borisjohnson will be given the astrazeneca covid jab shortly — after reassuring the public the vaccine is safe. calls for nicola sturgeon to resign — as msps conclude the first minister misled the committee investigating the handling of allegations against her predecessor alex salmond. now it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review with me mark kermode. rounding out the best new movies available for viewing in the home while we look forward to cinemas reopening in may.

if you have watched my bbc for series secrets of cinema, which is now on iplayer, you will know that i'm a great fan of pop bio pics. from the buddy holly story to good vibrations, the latter of which told the story of legendary belfast record label boss terri hooley. there's more than a touch of hooley�*s maverick genius in creation stories. a new film about alan mcgee who helped launch the careers of bands like primal scream and oasis. anything you can find in this box. tvps? later! co—written by irving welch, produced by danny boyle and starring ewan bremner, you could be forgiven for thinking that this has something of a trainspotting feel. i have a dream! indeed, mcgee comes across as basically a more successful version of spud, someone who is, style enthusiasm for class a narcotics

leads him but not into a gutter in edinburgh, but to a swanky poolside terrace in la. now you had one of the biggest bands in the world, where does it go from here? played in his younger years by leo flanagan, and by bremner as an oddly childlike adult, mcgee's biggest breaks seem to be down to chaotic fate. with his unswerving belief that each new signing will be bigger than u2, he somehow stumbles into a position of immense cultural performance. helping to identify the era of britpop and gaining access to the corridors of power under tony blair's new labour where everything starts to unravel. directed by nick moran who previously did a brilliant job with the joe meek story telstar, this is entertaining if inevitably self mythologizing fair. bremner is clearly having a ball in the lead role, but it's the supporting characters who often steal the show. from a former skids front man richard jobson as alan's overbearing dad, to jason isaacs in a rip—roaring cameo as a coke addled producer. it's a biopic, forrest gump

meets boyz n the hood. personally, i could have lived without these somewhat hackneyed staged interviews, and for all its excesses, there's little sense that this gets under the skin of its larger—than—life subject. but like many of the bands that mcgee champions, this is entertainingly bolshie fare. loud, brash and absolutely full of itself. creation stories is on sky cinema from saturday. it's a book. it's a little more than that. open it. you bought drugs from yourself? i had to beta test it. sticking with substance fuelled lifestyles, silk road retells the story of self—proclaimed dark web pirate ross ulbricht who made a fortune setting up what was effectively amazon for drugs. a site where narcotics can be

bought, sold and even custom rated on the anonymity of bitcoin currency. on the anonymity of bitcoin currency-— on the anonymity of bitcoin curren . . �*, ' ., ., currency. that's 1.2 million a day. nick robinson _ currency. that's 1.2 million a day. nick robinson placed _ currency. that's1.2 million a day. nick robinson placed the - currency. that's1.2 million a day. | nick robinson placed the real-life nick robinson placed the real—life entrepreneur whose libertarian dreams of change in the world lead him into increasingly paranoid isolation obsessed with money, riven with deadly suspicion. by contrast jason clark is the fictional ravaged narc who worms his way into ross ulbricht�*s confidence albeit from a distance, determined to bring them down. you will get a month's conspiracy to commit murder. checkmate. there may be a brilliantly incisive moody to be told of the story, but this is not it. instead it's stylishly empty fair city perhaps the subject matter. robinson who was terrific in the underrated coming—of—age pick the underrated coming—of—age pick the kings of centre makes a convincing lead but for all of his talk about giving people the freedom

to make their own choices, ross ulbricht was essentially a dealer drifting in industry not built upon freedom but on extortion, greed and murder. the result is a passable if lightweight cyber crime thriller that you can find online appropriately enough from monday. at the other end of the dramatic spectrum we have a leg which opened a very positive reviews and can between 18 and now arrives here offering a portrait of economic migration. the latvian butcher that

travelled to belgium in search of work but finds himself effectively enslaved by people. see me initially to befriend and support three, soon exporting and abusing him refusing to pay them for his work and threatening to kill him or his family if he leaves. inspired by real—life tales of modern slavery that have a gritty veracity to the kafkaesque proceedings, the film has an urgent documentary like quality interspersed with quasi—religious dreams of drowning that somehow universalize the story. a ball of nerve energy who has danger searching an instant from goofiness

to gangster. as for the sacrificial bmb to gangster. as for the sacrificial lamb to a tee, and strangely incident face prep for the role of someone trapped in hellish surroundings stripped of their voice and their identity. oleg is available from tuesday. too hungry now aware of this year public entry from the best foreign labour to film oscar was the lengthily entitled preparations to be together for an unknown period of time. it may not have made the academy's shortlist but that's no reason to miss out on these twisty treats from this writer director. natasha storck is martha, the hungry neurosurgeon living in the us who returns to her homeland after a

fleeting encounter at a conference in newjersey. realising that what she's what she's been looking for she's what she's been looking for she agrees to a rendezvous in budapest but when she gets that he insisted he has no memory of meeting her. has martha encountered a doppelganger? is hejust pretending not to know her? or has she simply imagined their relationship, carefully conjuring every detail so even i believe it happened? she's sounded many people alongside influences all the strings of the emotional tension of her film influences all the strings of the emotional tension of herfilm or might it be at times of the superb french thriller tell no one.

impressively, he managed to keep the narrative options open for far longer than should be credible. with martha playing an unspoken game of cat and mouse follow which other through a city whose distinct districts seem to mirror and map internal conflicts. part ghost story, and part love story, this playfully mysterious film is a joy to watch with drawing us deeper into the kaleidoscopic world. while the toy expertly with the tricks of memory and the mind. you can find it on curzon home cinema. this sunday the 21st as world down syndrome day. on thursday the brilliant british movie my feral heart starring stephen brandon had its terrestrial and network premiere on bbc four, and now it's available on bbc four, and now it's available on iplayer. it's a real andyjam which writer producer duncan

significantly said that inspiration came from the similarities and experiences that we all share regardless of needs adding that this story is about ability not disability. that's a sentiment that also rings true with amber and me, a beautiful and uplifting documentary about childhood, friendship and education that's available from home viewing from sunday. [30 education that's available from home viewing from sunday.— viewing from sunday. do you want to taste a bit of — viewing from sunday. do you want to taste a bit of the _ viewing from sunday. do you want to taste a bit of the cake _ viewing from sunday. do you want to taste a bit of the cake now? - viewing from sunday. do you want to taste a bit of the cake now? time - taste a bit of the cake now? time for the taste test.— taste a bit of the cake now? time for the taste test. focusing on twin sisters amber _ for the taste test. focusing on twin sisters amber and _ for the taste test. focusing on twin sisters amber and olivia _ for the taste test. focusing on twin sisters amber and olivia and - sisters amber and olivia and directed by their dad the film follows the girls as they start school together embarking on different journeys that will see each challenged in different ways. she does find it a bit trickier. now she doesn't want to go to school as much. �* , she doesn't want to go to school as much. �*, , ., ., much. it's impossible not to feel deel much. it's impossible not to feel deeply involved _ much. it's impossible not to feel deeply involved in _ much. it's impossible not to feel deeply involved in the _ much. it's impossible not to feel deeply involved in the world - much. it's impossible not to feel deeply involved in the world of. much. it's impossible not to feel. deeply involved in the world of the sisters who share a palpable bond thatis sisters who share a palpable bond that is tested by the classroom environment, but that also proves

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may be bloated and turgid, but at least it's coherently bloated and uniformly turgid. you canjudge least it's coherently bloated and uniformly turgid. you can judge zach snyder'sjustice league for uniformly turgid. you can judge zach snyder's justice league for yourself on sky cinema. thanks for watching the film review, stay safe and i will see you next week. ibis i the film review, stay safe and i will see you next week.- will see you next week. as i live and breathe. _ we are in a very quiet spell of weather at the moment with high pressure in charge and that's what's going to stay for the weekend and into next week as well. for most of us fairly cloudy with a bit of sunshine from time to time, but still a little on the nippy side. so the forecast through the night then to the fair bit of cloud across the uk but clear spells here and there as well. temperatures ranging from around three to 4 degrees in the colder spots where the skies cleared to around eight celsius. and here's

the morning on saturday. the best of the morning on saturday. the best of the sunshine in the morning in the southeast and through the afternoon to the east of the pennants, so places like newcastle and hole should have a fairly decent day, 13 or 1a degrees here. but for the northwest year of scotland a week with a front wafting in from the north comes to the possibility of some rain and northern parts of the highlands and to the western aisles. little change expected it to sunday. that's it for me, bye—bye.

tonight at six: more pressure on scotland's first minister as nicola sturgeon faces calls to resign. a committee of msps is understood to have concluded she misled them over the goverment�*s handling of the alex salmond allegations. the scottish conservatives say she should go. the parliament was misled by the first minister. now, that is, to me, a clear breach of the ministerial code, and i think that if she had a shred of integrity, nicola sturgeon would be considering her position. a spokesperson for nicola sturgeon has accused the committee, whose report is due within days, of peddling baseless smears. also tonight: the french prime minister has the oxford—astrazeneca jab as the rollout resumes across much of the eu amid a third wave of infections. no minimum wage for care workers during periods when they have to sleep at their workplace — that's the ruling from the supreme court. sunday is census day —

the compulsory survey, painting a picture of the population.