This week’s HOT LIST

Films, music and DVDS not to miss

Film THE DUKE Out 25 February

Jim Broadbent excels as real-life OAP Kempton Bunton, a campaigner for free TV licence fees for the elderly in this truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale of the theft of Francisco de Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in 1961 – the only time the museum has ever been broken into. Helen Mirren also stars, while director Roger Michell recreates early 1960s Britain with fondness. A charming romp that recalls the verve of Ealing comedies.

Music JOHNNY MARR

Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 (BMG), out 25 February He found fame in The Smiths and has since formed a number of bands alongside establishing a solo career. But Johnny Marr’s fourth album Fever Dreams Pts 1-4 is unlike his other music. ‘There are so many strands,’ he explains. ‘We didn’t do that consciously, but I think I’ve got a vocabulary of sound.’ DVD THE NORTH WATER 22 February 2022

In this brutish miniseries, Patrick (Jack O’connell) is a disgraced army surgeon who, after taking a job as a medic on a whale expedition, meets Henry Drax (Colin Farrell). Soon realising the harshness of the world around him, Patrick must face the sins of his past as he embarks on an ill-fated journey with a killer.