At the Movies for 5 March 2025

Simon Morris glances at the recent Oscars, and finally gets to see the last nominee for Best Picture, Amazon Prime's Nickel Boys. Also on this, the Millenial At The Movies, Swedish mockumentary The Last Journey, and a new take on legendary Swiss hero William Tell. Nickel Boys may have been overshadowed at the Oscars, but it was already a critical favourite before it finally dropped on Amazon Prime this week. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad), it's directed by RaMell Ross and stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor (King Richard). The Last Journey is a Swedish The Trip-style blend of fact and fiction by popular TV documentary stars Filip and Fredrik (Hasselhoff - A Swedish Talkshow). Filip wants to retrieve his father's lust for life, and comes up with a novel way of doing it. William Tell rounds up some big theatre names (Jonathan Pryce, Rafe Spall, Sir Ben Kingsley) to back up Danish star Claes Bang (TV's Bad Sisters) as the famous Swiss archer and rebel. Directed by former resident director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Nick Hamm, it surprisingly does without Rossini's well-known Overture.