Because it’s Friday, let’s talk movies!
2017 has seen the release of some really great movies, and you really should see some of them if you haven’t.
While there are loads and loads of must-watch 2017 movies, here are 7 of my personal favourites you can checkout this weekend.
No matter the particular movie genre you prefer to stick with, I promise you’d love these. They’re totally worth the time!
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The Founder
https://youtu.be/KH3b6bs8llA
The man who built one of the largest restaurant franchises in the world is not named McDonald.
Ray Kroc, who transformed a small burger joint into a global fast food giant, is already a household name, but The Founder tells the story behind the origins of McDonald’s and how Kroc rewrote history.
Directed by John Lee Hancock, the movie features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
If you’re a business owner, this is a must-watch. And even if you’re not, it’s something you’d want to watch over and over again like I did.
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The Circle
The Circle is a techno-thriller film based on Eggers’ 2013 novel of the same name.
It follows the story of a Google-like Internet company and its gradual encroachment on its users’ privacy. The movie, written and directed by James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now) stars Emma Watson as the new employee who watches as the tech firm quietly takes over the planet.
The film also stars Tom Hanks, with John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly and Bill Paxton.
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Get Out
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is one of the more intriguing and provocative horror movies to come out of Hollywood in recent years.
The movie is a comedy-inflected horror story about what it means to be black in America.
In summary, a talented young black photographer called Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) goes on a trip with Rose, his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) to visit her parents. Having already worried that the parents might be racist, Chris is disturbed to find that the seemingly-liberal family has a number of black “servants” who behave like zombies, seemingly controlled and manipulated by an unseen force. He is further unsettled by (mostly white) visitors to the house who make gauche, racially-charged and fetishising comments, crooning over Chris’s “frame and genetic make-up” and announcing “Black is in fashion!”
The plot is crazy and is unexpected for the most part. So far, it’s my best 2017 movie.
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Before I Fall
Adapted from Lauren Oliver’s successful YA novel of the same name, Before I Fall is the story of a popular high school senior (Zoey Deutch, from Dirty Grandpa) caught in a time loop that forces her to relive a crucial day in her life over and over again.
This neatly written high-concept package delivers both technical polish and a toothsome yet likeable cast. Better still, it has just enough tragic edge to draw young adults, and young-at-heart adults, with melancholy temperaments.
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Split
Split is a psychological horror-thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Betty Buckley.
Three girls are kidnapped by a ruthless stranger (James McAvoy) and imprisoned in his basement. They soon learn that their captor has 23 different personalities, forcing them to plot their escape without ever knowing which of his 23 personas — young or old, male or female, benign or monstrous — they will confront on the way out. While they are at this, a frightful new 24th personality emerges.
