' a 'a busy weekend on set you up for a busy weekend on sportsday, import and football matches coming up in the next couple of days. cup semifinals in england and scotland, including the old firm jim hamilton on sunday, and rory sees chelsea play spurs. chelsea knocked out manchester united in the quarterfinals and face their title rivals for a place in their title rivals for a place in the final. we look ahead to premier league fixtures this weekend and have the latest from the world snooker championships in sheffield, gymnastics from the europeans in romaniac, athletics from the bahamas and a look ahead to the london marathon. —— mania. and the tragic news that ugo ehiogu died after a cardiac arrest. that's coming up on sportsday at half past six but now it is time for the film review. hello, and welcome to the film

review on bbc news, to take us through the cinema releases this week is jason solomons. what do we have this week? the glamour of old school hollywood comedy backdrop for a love story between a starlet and her chauffeur under the watchful eye of reclusive billionaire howard hughes in warren beatty use rules don't apply. we have the sands of time, which reveal voices from a hidden mirror in the form of gertrude bell's, letters from baghdad as read out by tilda swinton in the doctorate —— in the letters from baghdad. and wartime london's rubble provides the setting for gemma arterton and bill nighy a in their finest, as they struggle to produce wartime propaganda and —— wartime propaganda movies. we begin with rules don't apply. warren

beatty, he hasn't had the best of yea rs! beatty, he hasn't had the best of years! with that oscars fiasco. it has been his 16 years since he wrote and directed... this was meant to be his big return. as he gets older is he getting better? this is a vanity project that he wrote, directed, starred in... it's interesting, he began the end of old hollywood with his film bonnie and clyde. it brought indie cinema into the fore, destroying the old studios, a success destroying the old studios, a success in 1967. this is old hollywood where he started out in as an actor. you can imagine him coming into town like the star lily collins does here. it's good on the details of how a boss like howard hughes ran the studios will stop everybody is waiting on him. starlets, showbiz and businessmen. even presidents

wait on the wealth of howard hughes for their green light. it shows how he used to keep starlets in various places, the big mansions he kept them in, they were secretive, they had rules that apply to them. but not too warren beatty‘s howard hughes... lowe i decided when i won a talent contest that maybe i would give it a go in hollywood. a talent contest that maybe i would give it a go in hollywoodlj a talent contest that maybe i would give it a go in hollywood. i am frank. two weeks in los angeles, you are working for howard hughes? i'm having high hopes. $400 a week on top of this? i hope howard hughes doesn't expect to meet you in a hotel room... i would like to thank you for my acting classes, ballet classes and the chance to become a star. what the hell is she doing here? you said you wanted that girl? yes, marilyn monroe! she is a baptist none... sex is bad because it could lead to dancing.

baptist none... sex is bad because it could lead to dancinglj baptist none... sex is bad because it could lead to dancing. i am a square. movie actresses are supposed to be sexy, and they the rules in this town? without carly simon here, some people suggest that warren beatty could be talking about himself and some of this? you think this film is about you... he has been a figure in hollywood, and him playing howard hughes recently, played by leonardo dicaprio in martin scorsese's the aviator, he is a strange and shadowy figure that warren beatty plays himself. like indiana jones, with a pilotjacket. i think warren beatty becomes obsessed with the mania that howard hughes himself was overtaken by and the film becomes oppressive and oppressive, you think it will be light and fluffy and full of 50s jazz numbers, but it isn't. the romance between lily collins and alden ehrenreich, it is overshadowed

by his ego in his own film, a howard hughes thing to do. i see where he was going but it is like oscars night, chaos awaits those fingertips! he will never live it down! letters from baghdad. we've all heard about lawrence of arabia but not many people have heard of gertrude bell, the queen of the desert? yes, maybe we have heard of lawrence of arabia because of that epic tribute, gertrude bell never really had hers, this documentary is as epic as it gets. there is another film with nicole kidman in where she stars, this is a more fitting tribute through this letters that she left through her correspondence in the desert. she was the most powerful women in the british empire, the end of world war i the borders of arabia were being drawn. she was very much involved in that with winston churchill, riding into the desert, a redoubtable british

colonial figure, the desert, a redoubtable british colonialfigure, intrepid explorer, pa rt colonialfigure, intrepid explorer, part spy, part stateswoman, part and quit aryan. in the arab world, she learned farsi, she understood everything. magnus atlevi played —— magnificently played by tilda swinton, who you would expect. what is well done in the documentary directed by two women, they resurrected these letters, finding brilliant archive footage from baghdad and damascus, all of that stuff we see we see on the screen 110w. stuff we see we see on the screen now. the sphinx is an apt figure as gertrude bell stares out. there's footage now from the region which is war—torn and ravaged, war was always something in that sand, but there is an elegance to it, a kind of colonial innocence in that footage which is beautiful. it really summons up a which is beautiful. it really summons up a lost time, gertrude bell's voice rings out as a lost

voice of the british empire. let's move voice of the british empire. let's m ove o nto voice of the british empire. let's move onto their finest. british film crew attempting to morale during the second world war. what's not to like? in this film, they have bill nighy and gemma arterton. they wanted to make authenticity and optimism shine out to boost morale through the war. hgppy to boost morale through the war. happy news wasn't enough. stiff upper lip, chocs away for their finest, directed by denmark's lone scherfig. this goes back to the 19405, scherfig. this goes back to the 1940s, gemma arterton making her way asa 1940s, gemma arterton making her way as a script girl, directing slop dialogue. a romantic dialogue in movies. here she is, elbowing her way and find her voice on the set. even taking bill nighy who plays a washed—up actor, ambrose hillyard. an example, actor, ambrose hillyard. an example, a mention of the clever code, i may say that would be the first clever

thing that she's done in her life! laughter just a dash of humour and further along... excuse me... certainly. no, no... it's the caption at the end is going to be "he's not listening but the enemy might be". is a joke for women who never think that their husbands pay attention. if you start answering, the caption would make sense. i wrote it. the scenario?|j sense. i wrote it. the scenario?” will be in my dressing room, if anyone needs me... gemma arterton revealed on the one show recently that she used alex jones's revealed on the one show recently that she used alexjones's accent revealed on the one show recently that she used alex jones's accent as a model for that? that she used alex jones's accent as a modelfor that? there is that she used alex jones's accent as a model for that? there is a presenting gig for her if the oscars are not forthcoming! i did not know that was alex jones, very are not forthcoming! i did not know that was alexjones, very good! she is very good in it, gemma arterton, the rosy cheeked script girl who becomes the force of the movie. it

is about female voices coming in while the war was on. and gaining some power. people saying that when the war was finished that the women would not go back into their little boxes after this taste of freedom. it is about that, but the film is good at wartime tailoring and capturing that rubble of london. it is funny, witty and elegant, as you would expect from people like bill nighy, but the spectre of death is never far away. a bomb nighy, but the spectre of death is neverfar away. a bomb drop nighy, but the spectre of death is never far away. a bomb drop away. the rubble of london. there is a mix of romance and the making of a movie, like rules don't apply earlier, there is that madness of making movies which hangs this together. it's interesting, movies provide shape and structure, and an ending where life at that time was full of mess and never did. that is why people loved movies back then. 30 million people per week went to the movies. it was the revival for the movies. it was the revival for the british people, after a demise beforehand? it would be great if

this can get an audience of 30 million in the opening weekend, i don't think it will but this film is bree witty, charming and elegantly done. a very good performance from gemma arterton and neatly tied up by the director, lone scherfig, with a good amount of skill. people would think it is a women's picture but it has depth and elegance, and i love the wartime tailoring in the costu mes the wartime tailoring in the costumes from charlotte water. i may get one, a decent coat! the best out is get out. it is a horror film? yes, it is out at most on mars, it isn't a horror film yes, it is out at most on mars, it isn't a horrorfilm in yes, it is out at most on mars, it isn't a horror film in a scary way, race and is very edgy —— at most cinemas. there is this depth going on, like the stepford wives, a black quy on, like the stepford wives, a black guy goes to a white bread neighbourhood to meet the parents, the parents of his girlfriend... they do not know that her daughter's

boyfriend is black? and then they find out, then we realise that maybe they do? it isn't a scary horror film with scary bits going on, it could be a great date movie, it is a really edgy bit of us comedy, it made me laugh a lot, get out. there is the british actor there who is brilliant in it and alison williams, who was in girls, thatjust finished on television this week. if you are missing it, there is one of them in get out. and the best dvd, the lady from shanghai. orson welles... and rita heyworth, his wife at the time. she was a famous redhead. in this famous nor are film, he cut her hair, and turned her blonde! the studio were up in arms. they want her as a redhead. it's a bit of a mess this movie, and the final sequence mess this movie, and the final sequence is a hall of mirrors, you

don't know who is shooting at who, there's this scene which was later spoofed. i love this film, it is a puzzle but has all of the classic things you need from this kind of film. orson welles does one of the worst irish accents, he plays michael o'hara. nevertheless, it has a great atmosphere and shows that orson welles was a fantastic film—maker but ultimately flawed. that is what you want from your orson welles films. and that is what you want from jason solomons. that's all for this week. thank you for watching, goodbye. good evening. some fine and dry weather is in store for most of us this weekend. it's going to be edited on the chilly side and at times, as we have seen today, it could be cloudy. it is great to get

out and about in. sunshine to end the day, in the north there is sunshine but elsewhere there is a lot of cloud, this is a weak weather front and behind this, it gets colder. tonight, ground frost returns in scotland, northern england and southwards, it gets milder. but there could be some mist and fog around dawn, out of the countryside. there will be some sunshine to begin tomorrow, cloud comes and goes, reluctant to break in northern ireland, southern wales, southern england. but hopefully we will see sunshine, it will be 14 or 15 degrees. ten or 11 in the north. with sunshine here, there will be called f. northern scotland could potentially have gales with rain later. the government says no cuts to foreign aid, but stops short of promising to keep pensions rising as they do now. as theresa may campaigned in berkshire, her chancellor

suggested a possible softening of the government's promise not to raise taxes. all chancellors would prefer to have more flexibility in how they manage the economy, and how they manage the overall tax burden down, than to have their hands constrained. on day three of campaigning, we'll bring you all the latest. also tonight: the paris gunman — he had beenjailed forfiring at police officers before. how the nhs trust under investigation for the deaths of babies was warned it needed to improve ten years ago. a warning about teenage boys and their computers, as the police reveal the average cyber hacker is just 17. and the day hull turned blue in the buff. a new exhibition for this year's city of culture.