Simon Mayo

This from Time Travel Prof. Award season is earlier and earlier these days, but it won't be this movie that finally gets Ian his Oscar and BAFTA.

The lone lady watching with me on a Friday afternoon struck up a brief conversation immediately afterwards.

as to what I thought.

I thought it was okay, but freely admitted that I didn't quite get it.

A fairly linear enough story, but I didn't quite get the last 20 minutes as to why certain things happened.

She was hooting at numerous lines that Ian was spouting.

She thought that this was his best performance on film.

That's some praise for someone who told me they'd seen him in Hamlet at the Cambridge Theatre.

Okay, well, obviously Time Travel Prof wasn't that excited.

I think awards season will remember the performances.

And user, you, bunch of numbers.

I love this.

Ian McKellen is an acting god, and Michaela Cole plays off him so beautifully.

Steven Soderbergh is a phenomenal director.

Christopher's at number seven.

Number six here, number eight over there is Top Gun.

It is a 40th anniversary.

Now, apparently in the States, they're on the same listing.

So the reason that it's number eight in the US is that presumably that's a double bill of Maverick and Top Gun Maverick.

So anyway.