Oh boy, where do I even start with this one? 
Perhaps, to put it simply, I’ll say that today has been one of the most surreal days of my life. 

After attending a BFI Press & Industry Screening for the film, I headed over to the Mayfair Hotel in London for a press conference with Rian Johnson and the entire cast. This being my first time doing anything like this, I didn’t really know what to expect. If anything, I thought…

Ok so, tonight was special. Really fucking special. Aside from seeing Dune for the fourth time (that honestly would have been enough), I was treated to quite the strange post credits scene… in the flesh! Mr Denis Villeneuve himself enters the IMAX auditorium and what proceeded was a 30-minute Q&A hosted by the always charming, Edith Bowman. 

This was such a magical moment for me. The energy in the room was just electric. Seeing Denis, one of my all-time favourite filmmakers,…

Big fan of The Weeknd here. Love his music. Love his ability to transform into different personas with each album, albeit different versions of himself. Love how he takes inspiration from movies and builds those cinematics into a lot of his music videos - in fact, back when I used to make video essays on YouTube, one of my biggest scrapped ideas was to dive into all the film references in his music videos. Like 'Blinding Lights' basically being a…

I am exhausted. 

I hate to say it, but the first third, maybe even half, of this film just wasn’t it guys. The Mission series has always had plots within plots, schemes within schemes, most of which work in really thickening the narrative, but here it feels less like clever storytelling and more like an endless loop of characters talking in circles. Bloated, convoluted and enough exposition to make The Entity itself go insane. Honestly if you ever want to…

In the moments just before the film started, I was panicking because I needed to pee so badly and I didn’t want to miss anything, not even the opening logos. Plus, I was dead centre of a sold-out IMAX screening with 700+ people around me, so physically, it would have been quite a struggle to push past and get to the bathroom. But ladies and gentleman, I’ll be damned because Daddy Denis Villeneuve proved that often, emotion can trump biology.…