Pick of the week
Becoming Led Zeppelin<\/p>\n
The archetypal origin story<\/a> for a band is a bunch of schoolmates who pick up instruments and stumble on a hit sound. But, as Bernard MacMahon\u2019s terrific, archive-stuffed documentary reveals, Led Zeppelin had a more roundabout gestation. Guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist John Paul Jones were in-demand session players in 60s London, while singer Robert Plant and drummer John Bonham were jobbing musicians in Birmingham. It wasn\u2019t until Page joined the Yardbirds that he realised his dream of a no-singles group with a heavy, improvisational edge. Featuring interviews with the surviving members, rare audio of Bonham and big chunks of gig footage, it\u2019s a fascinating slice of rock history. The PickupKeep moving \u2026 Pete Davidson and Eddie Murphy in The Pickup. Photograph: Amazon MGM Studio\/PA<\/p>\n Russell (Eddie Murphy) is an armoured truck guard edging towards retirement who is paired with irritating newbie Travis (Pete Davidson) on a long day of deliveries. However, their van is targeted by criminals led by Keke Palmer\u2019s Zoe, forcing a change of plans for all involved. Oddly, Tim Story\u2019s chase caper<\/a> turned heist thriller makes Murphy the straight man to Davidson\u2019s goofball, at the expense of the star\u2019s comic abilities. But the confident, charismatic Palmer takes up some of the slack, and the highway action sequences are smartly done. Back to the Future Part IIITurn back time \u2026 Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox in Back to the Future Part III. Photograph: AJ Pics\/Alamy<\/p>\n Shot back to back with Part II, the final part of the sci-fi trilogy<\/a> is a much better film, largely due to the fun everyone seems to be having with the western setting. Dusting off the DeLorean, Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) flies back to 1885 to save Christopher Lloyd\u2019s stranded Doc Brown from being shot dead by Buford Tannen, Biff\u2019s ancestor. Playful tweaks to the genre and a romance for Doc with Mary Steenburgen\u2019s teacher are the new elements in an otherwise familiar plot of cobbled-together gadgetry, space-time dilemmas and jolly slapstick comedy. Margrete: Queen of the NorthMajestic \u2026 Trine Dyrholm in Margrete: Queen of the North Photograph: Signature Entertainment<\/p>\n Charlotte Sieling\u2019s 2021 historical drama<\/a> takes a footnote from the life of a 14th-century Danish royal and gives it a dusting of Game of Thrones-style clan politics, generational scheming and nation building. The estimable Trine Dyrholm is magnetic as Margrete, who \u2013 despite being a woman in a man\u2019s world \u2013 has unified Norway, Sweden and Denmark and presides over a time of peace. Then a man appears claiming to be her long-dead son, which puts her adopted heir Erik (Morten Hee Andersen) in a funk and threatens to destabilise her hard-won pact. Jimmy\u2019s HallAbsorbing \u2026 Barry Ward and Simone Kirby in Jimmy\u2019s Hall. Photograph: Bernard Walsh<\/p>\n Eight years after his 2006 film The Wind That Shakes the Barley<\/a> delved into the 1920s Irish war of independence and civil war, Ken Loach returned to the country to assess its uneasy peace circa 1932. In an absorbing, fact-based story<\/a>, communist Jimmy (Barry Ward) returns from the US to his County Leitrim home to reopen a community hall, which exposes the continuing rift between the working class and \u201cthe masters and the pastors\u201d who dictate their lives and block democratic change. skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Get the best TV reviews, news and features in your inbox every Monday<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. For more information see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Grand HotelSeductive \u2026 Greta Garbo and John Barrymore in Grand Hotel. Photograph: PictureLux\/The Hollywood Archive\/Alamy<\/p>\n \u201cI want to be alone!\u201d Greta Garbo<\/a> is at her most diva-ish in this 1932 Oscar winner, a seductive pre-Code melodrama set exclusively in an opulent Berlin hotel. She is a depressed ballerina given a new lease of life after falling for John Barrymore\u2019s Baron Felix von Geigern. Sadly, he has plans to steal her jewels to pay off his debts \u2013 but he\u2019s also in love with her so it\u2019s not a simple proposition. Lionel Barrymore\u2019s terminally ill bookkeeper, a young Joan Crawford as a flirtatious stenographer and Wallace Beery\u2019s bumptious factory owner are other guests adding to the social whirl. RoxanneWhip-smart \u2026 Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah in Roxanne. Photograph: Aquarius\/Columbia\/Allstar<\/p>\n This 1987 romantic comedy is Steve Martin in his cinematic pomp, melding physical humour and dramatic purpose to beguiling effect. His own adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac transposes the action to a small US town, where fire chief CD (Martin) has a very, very long nose but is a whip-smart, outgoing local personality. Daryl Hannah<\/a> plays the titular love interest, an astronomy student who admires the looks of Rick Rossovich\u2019s nice-but-dim firefighter Chris but really likes the eloquent words CD puts into his courting colleague\u2019s mouth.
Saturday 9 August, Sky Documentaries, on demand<\/p>\n
Out now, Prime Video<\/p>\n
Saturday 9 August, 3.35pm, BBC One<\/p>\n
Saturday 9 August, 1.05am, BBC Two<\/p>\n
Sunday 10 August, 1.10am, Film4<\/p>\n
Thursday 14 August, 7pm, BBC Four<\/p>\n
Friday 15 August, 6pm, Sky Cinema Greats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pick of the weekBecoming Led Zeppelin The archetypal origin story for a band is a bunch of schoolmates…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-327663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114992744016669200","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}