A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

In Woody Allen's inconsequential, breezy romantic comedy - which I quite enjoyed - Timothée Chalamet's gloomy Gatsby Welles shuffles hunch-shouldered, arms in pockets around a rainy New York City, spending a day with sunny partner Ashleigh that doesn't go to plan, and just as you think it yourself about his slight and self-aware performance, Allen has Chalamet say - ostensibly about another character but far too applicable to his own performance to be coincidence - "[He's] a James Dean minus the acting chops".

★★★☆☆

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Spotlight (2015)

On 6 January 2002, a team of Boston Globe journalists published a Pulitzer Prize-winning story which brought to the world's attention the behaviour of the Catholic Church in relation to innumerous Boston child sex abuse cases perpetrated by the church's priests, and this movie details the hard investigative work that went into the story, raises the powerful idea that "if it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse them," and shows the impact the story had around the world.

★★★★☆

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Salt (2010)

It's every bit as exciting and fun as The Fugitive except that in the place of suspected wife-killer Dr Richard Kimble is Angelina Jolie's Evelyn Salt, a likeable woman married to an arachnologist, on the run from Government agents who believe her to be a Russian spy; under pressure she certainly appears to be as resourceful and as acrobatic as a Bourne operative - but an American or a Russian one?

★★★★☆

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Movie 43 (2013)

Perhaps compiled from footage recovered from the SNL cutting room floor, this laugh-free sketch comedy compilation is remarkable only for the incredible number of A-list Hollywood stars who were willing to appear in its appalling skits about excrement, sperm, grubby sex practices, incest...

☆☆☆☆☆

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Daytrippers (1997)

A woman embarks on a journey to New York City to investigate an apparent love letter written to her husband, and she is joined in the car by her bumbling, bickering, caring extended family who make a daytrip of proceedings.

★★★★☆

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