa McCarthy RomCom
69	Mike and Dave need wedding dates		$100		Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron RomCom
70	Dads Army	MonumentsMen:$155	$100
71	Eddie the Eagle		$100
72	Friday the 13th	Ft13(2009):$91	$90
73	Looking for Alaska	PT:$85, FiOS:$307	$80		Next John Green Novel
74	Mechanic: Resurrection	M:$62	$70
75	Zoolander 2	Z:$61	$70
76	La La Land	BeginAgain:$63	$70		A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.
77	The Magnificent Seven				A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
78	The Circle				Western, Chris Pratt
79	The Great Wall				Emma watson, tom hanks, karen gillan
80	The Founder				Matt Damon, A mystery centered around the construction of the Great Wall of China.
81	Ratchet & Clank				Michael Keaton, The story of McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc.
82	Dirty Grandpa	tAM:$40
83	Me Before you				Hugh Jackson Drama
84	Kubo And the Two Strings				Zac Efron, Right before his wedding, an uptight guy is tricked into driving his grandfather, a perverted former Army general, to Florida for spring break.
85	Snowden				Emilia Clark, J Coleman Romance
86	The Purge 3
87	The Finest Hours
88	13 Hours
89	Midnight Special
90	Everybody Wants Some
91	Story of Your Life
92	Free Fire
93	Tales of Tales
94	Billy Lynn's Long walk
95	She Who Bring Gifts
96	Bastards
97	How to Talk To Girld At Parties
98	The Witch
99	Silence
100	The Bird of a Nation

Other Films:
jumanji
The lost city of Z
Race
The Forest
The Boy
Airlift
The choice
Mohenjo Daro
Raees
Fan
Baahi: A Rebel for love
The Shower

Oscar Predictions

Spotlight my prediction to win

Best Pictures Guess	Fall short	Disliked
Sicario	Everest	Truth
Ex Machina	Legend	By the sea
The Martian	The Walk	The 33
Steve Jobs	Strait Outa Compton	Concussion
Spotlight	Suffragette
Creed	Black Mass
The Big Short	Beasts of no nation - netflix
The Revenent	Bridge of Spies
The Hateful Eight	Into the heart of the Sea
Brooklyn	Trumbo
Carol	Joy
	The Danish Girl
	Macbeth