BIRDMAN
                               Soars above the rest

One of the most accomplished and visionary Director's in Hollywood,  Alejandro Gonzalez's brings us Birdman or "The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance" . 2015 Golden Globe winner and Oscar favorite Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a washed up movie star known who's career is only defined by his role of Birdman in a blockbuster movie franchise many years earlier. Now divorced from ex-wife Sylvia (Amy Ryan) and attempting to mend his relationship with troubled daughter Sam (Emma Stone), Riggan mounts a stage production of a Raymond Carver story on Broadway. As opening night approaches, Thomson is propelled headlong towards a transformational crisis, battling his fellow actors (Naomi Watts, Edward Norton and Andrea Rise borough), the film’s producer (Zach Galifianakis) but mostly his own inner demons – which take the form of his former superhero character, Birdman. Thomson meditates, drinks, hallucinates and fights his way to what in inevitably unfortunate end.

          Birdman 's satirical approach about celebrity hood, differences between cinema and theatre and negative thoughts on critics {fantastic rant provided in film }. As Thomson's is slow decline into madness giving into the voices we all here, the inner monologues that attempt to derail ones life. Cinematographer  Emmanuel Lubezki shoots the film as if it was a single take, with the camera never leaving our actors the difficulty of which could not be measured, but astounds never the less. Direction and Cinematography alone elevate this intense adrenaline fuelled film, with benefits from its drum score {Antonio Sanchez}. An already an award winning Birdman Fly's above all.

                                                                 Cannon Canclusion
                                                                           10/10