Some of my yearly highlights (of course they are nowhere near as cool as Barack’s picks)
Favourite films of 2018
Top 5
Border
The Favourite
Roma
The Guilty
Leave No Trace
And my other 20 favourites in alphabetical order:
American Animals
Birds of Passage
Blind Spot
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Cold War
Faces Places
First Reformed
Girl
Green Book
In Fabric
Isle of Dogs
Paddington 2 (also on my 2017 list but a 2018 US release)
The Reports on Sarah and Saleem
Shoplifters
The Sisters Brothers
A Star is Born
The Tale
Woman At War
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
You Were Never Really Here
Haven’t yet seen a few that expect to love like The Rider, Sorry To Bother You, etc.
Favourite books: Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (looking forward to reading her new one Normal People) and Beautiful Animals by Lawrence Osborne
Favourite TV: Atlanta, Bodyguard, First Dates, The Bisexual, The Good Doctor, The Good Fight, The Great British Bakeoff, The Handmaid’s Tale, Killing Eve, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Il Miracolo, Queer Eye, This Is Us, A Very English Scandal.
Favourite TV moment: Danny Dyer slagging off David Cameron sitting around with his “trotters up”
Favourite meals: Indonesian rijsttafel at Dewi Sri in Rotterdam; pintxos at Nagusia Lau in San Sebastian; tapas at Brunilda in Seville; breakfast at The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC; and closer to home…seafood pancake and Korean chicken wings at Bada Tapas in Godalming
Favourite trip (work): Lapland, for an Indigenous Film Conference. Temperature was -36, my nose hairs froze but I got to see some reindeer up close and personal.
Favourite trip (fun): Sitting by the pool with Scott at Melia Hacienda del Conde in Buenavista del Norte in Tenerife; an Icelandic road trip with my friend Laufey from the East Fjords back to Reykjavik.
My firsts this year: riding a Segway (fun!), falling over in the snow in Lapland (cold!)
