2016 - "This Year in Film"

It has been a great shame that time prevents me from doing regular full length reviews, like I used to do. But I will always continue with my yearly review, and also my Oscar Predictions, which will be coming along very soon.

So, given that the last couple of years have been lacklustre cinematically, has 2016 done anything to alter that at all?

Unfortunately not, for it has been yet another very poor year for Cinema. There has been a low number of films that have hit the mark.

Here is a selection of the films that I have labelled "Worst of the Year"

The Big Short

Batman Vs Superman

Independence Day Resurgence

X-Men Apocalypse

Suicide Squad
Star Trek Beyond






And clearly confirming my opinion that the Comic Strip movies have had their day.........

Having said that......

And the Award for "Best Hope for the Future of Comic Strip Movies" goes to.....

What with this outstanding blast of a movie and "Guardians of the Galaxy"....there is hope.

There is a tie for "Worst Return of a Popular Character"......

Sadly neither the return of Professor Robert Langdon or Jason Bourne did much to improve the quality of Cinema this year. And given the return of both Matt Damon and Director Paul Greengrass, the latter proved to be especially dissappointing. 

The Award for "Best Film to Honour a Much Loved Actor" goes to....

In a year a so many losses in so many areas of entertainment, sport and music, I can think of no better film to honour the late great Alan Rickman than this first class thought provoking thriller.


Despite so many dire films, there have also been some incredibly worthy movies released during 2016, and here is a selection of the very best.....

Creed

Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight

Hell or High Water

Sully

 

Room
I, Daniel Blake
 

Trolls

 The Nice Guys

For Best Peformance by an Actress in a Leading Role, the award goes to...........

 Academy Award winner Brie Larson for "Room"

For Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, the award goes to...........

Both Dave Johns and Leonardo DiCaprio for their amazing work on the films "I, Daniel Blake" and "The Revenant". 

And in a remarkable repeat of last year, we have to go all the way back to January for the best film of the year. Like last years "Whiplash", this film just stayed with this viewer long after leaving the Cinema. It is a true example of what makes Cinema great, an epic on every scale, and I can think of no better movie to illustrate the argument for watching movies on the Big Screen

The Best Movie of 2016 is..................