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The dark comedy Birdman – due on DVD in May – was the big winner at this year’s Oscars. A s well as the best director statuette for Mexican filmmaker in the end had to settle for just one Oscar – a Best Supporting Actress gong for Patricia

Alejandro Iñárritu, Birdman was named Best Picture and also won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Cinematography. The film is due to land on DVD and Blu-ray at the end of May. It is expected to be followed in June by the two films that scooped the top acting prizes: as expected, TheTheory of Everything star Eddie Redmayne took home the Best Actor award, while Julianne Moore scooped the Best Actress Oscar for Still Alice. However, a few of the other winners are in-store now. Richard Linklater’s epic coming-of-age tale Boyhood (see feature on page 18-19) had been expected to dominate this year’s event, but

Arquette. Also just released on DVD and Blu-ray is Whiplash , which deservedly earned J.K. Simmons a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel finished equal with Birdman in the Oscar take, winning four Academy Awards for Best Original Score, Make- up and Hairstyling, Costumes and Production Design. It was released last year, along with the Best Foreign Film winner Ida . And keep an eye out next month for Disney’s Big Hero 6, which scooped the Best Animated Film award. Meanwhile, Citizenfour, which won the Best Documentary Oscar, is expected on DVD around July.

Belle & Sebastian main-man Stuart Murdoch’s indie musical will get its DVD debut next month. Written and directed by Murdoch, God Help the Girl tells the story of three young musicians – Emma Browning ( Sleeping Beauty ), Hannah Murray (currently appearing as the Wildling girl Gilly in Game of Thrones ) and Olly Alexander ( Bright Sta r) – who hook up in Glasgow and decide to form a band. God Help the Girl premiered last year at the New Zealand Film Festival and is due out on April 1. Belle & Sebastian, who were one of the standout acts at this year’s Laneways, have just released their ninth studio album G irls in Peacetime Want to Dance.

QUEUE FOR CRUE!

It’s long overdue but Kiwi fans are finally going to get see metal icons Mötley Crüe. The legendary hair rockers have been on an extended final tour since 2014, with their final ever gig scheduled for New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles. However, last month Mötley Crüe confirmed their first ever – and probably last – NZ show at Auckland’s Vector Arena on May 9 and are bringing along shock-rocker Alice Cooper as very special guest. Bassist Nikki Sixx says: “It’s the Final Tour but it’s not a farewell because our music will live on long after we’ve stopped touring. We can’t wait to see everyone out there in May.” .

A long forgotten member of The Jam and new prog rockers Syd Arthur are among the contributors to the latest studio album from Paul Weller. Saturn’s Pattern is the Modfather’s 12th solo album and will be released on May 8 through his new label Parlophone. Written and recorded at his de facto HQ, Black Barn Studios in Surrey, it was produced by Jan “Stan” Kybert and Weller himself. As well as longtime members of his touring band – Steve Cradock, Andy Crofts, Ben Gordelier, Steve Pilgrim – it features a surprise appearance from Weller’s old Woking pal Steve Brookes, who played guitar. MODFATHER RETURNS

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