Pick of the week
Bugonia<\/p>\n
A scruffy conspiracy theorist (Jesse Plemons) and a CEO-maybe-alien (Emma Stone) face off in this wild black comedy. Plemons is Teddy Gatz, a warehouse worker and beekeeper, distraught about the damage done by corporations such as the one Michelle Fuller (Stone) heads up. Teddy\u2019s internet \u201cresearch\u201d has convinced him Fuller is an Andromedan colonist intent on enslaving humanity, so along with his autistic cousin Don (Aidan Delbis), Teddy plans to kidnap her and negotiate Earth\u2019s liberation. Technically, Bugonia<\/a> is a remake of a Korean film, but the mischievous mood comes unmistakably from Yorgos Lanthimos, the lauded film-maker behind Poor Things<\/a> and The Favourite<\/a>. TombstoneWild west \u2026 Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell and Bill Paxton in Tombstone. Photograph: AJ Pics\/Alamy<\/p>\n This tough-talking 1990s western<\/a> is one of several movies to retell events surrounding the legendary Gunfight at the OK Corral, when Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his deputised lawmen attempted to disarm a gang of cattle rustlers in the saloon town of Tombstone, Arizona. But what sets this version apart from all the others is a scene-stealing turn from Val Kilmer as sickly souse Doc Holliday, a brief-but-brilliant voiceover narration from the great Robert Mitchum, and several of the most tremendous \u2019taches this side of the Rio Grande. Blade RunnerElectric dreams \u2026 Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner. Photograph: Warner Bros\/Sportsphoto\/Allstar<\/p>\n Los Angeles, 2019. The permanent neo-noir night. It\u2019s the job of cop turned bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) to track down and \u201cretire\u201d rogue replicants. But what if Rick can\u2019t tell the humans from their bioengineered counterparts? Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 film<\/a> was a relative flop on first release, but is now widely considered among the greatest sci-fi films of all time. This 2007-issued \u201cfinal cut\u201d blends influences as disparate as German expressionism, Italian futurism and \u201cHong Kong on a very bad day\u201d into a visually iconic whole. My Summer of LoveMagnificent \u2026 Emily Blunt in My Summer of Love. Photograph: Bbc Films\/Allstar<\/p>\n Emily Blunt\u2019s big-screen debut<\/a> boded well for the magnificent career to follow. She plays Tamsin, an alluring posh girl who hooks up with tomboy Mona (Natalie Press) over one sultry season in West Yorkshire\u2019s Calder valley. Paddy Considine is Phil, Mona\u2019s ex-convict brother, whose recent religious conversion seems to conceal a simmering propensity for violence. All in all it\u2019s the modern-day, lesbian Wuthering Heights of our dreams, with Bafta-winning direction from Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski, who just picked up his second best director award at this year\u2019s Cannes. Wicked: For GoodSpecial bond \u2026 Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba in Wicked: For Good. Photograph: Giles Keyte\/Universal Pictures<\/p>\n Does pink complement green \u2013 or does it clash? This concluding part<\/a> to the Broadway musical adaptation inspired by The Wizard of Oz is an impressive feat of tonal blending. At its heart is the fraught bond between Glinda the Good (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba AKA the Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo), but there are other vibrant strands woven in, including backstories for familiar characters such as the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and Dorothy herself. Leave Her to HeavenFemme fatale \u2026 Gene Tierney and Cornel Wilde in Leave Her to Heaven. Photograph: Collection Christophel\/Alamy<\/p>\n Demonic daddy\u2019s girl Ellen (Gene Tierney) creates havoc of all sorts in this 1945 noir-melodrama, cited by Martin Scorsese as an all-time favourite. Cornel Wilde is Richard, the unsuspecting novelist who falls for a beautiful Boston socialite on the train to Jacinto, but soon lives to regret his impulsivity. Leon Shamroy\u2019s sumptuous Technicolor cinematography won that year\u2019s Academy award and director John M Stahl has fun bringing in allusions to the great femme fatales of Greek mythology, including Hippolyta, Medea and the sirens who lure men to a watery grave. The BodyguardQueen of the night! \u2026 Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard. Photograph: Maximum Film\/Alamy<\/p>\n Once intended as a vehicle for Steve McQueen and Diana Ross, The Bodyguard had a 20-year journey to the screen before finally materialising in 1992 as Whitney Houston\u2019s film-acting debut. She plays a famous actor and singer who, despite being threatened by a stalker, resists the restrictions placed upon her by her new head of security, Frank (Kevin Costner). Until, of course, the two get intimate. While initially dismissed as hokey by critics, The Bodyguard<\/a> now stands as a timeless tribute to the power of soaring ballads and interracial romance.
Saturday 4 July, 10.25am, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
Sunday 5 July, 9pm, Film4<\/p>\n
Sunday 5 July, 10pm, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Wednesday 8 July, 12.05am, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Friday 10 July, 7.25am, 6pm, Sky Cinema Premiere<\/p>\n
Friday 10 July, 11am, Film4<\/p>\n
Friday 10 July, 8pm, Sky Cinema Greats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekBugonia A scruffy conspiracy theorist (Jesse Plemons) and a CEO-maybe-alien (Emma Stone) face off in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-671846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}