Words Scott J. Davis

It’s almost awards season again: the blockbuster summer is over and, as the clocks change and the nights get longer, the flood of films looking to take home the big honours begin their long journey to find audiences.

Among them is John Crowley’s new decade-spanning romance and ever since its first look, a swell of anticipation built as much as a knowing that many tissues will be needed to make it through it. Not least of all, because of the pairing of two of Britain’s hottest stars, Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.

They play Tobias, an employee at Weetabix, and Almut, a hot young chef, respectively; two twenty-somethings trying to make their mark on the world when they’re thrust together after a car accident. Almost immediately, though, sparks fly between them and while they aren’t always on the same page as their relationship progresses, their love flourishes over that time.

For fans of real love stories, as well as Crowley’s excellent 2015 film Brookyln, We Live In Time is  as smart as it is romantic, sad as it is uplifting, and reminds us all once again that love, actually, is all around.

Match Made In Heaven

Tick, Tick... Boom!

Garfield delivers an Academy Award-nominated performance in Lin Manuel Miranda’s utterly spellbinding musical that tells the story of famed theatre musical composer/lyricist Jonathan Larson.

Lady Macbeth

Pugh burst onto the international stage with her stunning performance in William Oldroyd’s brilliant film about a young woman stuck in a loveless marriage who soon begins to assert her power over those who continue to suffocate her life.

Brooklyn

Crowley’s stunning, moving adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel sees Saoirse Ronan as a young Irishwoman who moves to 1950s Brooklyn and soon finds love with a local boy. However, the draw of her home in Ireland and a different future there that her parents approve of gives her second thoughts.