Pick of the week
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man<\/p>\n
Whether the Birmingham-set period crime drama needed another outing after six series is a moot point, but Tommy Shelby is back to brood magnificently one final time. Creator Steven Knight and director Tom Harper keep things reassuringly familiar (glowering vistas, anachronistic songs, random acts of violence) but we\u2019re now in 1940, and the Nazis are coming. While Tommy (Cillian Murphy) is holed up in a decaying mansion haunted by the ghosts of his past, his impetuous son and heir Duke (Barry Keoghan) forms an alliance with British fascist John Beckett (a cool Tim Roth) to flood the country with counterfeit currency. And only Tommy can stop them \u2026
Friday 20 March, Netflix<\/p>\n
SketchSketch. Photograph: The Movie Partnership\/Kova International<\/p>\n
Grief is a thing with orange skin, no eyes and a massive mouth. In Seth Worley\u2019s imaginative, kid-friendly horror, crayon pictures of scary monsters \u2013 drawn compulsively by Amber (Bianca Belle) as she deals with her mother\u2019s death \u2013 come magically, perilously to life. Dad Taylor (Tony Hale) and brother Jack (Kue Lawrence) have their own, less deadly, avoidance strategies but must also face up to their loss. In great Goonies fashion, it\u2019s the children who have the solution to the often comic threats springing from Amber\u2019s morbid mind.
Saturday 14 March, 9am, 6.20pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
A Fistful of DollarsClint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars. Photograph: Silver Screen Collection\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
An unauthorised adaptation of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s samurai classic Yojimbo (whose Japanese studio sued), Sergio Leone\u2019s 1964 film popularised the \u201cspaghetti western\u201d and so revitalised this hitherto all-American genre. It also made a star of stubbly young Clint Eastwood, whose taciturn, poncho-clad gunslinger rides into a frontier town and cunningly sets its two warring criminal families against each other. It\u2019s a wilfully stylish film, with sweaty closeups, gunshots that sound like cannon fire and tension so ramped up you could cut it with a bowie knife.
Saturday 14 March, 9pm, Sky Arts<\/p>\n
Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True StoryLiza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story. Photograph: Atlas Media Corp<\/p>\n
With her candid memoir out now, here\u2019s a complimentary evening in the company of showbiz great Liza Minnelli. Before a double bill of her films \u2013 the peerless Cabaret and the flawed but ambitious New York, New York \u2013 Bruce David Klein\u2019s documentary gives a detailed lowdown on her career and the mentors who helped her emerge from the shadow of her famous mother, Judy Garland. From performers Kay Thompson and Charles Aznavour to theatre giants Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb, plus fashion designer Halston, it\u2019s a fascinating star-is-born tale.
Saturday 14 March, 9.15pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
The MartianMatt Damon as Mark Watney in The Martian. Photograph: 20th Century Fox\/Allstar<\/p>\n
Although Ridley Scott\u2019s output has been hit-and-miss in recent decades, his 2015 sci-fi movie is up there with his best work. The always engaging Matt Damon is astronaut Mark, who is stranded alone on Mars after a Nasa mission goes wrong. He has four years until possible rescue, but not enough resources to survive. The solution? \u201cI\u2019m going to have to science the shit out of this.\u201d In essence, this is a space procedural, where the technical problems Mark faces provide all the drama you need.
Sunday 15 March, 10pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
The SonTurbulent time \u2026 Hugh Jackman and Zen McGrath in The Son (2022). Photograph: Landmark Media\/Alamy<\/p>\n
The last in Florian Zeller\u2019s trilogy of plays (after The Mother and The Father) gets the screen treatment<\/a>. It\u2019s a more straightforward take on family strife than the earlier two, though the emotional turbulence is just as acute. Hugh Jackman plays Peter \u2013 father to teenager Nicholas (Zen McGrath), divorced from Laura Dern\u2019s Kate and now married to Beth (Vanessa Kirby) with a new baby. Nicholas is showing signs of depression so Peter lets him come to stay. But, as a doctor says, \u201clove is not enough\u201d and Peter \u2013 who has a fractured relationship with his own dad \u2013 doesn\u2019t have the tools to deal with a mental health crisis. In CameraCompelling \u2026 Nabhaan Rizwan in In Camera.<\/p>\n The travails of an actor condemned to a series of humiliating auditions could be the subject of comedy (see Wonder Man<\/a>). But in Naqqash Khalid<\/a>\u2019s dislocating satirical drama<\/a> it becomes the stuff of nightmares. Nabhaan Rizwan is compelling as Aden, first seen as a bloodied corpse in a police show, who seems worryingly disconnected in the face of the awkwardness and fake sincerity of his vocation. And when he is hired by a therapist to play a dead son for a grieving mother, his grip on reality starts to loosen. The same goes for the film itself, which feels increasingly untethered.
Sunday 15 March, 11pm, Channel 4<\/p>\n
Friday 20 March, 11.10pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekPeaky Blinders: The Immortal Man Whether the Birmingham-set period crime drama needed another outing after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-337044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}