Picks of 2015

Movie picks from the year when we bid farewell to Sir Christopher Lee, Wes Craven and Cilla Black.

Two of the best releases of the decade were from this specific year. (In case you were wondering - Mad Max: Fury Road and The Witch)

Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler)

Cop Car (Jon Watts)

Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro)

Deathgasm (Jason Lei Howden)

Ex Machina (Alex Garland)

The Hallow (Corin Hardy)

Hardcore Henry (Illya Naishuller)

The Invitation (Karyn Kusama)

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller)

Night of the Rat (David R.L)

Sicario (Denis Villeneuve)

The Witch (Robert Eggers)

Films I liked at the time, but never revisited:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip); Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (Christopher Landon); Howl (Paul Hyett); Southbound (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, David Bruckner, Tyler Gillett, Patrick Horvath, Roxanne Benjamin, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella); A Christmas Horror Story (Steven Hoban, Grant Harvey, Brett Sullivan); The Blackcoat's Daughter (Osgood Perkins); Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell); Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier); The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos); Ava's Possessions (Jordan Galland); Welcome to Leith (Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker); The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino); The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu); The Gift (Joel Edgerton). 

Also my opinions went 360 degrees with the seventh instalments in the Star Wars, Rocky and Fast & Furious franchises. Call it falling victim to hype-nosis.

Yet to see Can Evrenol's Baskin, which is perhaps the biggest blindspot from 2015.

2015 was also the year that introduced to me, and I'm sure many others out there, the actress Ana de Armas in an English language film; Eli Roth's Knock, Knock. A remake of the psychological thriller Death Game (1977).