Coming soon to streaming services on your own TV are a couple of original comedies on film and an action series on television as spring finally arrives.
Amazon Prime Video
Due for release on 5 March 2021 is the comedy ‘Coming 2 America’ with Eddie Murphy (Dolemite Is My Name) reprising his leading role of a fictional African royal as well as multiple other roles in this comedy sequel to the 1988 film ‘Coming To America’. Arsenio Hall (The Arsenio Hall Show), also performing several characters, and James Earl Jones return while Leslie Jones (Saturday Night Live) and Wesley Snipes (Blade) join the cast.
Netflix
Produced and directed by Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) is the comedy ‘Moxie’, set to debut on 3 March 2021. Poehler also stars as a mother whose once rebellious teenage years inspire her daughter to anonymously publish a leaflet igniting a school revolution against its own toxic culture. Josephine Langford (After), Patrick Schwarzenegger (Midnight Sun) and Marcia Gay Harden (Pollock) also feature in this coming-of-age story.
Disney+
Following in the footsteps of ‘WandaVision’ comes ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier’, available from 19 March 2021, another six-episode limited series from Marvel Studios featuring two of its Cinematic Universe superheroes Sam Wilson/Falcon and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier reprised by Anthony Mackie (Altered Carbon) and Sebastian Stan (I, Tonya), respectively. Daniel Brühl (Rush) and Emily VanCamp (Brothers & Sisters) also return as their respective characters Baron Helmut Zemo and Sharon Carter for a new adventure set after ‘Avengers: Endgame’.
In Scotland I attended Dunfermline High School from 2010 to 2016 and Edinburgh Napier University from 2016 to 2020, emerging with two Advanced Higher and five Higher qualifications from the former and graduating with an undergraduate bachelor of arts honours degree in journalism from the latter. After two years away from further education due to the coronavirus pandemic, I'm going to be studying the MFA Photography course at York St John University in England from 2022 to 2024. I've achieved The Duke of Edinburgh’s (Bronze) Award and received grade five level certification for electronic keyboard from Trinity College London. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, writing, watching television series, listening to music and going to the cinema as well as catching up with friends, travelling by railway and hostelling overnight and overindulging in food and drinks in a pub or restaurant then having to go to the gym to burn it all off again.
By studying journalism and photography, my aim of practicing photojournalism professionally will hopefully be once step closer. Both are partial artforms requiring the rest of the work to be undertaken by the audience, the specialism of photojournalism, however, providing each of its two parts with greater context. Exploring photographic techniques (aerial, timelapse, editing) through a variety of journalistic styles (features, poetry, songwriting) will allow me to develop my portfolio, hone my camera skillset and narrow my focus further in anticipation of working life. Without a global pandemic to deal with this time. Fingers crossed.
