Coming soon to a cinema near you (for the first time in 14 months) here are three film suggestions for you.
These include subtle drama, unsubtle action and an even more unsubtle musical – that you won’t want to miss.
Positive notices have greeted the action thriller ‘Nobody’ with Bob Odenkirk (Better Caul Saul) as a man who becomes entangled in the world of a drug king pin after defending a woman by standing up to his henchmen. Available on premium video-on-demand since 15 April 2021, it will officially open in UK cinemas on 9 June 2021.
Anthony Hopkins (The Two Popes) won his second Academy Award and fourth competitive BAFTA for Best Actor for his leading performance in ‘The Father’, released on 11 June 2021. Nominated for six Oscars and six BAFTAs, where writer-director Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton jointly won Best Adapted Screenplay from both bodies, the film depicts the harrowing toll of dementia on the sufferer and those around him. Olivia Colman (The Favourite), Rufus Sewell (Judy) and Olivia Williams (The Ghost Writer) provide support.
Winner of four Tony Awards in 2008, including Best Musical, ‘In The Heights’ has now been adapted for the silver screen. Anthony Ramos (Hamilton) sings and dances his way through the film, set during one hot day in Washington Heights, New York City, in the main role with music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns).
Delayed by a full year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it takes the stage on 18 June 2021.
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.
