Sing Street (2016)
In January, I messed up. I accidentally watched what I still consider to be my favourite movie made in 2016 one month into the new year. Do I call it my favourite movie of 2016? Is it my favourite movie of 2017? Will I ever stop attempting to force people to watch Sing Street with me? With all of the 2016 hype around La La Land , it seems like people forgot about the much smaller scale musical that was Sing Street. It's a goddamn tragedy. I have no real feelings about John Carney as a filmmaker - I haven’t seen Once or Begin Again - but I was so pleasantly swept up in this movie, which oozed the feel-good vibes that people credited to La La Land despite never being there. The music was outstanding and the evocation of an 80s nostalgia on the Irish climate of the time. The fact that this didn't get nominated for any original song Oscars is still an outrage - to this day, "Up" and "Drive it Like You Stole It" feature heavil...