When an actor directs a film, the spotlight falls on the performances, the emotions of the story as related to the characters move to centre-stage. 

It’s really amazing, how often actors in this film show us their complex emotions in single takes, how often a look, a breath, or a movement of the hand has the power to move us, connect us so deeply with the characters. 

There is so much to talk about with Maestro. I want to sit with it…

With Leave the World Behind, Sam Esmail managed to keep me shouting, laughing, totally engaged, and watching the high stakes events with fear and anticipation. 

The tension keeps building, you wonder how the filmmakers are going to maintain it until the end of the film, but they manage to do it, and wrap it up surprisingly well!

I watched this movie with my brother and he was thoroughly engaged in it as well. (It is hard to convince my brother…