A Life at the Movies — OUT NOW!
The only cinematic trilogy you’ll ever need!
I first started publishing spoiler free film reviews (or love-in appreciations as I rather grandly call them as I write lovingly “around” the film as opposed to spoiling them) in the Mayan prophecy year of world ending catastrophe of 2012 and here we all are, still spinning on a prehistoric rock around a giant fire ball in the sky of an unquantifiable universe all these Christopher Nolan years later. Two of my very first career length appraisals on the Tinseltown creations of Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino have been duly updated over the years and now moonlight as Act One within the third volume of my “A Life at the Movies” series and their 19 combined films are joined by a further 87 across Acts Two and Three of that book to form the largest (and currently latest) in the trilogy. Working backwards as it seems we’re doing here, the second volume is a mighty tome of dare I say the very best of the very best of the rest, with 91 spoiler free as always appraisals spanning the years of 1990 through to 2024, containing the likes of Edward Scissorhands, True Romance, Heat, Se7en, Dogma, Fight Club, Trainspotting and Memento (Act One), 28 Days Later, Dead Man’s Shoes, The Machinist, The Prestige, Children of Men, Kill List, Moonrise Kingdom and Manchester by the Sea (Act Two) and my favourite films of 2020–2024 in Act Three: Nomadland, Men, Elvis, Nope, The Whale, The Banshees of Inisherin, Saltburn, Small Things Like These, The Outrun and The Substance. Which brings us in conclusion to volume 1 and 80 films across 44 years (1980–2024) all of which share the very unique and common bond being the director’s debut film, and original gems from Michael Mann (Thief), The Coen Brothers (Blood Simple), Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket), Christopher Nolan (Following), Steve McQueen (Hunger), George Clooney (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), Alex Garland (Ex Machina), Jordan Peele (Get Out), Charlotte Wells (Aftersun) and Dev Patel (Monkey Man).
So what are you waiting for! Just look at those covers! Beautiful aren’t they?
All available in hardback and paperback and here are the covers in full and some handy links. Treat yourself sometime. You’ll be helping out a struggling indie author with a few crumbs from the table of Jeff Bezos!
Thanks.
"A Life at the Movies Vol.1" - link to Amazon
"A Life at the Movies Vol.2" - link to Amazon
"A Life at the Movies Vol.3" - link to Amazon
Thanks for reading. I hope this message in a bottle in The Matrix finds you well, prospering, and the right way up in an upside down world.