January 2017 - Film

Welcome All!

In terms of new films this month, here are two recommendations that you may find entertaining in the cinema this month.


Films in January:

With no little audacity, La La Land seeks its own place somewhere on a continuum between Singin’ in the Rain and Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, with a hint of Alan Parker’s Fame for the opening sequence, in which a bunch of young kids with big dreams, symbolically stuck in a traffic jam on the freeway leading to Los Angeles, get out of their cars and stage a big dance number.
Chazelle creates musical numbers for the pair of them, and Gosling and Stone carry these off with delicacy and charm, despite or because of the fact that they are not real singers. But Stone fits the part beautifully: something in the hesitancy and even frailty of her singing voice is just right. Both actors are also very accomplished dancers within a shrewdly limited range. La La Land is such a happy, sweet-natured movie – something to give you a vitamin-D boost of sunshine. My rating 9/10.



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 Set shortly before the events of ‘A New Hope’, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ reveals how the Rebellion got their hands on the designs for the Death Star. The Galactic Empire is at the height of its power, and their ultimate weapon is nearly complete. Along with a team of rebel soldiers, former criminal Jyn Erso sets out on a desperate mission to steal the plans so they can figure out how to destroy it. The Galaxy Far Far Away gets even bigger with ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, shining a light on a part of this universe that we’ve never seen before. My rating 8/10.

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