2024 film round up - Drama, action and Thrillers
These are the jottings I made for the drama films I saw in 2024 where I haven't already published my notes. There are some other films I saw this year I have already written about here , here and here. And my more recent musings on romance, coming of age and family dramas are here Back to Black: Amy Winehouse is played to great effect by Marisa Abela, in this largely kind portrayal of the artist, her creativity and her demons. I felt she was probably a lot more of everything than shown here, whether that be her creativity, amazing musicianship or demons, but I did go home and put on the albums again, and I was sad again at the waste of such a blazing talent. Bank of Dave: Based on the real life story of Dave Fishwick's creation of a local bank and starring Rory Kinnear giving his best blokey-ness. Very clunky in the delineation of villains vs good guys, and after googling afterwards, with a fair amount of fa...