FRIDAY MAY 17 2019 YORKSHIRE POST 16/reviews YP Tablet Apps Visit your app store FILM standing marker with a crime syndicate boss (Anjelica Huston) to secure safe passage to Morocco where he hopes to reunite with fellow assassin Sofia (Halle Berry), who now manages the Continental Hotel in Casablanca. Meanwhile, The Adjudicator (Asia Kate Dillon), a menacing emissary of the High Table, visits Winston and the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), who presides over the homeless in New York, to issue stern punishments for abetting John. Both must resign their posts within seven days or expert swordsman Zero (Mark Dacascos) will meet their resistance with his blade. PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups (U) ON GENERAL RELEASE 3/5 DAMON SMITH PAW Canadian animated TV series a top dog for pre-schoolers on the Nick Jr channel, bounds excitedly onto the big screen in a super-powered instalment directed by Charles E Bastien. Parents of little ones frothing with excitement at the prospect of 70 action-packed minutes of canine misadventure should be forewarned that the film is a compendium of three programmes. Alongside a turbo-charged main feature, there is an episode of in which Rod encourages his scaredy-chick little brother Romeo to have self-confidence – “When the time comes, I know you’ll find your inner rooster!” – as they cocka-doodle-do their best to stop their family’s runaway truck. Completing the compilation is an instalment of which centres on young fairy Cricket as she practices her skills with a piping bag and comes to the rescue when older sister Butterbean forgets to add coloured frosting to a batch of cupcakes ordered by Professor Cosmos for his stargazing club. If your litter is only interested in then you’ll be treated to approximately 45 minutes of well-groomed entertainment for your money, which hammers home valuable life lessons about perseverance and resilience in the face of failure. opens with 10-year-old Ryder (voiced by Jaxon Mercey) and his doggy crew responding to an emergency at Moo Juice Dairy Farm where farmer Al (Ron Pardo) has foolishly decided to clean the top of a grain silo by tying a giant helium balloon around his waist. Police dog Chase (Justin Kelly), snow rescue dog Everest (Berkley Silverman), firefighter dog Marshall (Drew Davis), recycling dog Rocky (Samuel Faraci), construction dog Rubble (Devan Cohen), air rescue dog Skye (Kallan Holley) and aquatic rescue dog Zuma (Carter Thorne) combine their skills to return the farmer to terra firma. Soon after, Harold Humdinger (Chance Hurstfield), inventor nephew of power-hungry Mayor Humdinger (Pardo again) from Foggy Bottom, accidentally diverts a meteor towards Adventure Bay. The flaming rock impacts close to town and imbues the dogs with special powers including lightning speed, increased strength and the ability to conjure an ice storm with a well-timed bark. Harold is also blessed with new powers and he abuses this otherworldly gift for personal gain. The fate of the community hangs in the balance as Ryder and co race to the rescue. is essentially two episodes of the TV series sandwiched together. Visuals haven’t been enhanced for the larger canvas, but the target audience won’t care. Patrol, John Wick: Chapter 3 –Parabellum is an adrenaline-pumping hoot that raises the franchise’s already high bar on balletic slaughter. Reeves rises to the physical demands of the role and Berry, Dillon and Huston inject long-overdue doses of steely femininity. Top Wing ART Suffering Arcadia Butterbean’s Cafe, SCARBOROUGH ART GALLERY 4/5 YVETTE HUDDLESTON Leading contemporary artist Annabel McCourt confronts head on some of the (many and growing) uncomfortable truths of Trump’s America in this thought-provoking new exhibition at Scarborough Art Gallery. PAW Patrol Suffering Arcardia comprises three installations – two new pieces commissioned by Scarborough Museums Trust and an existing piece. On entering the gallery, you hear the playing mournfully on a loop, drawing you towards Modelled on a traditional seaside arcade grabber machine, it is filled with ‘Make America Great Again’ baseball caps and other merchandise which the grabber seeks to pick up. Interspersed with the music are snatches of dialogue from the POTUS himself including his infamous ‘grabbing’ boast. There are no winners only losers in the game of lies, coercion and false promises. Mighty Pups Star Spangled Banner Artist Annabel McCourt with her work Electric Fence at Scarborough Art Gallery. PICTURE: TONY BARTHOLOMEW MAGA Grabber. other’s faces and torsos while furiously smashing display cases, grabbing guns, knives, axes and other implements to fling through the air with dizzying precision. Fans of earlier instalments won’t be disappointed when it comes to highoctane destruction as Stahelski’s camera pirouettes around his leading man on horseback and a motorcycle, flanked in one exhausting exchange by two snarling attack dogs. John (Reeves) has been excommunicated from the Continental Hotel in New York – a membership-only haven for the criminal underworld – by dapper owner Winston (Ian McShane) after he broke the rules and terminated crime lord Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) on the premises. The High Table, the guild of assassins which imposes a strict moral code on the spilling of blood, authorises a 14 million US dollar contract on John’s life. Carnage begins on the stroke of 6pm and John calls in a long- John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (15) ON GENERAL RELEASE 3/5 DAMON SMITH In 2014, Keanu Reeves revitalised his post-Matrix career with a blood-soaked action thriller about a grief-stricken hit man, who exacts eye-watering revenge for the butchery of his beloved hound Daisy. Chad Stahelski’s relentlessly brutal film was a giddy delight and three years later, a testosterone-pumped sequel continued the breathless hand-to-hand combat and running gun battles. Stahelski returns to the director’s chair for a third instalment, which dovetails neatly with the conclusion of and orchestrates a hyperkinetic battle royale on the rain-lashed streets of New York City. The script, credited to four writers, adds several layers of intrigue but strips back characterisation to the splintered bone in order to focus on impeccably choreographed fight sequences, which reach a whoop-inducing crescendo with a showdown in an armoury museum. Reeves and acrobatic extras deliver punishing blows to each John Wick, Happy Hour in the Harmful Factory comprises a hand-written red neon sign next to a fridge full of small milk bottles and is a feminist response to the ‘futile optimism of milk as a cure-all’. The third installation, and arguably the most powerful, is which was first seen in Hull as part of its tenure as 2017 UK City of Culture. Made as an unequivocally robust response to the sermon by a North Carolina preacher whose proposed ‘solution’ to same-sex marriage was to enclose members of the LGBTQ+ community within an electrified fence “so they can’t get out”, the piece speaks eloquently to the terrifying fact that this sort of vile hate speech has become commonplace, not only in America but in many parts of the world. Hull-born McCourt describes the work as “carrying the scars of humanity within its very fabric”. Electric Fence John Wick: Chapter 2 PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups To September 1. 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