Frozen

"Hoo-hoo! Big summer blow-out. Half off swimming suits, clogs, and a sun balm of my own invention, ja?" — Oaken

Refreshing to see this style of movie feature two women as the main dynamic, who aren't just fighting over men. The 'true love's first kiss' trope hasn't worked since Shrek did it (and did it well, as the point was that they were in fairyland), but the characters' wit was in a modern and slightly different style, the environment was new and the villains less hackneyed than expected. Music variable (For the First Time in Forever's lovely, Let It Go can be nothing less than stonking with Idina Menzel's pipes behind it, but the trolls' song was dire). Not bad, but not topping any lists.

Star Trek Into Darkness

"Bones, what are you doing with that Tribble?" — Captain James Tiberius Perfecthair

A very worthy sequel, with a brilliant villain, with good banter, and succumbing only slightly more to "ooh he said the line he says in the thing" than the first one. As a physicist my favourite part was the National Ignition Facility standing in for the Enterprise's warp core. That's some serious science cred.

The Wolverine

Stretching it a bit.

The barely-present romantic subplot was completely pointless and transparently tacked-on, the samurai/Yakuza/'disrespect' Japanese setting felt uncomfortably stereotypical, and the secondary villain had no backstory whatsoever. Jackman is once again the perfect Wolverine (the opening sequence in the bar was done well), physically (holy Christ) and tonally, but the film feels like a tedious attempt to wring a higher movie count out of the character. About the only useful transformation as a result is showing Logan's turmoil over Jean's fate - something that could have been accomplished in a flashback or vignette as part of the next X-Men story.

Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor

Another Christmas offering, this time heralding the end of the Eleventh Doctor. Honestly though, it's getting a bit tiring.

On the motion of Bullock in an orbit: Gravity

IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL.

As an astrophysicist, I never quite know how to approach the science in movies. For works like Contact (thankfully written by an esteemed scientist), there's a clear and story-serving divide between the real world and the entertaining fiction inspired by sciency ideas. You can see where the fictions have developed from, and accept them as plausible extensions of reality. I appreciate that scientific accuracy is often rightfully discarded in search of a good story - I'm not puritanical. But movies like Gravity still make me a little fidgety in the science department.