London Film Festival 2018

This year, I was able to spend more time than previously at London Film Festival, and my thoughts on the films I saw can be read over at The Movie Isle. You can also see my ranked list of the films at Letterboxd - I managed 17, and if I lived in London I would …

First Man

Damien Chazelle shows how to tell a story in a way that still feels incredibly tense even though it's well documented as to how it all works out. Honestly, I found the opening sequence terrifying. Together with a couple of other shots which take place in a fast-moving, madly-shaking spacecraft, it is a reminder of …

A Star Is Born

The title is the beginning of the problem, I think, in that Bradley Cooper has made a film about him and not a film about her, and so the title doesn't make sense anymore. I mean, the film is fine and everything, but it didn't grab me as much as the hype would have me …