Films

IMO Tarrantinos best film!

Totally agree with you. Jackie Brown is unbelievable, Pam Grier is amazing, Samuel L Jackson is utterly terrifying, and Robert Forster is perfect. The story is exciting and hits all the right noir notes, and I never thought Tarentino could have such a light touch with sweetness. It's his most grown up film imo, while I do love his other stuff I can always feel him nudging me in my ribs like an overexcited teenager.

I loved Poor Things, but do recognise the artifice of all of Jorgos Lanthimos' films. Everything from Dogtooth to Lobster to Killing of a Sacred Deer exists in this kind of weird, unreal place, it has the same sort of quality as a Wes Anderson. Personally I really like that but I get why people wouldn't, and even I found some of the steampunk backgrounds a bit tough to take. But I still loved it.

Rewatched Holiday with Cary Grant and Catherine Hepburn on Sunday. Christ what a film that is. I don't know if it's my favourite Grant/Hepburn but it probably is the best. Hilarious, heartbreaking, beautiful, daft, warm, and incisive. Again very Wes Anderson-y in that it takes these rich characters who could be very unsympathetic and imbeues them with such humanity and history that you can't help but love them. Hepburn is astonishign too, the way her eyes brim with tears at points and you see her mask come down, it's such a sensitive portrayal of a complex character.