Letterboxd — Your life in film

The beginning of my wisdom teeth removal series. I’m disappointed I missed The Frontrunner in cinemas - between this and Tully, Jason Reitman made two underseen and really excellent film last year. Hugh Jackson plays Gary Hart in a wonderfully understated performance. I loved the scenes in which I could observe him tick outside his world of politics - namely, on the Miami boat where he begins his extramarital affair. In the best shot of the film, there’s a long…

Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen, which opened in cinemas shortly before Christmas, is a fascinating film that defies any easily marketable category, and has thus struggled to find an audience (not helping matters is that it’s also been savaged by critics, who find the picture both bizarre and overly sentimental). But watching the film on its own terms, I was struck by what Zemeckis and his team achieve in telling the true story of Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell), an artist…