‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ is a film filled with quirky fun, intentionally ridiculous visuals, and a sweet tone. However, underneath this layer of sweet bliss is a bitterly harsh and realistic film about friendship and loss. The strange combination of whimsical scenes, light and fluffy, like candy floss, then intersected with a …
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Eighth Grade (2018)
Kayla Day is a 13 year old girl who has made it to the final week of middle school with no friends, very little social skills and an incredible amount of shyness. However, the last week of middle school is unlike anything she’s faced before, is she ready for such a drastic change in her …
Top 10 Films of 2014
2014 was filled with some absolutely great films, but nothing that completely blew me away, in 2013 ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘Short Term 12’ astounded me with how fantastic they were and while I was happily surprised by how many great films there were this year, nothing completely stood out as the number …
The Kryptonian Awards 2014 – Best Actor
2014 has been a fantastic year for performances so much so that performances have more than outshined their respective films and in a lot of cases saved the film from being dull or run-of-the-mill. Please note that I am not splitting up the acting categories into Best Lead and Best Supporting as I feel that …
The Kryptonian Awards 2014 – Best Actress
2014 has been a fantastic year for performances, unfortunately, as is the norm in Hollywood nowadays, women usually get the less meatier roles, nevertheless these nominees have excelled in their performances and in some cases rival or even better their male counterparts.
The Kryptonian Awards 2014 – Best Director
The nominees for ‘Best Director’ are –
Boyhood (2014)
Richard Linklater took a cast and filmed them at certain periods throughout 12 years in order to give us a slice of life of a typical American child’s life which we experience through the eyes of Mason
Birdman (2014)
Birdman is classified as a drama/comedy and while it certainly has it’s own dramatic flare, the comedy is seldom seen and when it does arrive in the occasional scene it either misses the mark or has a feeling of smugness surrounding it which, I suppose, is a good way to describe the film, smug.
Whiplash (2014)
I broke my number one rule going into ‘Whiplash’, I let myself believe the hype surrounding the film, I went in expecting a masterpiece which is a death sentence for any film.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
Let me start off by saying that I absolutely adore the original ‘Sin City’ film, it is actually my second favourite film ever. Needless to say I was not looking forward to ‘Sin City: A Dame to Kill For’ for numerous reasons, so I went in to the film not expecting anything fantastic but that …