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FILM OF THE WEEK:
BLADE RUNNER 2049
This belated sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic has been getting some ecstatic reviews. Sadly, it’s not the masterpiece some of the more excitable critics have been hailing it as – it’s merely very good. Thirty years after the original film, we follow Ryan Gosling’s K, a replicant (android) who hunts down his own kind, in the process stumbling upon a discovery that Jared Leto’s sinister plutocrat very much wants to exploit for himself. At our screening, the director personally asked us not to reveal much more than that, but really, it’s the visuals that are the selling point here. The mood and scale are alternately seductive and breathtaking, even if it has a frustrating habit of picking ideas up then forgetting about them – that said, it does feel strange criticising a film for having too many ideas. See it on the big screen if you can. Times & trailer
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BOOK NOW FOR 2018. WE'RE NOT JOKING.
Did you watch the first episode of Russia With Simon Reeve (BBC2 Thursdays at 9pm, repeated Sundays at 7pm)? The guy is cooler than the other side of the pillow, even when constantly being pulled over and interrogated by the FSB. Such is the popularity of the travel-journo that tickets for his Birmingham appearance in the Town Hall in a year's time are already selling fast. He'll recount tales from over 15 years of travelling to the most remote and extreme corners of the planet. From being chased by pirates, hounded by the Mafia and bombed by Columbian barons, Reeve has travelled through over 120 nations and his Auntie Beeb docs have sold to over 60 countries around the world. The show includes exclusive multi-media footage and a 20 mins Q&A sesh. Tickets
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OLD SCHOOL LOVE TRIANGL-ING
It's the age old tale, isn't it? You wait seven years to see the love of your life, and she only goes and falls for your employee. Lady Olivia (played by Cara Tointon, pictured) is in mourning for her father and brother, and refuses to entertain ideas of love and marriage. Until she meets the page of her long-suffering admirer, who is actually a woman dressed as a man. A shipwreck, a love triangle, much mistaken identity, and a frankly staggering concentration of marriages later, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night chortles its way to a trickstery conclusion. Also starring Ade Edmonson as Malvolio, director duties come from Christopher Luscombe, who gave us a severe bout of laughter with 2014's Love's Labour's Lost. Catch it from Nov 2 to Feb 24. Tickets from £16, with a few at £5 for 16-25 year olds.
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