tv The Film Review BBC News February 26, 2017 11:45pm-12:01am GMT
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trump. -- dressing up as donald trump. —— orangemen. he is right for satire. it is easier to laugh at someone than cry, perhaps. we have delivered there. james and martin, thank you very much indeed. just before we go, we have just had some very much indeed. just before we go, we havejust had some bad news. sir jeremy kaufman, the labour mp, father of the house of commons, has died at the age of 86. that news is just coming to us. but that is it. that bit of news was not in the papers. thank you to both of them. coming up next, it is the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news.
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to take us through this week's cinema releases is jason solomon. so jason, what do we have this week? this week we sift the debris of the boston marathon in the company of kevin bacon and mark wahlberg in patriots day. we take a long, sad look at the life of footballer and alcoholic, george best. and putting you off fluffy robes for life, we seek a cure for wellness in a swiss alpine spa. so, let's start with patriots day. it is the story of the 2013 boston marathon bombing and the manhunt afterwards? yes, the aftermath. it gripped the world. there was this extraordinary bombing of the boston marathon, which takes place on patriots day. it is a well known national event. it was bombed by two brothers. their names, tsarnaev, were on everyone's lips in 2013. everyone remembers, the brothers that escaped.
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they had to shut the city down looking for the brothers. one was holed up in a boat in someone else's backyard. the strangely human story of this wanton destruction that they wrought. the film is put together in a classic disaster film fashion. the people assembling for the big day of the boston marathon, and including mark wahlberg as a cop on crowd duty. then there is the kevin bacon, the fbi man, and john goodman as the police chief with his strange eyebrows. this is them having a look after the explosion. those are not our guys. you're not any closer to identifying the guys that we're really looking for. we have to release the pictures. if we release the pictures now it's out of our control. gentlemen, if i may, right now, boston is working against us. right now, in this city, when it comes to terrorism,
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everyone wants to talk. there are a lot of people talking, but talking about the wrong people. release the pictures of our guys, sit back and listen. trust me. start letting boston work for us, i'm telling you. i understand, boston. but i can't snap my fingers on this, the decision goes up to the attorney general. this is my bleep city, rick. release the god damn pictures. it was a terrible tragedy. recent. it is difficult to make a hollywood film about such a tragedy so recently? and the director has been faithful as much as he can and to those affected by the tragedy and injured, the people with the amputations. the people at the end of the film discussing how they put their lives back together. it's a healing process for the town of boston. there is mark wahlberg, a poster boy for boston. it's a strange film. it is all about boston.
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what it does not do is examine the motives of the tsarnaev brothers, who out of nowhere caused this carnage. while it does feature them, they go in their homes and feature their wives, but it does not probe the motives. that is the fear. how can the renegade terrorists provoke such a carnage and bring the city to its knees? that is more interesting for me. so it was a bit hurrah, this film for me. the clip that we saw, it looked like a thriller. does it have that element? that tension of a thriller? i call it a procedural. it is very much of the safety of the american citizens, protected by the great policemen and the ambulance service. they will track down the killers, the media helping. although they look hapless, as the brothers led them a merry dance for 89 hours and ended up
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hiding in someone's boat. it is slightly ridiculous, without the humour and the absurdity as to what terrorism can do. it is dangerous, it is called patriots day, so it's very american and tub—thumping, but it loses something because of that, because it is about people who wanted to be anti—american. i wanted them to explore that more darkly than it does. let's move on to george best. a great footballer. beautiful to watch him play. then in his later life, so sad, really. he became an alcoholic. is this a good film? this is a documentary. we have seen many films of him. the popping of the champagne, the dazzling eyes. he was the first boutique footballer. but footballers have changed. football has changed.
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it does not look like this anymore. but he was wispy, incandescent, he had it all by 22, but washed up and retired by 27. it is put together like a shakespearean tragedy. sitting on the side lines, despairing and sad. the only person who is not sad is george best. he seems happy with his lot. there is a shot where someone runs in, saying, "besty, besty, where did it go wrong?" but he is lying on a bed with a beautiful woman, surrounded by lots of money. he didn't want people's help. he didn't want people's love. that is why it is sad to watch. as an audience member you want to reach out to this man and love him. he doesn't want it, he rejects it, preferring to disappear into the booze. i think that is what is sad. it is well put together.
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it is a little dour, in that it lacks the light of george best's feet. all right. now, a cure for wellness. this is about a young executive, who is sent to retrieve his company's ceo from the swiss alps from a spa? yes, this arrogant young man goes to a spa and there are people in fluffy robes and staff wearing white suits. i am very wary of people in these suits, with clip boards and clipped accents. let's look at this along the corridors of uncertainty with jason isaacs. hi!
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what are you doing here? sorry, i don't understand. speaks german. take it easy. it's ok. mr lockhart, every time i turn around you are somewhere you are not supposed to be. i guess i'm lost. just trying to find my way back to my room. this is a restricted floor. there are signs everywhere, surely you did not wander down here by accident. what exactly are you looking for? i had a problem with my tooth. your tooth? actually it is feeling much better. if you can point me in the direction of my room. nonsense, we can't let you get an infection. you must let us take care of you. after all, that's why you're here... menacing! yes, if you don't like dentists, don't watch the next bit. who does like the dentist? well, ever since marathon man. there are lots of old contraptions
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in this spa, like the 1950s with the medicine ball, and saunas and the tanks with the eels. it is like a bond villain hideaway. very strange pastiche of a movie. it is a recipe for disaster as to what was going on. a complete mess of a film. how long? 2.5 hours, it is quite a lot. what is best out at the moment? well, leaving a cure for wellness, moonlight is a restorative film. it is a beautiful, tender, poetic coming of age story, told about the life of a black boy from miami, from a little boy toa man. it is about his life and his tenderly growing sexuality. realising who he is. it is about identity and identity politics. it is a new sort of cinema. it has eight oscar nominations. that takes us nicely to the oscars.
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almost upon us? i loved moonlight. the budget was $1.5 million. it has the chance of becoming the smallest film ever to win best picture. it is a bit like leicester. it stands a chance of dislodging the favourite, la la land. my favourite. i know that there is a backlash, people saying it is overhyped with the 14 nominations going to the oscars. i don't think it will win all 14. but there could be a tidy haul for it. it is good for hollywood. an old genre rebooted for a new generation. people are going to it thinking that they will see singing in the rain. but it is a modern indie film with singing and dancing. what about best actress, best actor?
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well, i think that the best actor will not go to ryan gosling but to casey affleck for manchester by the sea. there is also a threat from denzel washington in fences. and best actress i think will go to emma stone. that is sewn into her dress. i think that the best picture will go to la la land. i think maybe moonlight could do it, but those directors could become the best director winners — it's between him and the director of la la land. and maybe a screenplay for moonlight and one for manchester by the sea. let's see how many of them you get right.
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i'm sure all of them. that's it for this week. don't forget you can catch up on our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello there. the weather is changing now but over the weekend we have seen now but over the weekend we have seen some now but over the weekend we have seen some mild, wet and windy weather and on sunday we had our fifth named storm of the season. this was storm ewan, named by the irish met service where the impacts we re irish met service where the impacts were expected to be greater. that is now sitting to the north of scotland and may come back to reach us again on tuesday as a much weaker feature. in its wake we are seeing this change with much colder air coming down across the country, ringing with it the threat of ice and some snow. it is across more western areas of the uk will see these bands of showers continuing to line up through the night. some heavy rain
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in the south—east of england and east anglia to clear away early in the morning and across the northern half of the uk with clearer skies the threat of some ice as well. most of the showers, in band again, will be across england and wales and don't be surprised to get hail, thunder, sleet and maybe some snow as well. somewhat drier further north, the best of the weather in northern scotland but for the rest of us will feel pretty cold out there. strong winds across england and wales where we will keep wintry showers going into the night and they will tend to ease down later on monday night, allowing skies to clear. probably more ice around overnight into tuesday morning because the temperatures will be lower, close to freezing pretty much across the board. this area of low pressure coming into the north—west is ex— storm ewan, it is weaker by this stage, and some rain pushing down from the north—west, some snow over the hills, especially in scotland, and the wet and windy weather comes into england and wales
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and another chilly day, the best of the temperatures, eight or nine degrees. that area of low pressure than pushes away overnight and by the time we get the early wednesday we will find the winds lighter, the skies clear and there may be some frost and icy patches. many places. dry on wednesday with lighter winds but we will see some rain coming in across the south—west, perhaps south wales may be just lifting the temperatures little bit. we will see some further weather systems lining up some further weather systems lining up in the atlantic to bring a change in the weather from wednesday onwards, with some rain coming in and some stronger winds as well. so the early part of this week it is really going to feel pretty cold out there and they will be quite a few wintry showers as well but really from the middle to later part of the week onwards temperatures will not be quite so low and there will be some rain around, particularly in the south. welcome to newsday.
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