Pick of the week
The Zone of Interest<\/p>\n
Other awards-garlanded films may come and go, but this drama<\/a> will inspire awestruck discussion for decades to come. Christian Friedel<\/a> \u2013 unrecognisable from his role in The White Lotus<\/a> \u2013 stars as Rudolf H\u00f6ss, the Auschwitz commandant who lived with his wife (Sandra H\u00fcller) and children in an idyllic country home adjoining the notorious concentration camp. For the H\u00f6ss family, domestic life continues as normal, while the screams of industrial-scale murder are often audible just over the garden wall. Jonathan Glazer\u2019s film is an immersive historical drama, but it also makes chilling comment on our present moment, and humanity\u2019s capacity to carry on as genocide takes place. Springsteen: Deliver Me from NowhereThe boss \u2026 Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Photograph: Macall Polay\/20th Century Studios<\/p>\n Prestige TV\u2019s two favourite Jeremys \u2013 Jeremy Allen White from The Bear and Jeremy Strong from Succession \u2013 are united in this solid Golden Globe-nominated Bruce Springsteen biopic<\/a>. White stars as the Boss during a downbeat period of his life when he was holed up in his Colts Neck, New Jersey home, reflecting on his childhood trauma and fiddling about with the demo that would eventually evolve into 1982\u2019s low-fi, bedroom-recorded album, Nebraska. Strong plays Jon Landau, the loyal manager and producer, who has always got Bruce\u2019s back with the label. The BlobMonster thrills \u2026 The Blob. Photograph: Youtube<\/p>\n You may feel we have enough extinction-level events to worry about, but have you considered the possibility of a carnivorous amoeba-like alien crash-landing on Earth, then devouring all in its path, as it grows into one giant glob of slime? That\u2019s the plot of this 1958 B movie par excellence, which also has the distinction of featuring Steve McQueen in his very first leading role. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has called the Blob his favourite of all Hollywood-imagined aliens \u2013 \u201cfrom a scientific perspective\u201d. ElectionType A terror \u2026 Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick in Election. Photograph: FlixPix\/Alamy<\/p>\n Ferris Bueller (AKA actor Matthew Broderick) is all grown up in this film<\/a> from the Oscar-winning director of The Holdovers<\/a>, Alexander Payne. Now, instead of being a truanting pupil, he\u2019s Jim McAllister, a history and civics teacher at a Nebraska high school, but he\u2019s still no match for over-achieving pupil and Type A terror, Tracy Flick. When Flick \u2013 played, in a career-defining performance, by Reese Witherspoon \u2013 runs for student president, McAllister sets out to sabotage her campaign, resulting in a sharp satire of political power-plays. River of No ReturnMakes great use of America\u2019s natural wonders \u2026 Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return. Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd\/Alamy<\/p>\n In a frontier town, a widower (Robert Mitchum) is released from prison to find his son in the care of a saloon singer (Marilyn Monroe). From there, the plot of this musical western unfolds in a way that was loosely inspired by the Italian classic Bicycle Thieves, but while the Mitchum-Monroe pairing is pleasing, it\u2019s the mountain action sequences which impress. These make great use of America\u2019s natural wonders, among which Monroe at the peak of her big-screen beauty can certainly be counted. The Naked GunPerfect if you like your comedy silly \u2026 Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson in The Naked Gun. Photograph: Photo Credit: Frank Masi\/Frank Masi<\/p>\n If you like your comedy silly and your beavers stuffed, good news: last year\u2019s well-received reboot<\/a> of the law enforcement farce is getting its UK TV premiere, now starring Liam Neeson as Lt Frank Drebin Jr, son of the original Leslie Nielsen character. When the \u201cPrimordial Law of Toughness\u201d gadget (or \u201cP.L.O.T. Device\u201d, for short) gets stolen from a safety deposit box, Drebin teams up with crime novelist Beth (Pamela Anderson) to foil the bad guys \u2013 plus one bad snowman \u2013 and restore order to the streets of LA. BirdAstonishing \u2026 Nykiya Adams in Bird. Photograph: Atsushi Nishijima<\/p>\n Nykiya Adams makes her film debut as 12-year-old Bailey in this magical realist tale<\/a> to sit alongside Andrea Arnold\u2019s other astonishing coming-of-agers, like Fish Tank<\/a> (2009) and American Honey<\/a> (2016). Bailey\u2019s father (Barry Keoghan) and mother (Jasmine Jobson) are distracted by new romances, leaving her feeling pushed out, but also free to roam the fields, estates and derelict warehouses of Kent. Eventually she strikes up a companionship with an oddball stranger called \u201cBird\u201d (Franz Rogowski), and his search for parental love becomes her own.
Saturday 24 January, 9.45pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Disney+, out now<\/p>\n
Sunday 25 January, 2.25am, Talking Pictures TV<\/p>\n
Monday 26 January, 11pm, BBC Three<\/p>\n
Wednesday 28 January, 2.40pm, Film4<\/p>\n
Friday 30 January, 9.10am, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
Friday 30 January, 11pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekThe Zone of Interest Other awards-garlanded films may come and go, but this drama will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-428043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}