And in the last of today’s viral videos, we have Mark Hamill – you know, Luke Skywalker – giving a great big heartfelt thanks to a whole bunch of Star Wars fans. I’m not sure how reassuring it is to know that our doctors and nurses dress up as stormtroopers at the weekend, but I guess everyone has to have an outlet.
Reunited Apart isn’t something of which I was aware until now, but it’s an online series that showcases charities working to provide resources during the lockdown. Hosted by Josh Gad (yes, that one), each episode also reunites (virtually) the cast and crew of classic movies.
The first of these featured The Goonies (1985), which by some miracle I’ve never seen.
However, the subject of the second episode is Back to the Future (1985) and its sequels, which I most definitely have seen and rather love. In it, Gad and co manage to bring together stars Michael J Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen and Elisabeth Shue, as well as director Robert Zemeckis, writer Bob Gale, and… Huey Lewis!
Continuing with our series of viral videos put together by creative types during lockdown, here we have a really quite elaborate one put together by the makers of The Lego Movie (2014). Elizabeth Banks and Chris Pratt reprise their roles to explain to everyone how to socially distance oneself and maintain good hand hygiene.
It’s funnier, better made and more musical than any of that sounds.
Every Tuesday, TMINE flags up what new TV events BAFTA is holding around the UK
Just as the BFI has started to adapt to the coronavirus quarantine, so too has BAFTA, which is now starting to organise online TV events. I must confess I only just noticed this so I missed last week’s Normal People (UK: BBC Three) panel discussion with Paul Mescal, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Lenny Abrahamson, but you can view that here:
Clearly, though, I’m going to have to keep my eye on BAFTA again.
After the jump, three events coming your way on Zoom in the next week: a preview of Netflix’s The Eddy, a session on the production challenges facing TV producers during lockdown, and a masterclass with Left Bank Pictures’ producer Andy Harries. You’ll be glad to hear they’re all free (I think).
