A few weeks ago my good friend Dr. Wank, who has near impeccable taste in movies (but he liked AI), highly recommended Spellbound to me.

This is what he had to say:

Spellbound is a documentary about spelling bees. Sounds like the most boring piece of film imaginable, doesn’t it? I mean, if you were writing a comedy script about a guy who’s making a boring movie, you’d write it so he was doing a documentary about spelling, wouldn’t you?

But in actuality this is a great movie, one of the few in recent memory where I’ve felt compelled to clap loudly and enthusiastically at the end. It has more comedy and genuine drama than any of the recent blockbusters. Why, if the guys who made Daredevil had made this, they’d almost be breaking even karmatically!

And Metacritic agrees. Anyway, I’ve looked all over for it, and yes, I even dragged myself up the steps to the hoity-toity Boîte Noire for it. (Don’t get me started, you Plateau-types. La Boîte Noire puts Cliffhanger (yes, the Sly Stallone movie) in its Scandinavian cinema section. On purpose).

Well, my luck seems to have changed. Cinema du Parc will be showing it as of Saturday. I’m going to make the bold move of pre-emptively recommending you see it.