Hey guys, this post is tease for this week’s film. It’s a day later than normal BUT I think I’m going to relax the rules on when I post the teases. They’ll be coming on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday of any given week from now on.

I knew more or less what to expect from Beastly. It was a film that snugly fit my preconceptions. Perhaps this is from my own experience, through formulaic marketing and presentation, or simply by growing up wen I did, and recognising the stars, the tone and the influences that went into it. This weeks film is less obvious to me. It stars two women I think highly of, but looks for all intents and purposes like completely forgettable make-up-the-numbers type of film. This is reinforced by the pretty unpolished (by modern standards) box art and the fact that the sleeve contains no reviews. However some initial research suggests that, just like Ronin, I may have piced a film that- despite mediocre presentation and me having no prior knowledge of it- is actually pretty decent. Time will tell!

For now I can tell you its a screwball comedy loosely based on the story of Cyrano De Bergerac , a French play about a man who, ashamed of his large nose, writes letters to a woman he loves on behalf of another man, who also loves her. The film is not as highbrow as this might suggest however, just taking the idea of love via a sort-of avatar and the theme of physical insecurities.

So here’s a little peek:

While you chew that over, here’s some other things I think are interesting:

-New Peanuts Cartoon! Don’t know too much about it yet, but any new Peanuts stuff is good by me. Feast your eyes:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYA23cYTOB0

-Also, a film I’ve always meant to watch but haven’t yet got around to: Tetsuo The Iron Man is up on the BFI player. It’s a Japanese sci-fi body-horror cult classic: you should watch it if that’s sounds cool to you!  https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/five-reasons-tetsuo-iron-man  

-I’ve created a dedicated page for the ranking of every film from the blog- check it out: https://onepoundoneflick.video.blog/film-rankings/

Until Sunday then, that’s all from me. See you here again soon!

-Tom