Yeah! His moves were damn impressive.
Nope. Haven’t seen or heard of Riders Of Justice so thanks for the heads up.
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Does anyone else get Taron Egerton and Ansel Elgort mixed up? Genuinely thought they were the same person until today
- Yeah, fair enough
- No
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I know neither of these people and I have already confused them with Tuppence Middleton
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Taron Egerton, Aaron Eckhart, Ansel Elgort, Alden Ehrenreich, all the same person imo
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I’m ill. Today I’ve watched shutter Island, cruel intentions and now the Todd Phillips Joker
Last night we watched the last black man in San Francisco which was really good
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One of the most underrated films of the last 5 years I’d say
That distant shot when you can see him skating down the huge San Fran hill … pure cinema 
A sensitive and nuanced portrait of mental illness 5/5
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treated myself to a Greenaway double bill tonight - Draughtsman’s Contract followed by A Zed And Two Noughts
absolute 
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I absolutely loved Lamb, a late contender for my film of the year. Looks absolutely stunning, the whole premise is played so straight bat that I fully went on board with it and the sense of dread throughout was nearly suffocating.
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Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Before watching it I genuinely wondered how Hamaguchi could possibly make a 3 hour film out of a 40 page Murakami short story without it dragging and feeling superfluous, yet it flew by in a flash, the original short story cleverly underpinning one of the central themes of the film and then both expanding and being interwoven throughout. Very astute screenplay (won best screenplay at Cannes) in that regard. Cinematography, too, was beautifully simplistic yet affecting, and the central performances from Hidetoshi Nishijima and Tôko Miura were fantastic. Very mature performance from Miura.
Amazing film. Fully deserves all the accolades it’s been receiving.
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done me, there
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watched the Altman/Paul Newman post-apocalyptic ice age film Quintet earlier
it was… rubbish?!
FYI
I watched two quite bleak indie films last night, The Killing Of Two Lovers and My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To. I enjoyed them both
Recently watched:
8-Bit Christmas - 80s throwback film where Doogie Howser narrates the story of his younger self and his attempts to get hold of a Nintendo in the late 80s. Gets a perfect mix of nostalgia, cheesiness, feel good and the purile. Laughed out loud far more than I thought I would and it’s just a nice sweet Christmas film. 8.5/10.
Azor - A well made Argentinian film set in 1980 during the dictatorship and the disappearances of people. Fabrizio Rongione is a Swiss banker who goes to Argentina to take over from his business partner who’s disappeared. A very subtle and understated paranoia thriller. Slightly a sort of Klute-style film. Definitely worth a watch after reading the rave reviews and presume other people may well like it far more than me. I didn’t connect with it as much as I’d hoped to unfortunately though I really did enjoy the ending. 7/10.
tick, tick…Boom! - Musical about Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent. Hadn’t heard of him despite the fact that Rent was massive in the late 90s. Andrew Garfield was brilliant and there is definitely a strong resemblance between Garfield and Larson.
The songs were pretty good and the cast was very strong with director Lin-Manuel Miranda giving himself a very small bit part and with probably an entire alumni of Julliard actors and performers. I recognised one or two famous ones (from Channel Four sitcoms of yesteryear) but my performance art knowledge is next to zero.
Judith Light was particularly brilliant as Larson’s agent (alas no Tony Danza) and Vanessa Hudgens whose Princess Switch films I’ve enjoyed recently has a small supporting role.
I thought I’d check out The Guardian’s top 50 film list and cross off the ones available to me via my current film subscriptions. This was the first one and it’s a pretty good film. 7.5/10.
Let It Snow - Rom-com of a bunch of teens and their unrequited love at a small snowy US town during Christmas. Main leads Isabel Merced and New Sabrina Kiernan Shipka are pretty good. Joan Cusack as cameo gives it a little backbone. Pretty flimsy as a film but harmless enough and oddly liked it far more than I should have. 7/10.
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Double bill at Peckhamplex, the cinema time (and inflation) forgot.
C’mon C’mon - Really loved this, very much my shit but Phoenix is a real natural and the very impressive Woody Norman is an absolute star.
Hope - Norwegian melodrama set at Christmas dealing with a pair of artists, one of whom finds out she has terminal cancer. Festive! Decent though if overlong.
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how busy was peckhamplex? keen to check out cmon cmon this weekend
About 10 people for C’mon c’mon, me and 1 other patron for Hope. Foyer and ticket queue were busy but everyone was seeing Spiderman.
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House of Gucci eh
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