Time to pick up the pace again at these flashbacks through each month of filmbore's inaugural year, where we look at the first 52 reviews released from June 2012 to May 2013. Each pick-of-the-week is up for a chance to be in a
special Top 20, listing the best of the bunch,
Let's remember November 2012
So, as there is a concerted effort to improve the content behind the scenes, with promises of more Top 10s as a result, November kept filmbore busy still, but at at least the commotion was for dedication for the site this time. Not only was this a big step up for filmbore, but lucky calendar timing meant five Fridays landed in the month, bring five reviews. And, more importantly, filmbore finally became a published critic, with ten reviews showing up in Sheffield's zine, The Eyelids Of Dawn issue 1 (find out more by clicking here).
Coming back to the reviews, it was a strong month for the site. These are some hard movies to choose from. For those of you that love homegrown indie drama, you don't get much more humble and real than the fantastic Once Were Warriors. But if you prefer to exercise your grey matter a little further, then perhaps you were more intellectually satisfied with brain-buster Pi. Keeping the dark but lowering all barriers is the shock action gore-fest of the millennium from Japan with the infamously brave Battle Royale. Maybe their eastern Asian cousins output from Hong Kong is more your bag, with the genius crime-drama Infernal Affairs. Or, if you're a sucker for a Michael Haneke film, you don't get more Haneke than his beautifully filmed drama thriller Hidden/Caché.
Should one, some or all of these films be considered in my ultimate Top 20 of the first year of filmbore? Comment below...
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