Geek of Oz

What do you mean it’s almost July?! The year is flying by, so I thought i’d take this brief moment to look back on some of the cinematic highlights of the past six months. Hopefully you’ve seen them; if not, I hope you take the time to track them down. My top ten for the year are as follows: 1. Son of Saul 2. Steve Jobs 3. Carol 4. Anomalisa 5. Hail, Caesar! 6. Swiss Army Man 7. Paterson 8. Chevalier 9. Marguerite 10. Rams  Please share your top films of the year in the comments below.  - Stu  Here's a list of everything i've watched at the cinemas this year:  1. The Peanuts Movie 2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 3. Tangerine 4. The Revenant 5. Sisters 6. Hateful 8 7. Carol 8. The Big Short 9. Steve Jobs 10. Hateful 8 11. Room 12. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 13. Sherpa 14. Spotlight 15. The Danish Girl 16. Brooklyn 17. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 18. Anomalisa 19. Deadpool 20. Zoolander 2 21. Steve Jobs 22. Deadpool 23. Deadpool 24....

I watch hundreds of hours of cinema each year in order to find films like Son of Saul . Simply put, it’s remarkable; maybe even the best film I’ll see all year. It’s an unrelenting look at the holocaust from a its most disturbing perspective: exposing us to the inner machinations of a Nazi death camp. Truly disturbing and fascinating (in its depiction of human capacity for brutality) in equal measure. I’m still processing the effect this film has had on me. The film follows Saul Ausländer (Géza Röhrig), who is a Sonderkommando - an Hungarian Jew forced to work within the gas chambers at a death camp. His duties entail herding unsuspecting victims into processing rooms, where they strip naked on the promise of hot food and a ‘shower’. From there they are led to the gas chambers and Saul is forced to witness the fate of the victims time and time again as they are massacred with ruthless efficiency. All this changes when Saul identifies a body of an individual with whom he had a ...