victory in one of cycling's five one—day "monuments" — the tour of flanders. the home favourite pulled clear with more than 50 kilometres to go over the belgian hills and cobbles and finished in style, hopping off his bike and carrying it over the line. apparently that is allowed in the rules. that's all from sportsday. there'll be more sport on the bbc news channel throughout the evening. hello and welcome. what do we have? this is a mixed

week. we have graduation, a low—key and intense drama. we have a controversial live action adaptation. and free fire, the new film from ben wheatley. first, graduation. it is a film from a romanian director. this is another low— key romanian director. this is another low—key and very intense drama. the story is a doctor, his daughter is on the way to school and is attacked and gets a broken wrist and the doctor is worried it will effect her exams and he is desperate for her to get good grades because he wants her to go to study in britain. he wants her to get away because where they live is not somewhere where he wants his daughter to grow up. all he focus on is his desire to get good exa m focus on is his desire to get good exam results and he starts getting

drawn into a web of duplicity and corruption. somebody knows somebody who could ensure the exam grades are 0k, who could ensure the exam grades are ok, but only in return for a favour, somebody who needs to be moved up into his weight for a transplant. his daughter is not sure about the idea of essentially cheating. it is very intense. it is, it is basically one shot per scene. it is a perfect blend. it is a story about a perfect blend. it is a story about a father and a daughter and on the other hand it is about social corruption. every conversation is, that building has been going on for ages. yes, dear it will be a back room. it is a film in which the personalities of the characters compete you draw them in, but you also understand the wider story about what it means to grow up in a society in which everything seems to

be slightly on the wrong side of completely honest. as is so brilliant with this director, what he manages to do is get to that point across, but never sounds hectoring, you never feel like what you're watching is a political statement. what you feel you're watching is a really intense drama in which the doctor, for example, he's concerned about his daughter, but has a mistress. at one point he says to his wife, everyone cheats in theirfinal exams. she says, i didn't. and he says, but look where it got you. it's an interesting film about guilt and complicity. some people have compared him to michael haneke, haven't they? because lots of bad things are happening under the surface of the superficially normal society. although i think, personally, i think there's a lot more tenderness, a lot more humanity in what's happening here. haneke's films are terrific, but very harsh, very sharp, sometimes accusatory, i think. ghost in the shell. yes, 0k. live action adaptation of a celebrated manga, a 1995 anime, which people revere for very good reasons. scarlettjohansson is major,

a human ghost in a cyber shell in the future. she's a person, she's a robot, she's a weapon. that film has become the cause of some controversy about whitewashing, that scarlettjohansson was cast in this role. it has to be said, the director of the ‘95 anime has said, and i quote, "there is no basis for saying that an asian actor must portray that character". it a controversy that has dogged the film, to some extent. like the plot of the film itself, you can look at this and think, it's a soul of one thing transplanted into a shell which is slightly artificial and slightly more glossy. however, i was strangely impressed by it. i went in with fairly low expectations. i thought it looked terrific. i think it does a very good job of evoking the future world. people have talked about it looking like blade runner, it looks more like the fifth element, oddly enough. a very cluttered future. i was never bored. i found that yes it changed and simplified the narrative to some extent, and loses some of the melancholy and depth of its predecessors,

but as a piece of multiplex entertainment, it was better than i expected it to be by quite some distance. free fire. ok, so... the new film by ben wheatley. i'm a huge fan of ben wheatley. the story is in boston in the 1970s there is an arms deal going down between a group of people, all of whom are variously incompetent. the whole thing looks very volatile and looks like at any moment it could fall apart appallingly, and of course it does. here's a clip. try not to hit any of the metal work, because i don't want to get any of those bling burns on my new. . . suit. sorry, what was that? this is from saville... i don't know about you guys, but i for one think vern‘s merchandise is a real gas. my guess is you're whatever you're paid to be, pal. do you see what you did here? gunfire.

good. 0k... i'll overlook it this time. laughter. is there a lot of that? there is. what i really like about it is this, on the one hand it's a tense drama about a bunch of people in a warehouse, all of whom are armed and all whom are fighting each other in various different ways. however, it also has a kind of screwball comedy element. the best way of describing it, it's like a silent movie, slapstick sensibility, but with a soundtrack which reminds you of those loony tunes cartoons, that is really, really brilliantly put together. it keeps you on the edge of your seat.

it's tense, but also very, very comic. it's also very nihilistic. the idea is that all of these people are variously untrustworthy and incompetent. they're all laughed at, from their ridiculous quotes and their foolish mannerisms. vernon keeps saying "watch and vern, watch and vern." what i liked about it, i think what ben wheatley and his film making partner amyjump managed to do is make it a cross—genre film, which they always do. 0k, yes, it's a thriller, but also a comedy, but it's a very nihilistic comedy. it's a comedy about the fact that if you take... people have compared it to, they say it's like the last movement of reservoir dogs stretched out... it's not. it's like that sequence in naked gun 21/2, when there's the close—range gunfight, with two people hiding behind the same dustbin, but it's like that that, but it's like that but, stretched over 90 minutes.

it has an absurd edge to it. it passes the six laughs test in the first ten minutes. it's passed the six laughs test in the last two minutes. you were laughing all the way through. i'm laughing at you talking about it. 0k, fine, so it's me you're laughing at! but cillian murphy, brie larson, sharlto copley, armie hammer, a really terrific cast, and every single one of them clearly rising to the challenge of this, thinking it's a great script. it's beautifully mapped out. i know nobody ever comes out of the cinema and says this, but the editing is amazing. i think you sold that quite well. good! the best of the week is get out. this is out in cinemas at the moment. have you seen this yet? no, i haven't see it yet. ok, you really should. it's described by its director as a social thriller, and it's very much influenced by rosemary's ba by and the stepford wives. but it also alludes to other horror movies like red state and green room and films like tales from the hood and to sleep with anger. it's a sort of horrifying satire about racism in post—racial america, about liberal, rich white people, with this broiling undercurrent of racism. i saw it in a packed cinema and it really played to the crowd.

it's done terrifically well and i think it's great. briefly, edge of 17 is your dvd. a coming—of—age drama that appears to be written and directed by someone who likes the protagonist. it's smart, funny, intelligent and terrific performances from hailee steinfeld and woody harrelson. and kelly fremon craig who wrote and directed it, i think, has done a terrificjob. i thought it was really touching, very tender and very funny. since this is our last film review and i am on holiday from tomorrow, i'm taking it with me. very good, you will enjoy it, you'll enjoy it, but you have to go and see free fire at the weekend. i will do. thanks very much. it was a pretty decent second part

of the weekend with most of the uk bathed in sunshine. that translates to clear skies for most areas overnight tonight and it will turn quite chilly. there has been thicker cloud in eastern parts of england with the odd spot of rain, but many had a lovely day with plenty of sunshine. it is clear skies for the most pa rt sunshine. it is clear skies for the most part this evening. the cloud tends to melt away and the breeze picks up in the north west. patchy rain in the western isles by the end of the night. chilly again overnight, five or 6 degrees, rural spots will go lower than that. a touch of frost for some. in the morning it is pretty good in wales and the south west. there will be some patches of fog. there may be some patches of fog. there may be some low cloud lingering in eastern parts of england. generally fine,

dry and bright weather, a decent start to a reasonable day for most of england and wales. walk cloud and breeze in northern ireland and the western side of scotland. but the east side of scotland stars on a bright note. for most of england and wales it is a decent day. good spells of sunshine in the south east. further north and west we have got cloud and patchy rain getting into western scotland. 11 or 12 for glasgow and belfast and it could go as high as 16 in the london area. that cloud moves eastwards, but by dawn on tuesday there is very little rain left. the cloud keeps temperatures up a little bit in england and wales. on tuesday we start off with a bit of patchy rain which does not last too long. it moves away to the near continent.

behind it it is bright and breezy. tuesday night into wednesday this big area of high pressure becomes firmly established over the uk and that settles things down quite nicely. for the weekend ahead there is very little rain to speak of and ties will be typically 12—14. —— and highways. this is bbc news. the headlines at 8pm. rescuers scramble to reach survivors in the colombia mudslides. at least 250 people have been killed. a state of emergency is declared. six arrests are made by police investigating an alleged hate crime attack on a 17—year—old kurdish—iranian asylum seeker in south london. this was a cowardly and despicable attack. this is a young man who's come to this country to seek sanctuary and it appears that he's been set upon. the writer, broadcaster and civil liberties campaigner darcus howe has died at the age of 7a.

university student lydia wilkinson pays tribute to her mother and younger brother, who were stabbed to death in their west midlands home last week. also in the next hour — victory for oxford in the i63rd men's boat race.