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7.6
8.1
SCREENING: Insider, Gallery
DATE: January 1st
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: January 1st
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7.2
7.2
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: January 5th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: January 5th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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7.1
8.3
SCREENING: Limited
DATE: January 12th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: January 12th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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7.5
8.2
SCREENING: Members' Free Screening
DATE: January 15th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
DATE: January 15th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
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6.9
6.7
SCREENING: The Studio
DATE: January 20th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: January 20th
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6.4
7.1
SCREENING: Advanced
DATE: January 21st
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: January 21st
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6.7
7.3
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: January 25th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: January 25th
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6.9
7.3
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: January 27th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: January 27th
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6.8
7.3
SCREENING: Advanced
DATE: February 4th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: February 4th
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7
7.4
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: Febuary 10th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: Febuary 10th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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7.3
7.8
SCREENING: Preview
DATE: Febuary 11th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: Febuary 11th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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7.1
7.2
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: February 15th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
DATE: February 15th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
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7
7.2
SCREENING: The Studio
DATE: February 17th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: February 17th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
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7.1
7.5
SCREENING: WB cut, Gallery
DATE: February 18th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: February 18th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
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6.7
7.4
Patriots Day (2016)
SCREENING: Advanced
DATE: February 23rd
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: February 23rd
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6
6.4
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: February 27th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: February 27th
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7.5
8.1
Logan (2017)
SCREENING: IMAX
DATE: March 1st
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: March 1st
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
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6.1
6.4
SCREENING: Basement
DATE: March 6th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
DATE: March 6th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
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6.3
6.6
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 8th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: March 8th
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6.2
6.7
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 10th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: March 10th
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6.4
8.2
SCREENING: Preview, Gallery
DATE: March 15th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: March 15th
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6.1
7.2
Beauty and the Beast (2017)
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 17th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
SHORTS: Dante's Lunch: A Short Tail (7/10)
DATE: March 17th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
SHORTS: Dante's Lunch: A Short Tail (7/10)
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7.7
Torrey Pines (2016)
SCREENING: Q&A/live score (Clyde Petersen & Your Heart Breaks), BFI Flare
DATE: March 18th
CINEMA: BFI Southbank
LOCATION: London
DATE: March 18th
CINEMA: BFI Southbank
LOCATION: London
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7.3
7.7
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 20th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: March 20th
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6.2
6.2
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 23rd
CINEMA: Curzon
LOCATION: Soho
DATE: March 23rd
CINEMA: Curzon
LOCATION: Soho
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7.4
7.2
SCREENING: Basement
DATE: March 24th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
DATE: March 24th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
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7.6
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 25th
CINEMA: Curzon
LOCATION: Bloomsbury
DATE: March 25th
CINEMA: Curzon
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6.1
6.6
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: March 27th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: March 27th
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LOCATION: Bluewater
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6.8
6.6
SCREENING: 35mm
DATE: March 30th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: March 30th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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5.4
6.3
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: April 3rd
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: April 3rd
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
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6.6
6.6
A Quiet Passion (2016)
SCREENING: Basement
DATE: April 7th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
LOCATION: Greenwich
DATE: April 7th
CINEMA: Picturehouse
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5.8
6.7
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
SCREENING: UK cut, IMAX
DATE: April 12th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: April 12th
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LOCATION: Bluewater
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7.7
7.8
SCREENING: Spotlight
DATE: April 20th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: April 20th
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6.6
6.8
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: April 24th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: April 24th
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LOCATION: Bluewater
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7.2
7.7
SCREENING: Gallery
DATE: April 29th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: April 29th
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7.7
7.8
Lost in London (2017)
SCREENING: Q&A (Woody Harrelson, crew and cast)
DATE: April 30th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: April 30th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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6.9
SCREENING: Spotlight
DATE: May 4th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: May 4th
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5.9
6.4
Alien: Covenant (2017)
SCREENING: IMAX
DATE: May 15th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: May 15th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
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6.1
6.2
SCREENING: The Studio
DATE: May 19th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: May 19th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
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7.7
6.4
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: May 21st
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: May 21st
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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6.1
SCREENING: Q&A (Mike White, Miguel Arteta & Salma Heyek), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 1st
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 1st
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
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6.5
SCREENING: Q&A (Jessica Williams & James C. Strouse), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
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2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour
- Come Swim (9/10)
- 5 Films About Technology (8/10)
- Night Shift (9/10)
- Lucia, Before and After (7/10)
- Ten Meter Tower (10/10)
- Pussy (9/10)
- And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye (8/10)
SCREENING: Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: London
- Come Swim (9/10)
- 5 Films About Technology (8/10)
- Night Shift (9/10)
- Lucia, Before and After (7/10)
- Ten Meter Tower (10/10)
- Pussy (9/10)
- And the Whole Sky Fit in the Dead Cow's Eye (8/10)
SCREENING: Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: London
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6.5
6.6
SCREENING: Sundance Film Festival (Surprise Film)
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 2nd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
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Chasing Coral (2017)
SCREENING: Q&A (Jeff Orlowski & Richard Vevers), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 3rd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 3rd
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5.8
SCREENING: Q&A (Andrew J. Smith & Alex Smith), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 3rd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 3rd
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7.4
7.6
SCREENING: Q&A (Michael Showalter), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 3rd
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 3rd
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6.7
6.4
SCREENING: Q&A (Michael Almereyda), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 4th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
DATE: June 4th
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7.2
6.9
SCREENING: Q&A (David Lowery), Sundance Film Festival
DATE: June 4th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
LOCATION: West End
NOTE: Counting short films, this is the 1,000th film I have seen at the cinema in my life. God bless A24.
DATE: June 4th
CINEMA: Picturehouse Central
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Wonder Woman (2017)
SCREENING: Regular
DATE: June 6th
CINEMA: Showcase Cinema de Lux
LOCATION: Bluewater
DATE: June 6th
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Choose Brexit. Choose Trump. Choose not a single day without Steven Universe in your face. Choose mass hysteria. Choose apocalypse. Choose to escape from it all.
Choose car journeys, train journeys, bus journeys. Choose Showcase, Picturehouse, BFI, Curzon, Odeon, Cineworld, ICA, Prince Charles, Embankment, Ciné Lumière, Vue, Empire, Rich Mix, Barbican. Choose renting films on iTunes with an American account because they took so long to earn themselves a UK release. Choose leftovers from 2016, skipping those you already saw that year except for La La Land because the premiere audience wouldn't stop getting up to take a dump. Choose embarassing award ceremonies from top to especially bottom. Choose Smurfy Selfie Time before every movie you see in the Spring, even when they're rated 18. Choose Q&A's. Choose festivals. Choose Flare, Sundance, FrightFest, LFF, LIAF. Choose repertory screenings. Choose 2K, 4K, 35mm, 70mm, 2D, 3D, IMAX. Choose addiction. Choose 2018 delays. Choose surprises, disappointments, guilty pleasures. Choose sequels, reboots, remakes, cinematic universes, Oscar bait.
Choose CINEMA.
Choose sexual awakening thanks to Dev Patel's hair. Choose the MCU, the DCEU, the MonsterVerse, the Legoverse, the Disney remake-verse. Choose Greta Gerwig, Kristen Stewart, the Hidden Figures, Zoe Kazan, Tiffany Haddish, female-driven cinema. Choose Harvey Weinstein fucking up Oscar potential for the last time. Choose #BostonStrong, or don't, Lionsgate doesn't care what you think. Choose anime. Choose BBFC cuts in 2017. Choose Hollywood animation's downfall, which counts worse for the UK considering that Paddington 2 pushed Coco out. Choose taking photos of yourself with Woody Harrelson, Kevin Smith, Christopher Lloyd and Tommy Wiseau with Greg Sestero that nobody in their right mind will give a shit about. Choose wishing you lived life like Arielrocks5, because whatever the risks that's the only way you could appreciate movies like Colossal.
Choose short films, surprise films. Choose documentaries about racism, global warming, chickens, refugees. Choose trying to figuring out if A Ghost Story really was spot #1,000 on your combined diary after all. Choose live premieres, the difference being that the only other people in the Gallery seats were either guffawing at each other's banter no matter what the on-screen scenario or blabbing all the way through the first act of a tribute by one of The Voice's breakouts just because she's too voluptuous for them and not because she's super-talented. Choose Netflix controversy, animated war and Edgar Wright. Choose Despicable Me #3, Cars #3, Sony Spider-Man attempt #3, Project Itoh film #3, Rise of the Planet of the Apes #3. Choose the only cartoon movie of the summer worth taking your kids to, while cinemas nationwide argue that it's not successful enough to live as long as The Emoji Movie because 2017 is a year of no fucking justice.
Choose "I saw Dunkirk in 70mm". Choose that one complicated Mexican tentacle film you were going to see at a LGBTQ film festival but was prevented from doing so by a terror attack, therefore reducing your experience down to just Torrey Pines, and forever regret taking word from Letterboxd before deciding to see Lovesong before Brendan and Katie reviewed it. Choose Joe Bang. Choose #TragedyGirls. Choose Cruise. Choose trying and failing to watch decent horror with your friends on a Sunday. Choose attending Lloyd Kaufman's double bill screening even after he defended a sexual predator, because it's at least better than suffering through 70 more minutes of Goodbye Christopher Robin. Choose watching animated bellies bloat up while you've taken your friends. Choose no conclusion as to whether you were just being cynical over Blade Runner 2049 or it was just problematic as it is.
Choose applauding Adam Sandler's presence. Choose stories told by poor Swazi orphans who want their voices to be heard and internally weep because grown men in Hollywood can't do any better. Choose titles you're too cowardly to read out loud. Choose "yes, she fucks the fish". Choose "yes, the fish smooches him". Choose trying to concentrate on Joaquin Phoenix trying to overcome his past and addictions but the Stalls at the OLS always has a chain reaction of drunkards constantly taking a toilet break 20 minutes into a gala, and vow never to make this mistake again. Choose sitting at the front of the Royal Circle, with no need to worry about stupid alcoholics downstairs, and sit back as Greta Gerwig gives you the surprise of your life. Choose the closing gala of an Oscar film that not everybody will love for long. Choose My Little Pony. Choose Armie Hammer. Choose talking Pikachu, Frozen cash-grabbing and John Cena. #ChooseKind. Choose Aaron Sorkin, Jumanji and Don Hertzfeldt, and then sit back and end it all with Star Wars for the third time in a row.
Choose posting your journey onto Listal, Letterboxd, MUBI, IMDb, TMDb, Trakt, Rate Your Music, Cinematic and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across cinephiles smarter than you. Choose tweeting illiterate or typo-ridden reviews and hope that someone, somewhere cares, other than the chap who likes and retweets everything you tweet. Choose your friends not caring, because most of them are so drawn into cartoon and video game culture as well as their own fat fetishes that to them you feel like an outcast. Choose typing an overlong Trainspotting-type monologue about your experience anyway, which you'll never have to write again unless a T3 is made.
Choose being so film-crazed it puts you off your own projects, partly because a dozen of your iTunes downloads that you'll never watch take up your disk space. Choose tiredness and question why you're this addicted in the first place. Choose giving your parents and yourself hell, as you walk through the polluted streets of London, holding your breath for as long as you can, just to watch some obscure piece of art all by yourself.
Choose a slow and steady death of cinema. Choose finding out your favourite celebrity is either dead or a pervert. Choose treating awards committees like they matter when they nominated a happy musical about P.T. Barnum where The Big Sick should've been before it even comes out. Choose war over the self-proclaimed Smartest Film Critic in the World, Disney buying Fox, the FCC stripping your American friends of their freedom. Choose to watch your whole world fall apart at the seams and society crumble into stupidity, and watch Hollywood do exactly the same.
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Choose Brexit. Choose Trump. Choose not a single day without Steven Universe in your face. Choose mass hysteria. Choose apocalypse. Choose to escape from it all.
Choose car journeys, train journeys, bus journeys. Choose Showcase, Picturehouse, BFI, Curzon, Odeon, Cineworld, ICA, Prince Charles, Embankment, Ciné Lumière, Vue, Empire, Rich Mix, Barbican. Choose renting films on iTunes with an American account because they took so long to earn themselves a UK release. Choose leftovers from 2016, skipping those you already saw that year except for La La Land because the premiere audience wouldn't stop getting up to take a dump. Choose embarassing award ceremonies from top to especially bottom. Choose Smurfy Selfie Time before every movie you see in the Spring, even when they're rated 18. Choose Q&A's. Choose festivals. Choose Flare, Sundance, FrightFest, LFF, LIAF. Choose repertory screenings. Choose 2K, 4K, 35mm, 70mm, 2D, 3D, IMAX. Choose addiction. Choose 2018 delays. Choose surprises, disappointments, guilty pleasures. Choose sequels, reboots, remakes, cinematic universes, Oscar bait.
Choose CINEMA.
Choose sexual awakening thanks to Dev Patel's hair. Choose the MCU, the DCEU, the MonsterVerse, the Legoverse, the Disney remake-verse. Choose Greta Gerwig, Kristen Stewart, the Hidden Figures, Zoe Kazan, Tiffany Haddish, female-driven cinema. Choose Harvey Weinstein fucking up Oscar potential for the last time. Choose #BostonStrong, or don't, Lionsgate doesn't care what you think. Choose anime. Choose BBFC cuts in 2017. Choose Hollywood animation's downfall, which counts worse for the UK considering that Paddington 2 pushed Coco out. Choose taking photos of yourself with Woody Harrelson, Kevin Smith, Christopher Lloyd and Tommy Wiseau with Greg Sestero that nobody in their right mind will give a shit about. Choose wishing you lived life like Arielrocks5, because whatever the risks that's the only way you could appreciate movies like Colossal.
Choose short films, surprise films. Choose documentaries about racism, global warming, chickens, refugees. Choose trying to figuring out if A Ghost Story really was spot #1,000 on your combined diary after all. Choose live premieres, the difference being that the only other people in the Gallery seats were either guffawing at each other's banter no matter what the on-screen scenario or blabbing all the way through the first act of a tribute by one of The Voice's breakouts just because she's too voluptuous for them and not because she's super-talented. Choose Netflix controversy, animated war and Edgar Wright. Choose Despicable Me #3, Cars #3, Sony Spider-Man attempt #3, Project Itoh film #3, Rise of the Planet of the Apes #3. Choose the only cartoon movie of the summer worth taking your kids to, while cinemas nationwide argue that it's not successful enough to live as long as The Emoji Movie because 2017 is a year of no fucking justice.
Choose "I saw Dunkirk in 70mm". Choose that one complicated Mexican tentacle film you were going to see at a LGBTQ film festival but was prevented from doing so by a terror attack, therefore reducing your experience down to just Torrey Pines, and forever regret taking word from Letterboxd before deciding to see Lovesong before Brendan and Katie reviewed it. Choose Joe Bang. Choose #TragedyGirls. Choose Cruise. Choose trying and failing to watch decent horror with your friends on a Sunday. Choose attending Lloyd Kaufman's double bill screening even after he defended a sexual predator, because it's at least better than suffering through 70 more minutes of Goodbye Christopher Robin. Choose watching animated bellies bloat up while you've taken your friends. Choose no conclusion as to whether you were just being cynical over Blade Runner 2049 or it was just problematic as it is.
Choose applauding Adam Sandler's presence. Choose stories told by poor Swazi orphans who want their voices to be heard and internally weep because grown men in Hollywood can't do any better. Choose titles you're too cowardly to read out loud. Choose "yes, she fucks the fish". Choose "yes, the fish smooches him". Choose trying to concentrate on Joaquin Phoenix trying to overcome his past and addictions but the Stalls at the OLS always has a chain reaction of drunkards constantly taking a toilet break 20 minutes into a gala, and vow never to make this mistake again. Choose sitting at the front of the Royal Circle, with no need to worry about stupid alcoholics downstairs, and sit back as Greta Gerwig gives you the surprise of your life. Choose the closing gala of an Oscar film that not everybody will love for long. Choose My Little Pony. Choose Armie Hammer. Choose talking Pikachu, Frozen cash-grabbing and John Cena. #ChooseKind. Choose Aaron Sorkin, Jumanji and Don Hertzfeldt, and then sit back and end it all with Star Wars for the third time in a row.
Choose posting your journey onto Listal, Letterboxd, MUBI, IMDb, TMDb, Trakt, Rate Your Music, Cinematic and a thousand other ways to spew your bile across cinephiles smarter than you. Choose tweeting illiterate or typo-ridden reviews and hope that someone, somewhere cares, other than the chap who likes and retweets everything you tweet. Choose your friends not caring, because most of them are so drawn into cartoon and video game culture as well as their own fat fetishes that to them you feel like an outcast. Choose typing an overlong Trainspotting-type monologue about your experience anyway, which you'll never have to write again unless a T3 is made.
Choose being so film-crazed it puts you off your own projects, partly because a dozen of your iTunes downloads that you'll never watch take up your disk space. Choose tiredness and question why you're this addicted in the first place. Choose giving your parents and yourself hell, as you walk through the polluted streets of London, holding your breath for as long as you can, just to watch some obscure piece of art all by yourself.
Choose a slow and steady death of cinema. Choose finding out your favourite celebrity is either dead or a pervert. Choose treating awards committees like they matter when they nominated a happy musical about P.T. Barnum where The Big Sick should've been before it even comes out. Choose war over the self-proclaimed Smartest Film Critic in the World, Disney buying Fox, the FCC stripping your American friends of their freedom. Choose to watch your whole world fall apart at the seams and society crumble into stupidity, and watch Hollywood do exactly the same.
Choose your future. Choose your whole world's future. Choose cinema's future. Choose Life...
...but why would you want to do a thing like that?
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