Hi
Everyone,
First
things first: Hearty congratulations to Prince Harry and Meghan
Markle on their recent engagement. I wish them every happiness and
trust that their wedding in the Spring of 2018 will be a glorious
occasion.
It's
been a really good year for movies – apart from the Summer –
which was perhaps a little light on blockbusters around August time.
But, overall, there have been many films I very much enjoyed. So,
with just a few weeks to go before the end of the year, here is a
little list of my favourite films of 2017 thus far. The list is in
alphabetical order – but I can tell you my absolute favourite film
was Beauty and the Beast – which I went to see an incredible
27 times. Never done that before (and probably won't ever do that
again). lol. Perhaps, objectively speaking, the best film of the year
(bearing in mind I haven't seen the December releases yet) is Logan.
What a fantastic movie!
Mal's
Favourite 25 films of 2017
But
first, of the films eligible for last year's Oscars (that I also saw
in 2017), my favourites include:- Hidden Figures, La La Land,
Lion, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Sully.
Of
the films released since then, here are my 25 personal favourites
(the top eight being in bold type):-
-
Battle of the Sexes
-
Beauty and the Beast
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Blade Runner 2049
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Borg vs McEnroe
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Brimstone
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Detroit
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Dunkirk
-
Everything, Everything
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
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Free Fire
-
Gifted
-
Happy Death Day!
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Kong: Skull Island
-
Logan
-
Loving Vincent
-
Miss Sloane
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My Cousin Rachel
-
Paddington 2
-
Patti Cake$
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Professor Marston and the Wonder Women
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The Beguiled
-
The Death of Stalin
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The Florida Project
-
Wonder Woman
-
Victoria & Abdul
Honorable
mentions that didn't quite make the top 25 include:- American
Made, Atomic Blonde, Baby Driver, Baahabuli: The Conclusion, Breathe,
Churchill, Get Out!, Girl's Trip, Goodbye Christopher
Robin, Justice League, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Logan Lucky,
mother!, Only the Brave, Split, The Big Sick, The Light Between
Oceans, Thor: Ragnarok, Viceroy's House, and War for
the Planet of the Apes.
The
big films released in the UK in December
2017 include
The
Man Who Invented Christmas, Ferdinand, Jumanji: Welcome to the
Jungle, and
Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Here's
a picture from each of those movies to
whet
your appetite:-
The
Man Who Invented Christmas © 2017
Thunderbird Releasing. All Rights
Reserved.
Ferdinand
© 2017 Twentieth
Century Fox. All Rights Reserved.
Jumanji:
Welcome to the Jungle © 2017 CTMG Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Star
Wars (Episode VIII) The Last Jedi © 2017 Disney Studios/Lucasfilm
Ltd./Industrial Light & Magic. All Rights Reserved.
Here's
a comprehensive run down of the December 2017 new releases:-
The
major films are: Better
Watch Out, Blade of the Immortal,
Brigsby Bear, Ferdinand, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Love is
Thicker than Water, Pitch Perfect 3, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The
Last Jedi, Stronger, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Showman, The
Man Who Invented Christmas, and
Wonder.
Limited
or “key cities” releases include: Dolores, Human Flow, Love
Cecil, Les Hommes Du Feu, Lu over the Wall, Menashe, Mountains May
Depart, Padmavati, Sanctuary, The Prince of Nothingwood, and
Tiger Zinda Hai.
Other
limited releases given their “own spot” in the newsletter are:
Happy End, Mountain, Shot Caller, and
The Dinner.
In
addition to all of the above, the classic movies
A
Matter of Life and Death (1946)
and The
Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
both
get
an airing in one
or more venues in December
2017.
A
number
of other movies which haven't been noted in the December
magazine are: Bingo:
The King of the Mornings, Bleeding
Steel, Fukrey Returns,
Son
of Granite, The
Unseen, and
Youth.
Also
not
included in the magazine are this month's “Event Cinema”
entertainments
– most
of which are listed below.
As
usual, information sometimes differs when
comparing
various sources,
so
please take the details below
with
a large
pinch
of salt and do some further investigation if you are interested in
attending
any
of these events:-
-
1st December 2017 – Nutcracker Ballet – Royal Opera House 2017/18 (Royal Opera House)
-
1st December 2017 – Young Marx – NT Live 2017 (Trafalgar Releasing)
-
3rd December 2017 – Nutcracker Ballet – Bolshoi 2017 (Trafalgar Releasing)
-
28th December 2017 – Andrea Chenier [Opera?] (Thunderbird Releasing)
(In
addition, don't forget to look out for “Secret Cinema”
presentations if these are of interest to you).
https://www.secretcinema.org/
Here
is the link to my last newsletter (which is a download of
approximately
70MB):-
Well,
whatever your religion or faith (or none); seasons greetings to you!
If you are having time off work, I hope you have a wonderful
vacation. And, if you're going to the pictures - I hope you have a
whale of a time seeing some great movies. Happy viewing!
(Trailers
for most of the major films mentioned above will appear here tomorrow
or in a few days time.)
