Miles Ahead
Cinema as jazz composition
Movies
Pete’s Dragon
A type of Disney movie thought to be extinct
Rogue One
New Hope for a franchise
Elstree 1976
How can a movie about Star Wars be so dull?
Don’t Breathe
Hitch would approve
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Intelligent cinematic insights from the masters
The Lady in The Van
Maggie Smith, 80 and never better
Noma My Perfect Storm
Ants on a shrimp at the “World’s Best Restaurant”
Wanko Soba
99 bowls of soba on the wall, 99 bowls of soba…
Florence Foster Jenkins
Discordant, but without a false note
Louder Than Bombs
A complex, melancholic thrill ride
Kill Your Friends
One-note, nihilistic naughtiness