A real life partner. He speaks german. It is in cinemas and on curzon home cinema now. My name is guy. Sunday should be warm and sunny. Just a scattering of drive bys. And i live in paradise. I ve got a best friend. This is the greatest cup of coffee of all time. Mondays, am i right, joe? now to another charming funny ai character, this time played by ryan reynolds in the disney action comedy free guy. Guy is a cheerful bank teller who loves his routine life, from his morning coffee to small talk with his co worker buddy who is played by lil rel howery. He even shrugs off the daily raids from bank robbers. What he doesn t realise is he is a background player in an open world video game called free city. Those violent robbers wearing sun glasses, they are avatars of geeky real world players. When he sees molotov girl, played by killing eve sjodie comer, he falls for her, not realising she is the real world coder who is trying to prove that her idea is stolen and so a computer game comed
When neil armstrong takes one small step for a man, the concertgoer reacts by stating, never mind the moon, let s get some of that cash in harlem a sentiment echoed by the reverend jesse jackson. The fact that no one was interested in this historic footage of the harlem cultural festival for so long stands as evidence of the whitewashing of american history, a subject that seems particularly pertinent at the moment. Plaudits, then, to director ahmir thompson, aka musician questlove, who begins and ends his film with a festival goer reviewing the newly uncovered footage for the first time, and then tearfully thanking the film maker for proving to him that he isn t crazy this really happened. We wanted progress. We are black people and we should be proud of this. We were coming together to say this is our world, and how beautiful it was. Thanks to this terrific film, that s something we can all share in. I can take you higher. We believed in what we felt in here. Just go do it! summe
The warning was made as the chief executive of nhs providers said very, very few coronavirus patients in hospital in england have received two covid jabs, showing the vaccines provide very high levels of protection. But he warned that hospitals are dealing with a heavy backlog of cases. Our health correspondent catherine burns reports. Ready, steady, go. We are in a race, vaccines against the virus, and this was the start on december eight. Maggie keenan was the first person in the uk to get vaccinated outside of clinical trials. That was less than six months ago. Now, about three quarters of adults have had their first dose, three quarters of adults have had theirfirst dose, and three quarters of adults have had their first dose, and almost half have had both. The government target has always been to offer a job to all adults by the end ofjuly. Now there is a new ambition. We all adults by the end ofjuly. Now there is a new ambition. We hope to be able to protect there is a new ambi
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the actor, sir sidney poitier, whose ground breaking films in the 50s and 60s, shone a light on racism and social prejudice, has died. he was 94. he was the first black man to win an oscar, and his ground breaking work paved the way for generations of black artists. his film is reflected in america are struggling with issues of racism and prejudice at the height of the civil rights movement. his impact ultimately transcended the silver screen. lizo mzimba looks back at his life. # in the heat of the night.# sidney poitier s virgil tibbs, a man of authority. i m a police officer. ..intelligence and a steely determination never to back down. the kind of qualities that defined poitier on screen and off. he made his cinema debut playing a doctor, a man of status, something almost unheard of for black performers then. and with roles like an escaped convict in the defiant ones and a struggling husband in a raisin in the sun, he tac