Recently had a good time with......
Dunkirk (visually stunning, all sea, sky, beach, wide open spaces with small vulnerable suffering humans but offset by intimate/spectacular Spitfire footage. Remarkable soundtrack & poetic ending).
Baby Driver (terrific if Romanticising successor to The Driver, Drive, Bullitt etc., never mind the spacey, feel the Soundtrack (come to think of it, Christopher Plummer would have been good in this as a spacey-sub too).
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (hated it first time, loved it tearfully the second, still looking for an accurate but affordable Rocket Racoon figure).
American Made (FAR better than expected - political critique lightly hidden inside a terrific 1970s CIA/drugrunning thrill-ride, stunning aerial sequences, Tom Cruise playing his usual self but brilliantly attractive voiceover/onscreen presence - want to see this again)
Less Happy with....
​Beauty and the Beast (the recent musical one, just far too twee and formulaic for all its visual beauty, haven't even got to the end of it yet.... back to Cocteau, I'm afraid.)
Dunkirk (visually stunning, all sea, sky, beach, wide open spaces with small vulnerable suffering humans but offset by intimate/spectacular Spitfire footage. Remarkable soundtrack & poetic ending).
Baby Driver (terrific if Romanticising successor to The Driver, Drive, Bullitt etc., never mind the spacey, feel the Soundtrack (come to think of it, Christopher Plummer would have been good in this as a spacey-sub too).
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (hated it first time, loved it tearfully the second, still looking for an accurate but affordable Rocket Racoon figure).
American Made (FAR better than expected - political critique lightly hidden inside a terrific 1970s CIA/drugrunning thrill-ride, stunning aerial sequences, Tom Cruise playing his usual self but brilliantly attractive voiceover/onscreen presence - want to see this again)
Less Happy with....
​Beauty and the Beast (the recent musical one, just far too twee and formulaic for all its visual beauty, haven't even got to the end of it yet.... back to Cocteau, I'm afraid.)
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