Film Shapes

Reading Cinemas Belmont with Merv, Roly and Bryony. Busiest screening I've been to in a while, I reckon. This may have been because  Black Panther  had only opened a few days before. The general consensus among the group was positive. Now, I'll try to include fewer spoilers than in the podcast at the bottom of the entry. If you want to hear more spoilery details, have a listen. Black Panther  is astutely directed by Ryan Coogler, who's proven himself with a couple of decent-sized films prior to this. I thought the film buzzed with energy and it really revelled in its own world building (the country of Wakanda, in this case). For me though, it took a little while to get going, perhaps due to the relative 'newness' of the players, people we kind of needed to get to know. At the time of watching, I thought the ceremonial challenges to King T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman) were a bit naff but I'm starting to think they act as a kind of bluff for the film to cha...