Retrospective 2016 – A Year in Film

June

Hard to Cure the Summertime Blues

Image sources: 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, IFC Films & Icon Film

The first summer month proved to be a bit of a dud at UK theatres with disappointing flashy CGI blockbusters like alien invasion sequel ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ and contender for worse movie of the year ‘Gods of Egypt’, not to mention instantly forgettable comedies like ‘The Boss’ and the late Garry Marshall’s final film ‘Mother’s Day’. The cinematic month was just about saved by unique foreign films and indies like bizarre dark fairy-tale ‘Tale of Tales’ and Amazonian drama ‘Embrace of the Serpent’, not to mention one of the year’s welcome surprises in the form of irreverent 70s “buddy-detective” comedy ‘The Nice Guys’.

Rumble, Young Man Rumble

Image source: Columbia Pictures

Along with the many other sad and unexpected celebrity deaths this year, June signalled the passing of sheer legend with the death of Muhammad Ali at the age of 74, finally being released from the disease which ravaged his body and entrapped his mind in it for decades. Aside from becoming the most influential athlete ever and a global cultural icon, Ali was also briefly a film star after starring as himself in the 1977 autobiographical drama ‘The Greatest’.

Those We Lost

Image source: Warner & Paramount

The start of summer brought the passing of American film and TV actress Ronnie Claire Edwards (83) (The Waltons, The Dead Pool), as well as diminutive Hungarian actor and the man inside “Alf” Mihaly Meszaros (76) (Alf, Big Top Pee-wee). But one of the most shocking losses in the industry came in June when young Russian/American actor Anton Yelchin (Star Trek, Green Room) was tragically crushed by his own car at the tender age of 27.

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