It's Hardy's film all the way, should have won for best supporting actor for me. it's a bit like with Leo with Day Lewis in Gangs of New York. You just can't keep your eyes off Hardy anytime he's on screen, he's got a bit of that danger to him that not many actors today have. Leo is very good in it, but Hardy when he's not doing blockbusters is one of the best actors around.

It's not top tier Scorsese and Leo's probably a little too young for the role, I would have loved to see Christian Bale in the role (Tommy Lee Jones played a great Howard Hughes in a TV movie from the early 80's). But Leo gives it his full go, and delivers a good performance. I don't think it's great in the second half but the first half when he's making Wings and before his breakdown it's great stuff.

Great actor, don't believe he's top tier with Day Lewis, prime De Niro, Nicholson, Pacino levels. I think he's the level below them.

I think he made some of his more interesting and braver roles pre Titanic personally. But he's very smart picking out his projects (although I didn't like Don't Look Up at all) and is usually great most of them. Some films where he's blown off the screen by other like The Revenant And Inception with Tom Hardy or Gangs of New York with Day Lewis. But other films he's amazing in like Wolf of Wall Street and The Departed.

Great actor though and one of those that doesn't phone it in.

Paddy Considine in Room for Romeo Brass

Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit

Anna Paquin in The Piano

Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun

And she hasn't come close to topping it since.

I think Mescal performance is deserving of his Oscar nod, just a quick glance and body movement tells you all you need to know on that character.

I could be totally out of my depth here. It always felt looking at Calum , that Sophie's mum probably dumped him and that his family was everything to him. When he's in conservation with her on the phone, you just tell the man's heartbroken to see that she's moved on to someone else. You see moments of recklessness from him that shows that he's on the edge.

That Sophie is probably the only person he has left that keeps him hanging on, and that once he sees that she's growing up and growing apart from him throughout the holiday, that it's the end for him. And not knowing it's clearly effected Sophie that she needed him as much as he needed her. That's what I read into it and it's really heartbreaking.

First I heard of it, it's definitely more a divisive film rather then people outright hating it. I've seen people putting it up there for one of the better films of 2022 and some who didn't like it. I don't think it's everyone hating on it.

I liked it, could have done with shaving 40 minutes off it and it's nowhere near top 10 film of the year for me. But I liked how ambitious it was even if it's turned out flawed in the end. The performances are all great and maybe with rewatches I might like it more. I think it's a film that will garner a cult fandom and maybe with years behind it might get more shine.

I think it's his best film and everything that followed hasn't reached the same heights.

It's top tier Coen Brothers for me but should never have beaten out There will Be Blood for best Director or Best film. That film is on another level.

Really that's a shame. Prisoners, Incendies, Blade Runner, Dune and Enemy are all for me fantastic. Do think Sicario is his best film. Arrival is the only one that I just can't get into for some reason. But Denis Villeneuve is one of those few director's who's name alone will make me go to a cinema for one of his films on the first day of release.

I think it's a good film but nowhere near the level of quality you'd expect from Christopher Nolan and maybe a little too smart for it's own good. The first time I watched a Nolan film that I didn't go back to the cinema to watch again. I thought John David Washington was miscast too, would have loved Robert Pattinson in the lead role and moved Aaron Taylor Johnson (completely wasted in this film by the way) into the Pattinson role.

But every great director has one or two missteps.

The Menu.

Expecting a over the top horror and silliness. This one came out of nowhere and blew me away. It made me laugh a lot but was also unnerving without been over the top. Ralph Fiennes was amazing in it.

A tad overlong and the fourth wall breaking did jar me a bit. But worth it for Florence Pugh excellent performance.