Jesse Eisenberg provides the voice of a blue macaw who’s shipped from Minnesota to Rio de Janeiro, where he’s meant to mate with a disdainful female (voiced by Anne Hathaway). Nigel Hess’s soundtrack, meanwhile, is an utter mediative delight.īrazilian director Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age) switches to winged critters for this joyously musical film. Much in the same cosy, quintessentially British vein as Dench and Smith’s The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, this makes for a charming way to pass a few hours – almost as pleasantly innocuous as a warm afternoon spent rockpooling or eating fish and chips in Mousehole or Padstow. The sisters nurse him back to full health, but become threatened by his increasingly close relationship with Natascha McElhone’s Olga, the sister of a famous musician. Their idyllic life is disturbed, however, when gifted Polish violinist Andrea (Daniel Brühl) is swept overboard while sailing from Krakow to America and washes up ashore near their home. Formidable grande dame duo Judi Dench and Maggie Smith play sisters Ursula and Janet, who reside in a tight-knit Cornish fishing village in 1935 they’re given to walking arm-in-arm along the coast, bickering lightly and laughing about various friends and foes. They start in Sicily.įilm of the week: Ladies in Lavender (2004) ★★★★Ĭharles Dance, perhaps now best known for portraying terrifying, power-hungry patriarch Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, marks his directorial debut with this heartwarming historical drama. Your enjoyment will depend on how much you like their potty-mouthed exchanges. Yet another celebrity travelogue, this one by the former EastEnders actor and his Love Island daughter on a “four-week cultural tour” of Italy. Filmed at The George, one of London’s oldest Thameside inns, Norwegian violinist Bjarte Eike and his group Barokksolistene recreate how one of those raucous 17th-century gigs – filled with folk music, fiddle tunes, drinking songs and pieces by Purcell and Playford – might have have sounded. When Cromwell closed the theatres, unemployed musicians gathered at alehouses to play what we would now call jam sessions. There’s some light, er, relief too, as Wax jokes about toilet habits. It is supposed to be a test of her endurance, and a cyclone does just that. In the first of this two-parter, comedian Ruby Wax – who has been living with depression for more than 25 years – is packed off to an uninhabited island near Madagascar for 10 days with only her camera to talk to. In Brown’s most personal show yet, he displays an adroit mix of trickery and tenderness as he ponders love and bereavement it culminates in a mind-blowing finale. Half a million people saw Showman when the illusionist performed it in theatres across Britain last year, and it’s safe to say that half a million were blown away by it. The pair learn how the King is using his estate to create the next generation of food producers, and his mission to reinvigorate traditional crafts. In the final part of this year’s update of a seven-year project monitoring vulnerable habitats, Gordon Buchanan reports from Brazil on a pioneering project to save the jaguar Ade Adepitan visits Kenya to investigate how people and elephants are fighting over dwindling resources while Ella Al-Shamahi visits Cambodian scientists reintroducing the Siamese crocodile.Ĭharlotte Smith and Hamza Yassin present a special edition of the show from Dumfries House in Ayrshire. All episodes available as a boxset on ITVX. Algar, also, is terrific as a woman on the edge. The series is written by Grace Ofori-Attah, an ex-NHS doctor and writer of the Idris Elba comedy In the Long Run Malpractice captures the frantic pace of an A&E department, while weaving a complex plot about medical ethics. But Callahan is not the only problem Edwards has to contend with, as we get glimpses of a complicated personal life with her husband, Tom (Lorne MacFadyen) – and the suggestion that she may be hiding a secret. While her colleague Dr Leo Harris (James Purefoy) supports her, she has to justify her decisions to chief investigator Dr Norma Callahan (Helen Behan). When one of the patients dies, an investigation ensues and Edwards is assessed over her fitness to practice medicine. She plays Lucinda Edwards, an experienced doctor who, during a busy shift managing an A&E department, has to decide which of two patients can take the one remaining bed in the resuscitation unit – a gunshot victim or an opioid overdose patient. Buckle up for an eventful opening episode of a tense five-part medical thriller starring Niamh Algar (The Virtues).
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