neilgrahamuk has written 3 reviews for films during 2019.

The Graduate

1967

★★★★ Liked Rewatched

The Graduate is a bit of an oddity to me. I have watched it a number of times over the years. And I love it. It makes me laugh. It has fun and inventive camera-work. It feels both of its time - a wonderful capsule of the 60's, but with themes that are of relevance to modern sensibilities. You could make the case that the lack of understanding between generations (certainly as depicted in the media) is wider than it…

Brexit: The Uncivil War

2019

★★ Watched

I ire James Graham’s ambition. It is extraordinarily difficult to construct compelling and insightful films about current events. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and perhaps for certain dramas it is a necessary thing. Turning real events into comprehensible narratives requires scenes to be invented, events to be selected, motivations guessed at, time compressed and characters amalgamated. When these real events are still in people's minds, these acts of selection and invention become a bone of contention. Reading reviews and articles…

John Wick

2014

★★★★ Liked Watched

Wow, I really was not expecting that.

I appreciate I am somewhat late to the John Wick party, but that was an unexpected pleasure.

The material is undoubtedly lightweight, but boy is there a sophisticated understanding of film language on display here; and the primacy of the image is compelling. Visual is all. Words mean little. This is B movie territory but with A list directorial talent.

A genuine leftfield delight.