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. Hello. Well, we may be in a lockdown, but its always worth knowing what the weather is up to, so here is the forecast for the next week or so. And we are starting the week on a pretty nippy note. That is for sure. Theres also widespread frost on the way, monday night into tuesday, but the weather most of the week is actually going to be quite bright and sunny. Now the latest satellite picture shows us where the weather is coming from. You can see the cloud streaming in from the north. That is where the cold air is coming from. Ahead of it, there is a weather front and this weather front has been sparking off some showers and thunderstorms across central and some southern areas of the uk. It is all very hit and miss, though. So, through the early hours of monday, those cold winds setting in, not turning too cold, at least at this stage, in the very far south of the country. Early morning temperatures will be around 9 degrees between cardiff and london, whereas if you compare that to glasgow, it is around zero. That is Easter Monday morning. The cold air that is spreading across us is also spreading into other parts of europe as well. In fact, it is right across scandinavia, where apparently they are experiencing some pretty strong winds and some heavy snow at times as well. But, back to the uk then. So here is monday, Easter Monday morning, plenty of bright weather out towards the west, but at times cloudy in the east and that strong wind blowing in off the north sea, sometimes around some of these coasts, could be gusting in excess of a0 mph. So, temperatures struggling, only around seven in newcastle, around 9 degrees at best in hull, a huge drop in london from 25 or 26 over the weekend, down to only 12 degrees. Now, through monday night into tuesday, you can see the air frost developing from scotland through the north of england, wales and down into the south west as well. I suspect a widespread grass frost is on the way. Now, because we are also in the middle of a year of High Pressure, on tuesday you can see the wind is blowing around the high, it is going to feel a little less cold and i think the temperatures will also recover on the north sea coast, so back up to around about 13 degrees or so. That is because the wind had shifted direction a little bit. Now the High Pressure that is with us on wednesday is stretching right across europe, so some very settled weather here. Across spain and portugal, things are changing, low pressure is developing here and we will talk about that low in just a second. So, here is wednesday, we are still pretty much in the middle of this sort of elongated area of High Pressure, stretching into europe. Temperatures of around 13 degrees or so. Actually, in the sunshine, the sun is very strong at this time of year, if you are out in the garden, it feels relatively pleasant. So, back towards that low pressure i mentioned close to spain and portugal. Well, it is actually going to be drifting slowly in our direction towards the end of the week and through the weekend, so that thinking is, with also a change in wind direction, temperatures may rise a little bit, but also the clouds will be increasing as well and that could bring some rain come the weekend. I think this is pretty good news for some of the gardeners, we have not had rain for quite some time. It does look as though this weekend there is at least a bit of rain on the way. This is mostly across southern and central parts of the uk. So we will see that low pressure drifting in from the south and just about bringing some rainfall, mainly to southern parts of the uk and that rain kind of fizzles away by the time it reaches northern areas. And also at the same time, this is the following sunday, we will see some milder air drifting in from the south. It will not be quite so cold. As what we were experiencing on Easter Monday. That is it for me. Goodbye. Tonight at ten, the number of people who have died in the uk diagnosed with coronavirus passes 10,000. Behind every death is a life cut short, as the government stresses the need for strict observance of the lockdown. Today marks a sombre day in the impact of this disease, as we join the list of countries who have seen more than 10,000 deaths related to coronavirus. It comes as one scientific adviser to the government warns the uk could become the worst affected country in europe. Also tonight borisjohnson is recuperating after intensive medical care, but its unclear when hell be back at work. I have today left hospital
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