Meet our new film critic jameskingmovies as he talks about what you should be watching this week!
January 31, 2020 - 11:47 GMT James King So many films, so little time! Since our list of must-watch flicks grows longer by the day, we can't think of anyone better to advise us on what is worth our time than one of television's biggest film critics, James King.
ON THE BIG SCREEN... Who's the kindest actor in Hollywood? Keanu Reeves is known for his good deeds. Will Smith charms people like it's going out of fashion. Yet it's Tom Hanks who's been the soft-hearted guy-next-door for years. It makes perfect sense, then, that the film world's longest serving Mr Nice Guy should now be in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood playing Fred Rogers. No surprise either that Tom's just picked up his sixth Oscar nomination for the role.
Whilst the story of A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood centres on Lloyd Vogel , a stressed-out journalist doing a profile on Rogers, it's the man himself who is the film's heart and soul. Hanks is deliberately slow and soft-spoken, calm and collected - not such an easy task for an actor known for his dynamism. Yet he nails it. As Lloyd discovers that Fred's simple, childlike and somewhat outdated way of life might contain answers to his problems, so do we in the audience.
Writer/director Lulu Wang has crafted a family gathering movie that brilliantly plays up to cultural differences. Billi is stuck between two worlds: part American, part Chinese, utterly dedicated to her family yet utterly frustrated by them too. Should she be rekindling relationships or saying goodbye?In an ideal world The Farewell would have been showered with Oscar nominations but it wasn't to be. It's still something special though.
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