Best crime drama
Legend - Tom Hardy excellent at playing both Kray twins and
very funny. Best line: a paranoid schizophrenic
walks into a bar…
Best action movie
Black Sea - Jude Law and associates as submariners in search
of Nazi gold.
Best foreign crime
drama
Suburra - Italian tale of
gangsters in Rome and Ostia.
Best Kid’s film
Big Hero 6 – American/Japanese collaboration. Surprisingly few of the latter credited as
compositors/digital artists.
Best Biog
Miles Ahead – very amusing
film about Miles Davies. A hoot!
Best Bollywood
Veer - historical romp that flits between India and England
(extensive use of Greenwich, and featuring Dover castle). Also featured some excellent man earrings.
Best Cheap Brit Flick
Re-directed - Vinnie Jones has a riot in Lithuania.
Best Brit comedy
Golden Years: Grand Theft
OAP – nice gentle comedy about old people robbing banks. Good cast too.
Best Foreign comedy
Look Who’s Back – Hitler time-travels
to present day and gets mistaken for a stand-up comedian.
Best Shakespeare
Macbeth - very atmospheric 2015 version.
Best re-telling of an
old classic
In the Heart of the Sea – Excellent re-telling of Moby
Dick. A great whale and lots of manly
antics.
Best Brit horror
Stonehearst Asylum - lunatics take over the asylum, with a twist…
Best foreign horror
Asmodexia - amazing Spanish film about an exorcist and his
granddaughter, with an extraordinary twist!
Best comedy horror
Frankenstein’s Army - hilarious tale of Nazi Frankenstein
creatures being discovered by Russians at the end of WW2. I hadn’t laughed so much in ages although methinks
the actors playing the monsters (Zombots) had the most fun dressing up in junk
and acting like Lindsay Kemp.
Best fantasy
Alice Through the Looking
Glass - awesome shiny CGI and a very
funny Sacha Baron Cohen.
Best blockbuster
sci-fi
The Martian – a veritable Ridley Scott masterpiece. Most excellent, even by his standards.
Best British sci-fi
High-Rise - really good period
details and true to Ballard, despite the iffy reviews.
Best Russian war film
Come and See - weird old Russian
film, set in Belarus in WW2. Made some
valid points about the effects of war, unbelievably made in 1985 when Russia
was still communist.
Nordic Noir
Order of Disappearance - great
title; decent film.
Most educational
The Last King - educational and scenic Nordic offering, with
snow, Christmas trees and pretty horses.
Funniest Guardian
film
Lost in Karastan (funny Guardian film)
Best Western
Wild Horses - modern western about an old git and a missing
persons search. The main characters
are played by Robert Duvall and his daughter – both excellent.
Best post-war German
Labyrinth of Lies - good
but not cheery story of Germans being in denial about Auschwitz.
Best Irish
Odine - sweet tale of a
fisherman who catches a woman in his net.
Best Zombie flick
Pride and prejudice and
Zombies - very clever and quite amusing but not enough zombies.
Most unwatchable
Exorcist – House of Evil. Terrible!
I was expecting a follow-up to the original exorcist but it turned out
to be a really cheap effort with jerky frames and bad acting.
