Filmikaze!

By: Sam Taylor Wood (director), Julia Baird (memoir), Matt Greenhalgh (screenplay)

Starring: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Thomas Sangster, Anne-Marie Duff, David Morrissey

A chronicle of John Lennon’s childhood.

My expectations for Nowhere Boy were fairly low. This was probably a good thing, as there really isn’t that much about it worth writing about, to be honest, but at least I wasn’t disappointed. It isn’t a bad movie, it’s just an incredibly average movie that tries to prop itself up with an almost cloying sense of nostalgia. I’m not entirely sure it’s a movie that needed to be made in the first place, but I can give it this much: It was well-acted and very pretty to look at. There were a few especially striking scenes that ensured it was much more memorable visually than anything else.

It’s worth a watch if you’ve not got anything else of interest, maybe on a lazy Sunday afternoon at home. I wouldn’t pay to see it in the theatre (It hits the US in October), but if you have even a moderate interest in the Beatles, you’d probably enjoy it as a rental.