NOSTALGIC BRIT

ARLY Man, the latest animated feature from the Aardman studio’s star director Nick Park (creator of the Wallace and Gromit franchise, and the recent Shaun the Sheep movie), is about as warming, homey and distinctly British as a mug of hot, sweet, milky tea on a rainy day.

Park and his team of animators have aptly married form and function by pairing the stop-motion method, a technique as old as cinema itself, with a story about a tribe of Neanderthal cave dwellers confronted by Bronze Age colonisers with European accents. (Anyone for hidden Brexit allegory?)

In the end, it’s all worked out through a game of football, or “soccer”, as Yanks like to call the “Beautiful Game”.

Although the star player on the field turns out to be a girl (voiced by Game of Thrones’s Maisie Williams) and there are jokes about answering-machine-like messages and so on, a strong retro vibe tints the entire film.

Audiences beyond the

EPaula Patton has a new boyfriend.

The star is dating again following her divorce from Robin Thicke and while she hasn’t divulged much about the mystery man, she did reveal he is a single dad.

Speaking on Extra, she said: “He’s my boyfriend. When you know, you know. I love him.” Priyanka Chopra

Bollywood film

She is looking forward to work with Salman Khan after a gap of 10 years and with director Ali Abbas Zafar. The

actress said: “I’m looking forward to… working with Salman and Ali again after a considerable time.”

is set to star in the Veteran actor Ian McKellen thinks his own send-off will be quite a party.

The 78-year-old star says he often thinks about death. In an upcoming documentary,

he said he would like his “celebratory” memorial to be in a theatre.