A beloved TV series returns, concludes and gestures to the future with Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (now on Netflix), the feature-length film that wraps the original BBC run with star Cillian Murphy, and puts a few bricks in the bridge to the pending sequel series. Creator Steven Knight penned the screenplay, leaping ahead from the series’ 1920s/30s setting to 1940, as the Nazis routinely drop bombs on Birmingham, the home of Murphy’s criminal gangster mastermind Tommy Shelby. While a few familiar below-the-line faces return, the movie gets a starry charisma injection with the casting of Barry Keoghan, Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth, and the result will almost certainly please longtime fans.
The Gist: A concentration camp in Germany. Prisoners work a printing press, inking up phony £5 notes. John Beckett (Roth) is a head floating through steam billowing from a train engine. His job is to aid the Nazis
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