The Big Short takes a look back at the housing bubble collapse which happened in 2008, the thing is though some very unexpected people actually predicted it happening a couple of years before it all eventually imploded.
The Big Short (2015) Review
Spotlight (2015) Review
Based on the true story of how the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team uncovered a massive scandal of child abuse and the cover up from the church, shaking the whole city to the core with the revelations.
Room (2015) Review
A young woman who was abducted when she was 17 years old has been trapped in the Room for 7 years. Having a son in the process, not long after his 5th birthday she has decided that she must get him out.
The Revenant (2015) Review
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition is left fighting for his life after being mauled by a bear, to make it worse the men who said they would stay with him abandon him at the last moment. Against all odds he some how survives . . .
Pulp Fiction (1994) Review
Two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife and a pair of diner bandits all intertwine in some very strange moments and events!
Sideways (2004) Review
Two men Miles and Jack head on a road trip as a final hurrah before the latter is due to get married. This involves plenty of wine and reflection on their far from perfect lives.
Moulin Rouge! (2001) Review
A writer named Christian ends up in a crazy world when he travels to Paris and ends up working in the Moulin Rouge where he falls in love with Satine a courtesan, only problem is she must seduce the Duke in order for him to invest.
2016 Blogging Goals
This isn’t going to be anything too crazy or unachievable and something to really just remind myself to keep it all going!
- Keep up reviewing each and every film that I see at the cinema
- Try and break my 66 film record (set in 2015) at the cinema
- Keep reviewing each and every show I see at the theatre
- Be more adventurous on Netflix
- Watch the DVDs/Blu-Ray that I still haven’t watched (and even seen the film)
- Making lists of film related topics
- The “life” blog posts which link to film
- Really promote my blog in voting for 2016 UK Blog Awards (opens tomorrow)
- Experience more old films
- Work my way through different lists of “great” films
Anything else you would like to see me Blog about in terms of Film and/or Theatre on Let’s Go To The Movies in 2016?
Top 10 – Films I Caught Up With in 2015
I really do try to catch up with films that I have not seen before each year (and yes I still have a massive number of DVDs that have been sitting on my shelf for films I still haven’t watched yet) as I find this often to be such a good break from the films that are released at the cinema, as let’s face it certain times of year we seem to be getting the same thing over and over again and we all know March/April are awful months at the cinema. That was also why I set up the Best Picture Project in order to increase the quality of some of the films I watch. I think some of that will be clear in these 10 films I have picked that I am now pleased I have caught up with!
I always find the best thing about doing this top 10 list is that people are always shocked that I had never seen certain films up until this (or now last year).
I haven’t included any of the Bond films in the list but thought it was very appropriate to make sure that I mentioned that 2015 was the year that I officially caught up and have now seen every single Bond film! Something which was very trying and testing but I managed to complete the challenge of my Bondathon!
Sunset Boulevard (1950) Review
A struggling screenwriter Joe stumbles across Norma Desmond a former silent film movie star who dreams of a comeback as she had been thrust into obscurity when Hollywood changed in favour of talking films.
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