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JAMES MAY: OUR MAN IN JAPAN (12)
(Amazon Prime Video)
★★★★
TRAVELLING solo for once is the guy from The Grand Tour team that you’d most want to have a pint with.
His new six-part travelogue is fresh, fascinating and consistently funny. Find out more in my interview with James on Page 17.
MESSIAH (15)
(Netflix Originals)
★★★
A CHARISMATIC chap in a faraway land has begun attracting global attention. That, plus millions of followers. “He claims to be some kind of divine entity. It seems he can perform miracles.” But is he really the Messiah – or is he just a very naughty boy? (Sorry, I couldn’t resist that.) Mehdi Dehbi plays this enigmatic figure, with Michelle Monaghan as the CIA officer desperate to figure out what’s really going on. JAYDE ADAMS: SERIOUS BLACK JUMPER (15)
(Amazon Prime Video) ★★★★
AWARD-winning Bristol comic Jayde has some serious points to put across in her debut special for Amazon. Hence she’s swapped her usual clobber for a black polo neck.
Shows she mean business, right?
But if you think her theme – feminism and self-worth – is going to be heavy going and hectoring, you couldn’t be more wrong.
THE WOLF’S CALL (15) (Download and DVD) ★★★
THIS claustrophobic, edge-of-your-seat thriller, described as Call Of Duty meets
The Hunt For Red October, is set on board a French nuclear submarine – where a disgraced crew-member looks like the only person capable of averting a catastrophe. ANIMALS (15)
(Download, DVD and Blu-ray from Monday) ★★★★
PARTYING pals Laura and Tyler (Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat) face a threat to their wild, carefree friendship, as Laura meets a strait-laced musician she’s keen to settle down with.