OUR PICKS OF THE WEEK
Films
The Red Shoes
BBC2 12.50pm - 3.00pm ★★★★★
DANCE DRAMAMoira
Shearer is mesmerising as a young
dancer torn between her art and love
in this slice of pure movie magic.
With striking set designs and
ravishing colour, Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger coat their film
with elegance and style, and The
Ballet of the Red Shoes sequence is
perhaps the most captivating of its
kind. Shearer, who died in 2006,
said: ‘The Red Shoes ruined my
career in the ballet. The dance
bosses never trusted me again.’
Dirs: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1946, U, 130min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )Spider-Man: Into
the Spider-Verse
Sky Cinema Premiere
8.00pm - 10.00pm ★★★★★
SatellitePREMIERE
SUPERHEROThis dazzlingly
playful, Oscar-winning animated
movie takes Marvel Comics’ friendly
neighbourhood crimefighter into
fresh realms, or rather, into half-a-
dozen parallel universes, each of
which has its own version of
Spider-Man. Brooklyn teenager
Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) takes
on the web-slinging superhero’s
mantle, but he’s soon encountering
a bunch of other Spideys from other
dimensions – all of them with their
own distinctive style of animation.
Dirs: Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti 2018, PG, 120min
SEX ) VIOLENCE ) LANGUAGE )
Alone in Berlin
Film 4 9.00pm - 11.05pm ★★★
PREMIERE WAR DRAMA
Devastated by the death of their soldier
son at the front, Germans Brendan
Gleeson and Emma Thompson channel
their grief into a series of postcards
denouncing the Nazis, which they
covertly leave around Berlin. As they
throw themselves deeper into their
subversion, dogged cop Daniel Brühl
attempts to catch them. Based on a true
story (and Hans Fallada’s novel), this
well-acted drama is tonally uneven but
quietly moving. Dir: Vincent Perez 2016, 12, 125min
SEX ) VIOLENCE! LANGUAGE )A Most Violent Year
BBC2 11.35pm - 1.35am ★★★★★
CRIME DRAMA In 1981 New York,
Oscar Isaac’s self-made Hispanic immigrant
builds up his fuel-oil business and tries to
keep his integrity in a murky world of
violence and corruption. This is a
breathtaking crime drama with faultless
acting from Isaac, Jessica Chastain as his
tough wife, Albert Brooks as his affable
lawyer and David Oyelowo as a shrewd
assistant DA. Dir: JC Chandor 2014, 15, 120min
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Talking shop:
Chastain
and IsaacDistraught:
Gleeson and
ThompsonMagical:
ShearerBack with
a purpose:
WinsletOne of many
web-slingers
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TheDressmaker
C4 11.00pm - 1.15am ★★★★
PERIOD DRAMA⊲ In this sumptuous tale of
Outback revenge, Kate Winslet’s misfit heroine,
dressmaker Tilly, returns to her drab hometown in
early-1950s New South Wales after 20 years away. She’s
soon turning a series of local ugly ducklings into glamorous
swans, but her real aim is to expose the town’s dark secrets.
Embracing comedy, melodrama, romance and tragedy, its
excesses only make it all the more enjoyable. Judy Davis is
fabulous as Tilly’s dotty mother, Hugo Weaving is great fun
as a secretly cross-dressing policeman and Liam
Hemsworth strikes a note of sanity as a hunky local, while
Winslet channels the spirit of the era’s screen sirens with
voluptuous allure. D i r : J o c e l y n M o o r h o u s e 2 0 1 5 , 1 2 , 1 3 5 m i n
SEX! VIOLENCE! LANGUAGE!SUNDAY
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