COMING SOON
Out this week
Albums
* Cracker Island by Gorillaz: Eighth album by the British virtual band; comes after 2020’s Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez; includes the singles ‘New Gold’ (featuring Tame Impala and Bootie Brown), ‘Baby Queen’, ‘Skinny Ape’, and ‘Silent Running’ (featuring Adeleye Omotayo).
Movies
* We Have a Ghost (starring David Harbour, Anthony Mackie, Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Tig Notaro, Jennifer Coolidge) - comedy horror; a family becomes Internet-famous after discovering their new home has a ghost and creating a YouTube channel.
* Luther: The Fallen Sun (starring Idris Elba, Cynthia Erivo, Andy Serkis, Dermot Crowley) - crime thriller, film continuation of the television series; disgraced detective John Luther (Elba) decides to break out of prison to catch a gruesome serial killer who is terrorising London.
* Cocaine Bear (starring Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Christian Convery, Alden Ehrenreich, Jesse Tyler Ferguson) - dark comedy action, inspired by a true story; after ingesting a duffel bag of cocaine, an American black bear goes on a killing rampage.
CELEB TWEETS
* Julius Sharpe (juliussharpe): The worst part of The Fabelmans was when the mom bought a monkey and everyone got concerned instead of thinking it was the greatest thing ever.
* Rainn Wilson (rainnwilson): I would make a good “before” model.
* Ricky Gervais (rickygervais): Hope you had a great Valentine’s Day, and met the perfect person, like Jane did.
SPOTLIGHT
Your Place or Mine
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher, Jesse Williams, Zoe Chao, Wesley Kimmel, Tig Notaro, Steve Zahn
Director: Aline Brosh McKenna
Tagline: Two lives. Two cities. One last chance.
* Romantic comedy; two best friends who live on opposite sides of the country decide to swap houses for a week while one (Witherspoon) finishes a degree and the other (Kutcher) looks after the former’s son.
* Marks Aline Brosh McKenna’s big screen directorial debut.
* Has received negative reviews, with criticism aimed at the lack of chemistry between the leads and the absence of tension and originality.
* Score composed by Goldspot frontman Siddhartha Khosla.
AWARDS
76th British Academy Film Awards
Winners:
* Best film: All Quiet on the Western Front
* Director: Edward Berger - All Quiet on the Western Front
* Actor in a leading role: Austin Butler - Elvis
* Actress in a leading role: Cate Blanchett - Tar
* Actor in a supporting role: Barry Keoghan - The Banshees of Inisherin
* Actress in a supporting role: Kerry Condon - The Banshees of Inisherin
* Original screenplay: The Banshees of Inisherin
* Adapted screenplay: All Quiet on the Western Front
* Animated film: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
* Documentary: Navalny
* Film not in the English language: All Quiet on the Western Front
* Original score: All Quiet on the Western Front
* Outstanding British Film: The Banshees of Inisherin
* EE Rising Star Award: Emma Mackey
* For the complete list of nominees and winners, visit bafta.org