The Brown Note Movie Review

The only film from director Paul Fieg I've so far been able to stand, riotous James Bond tomfoolery, with a winning and up for it cast, nearly in the same pocket as Kingsmen.

Michael Fassbender and Ben Mendelsohn amp up ex-Beta Band, John Maclean's directoral debut. Good, if a little more mainstream and less transgressive or memorable than the raft of extremely dark modern westerns.

The moral and psychological issues surrounding the use of drones in warfare and remote killing, make the worthy subject of this interesting and tense war drama and Ethan Hawke is never not watchable.

>Sudders< Writer-director Adam MacDonald doesn't need any budget to make you cover your eyes in this horrific and scary hiking-horror, based on true events, about a lost couple being hunted by a bear.

Aussie director George Miller inexplicably got everything more right than anyone thought possible, rebooting his fabled Max series. Though Hardy is uncommonly uninteresting as the background Max and it really is an incredible Theron's film, direction, action, cinematography, production design, sound and just about every film-making aspect are all magnificent, in one of the decades most beautifully realised big budget films.

After beguiling the world with its first installment, the Jurassic films series has delivered four straight duds, mostly awful.

The Beach author, Alex Garland's second feature as director (after moving through some prominent screen-writing with Danny Boyle) Annihilation, was everything this empty and wildly overrated first film was claimed to be. Only Oscar Isaac and elements of the production design shine.

Like with Jason Statham movies, I'm the connoisseur when it comes to that titanic body of work, Liam Neeson movies. This is a very high entry, bolstered by great acting and characterizations from Neeson and the always brilliant Ed Harris.

Memorable, timely, atmospheric and thought provoking entry into the modern horror cannon directed by David Robert Mitchell.

There's no doubt South African director Neill Blomkamp fell away a bit with his follow up to District 9 but I still had a lot of time for Elysium, this, his next project was an unmitigated disaster. Fair play to him for actually making money with such a terrible and inexplicable film but it's far too close to the awfulness of the latter Transformer movies.