Green Book – The Film Ramble

The top 20 of 2019

December 31, 2019January 1, 2020Posted in Film, Look BackTagged Beale Street, Birds of Passage, Border, Burning, Capernaum, Eighth Grade, Green Book, Happy As Lazarro, I Lost My Body, Irishman, Last Black Man In San Francisco, Little Women, Marriage Story, Monos, The Farewell, The Last Tree, Toy Story 4, Us, We The Animals3 Comments

We are getting to that time, new years day, where one puts together their list of films. While I’m no Barack Obama, this list should provide a good indicator of what one could have watched and could look for upon a DVD release. Apologies to some films I didn’t see yet Fighting with My Family, Sorry I missed You, The Souvenier, Pain and Glory, The Two Popes and Ford vs Ferrari amongst many others which may have gone into the list had I had the time, but that doesn’t make the twenty any less worthy.

All twenty are from all over the world and provide a variety of genres, so hopefully there is something which takes your fancy. Each one is a brilliant piece of work which gave me enormous satisfaction. There were other good ones which weren’t included. Just because a film is at 17/18/19/20 doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it. It just means there were others which I also enjoyed more or in a different way. Apologies in advance to Marvel fanboys and here is to 2020.

Eight of these films are on Prime/Netflix UK so there is no excuse to not watch them. Enjoy!

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Twenty Eight Films of Summer

September 6, 2019Posted in Film, Look BackTagged Animation, Anime, Batman, Beyonce, Bollywood, Bradley Cooper, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Chris Pratt, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Citizen Kane, Coen Brothers, Cold War, Cuba Gooding Jr., Danny Boyle, Di Caprio, Donald Glover, Fargo, Foreign Film, Frances McDormand, Green Book, Guardians, Guillemo Del Toro, Inception, Jack Nicholson, John Oliver, John Travolta, Liam Neeson, Lion King, Mahershala Ali, Marvel, Masaan, Matrix, Michael Shannon, Moon, Octavia Spencer, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Orson Wells, Pavel Pawolski, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Regina King, Sally Hawkins, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Shape of Water, Space Movie, Spiderman into the Spiderverse, Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli, Superhero, The Guilty, Tsotsi, Uma Thurman, Viggo Mortensen, William Macy, YesterdayLeave a comment

While the summer months should be spent outside enjoying the sun and getting a tan, others like watching movies. Anyhow, here is a brief review and ranking of all of the films I have watched this summer. It’s worth noting that such a variety of films are difficult to compare, so this is a blunt instrument. On a different day, they would’ve been ranked differently. Also, most of the films I watched were of high calibre and I’d have no trouble recommending at least the top 20 of them. If your favourite film isn’t near the top of the list, that’s more to the testament of the other films that anything against yours. There are some early summer films that I didn’t add to the list as I only started it in Mid June/ Early July (Sorry Toy Story 4) and some Summer Films I haven’t yet seen (Sorry OUATIH).

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The 2019 ASBO Film Awards

February 23, 2019February 24, 2019Posted in Film, UncategorizedTagged A Star is Born, Amy Adams, Beale Street, Black Panther, Blackklansman, Bohemian Rhapsody, Bradley Cooper, Burning, Christian Bale, Featured, Film, Green Book, Kiki Layne, Mahershala Ali, Movies, Oscars 2019, Oscars2019, Rachel Weisz, Rami Malek, Regina King, Roma, Shoplifters, Steven Yeun, The Favourite, Vice, Viola Davis, Widows, Yalitza Apiricio2 Comments

This Sunday is the day where Hollywood acknowledge some pretty great films and Bohemian Rhapsody. Will they get the right winner? Maybe. But I’m not going to comment on their choices. Instead I will hand out the 2019 ASBO awards for great films. From this list, you will hopefully get a good idea of which films to watch and avoid. There are plenty of good ones to see, yet a limited time to see them in.

I will use the Oscar nominations as a general framework, but throw in some of my own suggestions.

Now, why am I calling them the ASBO awards when in the UK that means Anti-Social Behaviour Order. Well, my family calls our cat Oscar, even though his birth certificate name is ASBO. Therefore, to restore the balance of the world it is only necessary. So, lets begin:

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