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 🍿

I believe the only new movie I watched in September was Enola Holmes, which was okay, but the one that stood out to me the most was an old favourite that I haven’t seen in a while: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. I put this one as part of my Sunday Disney Watches, and honestly this movie gives you religion, persecution, love, lust and some powerful vocals. If you haven’t watched this since the innocence of youth then I would highly recommend giving it another go with your adult eyes. Despite the occasionally chatty gargoyles, it’s themes are far from childish

TELEVISION 📺

I mean is there any favourite this month other than season two of CRIMINAL: UK? I barely remember the stories involved in season one but I’m not likely to forget the absolute show stoppers that were season 2. In order of favourites: Sandeep, Alex, Julia, Danielle – four, two, one, three.

One thing I like about this series is that we have no real idea of what goes on outside that floor. We get hints but they are never explained because the details are irrelevant. I will say that season two did taste a little bitterly of women are to blame for everything. But that’s just an observation that I’m sure no one else will pick up on.

A quick shout out to Bones, which I have just started watching as my latest long running procedural drama. I like having these at the ready for when I have lulls or need an easy watch. Bones clocks in at 246 episodes so if I’m lucky this will keep me going for at least six months if not longer.

DOCUMENTARY OF THE MONTH 🎥

As per usual I skated into watching my documentary of the month close to the final hour, and I chose something trendy; THE SOCIAL DILEMMA. The doc talked to a range of social media tech insiders to discuss ethical solutions and the harrowing reality of the technology they helped shape focusing on its evolution and its current course for destruction of humanity. Their words, not mine.

I found the first half hour a bore. As a person who is a less than average user of social media and their phone in general, the warnings sprouted didn’t resonate with me, the way it would with someone with a higher phone usage. The growing social and political impacts of social media is what I found most interesting and I think the raw message of the documentary; to get us to put down our phones or at least make us consciously aware of how it influenced information was illuminating.

BOOK 📖

At the time of writing this I’m hoping to round off my current book and slip in one more before the end of the month but I’m not holding my breath for those novels and so I am electing THE INHERITANCE GAMES by JENNIFER LYNN BARNES as September’s favourite. This YA book described as Cinderella meets Knives Out literally hits the nail on the head. Mystery upon mystery it was a very clever book and gave me all the right fall book vibes.

OTHER ⌨️

The weather has dropped and so I’m in my element, though nothing much to report on my extracurricular activities. I took the month off from my personal creative endeavours, and used some of the times to plan what I wanted to do for the coming months. Really just October as November I’m tied up with National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and December I have off. Fingers crossed more to share next month.

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