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SPY (15) SUAVE secret agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law) completes some of the agency’s most dangerous missions thanks to the quick-thinking and hi-tech gadgetry of ana- lyst Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy). He takes all of the acclaim while Su- san remains firmly in the background haunted by her controlling mother’s mangled mantra: “well be- haved women do make his- tory”. When Bradley and the other agents, including British bruiser Rick Ford (Statham), are compro- mised, Susan puts herself forward for active duty to infiltrate the inner circle of arms dealer Rayna Boyanov (Rose Byrne). CIA deputy director Elaine Crocker (Allison Janney) places her trust in Susan to complete the perilous mission with- out any field experience. Guided by her dithering colleague Nancy Arting- stall (Miranda Hart), Susan adopts a series of dowdy dis- guises to get close to Rayna without arousing suspicion. As Rayna prepares to sell a stolen device to Sergio De Luca (Bobby Cannavale), Susan throws caution to the wind to avert global disaster. Opening with an extended action sequence and Saul Bass-inspired opening titles replete with a Bond-esque thunderous ballad, Spy is a rip-roaring treat. Rating: Four stars


SURVIVOR (12A) SECURITY expert Kate Abbott (Milla Jovovich) is drafted to the US embassy in London by her mentor, Am- bassador Maureen Crane (Angela Bassett), to identify


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relationship with wealthy real estate developer Daniel Reddick (Ioan Gruffudd). Re- united in unimaginable trag- edy, Ray andEmmahead from Los Angeles to San Francisco to save their daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who has joined forces with a hand- some British visitor called Ben (Hugo Johnstone-Burt) and his 11-year-old brother Ollie (Art Parkinson) to sur- vive the devastation. Just when it seems that the worst is over for the Gaines family, a doom-saying professor (Paul Giamatti) at California Insti- tute of Technology reveals that a bigger earthquake is on the way that will be felt on the east coast and cause a massive tsunami from which there will be no escape. Rating: Three stars


BOND-ESQUE: Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy in Spy


visa applicants who pose a threat to homeland security. Intuition tells Kate to look closer into Romanian doc- tor Emil Balan (Roger Rees), who wants to visit America to attend a medical confer- ence. She delays his visa ap- plication with the backing of section chief Sam Parker (Dylan McDermott) and in- vestigates further, aided by four ambitious interns (An- tonia Thomas, Sean Teale,


Rege-Jean Page, Jing Lusi). An elusive hit man known as The Watchmaker (Brosnan) is hired to eliminate Kate in order to expedite Balan’s visa application. The first attempt on Kate’s life fails and video evidence falsely implicates her in the terrorist atrocity. Hunted by The Watchmaker and Inspector Paul Anderson (James D’Arcy), Kate defies embassy survival protocol to evade capture and defuse the


terrorists’ bomb. Survivor is a generic battle of patriotic Americans versus nasty for- eigners that casts Jovovich in her familiar role as a one- woman killing machine. Rating: Two stars


SANANDREAS (12A) RECENTevents inNepalhave impacted, understandably, on the marketing of this big- budget disaster movie about the devastation wrought by


Comedy legend is still irrepressible


BASIL Brush is a star with an outstand- ing ability to entertain and make people of all ages laugh and smile. The Basil Brush Show on BBC TV


has been seen by millions of viewers all over the globe from 1968 through to today. The show was Bafta nomi- nated and voted Best Comedy Show on TV. Britain’s most lovable fox visits New-


port Riverfront this Saturday with his TV chum Mr Stephen (aka Chris Piz- zey). Together, they will take you on a journey of laughs, storytelling and song in a new, specially written ‘live’ stage show packed with fun and ex- citement. Andy Howells, a lifelong fan of Basil,


recently got a chance to put questions to the cunning Mr Brush.


What can you tell us about the Full on Fox tour? Now the Full on Fox tour is called


that because when they told me I would be doing over 100 dates I said “that’s full on” and so the title stuck. I have teamed up with Mr Stephen, we did several years on the CBBC Basil


Brush Show together and we have decided to take our laughter pilgrim- age all over the country. We have a huge twenty foot video


screen on stage that allows us to go into space, we meet Sherlock Holmes and sing our way through an adven- ture. Children also come on stage to help in space, and of course there are jokes for both kids and grown-ups, if you know what I mean. The reaction from all age groups


has been brilliant; in fact we have so much laughter some of it is in the right place.


I remember watching you on televi- sion when I was a small boy, and you look younger now than you did then, have you had any form of plastic surgery? How do you keep so young and fit? I look great with my keep fit routine.


I work out every morning. I work out what I am going to eat for the day. When I started yoga last week the instructor asked how flexible I was. I said I couldn’t do Thursday. I did lose 35 pounds though... that was the gym membership.


I am not as old as Des O’Connor. But I am the same shade of orange.


What are you looking forward to most about visiting Wales? I am most looking forward to the


hills, the mountains and hopefully a lovely tea shop where I can dunk my ginger nuts in a nice cup of tea and look at the glorious view.


Do you have a message for all your fans coming to see your show? Don’t miss out on this amazing roll-


ercoaster of a show for all the family; laughter, screaming, and that’s be- fore the show starts. And of course the chance to have your photograph taken with me and Mr Stephen right after the show. Boom Boom Wales!


Catch Basil when he visits Newport


Riverfront on Saturday June 6, and join in the mayhem, along with Mr Ste- phen who will be continually interrupt- ed by naughty, uncontrollable Basil. Call 01633 65 67 57 or visit new port.gov.uk/theriverfront


Mother Nature. The San An- dreas Fault, which runs for more than 800 miles through California, gives way, trig- gering a magnitude nine earthquake that decimates the west coast. Search and rescue helicopter pilot Chief Ray Gaines (Dwayne John- son) takes to the air to hunt for survivors including his estranged wife Emma (Carla Gugino), who has filed for di- vorce so she can pursue a new


SEARCH PARTY (15) NARDO (Thomas Middl- editch) confides to his two buddies Jason (TJ Miller) and Evan (Adam Pally) that he is nervous about his upcoming wedding to sweetheart Tracy (Shannon Woodward). The lads attempt to allay Nardo’s nerves with a bachelor party awash with drugs and alco- hol. By the time the groom-to- be staggers to the church, he is in no fit state to tie the knot and Tracy leaves him stand- ing at the altar and heads to Mexico. Nardo gives chase but he is car-jacked and has to telephone Jason and Evan for help. They drive across the border into Mexico to collect their friend and the three lads become embroiled in a series of painful misadventures. Sadly, Search Party limps and wheezes from the opening frame.


Rating: Two stars


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