8 Out & About SHAUNTHE SHEEP


MOVIE (U) AARDMAN works its stop- motion animated magic on this big screen adventure for the lovable sheep, co-di- rected by Mark Burton and Richard Starzack. Shaun and the flock grow tired of the daily routine on Mossy Bottom Farm under the watchful eye of Bitzer the sheepdog. So the herd hood- winks the farmer into tak- ing a well-deserved day off so they can do the same. Unfortunately, the cunning


plan goes awry. Rating: Four stars


SELMA (12A) IN 1960s America, political bureaucracy and prejudice deny the African-American electorate the chance to vote in the forthcoming election in which president Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) hopes to be returned to the White House. Martin Luther King (David


Oyelowo) entreats the presi- dent to right this democratic wrong but Johnson and his adviser Lee C White (Gio- vanni Ribisi) don’t consider voting rights to be high on their list of priorities. So King and his team head to the community of Selma, Alabama to lead a peaceful protest march. Local police under the ju- risdiction of George Corley Wallace Jr (Tim Roth) meet this act of resistance with extreme force. Pressure then begins to grow. Rating: Four stars


THE INTERVIEW(15) DAVE Skylark (James Fran- co) is the gregarious host of entertainment show Sky-


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sman: The Secret Service is a fast-paced spy caper about an elite group of secret agents. Gary Unwin (Taron Egerton), who is known to his friends as Eggsy, is on the downward spiral to drugs and crime de- spite an impressive IQ. He is dismissed by everyone ex- cept agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth), who believes Eggsy has what it takes to make his mark as a crime-fighting op- erative. So Hart takes Eggsy under


his wing and enrols the young man in a gruelling training programme run by Arthur (Michael Caine) against more eloquent and refined peers, who believe good breeding will see them through. Rating: Three stars


FUN: Shaun The Sheep hits the big screen


lark Tonight, which prides itself on headline-grabbing celebrity exposes. Long-time producer Aaron Rapaport (Seth Rogen) learns that Kim Jong-un (Randall Park), su- preme leader of North Korea, is an ardent fan of the show, so he casually approaches the president’s advisors for an on-air interview. Shortly before they depart


for Pyongyang, Dave and Aaron meet with CIA Agent


Lacey (Lizzy Caplan), who wants the duo to poison Kim with ricin. The lads agree but the covert operation gradu- ally falls apart when Lacey discovers her inside men are buffoons. Rating: Two stars


BIGHERO6 (PG) FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Hiro Hamada (voiced by Ryan Pot- ter) idolises his older brother Tadashi (Daniel Henney),


who is a star pupil of Profes- sor Robert Callaghan (James Cromwell), head of the robot- ics program at San Franso- kyo University. A fire on cam- pus culminates in tragedy and shell-shocked Hiro is in- consolable until his brother’s greatest creation, a personal healthcare robot called Bay- max (Scott Adsit), helps the teenager to confront his loss. As the boy discovers Bay- max’s functionality, he also


stumbles upon a secret: the fire might not have been an accident. Indeed, a greedy entrepreneur called Alistair Krei (Alan Tudyk) might have started the blaze. Rating: Five stars


KINGSMAN:


THE SECRET SERVICE BASED on the comic book series created by Dave Gib- bons and Mark Millar, King-


INHERENT VICE (15) LARRY “Doc” Sportello (Phoenix) is a private eye and hippie, who lives in a ramshackle house on Gor- dita Beach and occasionally drifts into an office he rents with a sassy secretary (Maya Rudolph). Old flame Shasta Fay Hepworth (Katherine Waterston) returns to beg Doc’s help tracking down her new beau, billionaire Michael Z Wolfman (Eric Roberts). Shasta claims Wolfman has been kidnapped and con- signed to a mental institution by his money-grabbing wife (Serena Scott Thomas). Doc takes on the case and


also agrees two further as- signments: to help Hope Har- lingen (Jena Malone) track down her missing saxophon- ist husband (Owen Wilson), and reunite Black Guerrilla family member Tariq Kahlil (Michael K Williams) with a wayward bodyguard (Christo- pher Allen Nelson), who owes him money. Rating: Three stars


A rich story of a mother-son relationship


HIGH Tide, the debut feature film from Long Arm Films, is to be re- leased in cinemas in Wales and the rest of the UK from March 6. This beautifully shot feature


is set entirely in Wales. Starring Melanie Walters (Gavin and Stac- ey) and 18-year-old Samuel Davies in his debut starring role, High Tide is a moving, powerful and tender portrait of a vital 24 hours in two people’s lives. It’s a story of love, forgiveness and change. Set in the spectacular Welsh countryside along the Gower coastline, the film tells the story of Bethan (Walters) who has just one day to reclaim, repair and re-embrace her relationship with teenage son, Josh (Davies). Taking him out of school and


into the open air, the pair can talk openly to each other, free from dis- traction, for perhaps the first time ever. At first, Josh is reluctant but troubling revelations force him to wake up to his mother’s plight


and the painful realities of how both their lives will now change forever. High Tide is the impressive de-


but from the team of James Gill- ingham and Jimmy Hay. The duo, both of whom are originally from Devon, fell in love with the beauty of the Gower Peninsula while studying at Swansea University and had always wanted to shoot a film there. The film also marks the starring acting debut of Davies from Swan- sea, who was just 16 when High Tide was filmed. He stars along- side Walters and the pair deliver heart-breaking leading perfor- mances. Walters is also executive producer on the film. Walters said: “When such a high calibre script featuring a superb female lead role is being filmed on location in one of the most beauti- ful places in Britain and that part gets offered to you – you move heaven and earth to make it work.


“Filming High Tide was an in- tense, extraordinary experience and I loved working with the amazing team of people who all had the same passionate objective – to make a film that would look, sound and be moving, thoughtful and revealing. I am very proud to be a part of it.” Hay, of Long Arm Films, added:


“We’re really pleased to be at the stage where High Tide is getting its cinematic release and is going to start reaching an audience. We think it’s a film that will resonate with a lot of people. The dynamic between Melanie and Sam during filming was just amazing and that has made for two unbelievable performances. No-one will have seen Melanie in this kind of role before and for Sam to deliver the performance that he does, at the age of just 16, is incredible.” lRunning time: 93 minutes. Cer- tificate: TBC. For information go to hightidefilm.com


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