Reasons to Get Excited About 2017

Lets be honest, 2016 has been a rough one. As we all nurse our Christmas hangovers and stress over the New Year resolutions to break, now would be a good time for good news. Following on from my look back at my faves of 2016, here are 15 films I'm already counting the days down until...

15. T2: Trainspotting (January)

14. The Founder (January)

13. The Mummy (June)

12. Manchester by the Sea (January)

11. Hacksaw Ridge (January)

10. Beauty and the Beast (March)

9. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (May)

8. The Lego Batman Movie (February)

7. War for the Planet of the Apes (July)

6. La La Land (January)

5. Silence (January)

4. Dunkirk (July)

3. Blade Runner 2049 (October)

2. Alien: Covenant (May)

1. Star Wars: Episode VIII (December)

There's no trailer for this as of yet. I'm making no apologies for posting this instead.

Honourable mentions to:

Logan, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Thor: Ragnarok, Kong: Skull Island, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge, World War Z 2.

Oh, and Fifty Shades Darker is out too. Sorry about that.

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Kong: Skull Island (2017)

Source Although it only feels like Peter Jackson's King Kong was released a couple of years ago, it is now actually 12 years old. I'm going to blame ITV4 for confusing my timeline seeing as they have the remake on every single weekend, but it still feels very soon to be having another interpretation of the 1933 classic in cinemas. I remember watching the original during a school half term and being really surprised at how much I enjoyed it and it's now dated effects. There's a charm to the stop-motion special effects used so well in King Kong, and I think I've loved that style since the terrifying skeleton army in Jason and the Argonauts (1963). Jackson obviously took the special effects to another level in his 2005 remake, but I was pleased with how the heart of the story, and the tragedy of it remained. Kong is more than just a mindless monster that smashes and crashes in to things and Jackson captured that essence really well, even if the run time could have ...

Star Trek (2009) / Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Source Ahead of watching the new Star Trek film, Charlotte and I decided to go back and revisit JJ Abrams’ Star Wars audition and its sequel. The first I knew quite well, but I had only seen the second the once at the cinema, and it became one of many DVDs I have sat on my shelf still in its cellophane. I’ve never been a Star Trek fan by any stretch. I’ve probably seen a little of the original series, and then the odd episode of Star Trek Next Generation TV series as a kid while waiting for The Simpsons, Robot Wars or Malcolm in the Middle to come on. I was always a big Star Wars fan and seemed to think you could only be in one camp or the other for some reason. As far as I’m aware Trekkie reception to the 2009 and 2013 reboots were largely positive bar the pretty one dimensional villain in the first, and the whitewashed return of a popular villain from the Star Trek canon in the sequel. This film seemed to cater for all though. If you wanted comedy, you got it in abundan...

Hacksaw Ridge (2017)

Source We're in the thick of Oscar buzz as the 2017 nominations were announced today. Suicide Squad (2016) is now an Oscar nominated film (kill me), and a win for Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'How Far I'll Go?' in the brilliant Moana (2016) would make him the youngest ever EGOT winner (what am I doing with my life?). Last night we caught a showing of a film that appears to be flying under the radar a bit. I'm not sure if that's anything to do with it's director, Mel Gibson, and his previous misdemeanors, or just show how strong a year this year's line up really is (as a quick aside, I'm really pleased to see 2016's excellent Hell or High Water make the noms). With the bar set as high as it is this year round in the Best Motion Picture category in particular, it's going to take a lot to surprise and shock. Gibson's war epic, Hacksaw Ridge did both. Source Just as with Lion (2017) which we caught the night before , Hacksaw Ridg...

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