is the subject matter that it s dealing with may be very, very dark and very, very difficult but it is a it is not a film about despair, it is a film about hope, and that makes it quite a hard film to sell because it is dealing with some very, very dark subject matter school shootings and, you know, tragedies like that but the performances are brilliant i mean, absolutely brilliant and i saw it, knowing nothing about it other than a friend of mine had said jason isaacs is in the best film i ve seen in ages and it s i would really hope if you get a chance to see it in a cinema, go and see it in a cinema. otherwise, it is on sky cinema. but however you see it, see it, because it is one of the most powerful films i ve seen in a good many years. and it s funny how something can get lost, actually, maybe in that covid way, things have been so different and. it has been such a strange time for cinema and, you know, stuff opening on the small screen rather than the big screen an
and the place that it s going to is inevitable and it does not look away from it. it s real cinema, it s transportive. i thought it was great. i know you re not a horrorfan, so i m going to say to you it s a film noir, it s a neo noir, it s not a horrorfilm, 0k? i am intrigued, most definitely. i think you ll like it. i i sort of enjoyed the shape of water, which won the oscar, didn t it? yeah, absolutely. but in a slightly odd way, perhaps without understanding it, but i but i enjoyed it. it s, you know. visually, it was extraordinary, and i m getting the sense that this is, too. shape of water is a creature from the black lagoon meets splash. this is nightmare alley, as re envisioned as a horrorfilm, but it s not a horror film. 0k! 0k. i get it, i get it! ajournalforjordan. ajournalforjordan again, this couldn t be more different. directed by denzel washington, true story about first sergeant charles monroe king, who, while he was in iraq, kept a diary for his son of home truth
i mean, absolutely brilliant and i saw it, knowing nothing about it other than a friend of mine had said jason isaacs is in the best film i ve seen in ages and it s i would really hope if you get a chance to see it in a cinema, go and see it in a cinema. otherwise, it is on sky cinema. but however you see it, see it, because it is one of the most powerful films i ve seen in a good many years. and it s funny how something can get lost, actually, maybe in that covid way, things have been so different and. it has been such a strange time for cinema and, you know, stuff opening on the small screen rather than the big screen and then simultaneously. and also, around awards season as you can telljust in this one show we ve had nightmare alley, we ve had belfast, all of these things suddenly backing up whereas last week, it was a very different was a very different picture. so i think during awards season, things do get lost in the shuffle. please, don t miss out on mass. 0k. it i
in a movie before and, i don t know, it feels natural and funny and i mean, idid i i just found it enchanting. i know people who absolutely loathe it! so, it s, you know, it is kind of interesting the way it s dividing audiences but, you know, it s a paul thomas anderson film and like punch drunk love, his films are not for everyone. and i m intrigued by your choice of dvd this week. yeah well, this is streaming. i don t know it, but i m interested. so, not dvd streaming. streaming, streaming. ok, so but it is also in cinemas, but mainly streaming. so mass, which is on sky cinema but is also in some cinemas. this is a forehander about two sets of parents meeting in a room in a church in the wake of the tragedy that has engulfed them and they are having the meeting in order to attempt to find some kind of reconciliation. and it s jason isaacs, martha plimpton, reed birney, ann dowd really, really great actors. fran krantz is the writer director debut feature. i thought i
mysterious over the years. so, you really like her? when i grow up, i want to marry her. yeah, sounds like you really like her. you know, she s not only at school. you could see where she lives maybe. it s reynolds drive, four houses in from the right the one with the wonky eight. well, you ve done your research. i pass it every day on the way home. i try to look in, - but she never sees me. she s always doing - her bloody homework! if she were a wee bit| more stupid like me, we d be sitting together by now. ah, pity beyond all telling is head and the heart of love. ah, he s full of pretty answers, that one! come on, it s time to go. we don t want your mummy shouting at me because you re late. cheerio, son! cheerio! aw! now, everyone everyone in my ear, everyone who s listening to that they re all chuckling in a really lovely way. none of us have seen it, and we all already want to see it, i think. it s lovely. and then, of course, what happens is that with the rise of the trou