Jacey Bedford's Journal

With quarantine our moviegoing fell off a cliff and it wasn't until August that H & I began to cautiously creep back into the cinema on quiet Tuesady Afternoons, wearing masks, of course, even though the majority of people we saw in the foyer were not. Sometimes we were the only people in a showing. This is what we saw (though not necessarily in this order - and I might have forgotten some):

• Black Widow - Pretty much a storytelling mess. Very disappointing
• Jungle Cruise - Good fun. Dwayne Johnson has excellent comic timing.
• Free Guy - surprisingly entertaining
• No Time to Die - Excellent Bond movie. I wasn't sure about Daniel Craig at first but his take on Bond has grown on me.
• Dune - Pretty damn fine splendid. Looking forward to the other half of the first book.
• Ghostbusters Afterlife - Much better than I expected.
• Eternals - Yes, good, and obviously leading into a sequel
• West Side Story - I'm a big fan of the original (Natalie Wood as Maria) from the 60s, but this is probably on a par.

We'd like to see The Green Knight, Spider Man, No Way Home, The Matrix Resurrections, and The King's Man, but with Omicron on the rise we might have to wait until they are available on streaming services.

In addition I saw The Dig, The Sisters Brothers, and The Harder they Fall on streaming. The Dig was delightful, The Sisters Brothers quirky, and The Harder they Fall was too grim for me (and I have a fairly high grim tolerance level).