Retrospective 2018- A Year in Film

August

Late Summer Stew

Image sources: Marvel, Warner, Universal & Curzon

As per tradition the summer of cinema continued to throw up a mix of movies of varying size and quality, with Marvel sequel ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp‘ proving the saving grace for big studio releases, while the likes of ‘The Meg’, ‘The Equalizer 2‘, ‘The Spy Who Dumped Me‘ and ‘The Happytime Murders‘ brought the tone down considerably.

August also brought some smaller but more memorable UK releases too, seeing a return to form for Spike Lee’s with his latest racially-charged joint ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ and a dark realist Italian fairy-tale in ‘Sicilian Ghost Story‘, as well as Pawel Pawlikowski’s effortlessly cool and moody Polish period piece ‘Cold War‘.

Those We Lost

Image source: NBC, Universal, Disney, Getty Images & HBO

Among other losses during the month, August saw the passing of American TV favourite Charlotte Rae (92) (Diff’rent Strokes, The Facts of Life) and part-time actress but full-time ‘queen of soul’ Aretha Franklin (76) (Room 222, The Blues Brothers), plus veteran American actress Barbara Harris (83) (Freaky Friday, Grosse Pointe Blank), legendary US playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon (91) (The Odd Couple, Murder by Death), and veteran British actress Susan Brown (86) (Coronation Street, Game of Thrones).

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