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The Janice Forsyth Show: Film review day featuring a review of Youth, plus hear from American actor Harvey Keitel

Film review day featuring a review of Youth, plus hear from American actor Harvey Keitel

28/01/2016

BBC Radio Scotland - The Janice Forsyth Show, Film review day featuring a review of Youth, plus hear from American actor Harvey Keitel

It's film review day and Janice Forsyth talks to actor Harvey Keitel about new film Youth.

It's film review day and Janice Forsyth talks to American actor Harvey Keitel about new film Youth, plus Pasquale Iannone and Stephen Carty review it along with the new releases.

It's movie review day on The Janice Forsyth Show - Legendary American Actor, Harvey Keitel will be on hand to discuss his new film, the hotly anticipated 'Youth' - it's Oscar-winning director, Paolo Sorrentino's new comedy-drama - and stars both Harvey Keitel and Michael Caine as best friends who reflect on their lives while vacationing in the Swiss Alps. 

Regular Critics, Pasquale Iannone & Stephen Carty will share their thoughts on it and on this week's other big cinema releases: including 'Spotlight' - the bookies' favourite to take best film at this year's Oscars It focuses on a piece of groundbreaking journalism that rocked the foundations of the Catholic Church in 2002, when four reporters, from the Boston Globe newspaper, ran an expose on how the church had covered up sexual abuse by more than 70 priests in the Boston area - Stanley Tucci plays the victims' lawyer Mitchell Garabedian and he will also tell us all about it 

Later in the show, the highly respected writer Jon Ronson discusses The Perils of Social Media and his latest book, ' So You've Been Publicly Shamed, alongside author Helen Fitzgerald whose new book is called 'Viral'. Ahead of the dvd release of Macbeth we hear from actor Michael Fassbender and Singer-song writer James Yorkston will tell us all about his latest project - he's joined forces with Suhail Yusuf Khan, award winning sarangi player and classical singer from New Delhi and Jon Thorne, best known as jazz double bass player with electro outfit Lamb. The trio released their collaborative debut album 'Everything Sacred' earlier this month.

All that and multi-Grammy award-winning singer Jack Jones, whose wonderful voice and passionate performances continue to delight audiences around the world, previews his upcoming concerts in the UK - The dates coincide with the release of Jack's new album "Seriously Frank" celebrating 100 years of Sinatra!

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