Here we go… finally with my own Top 10 + a few honourable mentions from the year that was in 2016. When compared to 2015, 2016 was a very up and down year when it came to films. All the way through the summer, it felt as if the year would be quite terrible but by the time summer ended and the quality films started to release in theatres, 2016 had finally redeemed itself. Continue reading “Muneeb Arshid’s Best of 2016… Finally!”
So, one of your identities kidnaps three girls from a shopping mall and keeps them hostage in an underground bunker. The other identities are now conflicted on how to deal with these ladies. WHAT A CONUNDRUM EH!
Continue reading “Split can’t find its own identity in this film about identity. “
Dev Patel has really embraced his ethnicity when it comes to choosing specific roles in his short, but strong career so far. His performance in Lion cements that versatility in him as a leading man in Hollywood. Continue reading “Dev Patel shines in the emotional, yet determined “Lion””
I have made a new promise to myself: do not buy into the hype that accompanies a director’s perfect track record. Continue reading “Ben Affleck’s “Live By Night” is a waste of a gangster epic”
The women of NASA during the heyday? Yeah, I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t know anything about the wonderful ladies who were working as mathematicians in the 1960s at the Space Agency. Hidden Figures does a decent enough job to tell the story of three black women who were highly instrumental in ensuring the first flight of an American to orbit the earth.
Continue reading “Hidden Figures is a slightly flawed yet quite important film about US history. “
Nearly 3 decades after his successful The Last Temptation of Christ, Martin Scorsese delivers to us a powerful film about the struggle of one’s belief in their religion with the overarching theme being one that questions the silence of God. Continue reading ““Silence” is Martin Scorsese’s haunting epic on Christianity”
Very few fairy tales/fantasy films do ever work these days, but boy does A Monster Calls ever hit that sweet spot by being able to connect real life tough issues through the use of the genre. Continue reading “A Monster Calls is a powerful, emotional fairy tale about loss and redemption”
The full-length first trailer for auteur Christopher Nolan’s next feature has been released. Dunkirk is the story about Allied soldiers in WWII who have to evacuate after being surrounded by the German Army. We can expect another masterpiece if this trailer is any indication.
Dunkirk releases July 21st, 2017.
There’s a new film vying for the top award in February and it might be one that not many end up seeing. Continue reading “Moonlight is one of the most alluring and strongly scripted films of the year.”
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