DS1ST 26 DAILY STAR, Friday, August 14, 2020 ANDY LEA & MIKE WARD’S BIG STREAM

SPUTNIK (15) terrifying as Scott’s, the real lack experience as a football (On digital platforms now) horrors lurk in the secretive coach, the fact that he’s only ★★★ base in Kazakhstan where ever coached the American THIS clever Russian horror Soviet scientists are hatching a version is understandably shares the name with both the nefarious scheme. – AL raising more than just a few first man-made satellite and TED LASSO eyebrows. – MW Putin’s new Covid-19 vaccine. (Apple TV+ from today) WORLD’S TOUGHEST RACE: The film isn’t quite as ★★★★ ECO-CHALLENGE FIJI ground-breaking, shamelessly THE idea of a fish out of water (Amazon Prime Video from ripping off Ridley Scott’s 1979 has always made for pretty today) classic Alien. decent comedy. ★★★ But the name is well chosen. Here, that tag applies to BEAR Grylls hosts this In Russian, Sputnik means Jason Sudeikis’s Theodore pulsating new adventure “fellow traveller” which is a “Ted” Lasso, a guy from series, where 66 teams from 30 neat description of the human- Kansas who somewhat countries race non-stop for 11 chomping, parasitic invader surprisingly becomes manager days across hundreds of miles that is coiled up in the guts of a at English Premier League of mountains, jungles and recently returned cosmonaut. football club AFC Richmond. oceans, even though that’s While the alien isn’t nearly as While “Ted” doesn’t entirely blatantly mental. – MW

SUPER STRENGTH: Foxx and Fishback in Project Power. Inset, Jamie Hero flick power trip for Jamie PROJECT POWER (15) pretty sizeable catches. Firstly, you don’t (Netflix from today) know what the superpower will be until ★★★ you’ve popped the tablet. AFTER playing the ­villain in the Secondly, it’s not 100% safe. If film that endedAndrew ­ Garfield’s you’ve got the wrong genes, your entire Spider-Man career, Jamie Foxx body will explode in slightly shonky- returns to superhero movies with looking CGI. a diverting Netflix Original. Still, while Marvel fans will notice the Here, he’s on much better form as a step down in budget, it’s pacy and there super-tough, former soldier who teams are some entertaining action scenes. up with Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s cop and These include a dramatic chase with a teenage rapper (Dominique Fishback) a chameleon bank robber and a scrap to track down his missing daughter and with a goon who sprouts giant porcu- take down a sinister conspiracy. pine spines. A new drug has hit the streets of New Fishback, who disappointingly doesn’t Orleans that gives users sketchily- pop a pill, is charming as the plucky and defined, animal-based, superpowers for amusingly mouthy teen and Foxx deliv- just five minutes. ers an acrobatic and charismatic turn as It sounds like a laugh but there are two the film’s grizzled avenger. –AL A crime thriller WIN DVD bundle LIAM Hemsworth, Clark Duke, Vince Hemsworth was previously married to. Vaughn and John Malkovich are (A) Katy Perry (B) Taylor Swift among the stars of gritty US thriller (C) Miley Cyrus Arkansas, out now on DVD. Email your answer (using “Arkansas” And it comes as part of as the subject name please), a bumper crime thriller plus your name, address and bundle we’re giving away mobile phone number, to to three lucky readers this starcompetitions@dailystar. week, also containing DVDs co.uk. of Knives Out, Destroyer, Entries close midnight this Anna and Sicario. Sunday, August 16. Normal For your chance to win, Daily Star rules apply. The just tell us which US singer Editor’s decision is final.