Film Reviews & Movie Analysis

It’s that time again: MONTHLY FAVOURITES. Succinct favourites across my consumption of film, television and novels, as well as what I’ve been up to creatively.

FILM 🍿

Rolling off the back of ‘A Movie A Day in the Month of May’ it actually took me a little while to finally watch a movie in June (12th to be exact). I managed to watch ten movies, and of them, YOUR NAME stuck out like a sore, mind-bending thumb. The Japanese animated movie is about a boy in Japan and a girl in a small town who periodically swap bodies. They don’t know why or how it happens but begin to get comfortable with their new normal – until one day when the switching stops.

TELEVISION 📺

There are a few things I have started this month but one which I both started and finished in June is GANGS OF LONDON . The Sky Atlantic original series looks at the Wallace family, who runs the largest criminal organisation in London, and the fall out that begins when patriarch Finn Wallace is gunned down. The show was IN-tense. It has a lot of violence which I am into, so a lot of the times I felt like I was watching an action movie. Great cast (including one of my faves; Lucian Msamati), effortlessly diverse, surprising plot twists.

DOCUMENTARY OF THE MONTH 🎥

This month I decided to take advantage of the new Sky Documentary channel and tuned into the four-part series; HILLARY. I don’t know too much about Hillary Rodham Clinton, except for the surface level facts; Wife of Bill, and ran against Trump in the 2015 elections. It was great to get such an in-depth and personable account of her life. They were right at the beginning of the documentary when friends and former employees noted: people either loved Hillary or they couldn’t stand her. After watching this, I have to say I fall into the former category.

BOOK 📖

I know it’s a bit bright to be reading thrillers but I couldn’t help myself, the latest instalment in the Stillhouse Lake series just had to be read: BITTER FALLS BY RACHEL CAINE. Boy oh boy can Gwen Proctor and her family not catch a break! Hillbillies from the left, cults from the right, it’s a wonder that they ever feel a moment of security. Damn her oldest daughter was really irritating in this book, and that’s all I’ll say about that. Four books in (and I don’t know when it’s going to end) but it’s still a great book that takes a more realistic look at the kinds of horrible people there are out there in the world.

OTHER ⌨️

I was really behind on the short script project I gave myself this year but managed to catch up by writing three this month (yay me!). As well as that I had a couple of successful articles published on Medium, one on writing and two on race; 6 Planning Steps That Make For Good Writing, Where Is Your Movement?, and It’s Time To Stop.

Also, I finally read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, which took a little while to get into but I enjoyed for what it was.

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