Cate Blanchett, Sisters with Transistors, Stowaway and Black Bear
Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Cate Blanchett, who talks about her new film Apples. Plus reviews of Black Bear and Stowaway.
Ben Bailey Smith and Anna Bogutskaya are joined by Cate Blanchett and Christos Nikou, who talk about their new film Apples, about a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia.
Plus your essential streaming reviews including Black Bear, which stars Aubrey Plaza, documentary Sisters with Transistors which tells the untold story of electronic music鈥檚 female pioneers, House of Cardin, a documentary about designer Pierre Cardin which gives exclusive access to his archives and his empire, and new Homeward, in which a father and a son from a Crimean Tatar family transport the body of deceased older son and brother from Kyiv to bury him in Crimea, and Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies, about Alan Ladd Junior, the man who greenlit some of cinema's greatest hits including Star Wars, Alien, Chariots of Fire and Thelma & Louise.
Our rotating chart this week is Top Fives of Your Life, in which wittertainees share their five most treasured movies.
Plus Ben and Anna will be looking forward to the Oscars.
They also talk you through the best and worst films on subscription-free TV next week, and recommend a home entertainment purchase in DVD of the Week.
00:13:40 Oscars look ahead
00:20:08 Celebrating Cinema
00:26:09 Current releases
00:31:07 Chart: Top 5 Films of Your Life
00:36:40 Black Bear review
00:42:28 Cate Blanchett & Nichos Kristou interview
01:04:15 Sisters with Transistors review
01:08:27 Oscars look ahead part 2
01:15:12 House of Cardin review
01:20:18 Stowaway review
01:23:32 TV Movies of the Week
01:33:57 The Race to Save the World review
01:36:23 Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies review
01:39:39 Homeward review
01:44:22 DVD of the Week
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Homeward reviewed by Anna Bogutskaya
Duration: 03:35
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Stowaway reviewed by Anna Bogutskaya
Duration: 02:32
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Sisters with Transistors reviewed by Anna Bogutskaya
Duration: 04:24
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Black Bear reviewed by Anna Bogutskaya
Duration: 05:03
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