The to-watchlist

I know my blog is about reviews of the movies I have watched but, I also have a long list of movies I want to watch. Which is why I am encouraging you to make a list of your own. But, to get you started here is some of mine.

Stanley Kubrick films
-A clockwork orange
-2001 a space odyssey. ( Which apparently has over 60 minutes of silence within the film)

Alfred Hitchcock films
-The birds
-Psycho
-Rear window
-North by north west

Tim Burton films
-Sleepy Hollow
-Planet of the apes
-Sweeney Todd

Other films
-Almost famous
-Love and other drugs
- American beauty
- 12 monkeys
- American psycho
- Anger management
- Punisher
- Blade 2 and 3

And with that I implore you to go and watch at least one of these films and in return comment at the bottom a film you think I should watch.

The hitchhiker incident

My friends and I were on the school bus the other month just about to leave school when my friend Billy goes
"How comes there is a hitchhiker standing over there?" Pointing at the man.
At our school many cyclers like to pull in and have a break because it is on the edge of the countryside so we didn't think much of it.
Until, we drove past the said 'hitchhiker' only to realise that it was the French teacher Mr Barratta who just happened to put his thumb up at the wrong time wearing an trench coat and a back pack.
My friend Billy was taught by him for over 3 years yet he still rationalised that it was more likely to be a hitchhiker than a teacher in a school depot.

A new segment: Sam's moment of the week

Now one of my very close friends Sam was not born naturally blonde yet she appears to be blonde on the inside and I can explain how she embraced this.
As the not so quite sharpest knife in the draw she often says some of the simple things in life and well my group of friends now have a quote of the week based on her special quotes which express these blonde qualities.

For example, there was one a bus timetable on the table and my friend just so happened to be talking about going on holiday to the Caribbean to which Sam asked "So you can drive a bus to the Caribbean." To which we thought she was joking turns out she was serious.
Now if you ask her she will simply just say "I meant Airbus like that large plane." We know she didn't mean that.

This week's quote is " It's weird when you think about it that Feathers and Quills look so similar."

Thank You Sam for being to ever clever person we have come to love.

Pitch Perfect 2 (2015)

When I watched the first movie I realised I was more than a small fan if musical type fans than before and so my love for acapella also grew. Now after watching Pitch Perfect 2 I feel even more musically infused. It not only follows Jessie and Becka's relationship but the ever growing slightly grotesque relationship of Bumper and Fat Amy. This time not only will the Barden Bellas sing for the present and show fat Amy's cheeky side but they are now going national with some new awesome singers. And yet again fat Amy 'Crushed it'.
     However, the storyline was a bit drier than usual for an Anna Kendrick film perhaps it could have just remained as a solo film yet, I am still grateful for the musical.

    I rate this film a 16/20.

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A Testament of Youth (2015)

A film based on the war memoirs of Vera Brittain, a pacifist, nurse and writer. When the second world war started it was her, her brother Edward and her two friends Roland and Victor. Then to feel closer to the ones she loves she decides after working so hard to get a place at Oxford getting a masters in writing she will join the war effort as a nurse. That is when life for young Vera gets a lot more complicated. The film shows her determination to put aside the typical aims if what a women should be like in the 1940s, to not be a housewife, to have a meaningful job, to support herself away from the glare of her family yet to still be in the arms of the one she loves, Roland. Yet war gets in the way of all if that. Ever though most things are changed by war her thought and expectations and even opinions of herself and life are not really changed at all. She realises that the war's grief did not just hit us it hit them, deaths hit her as well as the Germans and so with that knowledge and grief she wrote, A testament of youth and many other war books based on her memoirs and other such like. I personally could not stop crying after the first 15 minutes and it is a brilliant film for Kit Harrington, Colin Morgan, Taron Egerton and Alicia Vikander.

I rate this film a 19/20.

 

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The Immitation Game (2014)

This is the true life story of Alan Turing, the father of Computers who was prosecuted in the 1950s for being homosexual which the law claimed it was 'Extreme indecency'. The film follows the story of Alan when he was younger when he lost his childhood love, Christopher, and when in the 1930s-1940s he was busy solving the enigma machine with the help of a brilliant female mind (Kiera Knightley) and some other guys. It made me personally cry and it was a brilliant performance by Benedict Cumberbatch.

    I rate this amazing film a 17/20.

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