London is gearing up for Sunday night's Baftas (aka the British Academy Film Awards), which sends awards season into its final lap before Oscar night in three weeks. I still have a few nominees to catch up with (namely documentaries), and I will be rooting for underdogs while watching the ceremony on TV on Sunday ... then congratulating them in person at the after-party. As for movies watched this past week,
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die is an energetic and very scrappy sci-fi action comedy starring Sam Rockwell as a man from the future trying to recruit a team of sceptics to prevent an AI apocalypse. It's a lot of messy fun even if it doesn't quite hang together.
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Even messier is the crazy alien invasion mayhem of
Jimmy and Stiggs, which was home-made by actor-filmmaker Jeff Begos. It's riotously yucky. And then there were the slick thrills of
Scare Out, a spy thriller from China that has too much choppy dialog for its own good. But Jackson Yee and Zhu Yilong are terrific leads. From North Macedonia,
DJ Ahmet is a wonderfully involving comedy-drama about the collision between sparky youth and old world tradition. And the gorgeously shot documentary
Underland explores human fascination with travelling below Earth's surface. Speaking of underground, I also attended an immersive premiere for the second season of the Disney TV series
Paradise, elaborately held in a network of caverns under Waterloo station (see below). And I was at the programme launch party for the
40th BFI Flare, a favourite festival that I have covered for 30 years.
Coming up this next week, I'll be watching Neve Campbell in
Scream 7, the Lithuanian drama
The Activist, the acclaimed one-man psychological thriller Disremember and the documentary
Palestine Comedy Club. I'll also attend Netflix's big party after the Baftas on Sunday night and a special screening premiering
Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2.
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