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The Guardian
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- The Guardian
Mountainhead to Nintendo Switch 2: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
The Ballad of Wallis IslandOut now Comedy drama co-starring and co-written by comedians Tim Key and Tom Basden. Key plays a lottery winner with some big ideas about what to do with his winnings: namely, pay his favourite musical act to reunite. Hey, it's more interesting than buying a fancy car. Basden and Carey Mulligan play the folk duo McGwyer Mortimer. The Salt PathOut now Drama based on the true story of a 630-mile pilgrimage along the coast in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset. Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star as a married couple displaced from their home, who set out on a shoe leather-testing journey with not much more than a tent and a sense of determination. Karate Kid: LegendsOut now Starring Jackie Chan as Mr Han and Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, this family friendly martial arts blockbuster mashes together the worlds of the 2010 Karate Kid reboot with the Cobra Kai TV series, focusing on the journey of the newly created character Li Fong (relative newcomer Ben Wang). Along Came LoveOut now Set in the post-second world war period, Katell Quillévéré's award-winning drama sees a French waitress (Anaïs Demoustier) whose young son was conceived with a German soldier building a new relationship with a bisexual intellectual (Vincent Lacoste). Catherine Bray Lido festivalVictoria Park, London, 6 to 14 June The team behind east London festival All Points East launch this new, erm, east London festival. Massive Attack kick things off on Friday, heading up a lineup that also includes Air and Tirzah. Charli xcx headlines on 14 June. Michael Cragg Nelly4 to 11 June; tour starts Birmingham As part of his Where the Party At world tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his Country Grammar album, rapper and Pimp Juice hitmaker Nelly arrives in UK arenas. Eve, Fabolous and Nelly's own hip-hop group St Lunatics offer up ample support. MC Tom Ollendorff QuartetVortex Jazz Club, London, 6 & 7 June Young UK musician Tom Ollendorff often reclaims jazz guitar-playing's classic past, but he also understands its fast-changing present. For these two nights, he's joined by US piano star Aaron Parks and A-list locals Conor Chaplin (bass) and James Maddren (drums). John Fordham Simon BoccanegraGrange Park Opera, West Horsley Place, Surrey, 4 June to 11 July Verdi's dark masterpiece is the first of four productions in Grange Park Opera's summer season. David Pountney's staging, with designs by Ralph Koltai, has been revived by Robin Tebbutt, with Simon Keenlyside taking the title role of the Genoese Doge. Gianluca Marciano conducts. Andrew Clements Sussex ModernismTowner Eastbourne, to 28 September You probably didn't know Sussex was the heart of modernism. Or perhaps you did, given it includes the country home of the Bloomsbury group. This exhibition roams over green hills of 20th- and 21st-century cultural history, featuring Jeff Keen, Ivon Hitchens, Jacob Epstein and more. Rachel WhitereadGoodwood Art Foundation, Chichester, 31 May to 2 November One of Britain's greatest modern artists inaugurates a new sculpture park with her perturbing vision. Whiteread stands apart and alone in today's art. She set out in early works such as Ghost and House to make monuments to the traces of everyday lives. She's still doing this in surreal, marvellous ways. Joseph Wright of DerbyDerby Museum and Art Gallery, to 7 SeptemberThe spirit of the Enlightenment glows in Joseph Wright of Derby's visions of science, from fiery paintings of Vesuvius erupting to Derby Museum's masterpiece the candlelit Orrery. But this exhibition looks at the drawing skills behind his luminous paintings, revealing how he sketched and designed on paper all his life. V&A East StorehouseQueen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, from 31 May A new home for the V&A collections of, well, just about everything, this state-of-the-art space is open to visit, with displays of objects, interiors and art you can explore. This may be the opening of the year: a 21st-century cabinet of curiosities to feed imaginations. Jonathan Jones StereophonicDuke of York's theatre, London, to 20 September A cast of actor-musicians mimic the process of a recording in all its agony and ecstasy, in David Adjmi's much hyped Tony award winner. It's 1976 and a young rock band teeter on the brink of megastardom. Will their new album make them or break them? Miriam Gillinson Benji Reid: Find Your EyesSadler's Wells East, London, 4 to 7 June A five-star show arriving from 2023's Manchester festival. Benji Reid was a key figure in early UK hip-hop theatre, who became a photographer, and here combines the two in what he calls choreo-photilism. The stage becomes a studio for live photography, projected large, and a space for his life story, movingly told. Lyndsey Winship Whatever Happened to Phoebe SaltNew Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, 31 May to 21 June Arthur Berry's final play is being staged for the first time to celebrate the local writer's centenary year. Set in Stoke-on-Trent, it's about a woman who works at a meat market and yearns for escape – will a surprise TV appearance offer her a way out? MG A Lovely Weekend Fairfield Social Club, Manchester, 6 to 8 June Co-founded by three-time Edinburgh award nominee Chris Cantrill (who's also on the bill), this tiny festival boasts some of the most compelling characters in UK comedy, including the ludicrously deadpan Mark Silcox, the boundary-pushing Jordan Brookes, and John Kearns, who shrouds transcendence in joke-shop visuals. Rachel Aroesti Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion What It Feels Like for a GirliPlayer & BBC Three, 3 June, 9pm Journalist Paris Lees's memoir about her turn-of-the-millennium adolescence becomes a rambunctious Y2K-set coming-of-age dramedy. Ellis Howard is Byron, who bristles against humdrum Nottinghamshire life before discovering love, painful thrills and a trans identity in its hedonistic club scene. MountainheadNow & Sky Atlantic, 1 June, 9pm Jesse Armstrong follows Succession with another irreverent study of the ludicrously wealthy and privileged: this feature-length TV film stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith and Ramy Youssef as four tech billionaire frenemies who hole up together as the economy crashes and the world burns. St Denis MedicaliPlayer & BBC One, 6 June, 10.40pm Fans of the garlanded Abbott Elementary, a mockumentary about an underfunded Philadelphia school, may be in the market for this mockumentary about an underfunded Oregon hospital. Fargo's Allison Tolman stars as the stressed head ER nurse, while Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs) is the delusional executive director. Stick Apple TV+, 4 June For a sport often characterised as unentertaining, golf has provided plenty of comedic inspiration over the decades (see: Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore, the last season of Curb). Now this Owen Wilson-led series about an ex-pro who bets big on a gifted 17-year-old aims to join their ranks. Marc Maron and Judy Greer co-star. RA Elden Ring Nightreign PC, Xbox, PS4/5; out now A multiplayer reimagining of 2022's extraordinary dark fantasy game, in which three players can work together to vanquish evolved versions of its memorably breathtaking bosses. Nintendo Switch 2 From 5 June If it had somehow escaped your notice, Nintendo's long-awaited next games console is out this week, alongside a new Mario Kart in which you can finally race as a cow. Keza MacDonald Garbage – Let All That We Imagine Be the Light Out now After 2021's angry No Gods No Masters, the enduring Scottish-American rock band seek out optimism on this punchy eighth album. Despite its title, lead single There's No Future in Optimism – with its mantra of 'love, love, future' – is the perfect encapsulation of the band's hopeful outlook. Swans – Birthing Out now This 17th album from US noise merchants Swans is apparently the last of its kind before the band move to a more pared-back sound. They're certainly going out with a bang, or should that be a drone? Single I Am a Tower is a slow-moving, 19-minute opus that's like three songs having a scrap. Miley Cyrus – Something Beautiful Out now Centred on the theme of 'healing', Something Beautiful finds Cyrus experimenting with the parameters of pop-rock. The title track, for example, builds from a gently burbling ballad into a raging rock cacophony, while single End of the World's lyrical nihilism is sweetened by a 70s MOR sonic palette. Obongjayar – Paradise NowOut nowFusing wiry synthpop (Just My Luck), a splash of elastic post-rock (Not in Surrender) and, on the delirious banger Jellyfish, just about every genre going, the second album from British-Nigerian Obongjayar is tied together by the low rumble of his extraordinary voice. MC My Week With Lubaina HimidSky Arts & Now, 9pm, 3 June Art historian Kate Bryan spends a week with formidable female artists in this charming series. Her stay with Turner prize-winning Lubaina Himid includes a birthday dinner at her Preston home and even a trip to the circus. Gaps in the DialPodcast As part of the Barbican's latest exhibition exploring sound, this audio series uncovers the fascinating history of pirate radio in the UK – a phenomenon that was criminalised but came to define the sounds of the underground. Primal SpaceYouTube This series of animated video essays provides engaging insights into niche aspects of history you have probably never thought about before, such as why ancient ruins are found underground or how Bic pens changed literacy rates. Ammar Kalia
Business Upturn
a day ago
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- Business Upturn
Beef Season 2: Release date speculation, cast and plot details – Everything we know so far
By Aman Shukla Published on May 30, 2025, 18:30 IST Last updated May 30, 2025, 11:22 IST Netflix's critically acclaimed comedy-drama 'Beef' took the world by storm with its first season, earning eight Emmy Awards and three Golden Globes. Fans are eagerly awaiting news about Season 2, especially after its confirmation as an anthology series. Here's everything we know so far about 'Beef' Season 2, including release date speculation, cast updates and plot details. Beef Season 2 Release Date Speculation As of May 30, 2025, Netflix has not officially announced a release date for 'Beef' Season 2. However, production began in January 2025, as confirmed by star Carey Mulligan in a Variety interview. Based on the timeline of Season 1, which started filming in April 2022 and premiered in April 2023, a similar one-year production cycle could see Season 2 arriving in late 2025 or early 2026. Speculation points to a potential premiere between December 2025 and spring 2026, depending on post-production and Netflix's scheduling. Expected Cast of Beef Season 2 'Beef' Season 2 will feature an entirely new ensemble, as the series shifts to an anthology format. Here's the expected lineup: Oscar Isaac : Known for 'Dune' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis,' expected to play one half of a feuding couple. Carey Mulligan : The 'Promising Young Woman' and 'Maestro' star, likely paired with Isaac in the central conflict. Charles Melton : Fresh off 'May December,' anticipated to portray one of the younger couple alongside Spaeny. Cailee Spaeny : Recognized for 'Priscilla' and 'Alien: Romulus,' part of the young couple dynamic. Youn Yuh-jung : The Academy Award-winning 'Minari' and 'Pachinko' actress, set to play the Korean billionaire country club owner. Song Kang-ho : The 'Parasite' star, joining in a guest capacity, adding depth to the elite setting. Seoyeon Jang : Known for 'Butterfly,' part of the supporting cast. William Fichtner : Recognized from 'Prison Break,' bringing additional intrigue. Mikaela Hoover: Seen in 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,' rounding out the ensemble. Beef Season 2 Potential Plot Details Unlike Season 1, which followed the escalating road rage feud between Danny Cho (Steven Yeun) and Amy Lau (Ali Wong), Season 2 introduces a fresh story. According to Netflix's official logline, the plot centers on 'a young couple who witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.' This shift explores themes of power, status, and conflict in a high-society setting, promising the same mix of dark comedy, drama, and suspense that made Season 1 a hit. Creator Lee Sung Jin has hinted at boundary-pushing narratives, with the anthology format allowing new character dynamics and rivalries to unfold. Aman Shukla is a post-graduate in mass communication . A media enthusiast who has a strong hold on communication ,content writing and copy writing. Aman is currently working as journalist at
Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
How Carey Mulligan overcame singing 'nerves' on folk music film The Ballad of Wallis Island
In The Ballad of Wallis Island Carey Mulligan plays one half of fictional folk duo McGwyer Mortimer alongside Tom Basden, and the actor tells Yahoo UK of how being on set helped her face her nerves over singing on screen. The actor plays Nell Mortimer opposite Basden's Herb McGwyer. The duo parted on bad terms years earlier but are brought back together when millionaire fan Charles (Tim Key) hires them for a gig on the remote island where he lives. The Ballad of Wallis Island is written by Basden and Key, the former also composed the soundtrack, and it explores the idea of music, creativity and lost love in surprisingly touching ways. For Mulligan it was a role she jumped at the chance at, even if the prospect of singing was nerve-wracking: "I loved it, I loved all the songs, Tom would send me the songs and then send me exactly what I would sing in them because I can't pick a harmony on my own or anything like that. So Tom would be like 'this is what I sing and this is your bit.' "I think every song that was in the film was already written into the script of what would be [in it] so we did a little rehearsal montage. But it was all very easy and I think because [James Griffiths, the director] made a set that was just so lovely, and we had such a gorgeous crew. "I didn't really have the nerves that I probably would have had if I was in a different kind of set but Griff just made such a gorgeous set so it was kind of lovely. I loved it." Basden's composition of McGwyer Mortimer's songs were a way for him to "lyrically illuminate their back story", and he wanted them to feel "hopeful and romantic". "It was conveying emotions that the characters themselves wouldn't talk about," he explains. "So in that sense the music is doing a bit of story work for us, because it's helping the audience understand emotionally what's going on for these characters and why Herb ends up feeling the way that he does without having to kind of reveal it directly. "I think music really has such a big part to play in all of our lives because it sort of gives us an emotional soundtrack to parts of our life that we were not able to provide ourselves." While it might be easy to assume a movie starring Mulligan that has a folk soundtrack might have taken some inspiration from her real-life husband Marcus Mumford and his work in Mumford & Sons, Basden reveals there was no set inspiration for the fictional folk duo's music. "I didn't want the music to feel like it was inspired by one particular artist or anything like that," he says. "There are some songs that I wanted to have a slightly timeless feel, like a '60s, '70s singer-songwriter feel, and others were a bit more modern. A bit more niche folky, in some ways." He adds: "I guess maybe Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, or a bit of Ryan Adams and James Yorkston & the Athletes [were inspirations]. People like that, those kind of folk country acts that I've liked over the years." Through Basden's character the film also deftly explores the notion of selling out and what it means to sacrifice ones creativeness for a taste of fame, something Herb battles with himself about over the course of the movie. It was an interesting idea to tackle, the actor says: "I think the thing with music specifically is it's really less so much about fame and more about relevance, someone trying to stay fashionable. "And I think that's just so difficult, it's part of getting into your 40s that you gotta have to accept that you just can't appeal to 20-year-olds in the way that other 20-year-olds can — and that's fine, you know? But like I think that's a big part of the lesson that Herb in particular learns in this film, is that you have to grow old gracefully, no matter what you do." Even with Mulligan and Basden playing the folk duo at the centre of the story it's Key's character Charles who steals the whole show, thanks to his dry humour and relatable awkwardness. And he was a character that Key particularly enjoyed creating from scratch. "It felt very easy and natural when we did that when the character emerged in 2006, when we're writing the short film. He's one of many characters that we would be flinging backwards and forwards when we were in a sketch group and I think he's some kind of amalgam of all sorts of adults that your parents know who walks into a room [and acts awkwardly]. "So it's those people all sort of blended together, and then put a heart inside him and let him go. It was a very enjoyable thing to write, and a very enjoyable thing to perform once you're up and running. "His journey through the film was very enjoyable because he sort of starts as just a bumbling agent of chaos and then ends as something slightly more than that." Basden and Key first created the story back in 2006 for a short film The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island, they reworked the narrative for a feature-length story as they had a "great fondness" for both the short film they'd created and the characters. Basden shares: "[We had a] feeling that we could do more with it, that the the story actually is bigger than the short film format can maybe afford to it, and that if we went back to it we could do something that really elevated it and kind of brought it to life for a full length film. So that was our hope." What the creative team appreciate is the chance to share an indie film in cinemas, particularly at a time when blockbusters dominate the landscape. Basden explains: "I feel like cinema is dominated by sequels and superheroes and reboots, computer games and toys turned into films and I think it's really important that people have original independent cinema, that they have new stories that really speak to what's happening to them now. "I just really hope that people value that, and come to the cinema to kind of be part of that because it's something that I think for people who make films, who love film, is just so important. It feels like originality is at at the heart of cinema still." "It's a chance to connect, isn't it?" Griffiths adds. "Over laughter or emotion or crying together, you don't get that in your front room. I mean, you might do, but in a cinema there's something about coming together. "Comedy, music, horror, some of those genres, they're really better experienced in a theatrical space." And The Ballad of Wallis Island is certainly best viewed in a cinema. The Ballad of Wallis Island premieres in UK cinemas on Friday, 30 May.
Daily Mail
2 days ago
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- Daily Mail
Unsung British comedy The Ballad of Wallis Island is a modern day Local Hero, writes BRIAN VINER
The Ballad Of Wallis Island (12A, 139 mins) Verdict: Hilarious and poignant A pair of films open in cinemas today, each as British as a cream tea and both set way out west, yet strikingly different in tone. One is a hoot and the other anything but. The former is The Ballad Of Wallis Island. Written by and starring Tim Key and Tom Basden, it wrings laughs galore from the fundamentally sad story of Charles (Key), who lives alone and lonely in a rambling house on an island off the Pembrokeshire coast, with only occasional social interaction at the local shop, run by single mum Amanda (Sian Clifford). But Charles does have plenty of money, enough of it to pay a somewhat brittle, moderately well-known singer-songwriter called Herb McGwyer (Basden) to travel out to the island to perform a private gig. Charles claims they've met once before, long ago at the Colchester Corn Exchange, when Herb and his then-girlfriend Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan) were a duo known as McGwyer Mortimer – 'the best-selling folk-rock artists of 2014', no less. What Herb doesn't know is that Charles has also invited Nell to the island. He is willing to fork out £800,000 in cash for the pair to re-form for one night only, without knowing that they are both bringing a heap of emotional baggage from their broken relationship. To complicate matters further, Nell is coming with her husband, Michael (Akemnji Ndifornyen). Herb hasn't seen her for nine years. He didn't even know she was married. The story begins with Herb arriving by boat and an over-excited Charles wading out to meet him. Gauche, over-eager and exasperating, with a nervy compulsion for puns and word-play, Charles is a character in the great British tradition of Alan Partridge and David Brent, only more lovable and vulnerable. 'He's sort of sweet in a way,' Herb tells his agent over the phone, while also using a football expression to complain that Charles won't leave him alone. 'He's everywhere. It's like he's man-marking me.' Charles has two framed lottery tickets on his wall. Herb had assumed that he must have made his riches from finance or oil but in fact he was a male nurse who miraculously scooped the jackpot twice. Having used it all up first time round travelling the world with the love of his life, Marie, he then went and won it again. Alas, he no longer has Marie to share his fortune with, although for reasons that eventually unfold she still looms large in the narrative. Splendidly directed by James Griffiths, with glorious panoramic shots that will thrill the people at Visit Pembrokeshire, the film is based on a 2007 BAFTA-nominated short called The One And Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island. That too was directed by Griffiths, and written by Key and Basden. To dip into Charles's beloved word-play, if this longer version has an off-key note it lies in the character of Michael, whom the plot, a little unconvincingly, contrives to get out of the way once he and Nell have arrived. But it scarcely matters, and anyway it does its job, allowing the focus to fall on Herb and Nell as historical resentments pepper their search for old harmonies. Mulligan, as usual, is note-perfect and Basden, who did a cracking job of writing the film's original songs, is excellent too. But Key's is the performance to cherish: drama schools could use it as the embodiment of pathos. I loved pretty much every minute of this enormously engaging picture, which reminded me in some ways of Bill Forsyth's 1983 charmer Local Hero. Surprisingly, given its quintessential Britishness – and dialogue that references Monster Munch, Alton Towers, Harold Shipman, Ken Dodd and Red Leicester cheese – it has already been a modest hit in the US, following its premiere at this year's Sundance Film Festival. But maybe that's not so surprising, given its universal themes of love, loneliness, friendship, and, indeed, money. The Salt Path (12A, 115 mins) Verdict: A bit of a slog The Salt Path is about money, too, but in this case the almost total lack of it. The film is based on a best-selling memoir by Raynor Winn (Gillian Anderson), which recorded the tribulations she and her husband Moth (Jason Isaacs) suffered after losing their family home, a disaster compounded by the diagnosis in Moth of a rare degenerative disease. Homeless and penniless, yet undaunted by his health problems, the Winns decide to do something positive, so they take a tent and walk the mighty South West Coast Path through Somerset, Dorset, Devon and Cornwall. The film chronicles their highs and lows along the way, and it's moving stuff, but the journey is too often a slog for us as well as for them, and I wonder if feature-film debutante Marianne Elliott, whose many credits are all in the theatre, was the right choice of director? The coastal scenery is spectacular on the eye, while Isaacs and especially Anderson are both superb (if perhaps a little too handsome and well-groomed to wholly convince as a couple on their uppers). But the story could have been kept a lot more taut as the Winns encounter not just the kindness, but also the complacency, hostility and oddness of strangers.
The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The Ballad of Wallis Island review: This touching film is littered with hilarious dialogue & powerful performances
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (12A) 100mins ★★★★☆ THERE'S beautiful harmony in this story of love, grief and folk music. Written by the two leading men, Tim Key and Tom Basden, it's set on a remote British island where the boats are few and far between and most calls have to take place in a phone box. 4 4 It's where the wealthy and wonderfully eccentric Charles (Key) has chosen to make his home after losing the love of his life. Charles passes the time listening to the LPs of his favourite folk duo, McGwyer Mortimer. He decides to offer the pair — who have long since split up, both romantically and musically — a load of cash to play a gig on the island. The problem is, he doesn't tell Herb McGwyer (Basden) that ex-love Nell Mortimer (Carey Mulligan), is also invited. She turns up with her new husband in tow. Oh, and the pair also don't know this big-money gig is to be for an audience of just one: Charles. These little white lies involve a bit of amusing toy throwing by Herb, but soon the pair knuckle down to rehearsing and we get to see the magic in their music that Charles sees. The songs, written by Basden, give an insight into their powerful and delicate love affair — one that we learn was not handled with care. Once Nell's husband goes on a trip around the island, the duo start to reacquaint themselves — sharing food, wine and songs in Charles' crumbling kitchen. They reminisce about gigs and visit the windswept beach to share their hopes and dreams, while watching the sunset. This might sound lightweight, but it's all littered with hilarious dialogue and heartwarming performances that make you unsure if your tears are through laughter or heartache. There's also a potential love interest for the shy and clumsy Charles in the form of the local shopkeeper (Sian Clifford, from Fleabag) and you want nothing but good things for this big- hearted superfan. Watching him watch his favourite duo sing is unbelievably moving — Key deserves huge credit for giving the character so many layers. And the friendship that grows between him and Herb is refreshing to watch. All the performances are powerful yet understated, making this gently touching and life-affirming film a very sweet song indeed. THE SALT PATH (12A) 115mins ★★★★☆ HAVING played an immaculately crimped Margaret Thatcher and Emily Maitlis, this time Gillian Anderson has dispensed with hair and make-up. Her locks appear windswept before she's begun a 630-mile trek along the southwest coastline in this movie adapted from the book of the same name. 4 Based on a true story, Gillian plays Raynor Winn who finds herself homeless with husband Moth (Jason Isaacs) after they're evicted from their house. With nowhere to go, the pair buy a tent and take the scenic route from Minehead in Somerset to Poole, Dorset. To make matters more difficult, Moth has been diagnosed with an incurable and fatal condition, making it difficult for him to walk. Along the way, they meet both generous locals and obnoxious old men. What could have been a long, depressing slog turns out to be a life-affirming experience for the couple. Raynor and Moth find joy in nature and in each other's company. The Salt Path is both beautiful and emotional, while avoiding being syrupy sweet. And England's rugged coast couldn't have asked for a better advert. Grant Rollings ★★★★☆ THE 'Wax on, wax off' spirit of Mr Miyagi lives on in this sixth big-screen instalment of the martial arts franchise. Young fighting talent Li Fong, (Ben Wang, impressively performing his own stunts) takes to the mat under the mentorship of Mr Han, (Jackie Chan). 4 After his brother dies in a street brawl Li moves from Beijing to New York with his Mum (Ming-Na Wen) where a meet-cute with Mia (Sadie Stanley) sees him begin training her Dad, Victor, (Joshua Jackson) for combat. But when that bout doesn't go to plan Li instead attempts to win a renowned tournament himself, coming up against Mia's ex in the process. No new ground is being broken and there are cliches galore in a predictable script but being formulaic doesn't prevent this martial arts caper from being plenty of fun. The cast all get stuck in, there's great choreography, and some good gags. Cameos from legends including the original Kid himself, Ralph Macchio, provide dollops of pleasing nostalgia. A feelgood black belter to make you smile. Laura Stott
