
A mix this week of stuff that I watched over the festive season and a couple from this week, to start another year of movie watching!
Monday, 13 January 2025 17:20
By Alex Cann @alexbcann
A mix this week of stuff that I watched over the festive season and a couple from this week, to start another year of movie watching!
A couple of decent film offerings this week, beginning with Jurassic World: Rebirth. I’ve seen all the sequels to the 1993 original, which came out almost exactly 32 years ago.
A strong contender for film of the year so far is The Ballad Of Wallace Island. Not only is it genuinely funny, but it’s also exceedingly poignant and very British. A word of mouth sleeper hit, made on a shoestring budget, I was dead chuffed to see a good-sized audience for it when I finally went to watch it this week.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Jaws, which led to cinemagoers hid ing behind their popcorn and one of the best pieces of movie music of all time.
With it being Halloween week, it's worth mentioning that horror has had a rather lucrative year at the cinema, with movies such as The Substance, Terrifier 3 and Smile 2 all delighting audiences and smashing their budgets at the box office.
There's often a debate about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie. In my book, it absolutely is. It contains four Christmas songs in the soundtrack, the action takes place at a Christmas Eve office party, and both the director and scriptwriter say it is a festive movie.