That was one odd bastard of a year but no mere disease could stop movies coming out. With cinemas closed we had to look elsewhere for our kicks and streaming platforms threw us up some serious hidden gems to keep us going while our places of film worship went into lockdown.
Here's my top 10 of the year in no particular order.
Dark and brooding Irish cinema at it's best. Leading man Cosmo Jarvis will blow you away in this seaside set crime thriller.
Big meets Friday the 13th and gives us probably the most fun film of 2020. Gore, giggles and the funniest run you've seen since the early days of Steven Seagal.
A film containing love and monsters. What more do you need? Seriously, look it up, it's shockingly entertaining. Trust me on this.
A date goes wrong. So so wrong. 2020 America in a nutshell. A superb movie that for some reason a lot of people fobbed off. Baffling.
A film that truly deserved it's best picture Oscar. Brilliant. If you haven't seen it watch it without reading anything about it. Ignore film twitter, the shower of melts.
A teenage girl wants an abortion. Her friend goes with her. A comedy drama that really deserved a bigger audience. Super stuff.
Teenage life in the big city is miserable. It's even worse when your mam does a runner. Heartbreak and humanity go hand in hand in this brilliant slice of London life.
As a Tipp man it kills me to say a Kilkenny set film is one of the best of the year but that's just how good it is. A glorious and beautiful dose of 17th century set Celtic mysticism.
Modern day western par excellence. A never better Diane Lane and Kevin Costner set out to right a wrong in a film that takes its time and ends in gloriously pulpy fashion.
A teenager discovers a sibling she never knew and her life takes a turn. For the worse or the better though. Low-key excellence and in lead Frankie Box, a name to keep an ear out for.
Runners up
Palm Springs. Summer Of 85. Possessor. Beastie Boys Story. Becky. Poster Boys. Colour Out Of Space. Rialto. Wolf Of Snow Hollow. Dating Amber. VFW. The Invisible Man. A Good Woman Is Hard To Find. Birds Of Prey. Spontaneous.
Worst films of 2020
Coffee & Kareem or Sonny Capone. Both will make you despise the life choices that brought you to the place where you end up watching either. A kick in the balls is preferable to watching them. A urinary tract infection. A mouth ulcer. A splinter under your nail. Sipping from a carton of milk and realising the milk is gone off. Stepping in dog shit. A large queue. Forgetting your face mask after walking a mile from your car. ALL ARE BETTER THAN THESE TWO MOVIES.
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