This has been a quiet week for press screenings, so I've enjoyed having some time to catch up on other things that have been pressing. It also helps that the weather has been sunny and nice, our first proper London spring in three years. The biggest film I watched this week was a bit of wishful thinking. In the action thriller
G20, Viola Davis plays a no-nonsense US president fighting some nasty baddies. Essentially a revamped
Die Hard, the movie is familiar and very silly, but also a solid guilty pleasure.
Other films this week included two offbeat music documentaries: Kevin Macdonald's
One to One: John & Yoko follows a couple of pivotal years for the artists in protest-filled New York, adding a skilfully kaleidoscopic context to the music. And
The Extraordinary Miss Flower is a beautifully swirling concoction exploring how Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini was inspired by a letters that revealed another woman's passion-filled past.
There were also a few things outside the regular release schedule. I attended a terrific screening and Q&A for the new Black Mirror episode Hotel Reverie, with Charlie Brooker, Emma Corrin and others. It's a gorgeously surreal love letter to classic movie romance. I finally caught up with Pedro Almodovar's involving, beautifully made Western short Strange Way of Life, starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke as cowboys who can't admit they love each other. And I attended two stage shows: lockdown drama Jab at the Park and the raucous Jane Austen adaptation Plied & Prejudice at the Vaults.
This coming week, the films I'll be watching include Michael B Jordan in
Sinners, the tennis drama
Julie Keeps Quiet, Norwegian horror movie
The Ugly Stepsister and the sailing documentary
Wind, Tide & Oar.
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