Awards season continues apace, and I enjoyed being in the room with winners like Timothée Chalamet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Thomas Anderson on Sunday at the 46th Critics' Circle Film Awards on Sunday, attending as a voting member, rather than as chair, for the first time in 15 years (see below). As for watching movies, the comical thriller
Cold Storage is a lot of fun, starring Joe Keery and Georgina Campbell as night watchmen who stumble into an alien fungal nightmare, with added Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville.
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I also caught the staggeringly gorgeous Japanese anime thriller
All You Need Is Kill, based on the same novel as Tom Cruise's
Edge of Tomorrow. The skilful animation and immersive story make it hugely entertaining. And then there was the K-pop concert film
Stray Kids: The DominATE Experience, a great introduction to this band's impressive musicality. Although the 4DX screening was a bit exhausting for two and a half hours. I also watched three more documentaries: the Oscar/Bafta-nominated
Mr Nobody Against Putin is wonderfully inspiring, powerfully moving and eye-opening;
The Librarians is a blood-boiling tale of politically motivated censorship hiding behind religiosity and the important heroes who are fighting it; and
Everybody to Kenmure Street covers a momentous 2021 Glasgow standoff in a way that's thrilling, emotive and timely.
Coming up this next week, I'll be watching Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell's
Wuthering Heights, Daphne Keen in
Whistle, the animated adventure
Goat, Stephen Graham in
The Good Boy, horror thriller
Jimmy and Stiggs and
Cairo-set action in
Eagles of the Republic, plus catching up with more docs, including
Apocalypse in the Tropics and
The Alabama Solution, plus a live performance of
Sweet Mambo at Sadler's Wells.
