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I shan't go on about Star Wars, although maybe i'll merely mention how i rather surprised myself that to a midnight showing of it went. I had very little interest in going, yet as soon as i was home yesterday, i began to look into when i might see it. This was partly down to the Christmas works...

:) Thanks for that. I looked at the length of the film they were to show, 122 minutes, being rather different from the 140 minutes of the Force, so thought it rather unlikely. I expected to go along, with my friend Roberto who was rather adamant it would be Star Wars, and 20 spotty chaps in...

A bit sad, i know, but when i move house, which hasn't been for quite a few years now, i do need to be somewhere close enough to a cinema or two to keep me going. Also, it's made a difference in who i've ended up being with, relationship-wise, my need for film, i'd say. I wouldn't want an...

I saw Bridge of Spies at a Vue. The reason being I renewed my Club Lloyds account and they gave me 6 Vue tickets for doing so. I chose that film as it was on about 11am and I thought few other viewers would be in there at that time to annoy me. :) I have my cineworld membership, but the main use...

:) I wanted to be nice. I just can't do it though, with most Hollywood stuff. I want to see films and observe a little of how they're put together, to see actors and directors and how they handle character and subject, and, moreso nowadays, the music buzzing in and around them. I find it...

I am not sure if i am becoming lenient toward films, you know, with age, at least in part, but today i only squirmed about 7 times with The Bridge of Spies, that new all-American Spielberg film. T'other day i saw Hunger Games 11 and didn't feel hateful either - tis not a good or cheery film, but...

All sorts of matters can deter me from seeing a film - Hanks AND Spielberg together again in the trailer I saw yesterday made me wince with non-seeing, but probably will in the end, intent - and with Brooklyn it was in part the poster, and the image to sell it that I saw in the film festival...

I won't look to dip in to the Spectre-mostly-loving thread and muddy it with my opinion, but it was a film i saw this evening, and felt quite a bit of pity for. It was one of those films that you felt the standard ingredients - reasonably acclaimed European actor as malicious villian, women...

When I went to see The Skin I Live In, that Almodovar film, a few years ago, the selection of Spaniards watching it at the same time were quite tickled throughout, whilst I saw no humour in it whatsoever. I wonder if the likes of Takashi makes innumerous in-jokes that only those from Japan would...

Right then, that's it, and what a way to go. The daylight hours were fairly boring, but the illogical madness and mania of Yakuza Apocalypse made it very much alright. My friend asked me to get him some tickets when they became available, so i decided to and to join him for his selections. He...

My penultimate multi-cinematic ramblings of the year to the un-or mistakenly-interested. It began with Krisha, a film shot in 9 days, pretty much all with family members as the cast. Opened with an 8-minute take of Krisha arriving, with part of her dress trapped in the door of her car, and then...

Right, i am at cinema collapse point now and have to try and remember what i've seen the last few days, and certainly in the order i've seen them - which i wonder if is at all necessary to anyone but me. The Assassin - at the end of it, a few of us met and asked each other whether we knew...

I hope you don't mind, but I'll try to remember to grade them all when it's over, and out of 11.6.

Butt-based doctors ahoy. My arse really aches. Today i'm walking to town rather than cycling to give my cheeks a rest from excessive resting. I began yesterday with Black Mass. My friend wanted to see it, having been interested in the general story of Whitey Bulger himself and his life of crime...

A brief brief synopsis now for 6 films: Aferim! - a black and white Romanian western (oh no, not one of those again) in which a father and son constable pairing in 19th century Romania are sent on a mission to track down a thieving gypsy. The shots were sometimes most pretty and the language...

So, not an ace day, but some good enough bits and nothing without any interest to it. It began with Trumbo, the, for the most part, incredibly unchallenging biopic of Dalton Trumbo, a great writer shunned from Hollywood both professionally and personally for holding left-wing views and having...

Quite a good day of it really. Got me in to the spirit of the festival again. First up was Taxi Tehran made by Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker banned from making films by the Iranian government and therefore on each occasion having to do so secretly, with the secretiveness of it being part of the...

So I went to what the presenter said was the first film to be shown at the festival this year. I was eager, if somewhat tired after a day at work, and expected something rather interesting at the least. Sadly, it wasn't in its entirety. Some shots were good and it was interesting how in the 3...

Sounds good. I was a big fan of the director doing Incendies a few years back. I have plans for it in my gap hours in the festival. The earliest possible is Sunday afternoon.

The girlfriend is Spanish and has been living in London for more than 6 years now. She bemoans at times how long it takes to have English as close enough to her first language not to worry about it. Today she spent two hours with in the cinema and didn't understand a word of it. She might've...