One word to describe cinema during 2015: BIG
As close to an ‘order’ as I could get, here’s ILT’s 10 favourite flicks of the year…
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SceneKid#13: Ray Meets Raven
For all it’s flaws, True Detective s2 still inspired the odd involuntary jaw drop…
True Detective
s02 e02/03
Dir: Justin Lin & Janus Metz
Original Release Date: 28 June / 5 July 2015
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.13 – ‘Spooky Sucker Punched Special!’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.
Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.13 – ‘Spooky Sucker Punched Special!’
This week on The Punch Up, the chaps chat horror in a slightly late Halloween Sucker Punched special! Leading with David Cronenberg’s classic sci-fi horror, The Fly, legendary accidental comedy, Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and the independent straight-to-dvd Irish flick, Isolation, there’s plenty of slasher movie memories, horror history, and talk of whether the genre, despite being as popular as ever, is likely to reinvent itself quality-wise any time soon.
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PerfAction#1: The Rock (1996)
PerfAction is a new series designed solely to gush unashamedly about, you guessed it, perfect goddamn action films.
First up, a flick that should have been the start of something great for Michael Bay, but ended up the tallest peak in a rapidly depressed (but wealthy) career…
The Rock
Dir: Michael Bay
Original Release Date: 7 June 1996
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Review: Listen to Me Marlon
Stevan Riley’s deconstruction of Marlon Brando, courtesy of Marlon Brando, is probably the best documentary of the year.
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.6 – ‘TD S2: The Review’
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Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.6 – ‘chadvalcoro@gmail.com’
True Detective S2: The Review
In this standalone special, The Punch Up crew steadily go the way of Ray as they take a detailed, spoiler-filled look back at Season 2 of HBO’s True Detective, starring Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch. and Vince Vaughn. A straight up review of the feature length finale intertwines with overall standout moments, low points, character analysis, story arc development, Pizzolatto chat, and a general view of the season as a whole. If you managed to sit through 8 episodes of rambling, mumbling, drunken lowlifes, then you may as well do it one more time!
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Podcast: The Punch Up, Ep.5 – ‘Bring A Coat!’
The Punch Up is a brand new weekly film & television podcast broadcasting from the laaaazy west coast city of Vancouver, Canada.
Featuring regulars Phill Bartlett, Adam Blair, and yours truly, Nicholas Lay, the chaps and I will be covering regular news, reviews, previews, and retrospect from the world of the reel.
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Ep.5 – ‘Bring A Coat!’
This week on The Punch Up, the chaps sing the praises of dreamy Tom Cruise and his latest MI flick, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Things get chilly in the The Trailer Park as QT’s The Hateful Eight and HBO’s Show Me A Hero loom into view, while other titles reviewed include Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer’s romantic comedy, Trainwreck, the 2014 romantic dramedy, The One I Love, and the hit adult animated comedy, Rick & Morty.
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SceneKid#12: “Me…”
Robert De Niro and Robin Williams (and Randy Newman) cause me to cry. A lot.
Awakenings
Dir: Penny Marshall
Original Release Date: 22 December 1990
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SceneKid#9: “That boy is our last hope…”
ILT’s inebriated Star Wars special continues with Luke skipping Dagobah Jedi school, despite Yoda and Obi-Wan dropping some fairly heavy truth bombs…
The Empire Strikes Back
Dir: Irvin Kershner
Original Release Date: 21 May 1980
Part Two of a Star Wars SceneKid series special.
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