In this week's reviews, Edgar Wright enters an evocative, giallo-inspired portal to '60s London, horror gets elevated, and Joanna Hogg continues her semi-autobiographical journey.
Personally, me feel like sequel that neither expected nor demanded best kind of sequel. Someone — possibly one of you two — once wrote that there are two kinds of sequels. Hollywood usually do sequels like Jaws II or Rocky II, where everything that happen in first movie happen again, but bigger and dumber. And then there are rare sequels like Godfather II or Empire Strikes Back, that broaden world of first film and go more in depth.
But there also third kind of sequel that even rarer, like Trainspotting 2, that revisit characters and see where they are at different time in life and different situation, and me like those best. Life can often be about us doing same thing over and over again — going to work, mowing lawn, eating cookies — but transformative experiences just that, transformative. So next time pivotal event happen, we in theory different people, reacting differently, in different situation, and we not really get that from many movie series.
And me not even have seen original Souvenir, but now me want to watch both of them, just for shifts in tone and character and filmmaking style, because me always find that fascinating, and it not happen often enough.
It's that wonderful, list-making time of the year - while it seems TSP2 won't be troubling the business end of Scott's rundown, Sight & Sound here in the UK have crowned it their Film of 2021.
Personally, me feel like sequel that neither expected nor demanded best kind of sequel. Someone — possibly one of you two — once wrote that there are two kinds of sequels. Hollywood usually do sequels like Jaws II or Rocky II, where everything that happen in first movie happen again, but bigger and dumber. And then there are rare sequels like Godfather II or Empire Strikes Back, that broaden world of first film and go more in depth.
But there also third kind of sequel that even rarer, like Trainspotting 2, that revisit characters and see where they are at different time in life and different situation, and me like those best. Life can often be about us doing same thing over and over again — going to work, mowing lawn, eating cookies — but transformative experiences just that, transformative. So next time pivotal event happen, we in theory different people, reacting differently, in different situation, and we not really get that from many movie series.
And me not even have seen original Souvenir, but now me want to watch both of them, just for shifts in tone and character and filmmaking style, because me always find that fascinating, and it not happen often enough.
It's that wonderful, list-making time of the year - while it seems TSP2 won't be troubling the business end of Scott's rundown, Sight & Sound here in the UK have crowned it their Film of 2021.