The trailer for Miles Ahead looked very good, and the film more than lived up to expectations when we went to see it at Picturehouse Central in London.

Don Cheadle does a fantastic job as director and star of this tribute to jazz great Miles Davis.

The pacing of ‘Miles Ahead’ is a perfect mix of action scenes and more reflective moments.

The flashbacks are skilfully placed to keep the story firing along rather than interrupting the narrative flow.

I knew that the music would be great, but I wasn’t expecting the whole film to be as terrific as it is.

The pairing of Don Cheadle as Miles Davis and Ewan McGregor as the journalist pursuing him for a story works very well. There is a great chemistry between Cheadle and McGregor. This rapport enlivens the whole film.

Although this is a loving tribute to Miles Davis, his flaws are also on display, particularly with regard to his treatment of his wife Frances Taylor.

‘Miles Ahead’ was showing in screen 4 of Picturehouse Central.

When it finished we dropped into the members’ bar where I glugged down an excellent pint of IPA.

On leaving the cinema we crossed over Shaftesbury Avenue to the Japan Centre to get a couple of bottles of saké, including one very good honjozo from Niigata Prefecture.

From the Japan Centre we headed along the Strand towards Fleet Street for what turned out to be a superb tapas meal at El Vino wine bar.

We had the five tapas for twenty quid option, washed down by a couple of glasses of white wine and rounded off with an excellent glass of port.

El Vino has a great atmosphere, a cosy refuge from the bustle of London’s busy streets.

By the time we left the wine bar the rain was bucketing down outside. But after the great film and the great meal, we didn’t mind at all.

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