Top 10 films of the year so far

I won’t bother writing lengthy, verbose paragraphs, i’ll just let the pictures do the work. The top ten films I have seen theatrically this year in no actual order.

Senna

Great racing driver, fantastic documentary

Rango

Thank God Gore Verbinski did this film and not another Pirates of the Caribbean.

Hanna

Its Bourne meets… [add whatever film with a child assassin here]. Peculiar film.

Insidious

A horror film that relies on suspense and doesn’t try to rip someone’s tendons out of the heels…and is much better off doing so.

Attack the Block

A brilliant film? No. A very enjoyable one? Most definitely

Thor

A shade better than X-Men: First Class and heads, shoulders, knees and toes above Green Lantern, it can be clichéd and very conventional but it’s lots of fun.

13 Assassins

Slow build up, thrilling last forty minutes or so, this how you do extended action sequences Mr Bay.

Never Let Me Go

A fine sc-fi/drama hybrid that didn’t make a big splash in cinemas

Little White Lies

Too long? Yup. Overly Sentimental ending? Absolutely yes. Still better and funnier than most dramas Hollywood pushes out.

127 Hours

Stunning experience, you could call it gimmicky filmmaking, I wouldn’t

Review: Rango

“Believe in that there sign. For as long as it hangs there we’ve got hope.”

Well, I was not expecting this.

I’m not someone who goes to the cinema to watch animated films, this aversion stems from my experience of watching Toy Story many, many years ago. I was a kid back then who had an avid interest in watching animation (I even went to see Pocahontas, POCAHONTAS!! in theatres) and I can still remember the middle aged man whose annoyingly uproarious laughter reverberated through the theatre (he even laughed when Buzz broke his arm). Kids can be annoying at screenings of animated film and adults can be as annoying if not more so.

So to get to the point I barely watch animation in theatres, Rango however makes me want to go more often. From this point on the review will unashamedly gush about Rango.

Thoughts on the Super Bowl Trailers

I’m not much of American football fan myself, living in the UK we don’t get a lot of coverage on the NFL so the American Football (or Hand-egg) is usually out of sight, out of mind. That is until the Super Bowl rolls around and we’re inundated with reports on THE GREATEST SPORTING EVENT IN THE WORLD (/sarcasm). It gets even worse as since I live in the UK all those trailers that studios pay through the nose to get on air aren’t even available for me to see til the next day. All the glamour and glitz of the Super Bowl is lost in me as I struggle to figure whose who and why play consistently stops every thirty seconds, disappears for a minute, comes back for ten seconds and so on…

Anyhoo, the trailers, most of which run for thirty seconds, a few one minute spots and they usually represent films coming out in the Summer; setting down a marker for possible definite blockbusters that will occupy our screens for the duration of the summer. For my thoughts, read on…