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A miner s son who became a globe-trotting sales director has revealed how he became friends with comedy king Sir Ken Dodd, who gave him two of his famous tickling sticks. During his long career Geoff Williams, raised in Llay, near Wrexham and now living in Southport, also rubbed shoulders with stellar names like singing superstar Sir Tom Jones, Hollywood actors Richard Burton and Jack Nicholson and Kop hero Bill Shankly. Another claim to fame was that the 88-year-old persuaded Leeds United to allow the FA Cup to go on show at the British Legion in Llay. Now he has put pen to paper about his extraordinary life in his newly-published autobiography,
Four new films to stream this weekend Black Bear, I Blame Society, Sisters with Transistors, House of Cardin
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BLACK BEAR ★★★★★
Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Paola Lázaro, Grantham Coleman. VOD, 104 min Plaza excels in this tricksy, surreal cringe comedy, which falls somewhere between Fawlty Towers and Mulholland Drive (and defies easy summary). Gadon and Abbott are the most unmissable actors around. But it’s Plaza’s turn in a script that demands she “..break down and give the best performance that anyone has ever seen ever” – yes, that’s the script direction – that pounces like the ursus of the title. Lawrence Michael Levine’s blisteringly original, provocative, often hilarious screenplay lurches between familiar tropes and jagged edges. It’ll keep you guessing.
I BLAME SOCIETY Review – Would You Kill To Make It In Hollywood?
Would you kill to make it In Hollywood? Check out our review of I BLAME SOCIETY! By Drew Tinnin
Written by Gillian Wallace Horvat and Chase Williamson
Starring Gillian Wallace Horvat, Keith Paulson, Chase Williamson
For any up-and-coming director, or serial murderer, Gillian Wallace Horvat’s do-it-yourself dark horror comedy is probably required viewing. Smartly,
I Blame Society is the perfect vessel for its star who also writes and directs, moving quickly from the viewing category of “Why do I like this?” to “I can’t stop watching!” Playing a meta version of herself, Horvat navigates the Hollywood adjacent version of L.A.’s indie film scene showing the shared struggle for a modicum of fame in a town built on desperation. At once a hilarious satire and a twisted fantasy, two questions are asked: “Why haven’t I made it yet?” and
What’s new to VOD and streaming this weekend
Including reviews of Judas And The Black Messiah, Cowboys, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things and Saint Maud By Norman Wilner
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OW critics pick what’s new to streaming and VOD for the weekend of February 12. Plus: Everything new to VOD and streaming platforms.
Judas And The Black Messiah
(Shaka- King)
In less skilful hands, Judas And The Black Messiah could play like hollow Oscar bait, a tragedy of Black lives manipulated by cynical white authority in a less enlightened time. Instead, director/co-writer King’s powerhouse drama about the complicity of FBI informant William O’Neal in the 1969 murder of Black Panthers community organizer Fred Hampton keeps subtly drawing parallels to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement, showing us how little has changed in the ensuing half-century. The film has a nervous, contemporary feel, every scene carrying an immediacy that threatens to punch through the period setting. And t