Apr 16th   
Back to Black* (15)   
(Strand Arts Centre, Belfast)          

(GB 2024)    
Studio Canal/Monumental. 122m.

Young English jazz/blues singer Amy Winehouse emulates her musical family and becomes a star, at the cost of her own stormy love life and use of drugs.
Entertaining combination of hagiography and the high life, emphasising generally the more positive aspects of a relatively recent career (Winehouse died in 2011 at the age of only 27) for the sake of fans and family, and the music - of all kinds - is well assembled and performed.

Written by: Matt Greenhalgh.
Producers: Alison Owen, Debra Hayward, Nicky Kentish-Barnes.
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson.
Starring: Marisa Abela, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Manville, Juliet Cowen, Sam Buchanan, Spike Fearn.
Music: Polly Morgan.
Music: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis.
Music Producer: Giles Martin.
Editing: Martin Walsh, Laurence Johnson.