Tuesday 21st July 2009, 12:02

Moon, with some stars

Saw Moon yesterday - a fine, 'little' film (one actor has 99% of the lines, although it's set on a moon station with what looks like an impressive budget on the screen) with Sam Rockwell as the lonely astronaut on the dark side of the moon. Until he finds someone else there, who looks somewhat familiar...

I could go on, but won't, because it's a great watch, and although I felt it nearly lost its way halfway through (there were moments where it seemed it didn't quite know where it was going), it all came together beautifully at the end. It's a rewarding, well-rounded film where you can tell that one guy (who happens to be, in reality, David Bowie's son) has had this idea and put it together with very little studio involvement. And it's fantastic that nowadays technological advances mean that even a small, British, independent movie can convey a space station on the moon with stunning detail, let alone the very tricky visual effects of having Sam Rockwell in scenes with... Well that would ruin it, but you probably get the idea.

The main point of note was that this was a Monday afternoon in the centre of London - I won't say which cinema to preserve anonymity, and so that I can go again for a similar experience - but three seats to my left sat none other than top actor Tim Roth. Wow, I thought. Then I heard a loud voice three seats to my right, complaining to his son that the curtain after the trailers was shut for far too long and made a not-very-slick show of it. And that was Kevin McNally. Wow again.

So there I was, sat in a small little screen, in the same row as Mr Orange and First Mate Joshamee Gibbs. It felt like a premiere. So there's your tip - if want to watch movies with movie stars, Monday afternoons in central London is where you'll find them.

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