“When did we run out of bodybags?” “Two days ago.”
Detached and clinical, it’s the closest I’ve seen to what a real viral outbreak might look like on film, and it’s terrifying.
★★★★★
movies
Rear Window
“It’s just another run-of-the-mill Wednesday. The calendar’s full of ’em.”
A thriller set entirely in one room and the view from it, it’s a slow-burn, but utterly engrossing — helped in no small way by pitch perfect performances by Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly — often regarded within the canon of ‘best films ever made,’ I heartily agree.
★★★★★
Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol
“Failure to a terrorist is just a rehearsal for success”
A ride – it loses a lot of it’s wonder a second time around but Tom Cruise is still Tom Cruise, the story barely matters and functions only as a vehicle for the next set piece, but it’s charming and light (it’s crazy how only four years later these stunts look like old hat — how long can they keep outdoing themselves?).
★★★✩✩
The Imitation Game
“Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things.”
I was expecting this movie to be dull Oscar bait, but it was much more than that — gripping if a little overplayed by Cumberbatch, and shed some light on the barbaric treatment of gays in the 50’s.
★★★★✩
Quantum of Solace
“When someone says ‘we have people everywhere’, you expect it to be hyperbole. Florists use that expression. It doesn’t mean there’s somebody working for them in the bloody room!”
My favourite of the Bond films (controversial!), it’s the grittiest AND artsiest, it has the best car chase of any Bond film, the best line from M, the best sound design, and even more so than Casino Royal, Bond feels like an intelligent thug — it’s by no means perfect, but still brilliant.
★★★★✩