Making them one nation under rock. All of which comes as a surprise to pop loving queen poppy, thatjust wants to give the world a hug and get everyone to live together in perfect harmony. Yes, now thats a good connection. The plot of Trolls World Tour is basically an uncredited rip off of the 1960s oddity gonks go beat in which the warring inhabitants of beat land and ballad isle are visited by space aliens. That film featured such rock royalty as lulu, ginger baker and the nashville teens alongside the likes of kenneth connor, Frank Thornton and terry scott. Oh, and arthur mullard. Trolls world tour boasts the voices of Anna Kendrick and justin timberlake, alongside ozzy osbourne, maryj blige, and george clinton. Oh, and james corden. Poppy. You know you cant go back on a pinky promise. With visual nods to mad max fury road and jokes about the evils
of yodelling and smooth jazz, Trolls World Tour throws a few comedy crumbs to the adults who would have been taking their kids to the cinema to see this, but are now probably doing the hoovering while the children crowd around the television. This is fairly formulaic dreamworks affair, lacking the visual or musical imagination of happy feet and having none of the pan generational appeal of a toy story movie even with its laudable message of embracing difference. Most significantly however, Trolls World Tour is the first major studio movie intended for widespread Theatrical Release that has now gone straight to streaming services here in the uk as a result of coronavirus. How it fares financially will be closely watched by distributors. A pinky promise. Dang. For something a little more grown up, head to curzon home cinema for the release of the psychological drama, who you think i am. The release is being
brought forward, not least because the films online theme seems to strike a particularly timely chord. Based on a novel by camille laurens, it tells the story of a middle aged divorcee, brilliantly played byjuliette binoche, who invents a fictitious online persona and becomes embroiled in a virtual relationship. Recounting her tail to a psychiatrist, claire reveals how clara her younger alter ego began to take over her life, becoming more real than the real world. Addicted to the thrill of electronic interaction, she recedes into the comfort of her phone and her computer, increasingly removed from the rules and responsibilities of the physical world of which she is evermore oblivious. Intelligently directed by safy nebbou and hauntingly scored by his regular collaborator ibrahim maalouf, who you think i am is a twisty treat, a film that plays knowingly with narrative in a manner that recalls karel reiszs classic adaptation of the french lieutenants woman. Its significant that claire is a professor of literature, well versed in the complexity of authorial voices. At one point she compares her online life to a novel and throughout the drama, we watch her effectively writing and rewriting her story. Her past, present and future. It all adds up to a very modern drama about age old anxieties, the fear of ageing and death, the desire for love and intimacy, the need for artifice and deceit. In 500 years, no one has ever escaped. Its the tower also new to streaming services this week is the iron mask mystery of the dragon seal, a chinese russian production nominally starring jason flemyng, arnold schwarzenegger, and jackie chan alongside fleeting appearances by the likes of charles dance, and rutger hauer in one of his final roles. Come with me. The sequel to 2014s forbidden kingdom which, like its predecessor, has been released around the world under umpteen different titles, the iron mask finds flemyngs map makerteaming up with the titular russian tsar to battle a face swapping witch whos imprisoned a dragon whose eyelashes make tea, or something. To be honest, i had very little idea what was going on, and i dont think the screenwriters had much more. Suffice to say that despite the publicity images, arnie and jackie, who both get producer credits, are very much secondary characters sharing one entertaining punch up but not a whole lot more. You look better this way. The rest is a mishmash of slapstick wire work, comically bad dubbing, incoherent plotting and shonky cgi land and seascapes. It is also worth noting that the film was designed to be a 3d spectacular which explains all the chains being chucked at the cameras and fishes and fairies flying towards the screen. Pointy, pointy cinema gimmicks that on tvjust seem a bit pointless. If youre looking for something more realistic, try Martin Margiela in his own words. An intriguing documentary about the famously camera shy belgian Fashion Designer for whom anonymity is a key to his work. I dont like the idea of being a celebrity. Anonymitys very important to me. The last show we had a confession. In the doc, which includes a wealth of archival footage, we hear but dont see margiela tell his own story,
in engaging in enigmatic fashion. There are different needs in the fashion world, and im not sure i canfit them. Also new to streaming services such as bfi player this week is ordinary love, the deeply moving frequently funny and piercingly insightful drama from belfast playwright Owen Mccafferty making his screen writing feature debut. Hospitals remind me of death. Lovely. You know what i mean. So if i come in, you wont ever come and visit me . Theyre not going to bring you injust for a cyst. All i know is it felt serious. Thats just because of all the other sick people that are around you. You see, the nonsense you talk. How do you get through life . Well, youre still here with me. Im just doing that out of spite. Right back at you, kid. On the surface, its a tale of a middle aged couple facing up to a diagnosis of Breast Cancer and a year of medical intervention. Yet beyond this is something far more rich and compelling, a story of everyday love between two people perfectly played by Lesley Manville and liam neeson living in the shadow of grief facing an uncertain future both together and apart. Directed with wit, subtlety, and great emotional honesty by lisa barros dsa and glenn leyburn, the couple behind the life affirming good vibrations, this is a singular story with universal appeal. Joyous, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting. There isnt a moment i wont be there with you. I think women can do anything. Doesnt mean they should. But i have so many talents. Who are you . Im just a decoy, stud
new to dvd and also available to download is charlies angels, the latest feature film reboot of the 70s tv series. Elizabeth banks directs and costars in this girl power update which, for my money, is infinitely preferable to the previous hyperventilating outings helmed by the reliably terrible mcg. Oh, mints lets just stop the touching. Some of this blows up. And if you are looking for a classic, the elephant man celebrates its 40th anniversary with a Collectors Edition three disc set featuring a 4k restoration of the film with sound and picture personally approved by director david lynch. One of the most moving screen dramas of the 20th century, the elephant man boasts beautiful white and black photography by the great Freddie Francis and ca reer best performances from Anthony Hopkins and john hurt, the latter of whom works wonders despite extensive prosthetics that somehow never come between him and the audience. Its a masterpiece. Thats it for this week, thanks for watching the film review. Stay safe and i will be back next week with more home viewing treats. I am not an elephant i am not an animal i am a human being. Good evening, quite a big change on the way through the second half of this easter weekend. After a couple of very warm days temperatures are going to be dropping from the north through sunday and particularly on into easter monday. You have to count or a few hefty downpours. Blood pressure up to the northeast and all you really need to worry about its for the white lions are coming from. A long way north and thats with the air will increasingly be coming from with a brisk wind as well and that cold air spreading southworth as we go through Easter Sunday and on into easter monday. A very different field by the end of the weekend. Actually here and now parts of england and wales through this evening into tonight, it will then fade so looking try with clear spells for the most part in cloud apache rain affecting scotland and Northern Ireland. Not parts of southeast england and scotland could get down to two or three degrees. Its been in the rain became quite erratic progress southeast so we see rainfora time erratic progress southeast so we see rain for a time and parts of Northern Ireland in southern scotland, that ring trying to frontage west wells in the southwest of england, and generally the stay of england, and generally the stay of sunny spells and heavy showers into the afternoon, though showers
could get really heavy indeed with frequent lightning and some thunder thrown in. 25 degrees once again in london but for the north and much cooler feel as you introduce this northerly wind. As you go through sunday night so showers for a time in england and wales and more of us feel the effects of that and more of us feel the effects of that and more of us feel the effects of that north or northeast wind and during monday that would drag a lot of clout into northern and eastern scotland and down to the eastern side of england. For the rest for you because of shelter from that wind thats where we will have the best of the sunshine. The wind particularly brisk for eastern and Southern Coast could see gusts of 50 mph for the Channel Islands look at temperatures, type temperature in cardiff and plymouth a high of 11 degrees. As you move through monday night this area of High Pressure really builds quite strongly across the British Isles and blue colours in the chart, late wins it will get colder quite a right spread frost for tuesday morning, with bearing in mind if you gardening over the weekend and a quite a cool day what
it does turn warmer later in the week. This is bbc news of the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The uk home secretary response to criticism after doctors warn that they are still not getting the protective equipment they need to treat patients with coronavirus. |j equipment they need to treat patients with coronavirus. I am sorry if people feel that there have been failings, ill be clear about that. But we are in an unprecedented Global Health pandemic right now. Number of people who have died from coronavirus is gone up since yesterday. Police and the uk have said theres been a 20 drop in the past four weeks but finds have been issued for those breaking social
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