IT SHOULDN’T HAPPEN TO A FILM JOURNALIST
THIS MONTH LOOKING FORWARD TO 2021.
In life, I’m something of a glass-half-empty kinda person, smothered by the clouds within every silver lining. Yet with movies, for some reason, I’m an eternal optimist, forever dazzled by the high concept or the talent involved or the spew of hype. I am, after all, the guy who reported back from the set of Jan de Bont’s that it would be… and then doubled down on Neil Marshall’s , convinced from my week in Cape Town, watching vehicular carnage, and weekend in Scotland, viewing the fall of a castle, that it would be “ meets ”.
