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As ever, i try to cinema it with the fewest others present. This morning it was a 9.50 showing of the unreviewed Sherlock Holmes comedy, but, whilst me and 2 others sat and waited, the manager came in to say they couldn't fix the projector, and off we went. I scoured through other cinemas and...

:) Nah. I'd only see that if my only other option was Aquaman, which looks frigging awful. Saying that, the Mary Poppins trailer i saw the other day made me squirm with an almost incurable displeasure.

The girlfriend, and Meade Jr, are now in Spain for a long Christmas. I flew with them, and then came back to work, but of course my partial plan was to use this spare time to see some flicks. Saying goodbye to Meade Jr was heartbreaking, his little hand waving, with no idea that i would be gone...

I'm enjoying my Mubi streaming membership. Each week i get a free ticket to see 1 film. I am fortunate that 1 of the cinemas that shows the films Mubi chooses is quite nearby - Crouch End Arthouse - so when i steal away, i lug my ipad with MubiGo app included, and in i go for free. A couple of...

Went to see Disobedience this evening. At times the passion was consuming and inarguable, but it didn't fully gel as an eternal love story. I didn't feel the characters were delved into enough to make this an effective blend, and clash, of mourning, religious practice, and unstoppable physical...

:) I thank you. All sounds rather Festen eh. Which isn't a bad thing to mirror. Well, it's bad, but ideally watchable.

On the box at crimbo, innit? Wheatley went down in my estimations with his last 2 pics. I feared that - and this is not in relation to you I promise - he had become surrounded by sycophants, and slightly lost the correct mix of humour and unnerving murk. I hope this is back to his better fare.

I returned, after about 3 years, to Monday night football just yesterday - oddly, a new player has joined the set of mature trotters, and it's Sam Spruell, who I recognized, before heading to IMDB to see what he's been in - and between work and matchtime I went to see The Hate U Give. Not bad...

So, a few films to go through now. Um, let's start with In Fabric. Directed by Peter Strickland, with his noise-heavy and style-abundant fare which is this time at its funniest, rather than just quirky. He was there to introduce the film, made a joke about it being a Nigel Farage nightmare, and...

1 film today, and quite a good one too. I sometimes select a film for the festival by looking at the single image they have in the catalogue, and for this film it was the forlorn image of two children - what awful cruelty, to children, you might think, does Meade wish to view - and that invited...

I saw through my plan yesterday, of buying a soya latte and taking it in with me, but i feel the key part of it that i forgot was to GO LARGE. The effects wore off, and the 2.5 hour film on Budapest just a little pre-first-world-war had me drift in and out of the outskirts of dreams. It was...

With the power of a soya latte - caffeine hurts Meade's brain, but falling asleep in the cinema hurts me more - i was able to watch Dogman this evening. What a beauty. From the director of Gomorrah, this is a return to top form from Matteo Garrone. It's jovial to begin with as we meet Marcello...

I saw First Man yesterday too, and thought it a quite moving drama. Part of the trick seemed to be detail in the dialogue that the average Joe wouldn't understand, and in doing so, these known legends sounded above us and realistic, even though they didn't look similar to the characters they...

Often one learns of oneself through experience, whilst as age has it's glowering grip on one, i tend to experience less. This is a plateau, therefore, for myself and development. Although, i had a truth reinforced this evening, that i am not, and never will be, a whooper. Even a drunken whooper...

So, I went to see Widows yesterday afternoon, and I thought was quite good. Not amazing, or endlessly thrilling, either socially, emotionally, or action-movie-ly, but reasonable. The film opens with a good car chase and action, and I suppose that is not what you are expecting from a Steve...

The London Film Festival starts for me tomorrow with Widows, followed by a meagre 9 other films over a week or so, so i thought i would get in the mood for it by seeing a brace of flicks today. I'll speak of the second one first, as i suppose i want to forget it in a hurry. It was Venom, and...

I went to that there A Star is Born this afternoon, in a mildly sickly fashion, but made it through with an occasional cough and wheeze. I'd read of it highly spoken of in a review or two a month or so ago, and i thought i best sneak into see it. It was a good watch, for the most part - Lady...

I fall asleep quite a lot in films these days, as I mention regularly, but on Saturday I went to see The Little Stranger, and felt that I'd dropped off even though I hadn't. I felt mostly unstruck by it, and not greatly mystified. There was definitely something amiss with the casting. Will...

Finally got around to watching BlackKklansman t'other day and, sadly, did drop off a little during it. As per usual this is not because of a poorness of film, but general life tiring poor Meade on a daily happy basis, and those impossibly comfy chairs you get in a Picturehouse. I think from now...

Took the chance yesterday to go catch Cold War. I'd seen the director's previous film, Ida, on a tired day, and i recall being in and out of the atrium of sleep, and have wanted to see it since again. This film was in black and white again, and gorgeously shot, needless of colour for tone and...