Pizza and movies

The weekend was notable for two things:

*   Finally, after being told by other family members that it was really good, I went with them to eat at Julius pizza and pasta at Fish Lane in West End.   And yes, it really was excellent wood fired pizza.   It's ridiculously popular, and routinely has a line up to get a table.  But all the food going past our table looked great.   Can strongly recommend.

*   Remember my recommendation for the French action film Lost Bullet?   I re-watched it recently, and still consider it a very pleasing  action film with a script that is just incredibly efficient.   (It only runs for 90 minutes,  but the way in which it feels like there's not a word or scene out of place, and everything just keeps propelling the story forward, it feels unusually satisfying for a short-ish film film.)   Oh look - here's a short review at the New York Times which says exactly what I'm trying to say.

Anyway, at the end of the re-watch, I discovered that there's now Lost Bullet 2 on Netflix, and it has practically all of the same qualities of the first film.   This director/screenwriter really, really, ought to be picked up by Hollywood, for a broader audience.

One quibble:  I think in the first film it never looked like CGI was used, but I would say it must be briefly used in this new one.   Nonetheless, most of the car action still looks very real, and if anything, the chases are on a bigger scale, and more pleasingly shot, than in the first.

So yeah, still terrifically entertaining, and there's going to be a third movie to close out the story.

This reminds me:  late last year it was said that Steven Spielberg was going to direct a movie based on the Bullit character from the Steve McQueen movie.   Spielberg directing a movie centred on car action could be good, I think, but he has since said he's not sure what he's going to direct next.  I get the feeling from this article that he wants to put his feet up a bit more...