A temporary replacement for TMINE’s Orange Thursday feature in which I review a readily available movie you’ve probably already seen
As I’ve mentioned before, there is a hole in my mind. Through a weird combination of timings, I missed out on watching pretty much every Disney movie ever made. I just grew up in the wrong years relative to Disney release days. It’s weird.
But we’re in lockdown and one of the great successes of this period has been Disney+. Disney had a five-year plan for obtaining subscribers to its new streaming service… but is already more or less there. And we’re one of them.
So Lovely Wife, who had a similar gap in her cinematic education, and I decided to take advantage of the lack of new movies and new TV being released at the moment to watch some of those cultural touchstones we’d missed out on. Plus anything else that took our fancy.
We’re still working our way through them, so there’ll be more to come, and there’s absolutely no point properly reviewing them either, so after the jump you’ll find a potted selection of potted reviews of just a few of the things you can find on Disney+: The Jungle Book (1967), Aladdin (1992), Mulan (1998), Brave (2012), Moana (2016) and The Lion King (2019).
Whenever it can, TMINE lets you know what TV the BFI will be presenting at the South Bank in London
It’s not as big as the programmes of even a few months ago, but the BFI still has an events programme for June. And here it is. I wonder if they’ll talk about Civvies?
The BFI today announces a special digital in conversation event with Lennie James. The online event, which is part of the ongoing BFI at Home programme, presented in partnership with the Radio Times will feature Lennie James, the creator, writer and star of the universally acclaimed Save Me Too in conversation with BBC 6 Music film critic and broadcaster Rhianna Dhillon on Monday 22 June, 19:00 BST, via BFI YouTube.
The event, which coincides with the home entertainment release of Save Me Too, will look back at the success of the show, how Lennie is spending lockdown and his varied and esteemed career, including starring in television phenomena Line of Duty, The Walking Dead and Fear The Walking Dead, as well as roles in blockbuster films including Snatch and Blade Runner 2049.
Save Me Too, which stars Suranne Jones, Stephen Graham and Jason Flemyng, has James delivering a powerhouse performance as Nelly, on a desperate search for his missing daughter Jody with potentially terrible consequences for him and those around him. All episodes of Save Me Too are available on Sky Atlantic on demand and NOW TV, and available on DVD from the 22 June.
Every Tuesday, TMINE flags up what new TV events BAFTA is holding around the UK
BAFTA’s really getting the hang of this Zoom thing, with no fewer than three events lined up in the next fortnight: Q&A’s for Make Me Famous, Belgravia and Jamie Johnson.
