I was genuinely surprised when I walked out of 'Birdman' realising that I wanted it to win Best Picture over one of my favourite films of 2014, Boyhood. While Boyhood has become widely renowned as a modern masterpiece, and Linklater definitely deserves Oscar glory for a lifetime of terrific work, 'Birdman' is so irresistibly bold, unique, fresh and batshit insane that one can't help root for it, even if it didn't take twelve years to make. 'Birdman' soars wholeheartedly due…

This movie starts so promisingly and just winds down as it trudges along for 150 minutes. The technical side is all outstanding, not good, outstanding: the cinematography is beautiful, making even filth look incredible, with bright crisp colours, and the direction always reflects the main character's obsession with smells, as the editing and camera is always flowing and moving and cutting away to a different object to make the viewer fully understand and grasp his talent while still looking gorgeous.…

Too often are horror remakes discarded for daring to touch the legacy of their originals which, in this case, sometimes aren't all they're hyped up to be. This film is the perfect remake and the perfect horror film, one in which almost every single element is improved upon from the original. The best aspect of the film, one which is jarringly absent from the original, is the characters and character dynamics. This films does what the original doesn't; develops them…